Is your job toy train related?

[FJ and G]

A few of you (Jim Duda, Bob Nelson etc) work in electronics or in electronics retailing, which is useful to toy trains.

I've known of a few people on other forums who work in art studios or in props, which relate

Does your job remotely relate to any aspect of toy trains?

(my job, Army homepage coordinator/content provider, doesn't really relate).

[tsgtbob]

Hmmm, as a journalist, I get to cover many events, and any time that I can go to a show, swap meet, club layout open house, I take the ball and run with it, so I would have to say "Maybe!"

[johnandjulie13]

Hello David:

How are your electronics lessons coming? I continue to make steady process.

My job (banking) is as far away from the hobby as one can get...which is probably one of the reasons I really like it!

Regards,

John

[Jamesh1083]

I work in a manufacturing plant as a maintenance technician, where we work with lasers (among other things) and have a couple of them on Mars providing navigation to the rovers and orbiter. The wiring & electrical stuff I do at work helps me with understanding the wiring on the train set at home. I also get to practice my soldering skills and have learned more about cleaning methods and chemicals. I've found using IPA (Isopropyl Alcohol) works great on cleaning the rails. Because of the troubleshooting I do at "work" I'm not nearly as timid or intimidated about opening something up to see what makes it tick and trying to fix it if it's broken.

[tschmidt]

I'm a school administrator so there is no relation to trains. I have them just for fun and relaxation.

TomS

[Dr. John]

Well, I'm a pastor and sometimes I pray that things on the layout will work . . .

[csxt30]

My job allows me to study prototypical practices, work with actual RR parts. Look for junk all over that may be used for building something on the layout.
Can take pictures of verious RR structures & rolling stock. And hope someday a boxcar load of Toy trains will overspill & instead of the RR burrying all that stuff, thay would offer it to me !! [:D][:D]
Thanks,

[johnandjulie13]

Jamesh1083:

You get to work with lasers that are on Mars? That is so cool! I can imagine after working in an exciting environment all day that coming home to low voltage can motors and basic wiring is pretty tame.

Regards,

John

[pbjwilson]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Dr. John

Well, I'm a pastor and sometimes I pray that things on the layout will work . . .

I like that one.

I'm a painter who also does artwork. Modeling trains is like 3D art to me. In fact I'm really not all that into real trains. I think of my toy trains as art in motion. N and HO are to small and fidgity for me, so it's O gauge all the way. Some G gauge in the garden(my other hobby) is good too.

[crip]

I am an auto parts salesman. The last thing I want to do in my spare time is play with cars
like some of fellow employees! Playing with toy trains is my escape from the real world. If I never saw a car again it would suit me fine!

[mitchelr]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tschmidt

I'm a school administrator so there is no relation to trains. I have them just for fun and relaxation.

TomS

[#ditto]

Mitch

[Roger Bielen]

I'm a retired facilities engineer, Chem. E., and I work part time in retail. And of course my current job relates to trains, IT SUPPORTS MY HABBIT,( I mean hobby). Just don't let my wife know that's why I work.[:D][:D]

[Buckeye Riveter]

At work , I practise building full scale layouts so I don't screw up my O-Scale layout in the room above the garage. [:D]

By building full scale using someone else's money, I can try new and different techniques. The hardest thing about working in full scale is the utility companies always have a sewer or water line right where you need to construct a major component for the layout. Needless, to say they always erase the third rail from the plans I have prepared for the bridges. [:(]

[cnw1995]

Hmmm, I work in higher education (sometimes an oxymoron) and there's a lot of higher learning on this forum so it's gotta be related.

[Anonymous]

I'm a mechcanical enginer and have worked in the plastics industry for many years. Lionel has been a customer in the past. I personally have used 2d and 3d cad to help me in the design of my home layouts. I would love to have the complete and free use of the sheet metal facilites to fabricate my own home brew sheet metal cars and locomotive bodies etc. 8D] but the company has other ideas. [:(]

[trigtrax]

Yeah, my job is toy train related... I build Steeltoys... bridges, stations, el's.. But it wasn't always that way.. I used to work for others, like most people. I got tired of that scene and decided to do what I want.. I absolutely love it [:D]

[laz 57]

I teach kids how to use tools. In Industrial Arts class.
They can use this knowledge to build bench work and teach basic wiring.
laz57

[Jumijo]

I'm not into real trains much either. I do enjoy the vintage ones we see each time we visit New Hampshire, but modern 1:1 trains do nothing for me.

Jim

[jlrocks]

I am a Financial Planner and it gives me great stress relief. What a great hobby!

[darianj]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Buckeye Riveter

At work , I practise building full scale layouts so I don't screw up my O-Scale layout in the room above the garage. [:D]

By building full scale using someone else's money, I can try new and different techniques. The hardest thing about working in full scale is the utility companies always have a sewer or water line right where you need to construct a major component for the layout. Needless, to say they always erase the third rail from the plans I have prepared for the bridges. [:(]

No THAT's Funny!!!!

[zeames1]

I'm an engineer working in a large Hydro Generating Plant in Niagara Falls. The generators look a little like a LARGE Pullmore motor, so I guess it's related. What's greaat is that I live close enough to work that I can go home for lunch and run my trians for 15 minutes.

[dougdagrump]

Retired traffic and warehouse manager, now my traffic is all domestic and a much smaller scale. The best part is that I get a tax deduction for my operation. [^]

[Bucksco]

Oh Yeah!
In a big G gauge way!

[Buckeye Riveter]

Jack,
I thought the marketing manager for LGB would be located in sunny warm San Diego where I send my LGB engines to be overhauled after a million or so miles of hard running?

[Bucksco]

Nope- I'm an East coaster. I work out of our New Jersey warehouse. 65% of our shipments are East of the Mississippi.

[cnw1995]

Zeames1, I've been reading up on the International Railway Company - have some neat artifacts from them - bills of lading, tickets... They ran up your way up around the falls.

[DCmontana]

I too am a school administrator. The district is paying my salary for two days the week before Christmas when I bring my layout to school and run it for the kids. The kids and I have a lot of fun. I have gotten a few of them started with trains!

[Anonymous]

My employment was train related back when I was in the book publishing business, and it was interesting and a lot of fun. First with Greenberg, then with Kalmbach, and subsequently with Landmark Communications. In addition, I also wrote a regular column for "Vintage Rails" magazine (no longer published) and a good many other publications and newspapers, plus having written three model railroading books of my own.

These days I'm still working on a couple of model RR books--at my own pace--and still in the writing and editing business for a major university, but not directly involved in supporting the toy or model train industry.

After I retire, or even a bit before, I have plans to get back into hobby-related publishing on a regular but more self-directed basis, and am already developing plans for a few projects in that regard. The greatest enjoyment I get from the hobby is providing/sharing information for others so they can increase their own enjoyment.

[Anonymous]

Hospital finance is my combination profession and hobby. It's a long way from being train related but Doug's comment is intriguing - how does the tax deduction come about? [?]