How old is the oldest?

CBQ_Guy

Member since
September 2003
From: North Central Illinois
1,458 posts

Posted by CBQ_Guy on Sunday, August 15, 2004 5:41 PM

Gee, and here I thought I was the only cranky aulde phart on this Forum. Not saying you guys are cranky but I seem to be acquiring that trait as I age. And at "only" 51, compared to some of you more "seasoned citizens", I don't even feel that aged at the moment. Glad to see it's not all kids on this Forum as I was beginning to think it was.

Ain't this a GREAT hobby, though, whatever your age?!

Best to you all...(now it's time for my nap.)

"Paul [Kossart] - The CB&Q Guy" [In Illinois] ~ Modeling the CB&Q and its fictional 'Illiniwek River-Subdivision-Branch Line' in the 1960's. ~

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IRONROOSTER

Member since
June 2003
From: Culpeper, Va
8,204 posts

Posted by IRONROOSTER on Sunday, August 15, 2004 5:59 PM

I'm 57. Been in the hobby for 32 years. Guess older guys use the 'net just as well as the younger ones.
Enjoy
Paul

If you're having fun, you're doing it the right way.

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Anonymous

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April 2003
305,205 posts

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 15, 2004 8:53 PM

I am 61.
My doctor & chiropractor both seem to think I have one knee and one shoulder that are ten years beyond that....[:D],but I'm getting laser treatment, and they will no doubt be getting younger soon.[:0]
Been in model railroadin' since about 5 years old, with a clockwork 00 train back then.
Went to H0 in 1956 after a bit of Marx 0, and some Trix Twin 00 before that.
regards
Mike[:)]

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Anonymous

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April 2003
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 20, 2004 5:00 AM

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twhite

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July 2004
From: Carmichael, CA
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Posted by twhite on Friday, August 20, 2004 8:31 AM

64. 65 in December and looking forward to retirement so that I can go out in my California Basement (garage, to you folks who live in the rest of the US) and finish building the Sierra Nevada so that my big steamers don't look like they're running on stilts. God, I love this hobby!

Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!

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Anonymous

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April 2003
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 20, 2004 8:38 AM

I'm uh, **cough cough** 45.

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grayfox1119

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August 2003
From: Cherry Valley, Ma
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Posted by grayfox1119 on Friday, August 20, 2004 12:44 PM

Well, I feel better now, I'm in the upper middle of the pack at age 65.7 . Have 8 grandkids, no prostate any more, thank God for alert doctors at HMO and PSA tests annually (only 4.8 too). I am old enough to remember the New Haven RR steam engines roaring under us as we watched from above on a country road bridge. Weren't those the days guys?? Or watching the cows on my grandfather's farm run like hell when the big steam engine on the Boston and Albany line to Webster, Ma blewnit's whistle!!
I am getting ready to build my 1st layout after raising 4 kids and taking care of 7 grandkids over the past few years after retirement. Did I say "retirement"? Hell, mom and I are working harder now. But the last of the live-in children will be in theirnew home in 4 weeks YES !!!!

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Dick If you do what you always did, you'll get what you always got!! Learn from the mistakes of others, trust me........you can't live long enough to make all the mistakes yourself, I tried !! Picture album at :http://www.railimages.com/gallery/dickjubinville Picture album at:http://community.webshots.com/user/dickj19 local weather www.weatherlink.com/user/grayfox1119

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andrechapelon

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September 2002
From: California & Maine
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Posted by andrechapelon on Friday, August 20, 2004 12:55 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by CBQ_Guy

Gee, and here I thought I was the only cranky aulde phart on this Forum. Not saying you guys are cranky but I seem to be acquiring that trait as I age. And at "only" 51, compared to some of you more "seasoned citizens", I don't even feel that aged at the moment. Glad to see it's not all kids on this Forum as I was beginning to think it was.

Ain't this a GREAT hobby, though, whatever your age?!

Best to you all...(now it's time for my nap.)

I don't know whether to laugh or cry when someone who's the same age as my youngest brother starts calling himself an aulde phart. Furthermore, I think it's illegal in some states to refer to onself as "old" if you're under 55. If it isn't, it ought to be.

Aside from that, I think the reason you think this forum was populated with kids is because, at heart, we're all still kids even if aching joints say otherwise.

Andre

It's really kind of hard to support your local hobby shop when the nearest hobby shop that's worth the name is a 150 mile roundtrip.

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Anonymous

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April 2003
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 20, 2004 1:26 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by grayfox1119

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I am getting ready to build my 1st layout after raising 4 kids and taking care of 7 grandkids over the past few years after retirement. Did I say "retirement"? Hell, mom and I are working harder now. But the last of the live-in children will be in theirnew home in 4 weeks YES !!!!

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They may leave home but they always seem to come back. I built my layout in one of their bedrooms so at least we don't have room for all of them at once. One even brought his new wife home to live and told us "that we didn't know how hard it was to pay the bills because we lived at home." But so goes life, I'd rather take it then not have it.

Have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY
Bob