Age: 67
Scale: N
Region: East Penn to New England
Era: 1950s to 1960s
Time in Hobby: 1955-1965 Lionel O 27 (MMP&R) 1968-1972 HO 1980-1994 HO (PSS& M) and N (Philipsburg & Milestown) 2006- N (East Penn) and N (Philadelphia, Reading and Lehigh Valley).
Age 65. Time in hobby (not counting childhood) around 35. Model era, the 30's but still allowing stuff from later as long as it was available in the 30's (as a side note, you would be surprised at what was being tested in the 30's, even by the railroads but were not built till after the war as anything other than a test item). Region mostly west coast, lot of SP stuff for engines. And since we are mentioning eyesite, mine is slowly getting worse in the one eye but the other eye (always had a lazy eye) is getteing better and am told I will have 20/20 in that eye if I live long enough, I am sure many many years from now.
dehusmanHardcoalcase: Have you looked at the Yahoo Groups EarlyRail forum, lots of pre-WW1 modelers over there, plus the Railroad Line Forums has an Early Rail forum.
Yes, I've been on the Yahoo Early Rail Group for some time now, but didn't know about RR Line Forums. I'll check it out, thanks!
Jim
Era: 70's-90's
Region: New England
Scale: N and HO
Time in hobby: about 4 decades
Age: 51
Bubbytrains
These are the eventual planned modeling interests.
Eras: 1940-1950, 1970s, 1990s-present.
Railroads:
N&W, NYC, BM, MEC, PT. 1940-end of steam on various lines
Chessie System, Conrail 1970s-early 1980s
INRD/Soo Line early 1990s
Maybe NS modern era at some point.
Scales N, HO, O (3rail)
Age 30(ish), started when 8, stopped when 12. Started when 18. Navy stopped that before 19. Started again whenever my profile says I joined.
Where I live: here
Regions:
Portland, Me (BM,MEC,PT)
somewhere near Cincinnatti, OH (N&W, NYC, Chessie)
Southwestern Indiana (INRD/SOO)
location undecided (Conrail)
location undecided (NS)
Era: 50s-ish
Region: upper Midwest-ish
HO
Time in hobby: few years with my dad around 7-12 years of age. 4 solid years with my own layout/funds. Just about 40 years old now.
Location: smack dab between Milwaukee and Chicago on the northern side of the cheddar curtain.
I like to model Milwaukee road and c&nw.
T e d
Era: Modern, with a lot of poetic leeway.
Region: Much of the eastern US. Modeled portion of railroad is Chicago.
Scale: HO
Time in the hobby: 1972-1990, 2012-present.
Age: 58
Scale: HO and HOn3
Era: mining and logging, 1920-1960, depending what I choose that day (buildings stay, rolling stock changes). I also run big diesels and steam locos strictly at the club.
Roads: CN, CP, TNVR. Eastern Canada
Me: 50-59
Years in MRing: 20, non continous
Scale : HO
era 1915-1920
Railroads: Tonopah and Tidewater, Las Vegas and Tonopah, Bullfrog Goldfield
region depicted: Goldfield, Nevada
Time in hobby: 40 years
Born in 1953 and the Lionel trains purchased for my first Christmas still ply the rails on the “O” gauge level of my layout. Thanks to a great father and grandfather, I was bitten by the “magic of Lionel”. This started a lifetime hobby resulting in a bi-level HO on top, “O” gauge on bottom layout. Both layouts reflect an urban industrial setting circa 1955. As I grew up along the PRR panhandle division in SW Pennsylvania my interests are firmly rooted in the PRR and NS. Turning 65 in 2018, the kids are planning a “Medicare“ party. The money difference between private pay health insurance and Medicare will equate to more “hobby dollars”. Enjoying it while I can, as the years are going by very quickly.
Hi Gang,
The era of the LM&E is mid sixties to 1982
It is based on the Western Pacific and occastionally others from the pacific northwest. The Last Mountain and Eastern is a fictional Line owned by the WP. just like Sacramento Northern.
Size is 13' x 17' in basement, separate room.
Been active in the hobby off and on, mainly on since I was 7 years old. I am now 77. You do the math unless you are too old.
I have some of my Railroad passes that we used to exchange through the Model Trains mag of Kalmbach. The railroad name on those passes is the same as it is today. "Last Mountain & Eastern" Pretty good record eh.??
I have about 40 locos, 7 are steam that pull the excursion trains.
Night all...... Johnboy out.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
late 1950's
Pennsylvania coalfield to industrial New Jersey
HO, O
45 years in HO, 17 years in O
58 years young
Era : 2002+
Locale Modelled : Northern PA/OH/NY tri-state area.
Railroad Modelled : Freelanced Regional Line.
Age : 31
Years in Hobby : HO scale 17 years. Trains of one kind or another - 28 years.
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
49 years old and been in the hobby about 13 years or so. I model the Pennsy in the mid / late 1960's, along with a DT&I interchange. HO scale. No particular location, i just hope it looks believable. Sometimes i can't help but want to run some steam.
Located in central Ohio.
54 years old, from south east Texas, model 1955-60, model western US, N scale, 27 years in the hobby...
I model the 1950-60 timeframe and the 1930s. To switch eras, I replace trains and vehicles. I have a few unfinished structures destined for swapping as well. I model the northern Midwest with Milwaukee Road equipment in HO scale. I've been back in the hobby for 12 years, but I really started when I was about 3 or 4 and put the trains in storage when I went to college, resurrecting them in 2005 to start again. I'm 70 years old now. I grew up on Long Island, New York and now live in the burbs of Boston, Massachusetts.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Region: Indiana, Chicago South Shore & South Bend + South Shore Freight
Location: Beverly Shores - Carroll Avenue inclusive + Industries along the Line
Era: Sumitimo Electrics / GP38-2's Orange Livery - Date Scale: HO
Layout: Researching, Designing and making from Scratch - Buildings, Structures etc. Layout when I have moved to new house.
Residence: England Age: Much too late to Emigrate, to the U.S.A.
"It's the South Shore Line, Jim - but not as we know it".
Layout #1 1980s-1990s, southern California, HO scale, since 1970s.Layout #2 1880s-1890s, northern Nevada, HO scaleLayout #3 2080s, Planet Mars, HO scale
Majority time era: 1980s-2006
Location: Northeast (CR) West (BNSF/UP)
Age: 31
Place: Arizona
Active: 28 years
My fictional railway the Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio is located along those states but I hope I'll build it.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
hardcoalcaseera - 1910 region modeled - NE PA to the west bank of the Hudson River, NY
1900-1905
SE Pennsylvania-Delaware
HO standard
50+ years in the hobby, 37 years on the prototype
60's
Nebraska
Hardcoalcase: Have you looked at the Yahoo Groups EarlyRail forum, lots of pre-WW1 modelers over there, plus the Railroad Line Forums has an Early Rail forum.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
Sir Madog What are you going to do with the poll results Finding out, that the majority of us model railroaders roaming about this forum models the transition era west of the Alleghenies in HO scale, standard gauge, is male, over 55 years old, qualifying as old phart" and has chosen model railroading as his life time hobby. One more fact - the number of "oddballs" modeling exotic eras, regions and/or prototypes is rather small.
What are you going to do with the poll results
Finding out, that the majority of us model railroaders roaming about this forum models the transition era west of the Alleghenies in HO scale, standard gauge, is male, over 55 years old, qualifying as old phart" and has chosen model railroading as his life time hobby.
One more fact - the number of "oddballs" modeling exotic eras, regions and/or prototypes is rather small.
While all that is likely true, when the poll is over you may be surprised to find the north east/mid atlantic/ohio valley a very close second to everywhere else in the US combined. Why?
Because despite some population shifts recently, a large percentage of the people in North America still live east of the Mississippi and North of the Ohio and Potomac.
Sheldon
Era: 1940's
Region: Upstate New York
Theme: Imaginary branch of the New York Central
Time in the Hobby: 33 years?
Age: 41
Mike
Era: 1966-69, probably closer to 1969.
Region: City of South Milwaukee WI on the C&NW, my hometown (so, "upper midwest")
Scale: HO (also have dabbled in N and I set up 0-27 at Christmas)
Time in the hobby: if you include wind-up and toy trains, about 62 years. A bit less for HO itself.
Age last birthday: 65 years.
THANK YOU for NOT asking "estimated total life-time expenditure on trains."
Dave Nelson
Era: October 1999
region: western nebraska, southeast wyoming
HO scale
age: 44
Been in hobby for 10 years off and on- have 3 kids and a job, so time is at a premium these days! Happy Thanksgiving!
Miles
Modeling the UP Sidney Sub in Nebraska & Wyoming in fall of 1999 in HO scale
OK, I'll play.
Era: 1953 (but a real rivet counter will find a few 1954 items)
Region: Mid Atlantic region of the US
Theme: Freelance Class I double track mainline
Time in hobby: 50 years - my father built me a very nice layout and got me started at age 10 - been at it in some form ever since.
Age: 60 years
Sorry I'm Steven I'm 16 and live in the midsouth.
Well I really just started this thread for fun. So I guess the poll results are there for anyone to see.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Era: Late 1950s, with perhaps a squeek to 1963 to squeeze in those funky looking GP30s. I also have a pull, but am not currently modeling late 70s (just as the mergers were happening so you had this wonderful mix of paint schemes) or WW2.
Region: South Carolina Piedmont, cotton mill region. I grew up in a mill hill town that was trapped in the 50s culture wise so I'm trying to capture that unique culture of a southern mill town that is fast vanishing. Though having lived in Colorado, I feel a connection to the vastness of the scenary.
Time in: Since 1971. I won a Tyco train set selling Christmas cards in 6th grade.
jim
Era: late 1950s
Region: north east US. But it could be anywhere in the US depending on what rail line is running. ie: Great Northern, Western Maryland, CB&Q, PRR, NYC, B&O, South Penn, Blacklog, Tuscarora, EBT, etc.
Time in hobby: ~30 years - Not counting the time with my Dad; 39 years
Age: 69
Location: Pennsylvania, USA