Great about people checking in on each other.
Saw the title and it reminded me the opening of a song by England Dan and John Ford Coley:
Hello, yeah it's been awhileNot much, how 'bout you
Joined here in 07. I joined the old Atlas forum in 1995, but they closed it down in 2012.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Came onboard in 2008 when I started my layout. Bailed during the pandemic (didn't work on the layout) and the horrible non hobby pop up ads drove me away. Looking like the new owners are keeping things to MR specific ads so far. Very grateful to the other "old timers" who helped me so much as a beginner. Back at working on the layout scenicing with a fervor and hoping for a continued-better forum. Never posted photos/pics due to having to go through the host/link hassle. Hopefully we'll all be able to post pics directly here in the near future.
I am very lucky to have a wife who is totally supportive and enthusiastic about the layout even if she doesn't work on it or run trains.
She graciously lived with plywood sheets and lumber in the hallway corridor to the back of our house for 3 years when I built the laout! She's my 2nd wife for 44 yrs. now. The youthful "experiment"(lst marriage) didn't go so well.
Raised on the Erie Lackawanna Mainline- Supt. of the Black River Transfer & Terminal R.R.
Still hanging here.
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
Luckily I'm still with my first layout, which started out as a 4x8 and has grown to 26 x15 "J" shape with an adjunct into the Laundry Room, Oh I'm also on Wife number One as well! I was given Trackage rights before we got hitched, something along the lines of "Once we get a house, you can have the basement for all your collectables and marine paraphenalia"... True story!
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=5959
If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007
Gee, I'm also in the Class of 2004. I think that's when the ex-wife suggested I should pull the old trains out of the attic and set them up. My guess is she expected a coffee table sized layout or perhaps a Christmas tree layout. The layout ended up taking the whole 24x24 room above the garage. The ex-wife always resented it.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
There are a few of us. I think I joined about two weeks after the forums went live. Just don't chunter on constantly.
Who else has been here since early 2001?
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
Hi Fergy,
According to the date directly under your avatar, you've been here since Feb 2004. That means you're an old-timer...like me.
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Yes I don't seem to be around much these days but as I read, it had been noted that one of my contemporaries had been a member since 2004, wow! Then I went looking to see how long I've been around, still couldn't find the date but what hit me was my "Bio". Yes I am building a transition period layout and have 1 or 2 diesels... ya that ship sailed years ago! The diesels outnumber the Steamers and I had to build two display cases to house them as the expanded layout is far too small to keep them! Time flies when you're living, I guess its time to update that Bio!!