The best part for me is being left alone, free to do and create at my own pace and in a manner that suits me with little thought for conforming to any one else's rules or edicts. That's the way life should be, but rarely is. Model railroading is a form of escape from being just another one of the acquiescent, directed herd.
The part of my layout I am most proud of is the forethought that went into naming and tasking it and making it function as if it were real.
Richard
If I can't fix it, I can fix it so it can't be fixed
Lake Why, the best part is when you have cleaned all of the track, cleaned all of the engines pickup wheels, and spent three hours running trains to make sure all is good. Then you go to show someone who is not a model railroader how well your layout is, and engines stall, cars derail, and track shorts out. Priceless.
Why, the best part is when you have cleaned all of the track, cleaned all of the engines pickup wheels, and spent three hours running trains to make sure all is good.
Then you go to show someone who is not a model railroader how well your layout is, and engines stall, cars derail, and track shorts out. Priceless.
As for the question. My favorite part of the hobby is hunting for, buying and getting my hands on new engines and rolling stock, then crying like a baby at the end of the month in regret when the credit card bill comes in. :(
Tracklayer
CTValleyRRWhen I solve a particularly knotty problem or create a paricularly nice bit of scenery, and my 10 year old (my train buddy), goes running upstairs yelling, "Dad is a genius!", and the whole family comes down for a look-see. Just happened last night.
Yup, That would be hard to beat!
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
Getting a difficult project right. Like recently hand laying a turnout for a specific location, a crossover in a curve, getting it all dialed in and seeing trains run smoothly over it. Or (current project); kitbashing a locomotive from components to make something you can't get off the shelf. Operating is the icing on the cake, but BUILDING the layout, structures, details, is the draw for me. Oh, I have plenty of commercially available stuff, sure. Meeting the hard challenges is the most satisfying aspect. Dan
The best part is getting that new locomotive you've been dying to get. Put it on the layout and start running it for the first time. And everthing runs flawlessly.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
I like building kits, painting cars,locomotives,etc and doing my freelanced railroad. I also love superdetail passenger cars or scenes in general, and running them. There's just something relaxing about it.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
The best part?
Well, in my ordinary life I'm subject to the whims of a capricious and sometimes malevolent God.
In my layout space, I AM God!
(Make of that whatever you wish.)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - as I wish it had been)
Gidday, the best bit is when a plan actually comes together, and works as planned !!!!
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Ken G Price My N-Scale Layout
Digitrax Super Empire Builder Radio System. South Valley Texas Railroad. SVTRR
N-Scale out west. 1996-1998 or so! UP, SP, Missouri Pacific, C&NW.
fmilhaupt The best part of model railroading? To see your enemies driven before you, and hear the lamentations... no, that's not right. This bit of scenery is what I'm most proud of lately, though I'm pretty certain that I've already posted it here before. I have to do a lot more of this sort of stuff before we take the layout to Cleveland for op sessions at the NMRA Convention this July.
The best part of model railroading?
To see your enemies driven before you, and hear the lamentations... no, that's not right.
This bit of scenery is what I'm most proud of lately, though I'm pretty certain that I've already posted it here before.
I have to do a lot more of this sort of stuff before we take the layout to Cleveland for op sessions at the NMRA Convention this July.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Operation Grasshopper..Operation..
That's why I spent and still spending a small fortune on cars,engines,structures and track.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
-Fritz Milhaupt, Publications Editor, Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc.http://www.pmhistsoc.org
I believe the best bart of model railroading is showing your layout, (and your skills) to others. Time to "strut your stuff" people. Lets see some of that hard work.
What are you most proud of on your layout???
~Michael