How old is the oldest?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by deevs

I see that there is only one other that is old like me.(75)

That has to be Master Modeler Don Gibson.

The other old farts are too gun shy and would rather lurk out of the closet.

[deevs]

I see that there is only one other that is old like me.(75)

[Anonymous]

I'm 60. And a half! I have a health issue or two, but other than that I enjoy life to the max.
The railroad helps.

[Anonymous]

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

[andrechapelon]

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

[grayfox1119]

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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[Anonymous]

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

[twhite]

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!

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

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[:)]

[IRONROOSTER]

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

[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.)

[BRAKIE]

Chuck,When I was 3 my Dad had O scale 2 rail..I guess that is why I love to run those trains..Dad went into HO in 1955..I recall the first locomotive.. It was a steam locomotive kit as I watch my Dad build it...LOL! Of course Mother thought I should be outside playing with kids my age.[:0] She would shoo me outside and I would sneak back into the house and return to watching my Dad build that locomotive.[:D] I just found that more interesting then playing baseball..[:0][:D]

[fec153]

YNCS- Guess I'm very lucky. Still have both and most of my teeth.
Phil

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TEFFY

QUOTE: Originally posted by YNCS

I'm 56.

I've discovered that memory is the second thing to go and I don't remember what the first thing was.

The first thing to go is [size=6]SEX[/size=6][:(]

Have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY

Bob

No, that isn't it. I'm still having sex. I think the first thing to go was hair.

Peter

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TEFFY

QUOTE: Originally posted by YNCS

I'm 56.

I've discovered that memory is the second thing to go and I don't remember what the first thing was.

The first thing to go is [size=6]SEX[/size=6][:(]

Have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY

Bob

But without memory you can't remember.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by YNCS

I'm 56.

I've discovered that memory is the second thing to go and I don't remember what the first thing was.

The first thing to go is [size=6]SEX[/size=6][:(]

Have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY

Bob

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BRAKIE

Chuck,Suffice it to say I recall the GP9s when they where brand new..Now many are in railroad museums.[:0] I am 56 years

I missed your built plate by one year. EMD F7 came out in 49. Dad must have had either S or O. Which one?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TEFFY

Anyone less then 60 is a young squirt!! I'm a few months away from 64 and loving every minute of it. Life, I feel, gets better as we get older
Bob

Yes, but life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer to the end it gets, the faster it goes.

[johncolley]

I'll be 67 in November. I still busy railroading and love operations on a friend's layout, but have decided to tear mine out. I had built a great 2-level layout with a helix, but alas in too small a space. Damn helix and duckunder took up half the doorway! I am doing some Free-mo modules because I love big curves and turnouts. I don't have room for the kind of layout I would like to have and our local club lost its site a couple of months ago and had to tear it all out. I'm going modular and we are trying to get a Free-mo group started in the northwest. However old or young you are...Happy Railroading!

[BRAKIE]

Chuck,Suffice it to say I recall the GP9s when they where brand new..Now many are in railroad museums.[:0] I am 56 years old and been in this hobby 53 years..I started to run my dad's trains at the age of three,preferred to run my dad's trains over other kid's stuff,would sneak off on my bicycle to the Columbus(Oh) Union Station at age 5 to watch trains, built my first Penn-Line locomotive at 10..[:D]

[Anonymous]

I'm 56.

I've discovered that memory is the second thing to go and I don't remember what the first thing was.

[Anonymous]

Anyone less then 60 is a young squirt!! I'm a few months away from 64 and loving every minute of it. Life, I feel, gets better as we get older. Even with her incapicitating stroke the wife and I are closer now then any time in our almost 40 years of marrage.

I am firmly convinced that model railroading keeps us young. How can you worry about the problems in Tim-buck-to, Kansas when you've got a engine facility to layout and build. It makes for a nice evening when I can go play God and do things MY WAY. The biggest problem I have is my halfhimers. It wouldn't be so bad if I could choose what half to forget, but that's not the way it is.

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

[Nieuweboer]

I'm 68 and at that agonizing moment in life when I keep asking myself "shall I or shall I not?" and by that I mean shall I start a whole new layout or shall I keep my present layout and just make changes. \i have not yet decided and probably shall keep on putting off a decision untill it is too late.

[Don Gibson]

KIds! - all of you

OK, 'Madman" Murray, 75 - but my dog is 77.

'Your'e only as old as you 'feel'. Have you felt anyone lately?

To quote Groucho Marx (who?): "May you live as long as you want to (and want to, as long as you live").

[Anonymous]

In the words of Jimmy Buffett, I am growing older but not up!

[Anonymous]

I turned 66 in May.... I don't think you have to worry about until you STOP gettin older, the trick is to run out of track before you run out of steam !!!

IronGoat

[fec153]

I may get older, but I'll never grow up. At 68 and counting, I enjoy running my trains.
Good health to all, may God bless you and yours.
Phil

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BRAKIE

Me? Suffice it to say I am a old broken down former brakeman and poor excuse for a forklift driver and a sorry excuse for a model railroader.[:O]

That makes you about early diesel era, around the F7s.