This one is expensive enough. Why waste my money and time on others? I really don't think golf and fishing qualify as hobbies. I do both but the rewards are not as gratifying as model railroading. Others may disagree.
Archie
Bridge, both duplicate and kitchen-sink (the latter seems to be dying); movies, both cinematic and on DVD -- right now I'm on a noir binge and am seeing some really incredible black-and-white cinematography and some great acting and dialog too; 'fanning the "big trains," mostly Rochelle and a couple of trips to Folkston GA so far; starting to accumulate Official Guides of the Railways for the 1946 - 1971 period (the sixties in particular being a real nostalgia trip).
I read "widely but not always well" as a friend put it: I just finished re-reading Philip K. Dick's incredible Man in the High Castle and am about one-quarter into his Three Stigmata of Palmer Eydritch(sp?); am plugging away on Audrey Grant's Better Bridge: Part Two, cross-referencing several different O.G.Rwy's like a madman [like??]; about to start The Illustrated History of Canada, starting to eye a reproduction volume of the original One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (a department of Easton Press offers the series reasonably cheap); and if I can find the volume of Hemingway's A Moveable Feast I ordered from Amazon last year, I'll make a priority of that.
I told myself I have to finish some kind of novel first before I unwrap Larry Gooslby's Atlantic Coast Line Postwar Passenger Trains, which I was lucky to snag cheap thru alibris. Also want to haul out my old volume of Atlas Shrugged and see how well Ayn Rand finessed the details of the "Taggart Tunnel" chapters.
Yesterday my introductory five CD's arrived from the Jazz Heritage Society; I currently know very little about jazz but am working from the "American Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald - Frank Sinatra" brand of 1950's - 1960s albums into what my much more erudite roommate calls "Modern but not postmodern Jazz" -- I'm still at the "warhorse" level of appreciation having just received the Stan Getz/Joao Gilverto CD (album dates from 1962) that includes "The Girl from Ipanema" and some other well-regarded CD reproductions of original LP's, such as Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," and "The Best of June Christy."
Clearly if Mr. Peabody offered me a ride in the Way-Back machine I'd set the dials for 1958 to 1960! Just your average dilettantish 21st-Century media ***, I guess. And if I'm home at the right time, all other activity ceases to allow undistracted televiewing of Jeopardy.
Oh. . . don't tell anybody but yesterday I also received an assortment of 10 Iris + 10 Tulips + Vase from proflowers dot com. Had a ball arranging them, but "arranging" is really too grandiloquent a word for the minimal amount of fussing that most proflowers' arrangements require.
Am also on a diet, or perhaps better said: I've spent too much money lately to afford much food. lol. But since Chuck and I keep the apt. in such an uproar, me with my books and CD's, him with his DVD's piling up, we generally socialize with close friends by taking them out to a restaurant. Next event: Easter Sunday dinner, though I may not actually have time for the church service itself .
Thanks for hearing me out, al s. ("al-in-chgo").
-- "Thank God for the model trains. Without them we wouldn't have the big trains." -- Jennifer Coolidge as dimwitted publicity agent in Christopher Guest's film This Is Spinal Tap (1983).
1/25 scale big rigs.
4x8 are fun too!!! RussellRail
"You show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on." -anonymous
el-capitan wrote: Derrick Moore wrote:Anyways, since you asked me, I'll give you my point of mine.What a TON of people fail to realise about our hobby is that you can combine ANY hobby with model railroading. No, you can't. I'm into ATSF and Star Wars. It is impossible to combine a realistic depiction of the Santa Fe in Deming, NM with a Jedi, a Wookie or the Millenium Falcon. Trust me, I have thought of every possible scenerio. And yes, for those of you wondering, I am dork.
Derrick Moore wrote:Anyways, since you asked me, I'll give you my point of mine.What a TON of people fail to realise about our hobby is that you can combine ANY hobby with model railroading.
Anyways, since you asked me, I'll give you my point of mine.
What a TON of people fail to realise about our hobby is that you can combine ANY hobby with model railroading.
No, you can't. I'm into ATSF and Star Wars. It is impossible to combine a realistic depiction of the Santa Fe in Deming, NM with a Jedi, a Wookie or the Millenium Falcon. Trust me, I have thought of every possible scenerio.
And yes, for those of you wondering, I am dork.
How about a stop marked "Tatooine" or "Mos Eisley" represented by “Chalmun's Cantina?”
Playing tonight: Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes!
Crews
zgardner18
that is some sweet wood working there, not too many people are doing that by hand anymore, I have a close friend who is a master carpenter / finish carpenter and he would love to see this pic, he always says....WOOD IS GOOD!
Nice work!
Well I used to have a lot of hobbies until I got married. I used to surf, snowboard, play different types of sports, and travel. Now I have a wife and two very young boys and that's about it. My model trains take up what time I don't spend with them. Work takes up the rest. I do however find a little time for my other love which is golf, but it doesn't love me to much. Here are a few other things that still find a special place in my heart:
Racing: I more enjoy SCORE and CORR than your guys' Nascar. Used to like Indy but not so much anymore. Here is a photo that I took at the Baja 1000 2 years ago:
Anybody can go fast around in a circle while peeing in their suit, but try going 100+ on a dirt rough road not knowing what's ahead. Hoping that you aren't going to run over some dude on a dirtbike. Where to tell the other guy to move out of your way; you bump him from behind. Now that's racing! Some day I'll have one.
I also not only do this for work but I love doing it:
I've always love to draw, more when I was a kid but lately I've been kicking the idea around to do my own children's book with this guy as my main character:
Sorry, bad scan
Last besides photography is my truck. I love to go off-roading to the Cajon Pass so that I can use my photography skills (not saying much) on some poor helpless Pumpkins, oh and UP too.
Sorry Dial-up dudes!
--Zak Gardner
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Red Horse wrote: Why not apply Star wars movie advertising to some box cars, or a bill board or two promoting the Star Wars movies???Just wondering?
Why not apply Star wars movie advertising to some box cars, or a bill board or two promoting the Star Wars movies???
Just wondering?
Star wars came out in 1977. I would have to trade my beautiful warbonnet F3's and all stainless steel passenger cars for the red, white and blue of Amtrak..... sorry but, no thanks. It makes me cringe just thinking about it.
Check out the Deming Sub by clicking on the pics:
-Paintball. I'm a recreational player who mostly plays woodsball. My friends are either cops or soldiers, so I'm the odd man out in terms of skill. I still have fun, though.
-Pool. Similarly to above, I suck at it but I have fun with it.
-Autocross and amateur motorsports. Ever since I took my old Saab to my first autocross last year, I was hooked. I'm getting my Subaru prepped for this years autocross season, as well as for a couple of track days. I've also been thinking of rallycrossing it.
-Working on my Subaru Impreza. I know compacts aren't anyone's cup of tea here, but at least I'm not into the Slow and the Stupid (for one, they'd never actually race their car legally like I do). I'm working on improving the handling and brakes first, then at some point the Subie will get a WRX or STi engine swap.
-Video Games. I'm into mostly racing and fighting games.
One of my other hobbies is music, or more precisely, rock 'n' roll. I've being playing rock guitar for over thirty years, and over the last decade I've gotten into writing and recording my own music. I've done three solo albums so far and I'm working on a fourth.
Another hobby of mine is electronic emergency vehicle sirens. I have a small collection of sirens that I grew up listening to (kind of a weird nostalgia thing). Some of the sirens were made back in the 1960s, and they sound a whole lot different than the sirens we hear today.
Other hobbies include art (I've been drawing as far back as I can remember, and since I was twelve years old I've been drawing train pictures) and writing (four unpublished novels).
What a true statement, I'm an EMT and I have a good size ambulance station and about 6 ambulances that I will incorporate into my layout, I couldn't find a good Ambulance station so I reworked an old bank model that did the job.
So I guess we can blend any of our passions into our MRR ing...cool!
Enjoyed my first train set at age 4 which got me started into model trains.
Progressing through the years I built model cars and military air planes from 6-7 years old through my early 20's.
At 19 I bought a used 1968 Pontiac GTO that I passed down to my son-in-law a coupld of years ago. That was one of the more expensive hobbies, if you want to call it that, that I've been into.
From my early teens to present I have been bass and trout fishing.
In the 60's I had several slot car tracks in the HO and 1/32 scale variety.
In the late 80's early 90's I was heavily competitive in R/C car racing, on road and off road. I ran a R/C hobby shop and did a great deal of building, painting and tweeking the cars.
During the mid 90's I hooked up with the owner of the hobby shop and he built three large slot car tracks that I helped run and was a competitior in several classes.
In 1989 my Wife and I were introduced to camping. That progressed to buying a 5th wheel camper which is still camping somewhat but more like your home away from home. We take about 10 trips a year.
Finally in 2005 I got the model trains bug again and since I've built one small temporary layout and am currently in the process of building a 14'x16' layout with a 7' staging area.
Bill
dale8chevyss wrote:I forgot to mention my girlfriend. She is my first and favorite hobby.
Whoa.......
What a TON of people fail to realise about our hobby is that you can combine ANY hobby with model railroading. If you like golfing, put a golf course on your layout! If you like the Carsystem,
Put a freeway on your layout!
Like shipbuilding?
Just goes to show that you can integrate any hobby onto a layout.
Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.
Daniel G.
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
Hello everyone, some of my other interests include my career as a camera opertor and editor for sports, entertrainment and about anything else under the sun. I also play ice hockey and am a fan of it, snowboarding, motocross, sportbikes and traveling!
winter time...trains.....(and home reno's when my wife catches me off guard)
In the summer time...MOTORCYCLES.....Lucky for me......the wife LOVES to ride
We think trains are expensive......2 tires for my bike......$600.00...yikes...how many locos is that?
Fun topic idea.
Once did lots of the balsa plane kits and RC, but all toothpicks now. Did one RC, all wood, sailboat. I am very proud of that one and still have it.
I was, once, avid in handgun target shooting. Flies at 15 yards are much safer now than they used to be because my eyes are not what they used to be. Yet, I insist on N-scale-- go figure.
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Building/Flying RC aircraft. . .
I still play a few computer games, mostly military simulation like Harpoon, or Civilization-type games.
Even at 60, I play ice hockey, and ski black diamond slopes, with the occasional double-black thrown in just to keep me on my toes. In the summer I bike, both road and mountain.
I used to play rock guitar, but I gave my axe (a 67 Fender Jaguar) to my teenage daughter, who takes it seriously and is getting very good at it. In my younger days, I played in a dorm band with Tom Scholz, who went on to form the group Boston.
Oh, and I like to cook, too. Just finished a great steak, with baked potato, brussel sprouts and garlic bread, topped with a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon. The girls are away this weekend, so this one was just for me.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
One of my main hobbies is Rail Fanning around my home town, and around the Wisconsin Area.
My Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/JR7582 My Flickr Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wcfan/