10 years ago... (95 to 05)

[jimhaleyscomet]

10 years ago I was a floor runner and only at Christmas. I only had one set, an old Lionel with no smoke or horn and my son (then two) loved it. Today I have ???? trains and two layouts. My son still likes the trains but is not quite as enthusiastic.

Jim H

Jim H

[Anonymous]

In 1995, I had a 486sx25 computer. I had email, but can't remember from whom. I hadn't really heard of using the internet. I knew of BBs, but didn't use them. I was getting ready to help de-commission the Navy's west coast A-6 Fleet Replacement Squadron, VA-128.

[Anonymous]

Ten years ago I was living in Dubuque, Iowa, and having a ball with toy trains and a variety of other things. The Internet was still somewhat wet behind the ears (and forums like this virtually non-existent), and the O gauge hobby was still in the early stages of what would become its profound rebirth.

Today I'm many miles away from Dubuque; still enjoying the trains (and have added a couple of scales to my areas of interest); and generally enjoying life in what I consider a beautiful area of the country (in the New River Valley between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny ranges).

[prewardude]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 3railguy

Ten years ago I was trying to figure out what I did wrong ten years before that and today I am trying to figure out what I did wrong ten years ago.

LOL! You and me both, 3railguy. I MUST have done something bad...

[3railguy]

Ten years ago I was trying to figure out what I did wrong ten years before that and today I am trying to figure out what I did wrong ten years ago.

[TurboOne]

I was getting started i the video business. Amiga computers ruled. IBM had 16 color, Apple had 1. Amiga 16.7 million for video. 2 mg video ram a whopping 16 mb ram. 9 GB HD ran $5000.

No kids, still with first wife. Sex was clean, air was dirty.

Live in apartment 6 miles and a whole different world then now.

NO JESUS. Too busy partying and having fun.

What is a train ? Had some in boxes in storage somewhere.

NO internet, but lots of BBS. Way cool, major flame wars, only took 10 minutes to download a small picture. Modems were fast 2400 baud.

Houses were cheap, still could get one in San Diego for $55,000, now you can't build a pool for that.

I got younger since then, now I am 21, grey on the sides, and moving a litter slower. About 25 lbs lighter now, but can't eat 3 fully loaded carne asada burritos like I could back then.

Tim

[Anonymous]

Ten years ago I was on my third strictly tinplate layout. Then we moved in 1998 and I began construction of my dream layout which measured 12' x 32'. My dream layout quickly became a nightmare when it consumed most of my spare time and instead of being fun it turned into a chore.

I dismantled that layout in 2004 when we moved again. Now, in 2005, I've started building a new high-rail layout that measures a very easy to manage 5' x 17'.

By the way, the January 1995 issue of Classic Toy Trains ran a whopping 178 pages.

BillFromWayne
www.modeltrainjournal.com

[Buckeye Riveter]

Ten years ago...................I can't remember anything significant. We lived in the same house. I had an HO layout. I weighed nearly 300 pounds. I was working on a project at Saulte Ste. Marie for the US Army.

[cnw1995]

I had just turned 30ish - we had only a 4 year old girl - whose adoption we were still paying off. I really wasn't into trains - except through reading about them - we lived in a little house a few blocks away, I had much the same job (!) and the Chicago and North Western was being painfully amalgamated into the UP. I remember eyeballing their last two GP9s that switched the Chicago Passenger terminal. I did have Internet - Usenet only accessible through UNIX; I remember downloading the first Mosaic browser about this time.

[Dr. John]

10 years ago I was into HO. Then I bought my son (who was 7 at the time) a Lionel starter set . . .

The rest, as they say, is history.

[ChiefEagles]

My trains were boxed in early 85 and just got out last spring.

[Anonymous]

Ten years ago, I was doing seventy-five miles a week with an average ten minute mile, and I could cut it to eight minutes with no sweat. Trains were O guage, but a Christmas only event. In October, I got a letter of resignation from my right knee. Fixed the knee with alternative medicine over the next three years, but gained a lot of weight while it was going on, now I am pushing it to do a seventeen minute mile three times in a week, but trains have become a much more year round event. Trains are more fun than running, anyway. You ever see a runner that was smiling?

[underworld]

I was just about to change jobs and it was 9 years before I was bitten by the gauge 1 prewar tinplate bug!!!!!

Easter Easter Easter Easter Easter!!!!!!!

underworld

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[palallin]

I had just switched states and jobs. My son was three years in the future. My Lionel collection was a lot smaller and a lot less focused. I had no immediate hopes for a permanent layout, and I had not yet begun to appreciate Standard Gauge. I was heavier, not thinner, and a great deal poorer in many ways.

[Anonymous]

I was recovering from a fractured back while doing some "train"ing in Boston.
It was a changing point for me. I converted my HO European DC layout to Marklin AC to eliminate a "Duck under" section. The Marklin trains looked better around the sharper curves I needed to use. The Marklin train came fron beneth the Xmas tree and were replaced with MTH Railking. Soon the Marklin trains will be a secondary part of a future Hi-rail layout. Yup...progress! Ain't it wonderful!
Who could have ever thought the internet would become such an important part of our daily lives.

[Anonymous]

10 years ago, I was 8 years old and into HO. I had around 5 engines and perhaps 30 cars my dad had only just built a layout for my HO trains. The thing I wanted more than anything else was a Lionel train. It's really amazing how much can happen in just 10 years time and how far I've come from those childhood days!

[csxt30]

Son was 5 & running the train on the floor!

[FJ and G]

was into HO living in San Pedro Calif. Was at the time helping with the filming of the movie Godzilla.

[spankybird]

My trains were still in a box,

[laz 57]

Dave and probably didn't have the money or time to spend on our hobby.
laz57

[FJ and G]

Most of us:

Didn't have Internt

Didn't have our own website

Didn't have this forum

Couldn't post pictures or discuss trains and get replies from all over the world in answer to our questions within mere minutes

Didn't have command control (joys & problems associated w/them)

Were younger and perhaps a bit thinner