How old where you when you got started in model railroading?

[Anonymous]

I grew up by a small yard and my grand mothers brother would take me on train rides when I was around 10 also my next door neighbor had an HO set up I would check out from time to time. I didnt start my own layout until I was 27.

[dave9999]

I got my first train set when I was about seven or eight (a Kellogg's train that I got
by saving cereal box tops). It got used and abused and put away somewhere. Then
came my teen years..... Girls, partying, girls, partying, girls....well, you see the pattern.
Needless to say, trains took a backseat to other "hobbies". These "hobbies" lasted
through my twenties, along with work. Now that I'm in my thirties and have settled
down considerably, I now have the time and money to really enjoy my trains. I still
haven't built "the layout" yet. That will come in time. For now my small layout
keeps me busy and is sharpening the skills I'll need for my ultimate layout.... oneday.
Dave

[bruce22]

1948, I was 9. This hobby has carried me thru some great times and not so great times, but as time goes by u tend to remember the positives.

[3railguy]

My first train was in 1963. I was 5 and got a Lionel outfit. In 1967, I got an AHM HO outfit and modeled in HO throughout my teens.

[eastcoast]

My uncle gave me a set when I was 12. But my real start was when I
was 13 . I mounted some tracks and had a very primitive loop of track.
Have not looked back since. Times have changed and the layouts gotten
MUCH BIGGER. Funny, THIS IS MY 20th Year in model railroading !!!!!

[Anonymous]

the day i was born now i am 12

[Anonymous]

I was 7 years old and 50 years later, I still love trains

[darth9x9]

I remember my first HO scale set when I was three. My dad built a simple figure eight and the wheels of othe 0-8-0 made sparks were made when it went over the crossing.

[Anonymous]

I got interested in Trains at the age of 2 ( I turned 13 today ) and strated with electric trains at the age of 7 been in 'seriouse " modeling for about a year and a half.

[Anonymous]

I have been involved in this hobby since day one, thanks to my Dad. He grew up watching the very end of steam on the CNW and he was hooked. He spread the hobby to my and my two older brothers. So for me 28 years and counting.

[Dayliner]

My earliest memory--of any kind--is of watching trains in England when I was three years old! I started reading MR when I was thirteen, and dabbled in the hobby through my teen years. I got serious about building a layout four years ago, at the age of 39.

[aloco]

I got a train set when I was twelve years old, and I added some track, more freight cars and a couple locos. I was somewhat serious about it - I even bought a couple of issues of Model Railroader and Trains magazines. But after a year of 'railoading' I gave it up for rock 'n' roll. I got back into model railroading when I was 20, and I've remained a model railroader ever since.

[BRAKIE]

I started running my dad's O scale 2 trains rail at age 3..

[StillGrande]

I was 3 when I got my first train set. We ended up moving to Texas so my parents could get a room for my trains (that is what they tell people). 30+ years later I am finally building a layout I have dreamed of since then.

[rexhea]

Lots of kit building from grade school on, but only a love for trains

Model Railroading
First time: 25 (no money, no space, no time)
Second time: 58 (still no money, lots of space, lots of time)[:D]

[Anonymous]

from Birth on.. my father and grandfather both loved trains. Lionel, HO late N and G. So.. 34 years of lovin trains!

[jfugate]

I was 8 when I got my first 3-rail train set, and was 13 when I bought my first Model Railroader magazine in 1967.

And I'm having more fun than ever in the hobby today, almost 40 years later ...

[rrinker]

I have an old home movie, Christmas '68 which shows me at 2 running the HO loop around the tree. That's the earliest proof I have.

[JPowell]

When I was a kid...5/6/7/ (1975, 76, 77), my grandparents used to take me to the "Hump" over @ the ex-Conrail, now CSX Yard in DeWitt NY. We'd sit there watching those engines pu***he cars up the hill, then wooosh... down the incline they went and onto the fingers they had to be on. Then when i was about 11 / 12ish, my dad got me a O27 Santa Fe set. When the engine died, he got me a E/L A/B set to usee for pulling my cars around the tabletop. I got out of the hobby when I was in HS...only cause I didn't need any g/f's laughing at me for it. Got back into the hobby about 3 years ago (I just turned 33 3 months ago) - HO Scale - and am now in the process of building my 1st layout - about 9' x9" 'C' shaped.

[n2mopac]

I have loved trains and had toys since childhood, but I only discovered the hobby of scale model railroading and layout building in my mid 20's.
Ron

[SSW9389]

My first train that I remember was from the back of a cereal box when I was 5. My folks let me play with my Dad's old Ives set when I was 6, and a Lionel set followed when I was 7. I went over the edge when I was 15 and got into HO trains.

[Anonymous]

I don't remember not having trains! In fact, my dad used to tell me my favorite bedtime story was one of those books that had pictures of different rolling stock in it with a little description of each lol.

[on30francisco]

When I was around 8 years old my uncle gave me a big Lionel train set. I've been interested ever since.

[CBQ_Guy]

Three years old in 1956

[bcammack]

Forty-seven, or, last year. :)

[Anonymous]

I'm 17 now and think I've loved trains since the womb! I had some kids' toy trains when I was little and got my first electric train, a Playmobil G scale set, when I was 4. When I was about 5 I got a Bachmann starter set. I quickly started getting more and more HO trains and I had a 4x8 board with indoor-outdoor carpeting on it that I would lay on our livingroom floor to set up my HO trains on. When I was in about grade 2 my dad built me my first layout on a large "L" shaped board. I could run 3 trains on it and it had 4 sidings and a bridge. It just kept growing from there. Believe it or not, part of my current layout uses the original one, although I've made many changes to it since it was first built.

[Anonymous]

I was five. My first train was a spring wind up toy that could be set on a counter top. The spring in the engine did not last long. It all evolved from there. Sortly after that it turned into the HO trainset package.
John

[Anonymous]

Dad got me started at age 4 in 1965 with a 4x4 platform,a circle of track, and a Lionel HO set. Every year Dad built more houses and stuff, and the platform started growing, and was 4X8 in a few years time. From there I was on my own and still going!!!!

[CP5415]

I guess I would have been about 4 when my dad got me started into model railroading.
That was 31 years ago.

Gordon