Of course, you are a "train" person but do you have any other hobby that you enjoy when not in the train room? (Mine is beach metal detecting) As always, many thanks.
Target shooting with pistols and rifles. I have been taking the grandsons to the target range getting them comfortable handling the larger calibers.
Bill T.
Golf
Alton Junction
Gun Collection and shooting.
John's C&R Gun Collection
Well, I am a car guy.
Nice weather toy is on the left and my daily toy with 195K is on the right.
Bought this one to use as a winter car, but it has needed a lot of work since it was neglected.
NIce, Jim...
Reading and playing cardboard 'wargames' for me.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Seayakbill Target shooting with pistols and rifles. I have been taking the grandsons to the target range getting them comfortable handling the larger calibers.
Writing a novel.
I've been working on a way to relocate my train room into the Great Outdoors, where my family, friends, and pets (yet another hobby) can all commune.
Kent
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Living History, [View:http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/themes/trc/utility/:550:0] Re enacting gun collecting and shooting
Three interests of mine combined:
Trains, Civil War reenacting and playing the trumpet. II'm the one in front with the bugle at my side.
Wilmington & Western Railroad - Civil War days.
Regards,
CJ Meyers
Gun collecting (mostly WWII vintage rifles) and shooting. I used to be very heavily into collecting and using antique 35mm cameras, but these days, it's getting more and more difficult to find anyone who'll develop slide film.
My 1975 Triumph Trident I got new in 75.
And Grandkids
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
I ski.
Rob
Runnig, working out, dog walking, hunting, trout fishin, Golf,pistol and rifle shootin,and of course at the end of the day beer drinking.
Making music (guitar/bass); fitness cycling; building, flying, crashing, and re-building RC airplanes; reading Elmore Leonard and similar books; home repair.
Pete
"You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light." - Edward Abbey -
Guns, motorcycles, 1/43 scale slot cars.
laz 57 Runnig, working out, dog walking, hunting, trout fishin, Golf,pistol and rifle shootin,and of course at the end of the day beer drinking.
Laz, I see you left out Deer hunting.
Since I don't actually have a vocation, it's hard to call the stuff I do every day a hobby! But with that being said, my only real avocation is making things.
Most of the time I try to roll all of my interests into railroading as much as possible. I build planes, ships, buildings etc. based on how they can be used with my growing collections of trains. I love to study architecture, aerospace, ocean liners, railroads, Disney and nuclear physics. (Seriously! ) I tried the musician thing in the 90's but the band was too lazy. I draw and sketch too.
Last week I tried something new. Riding down the basement steps upsidedown on my butt. However I don't think I'll take it up as a hobby!
Becky
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
My other hobbies?
Collecting folk art, antiques...
I have a fully equipped studio as well, for recording music...
BTW...Becky ...that must have hurt!!
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Since I'm retired I have time for...reading 2-3 books a week (mainly historical fiction), 3-D/ stereo photography as well as collecting it (slides from the 1950s, stereoviews late 1800s-1930s, View Master), gardening, skeet shooting, collecting 1:43 model cars, world travel with my wife (mainly river cruises in Europe).
Old Volvos (1962 Jensen P1800, 1966 220), opera performance (bass), electrical engineering (20% retired).
Bob Nelson
Toy cars take up a lot of my space. I have at least 4,000 diecast cars, plus a lot of slot cars. I also enjoy old movies, and some figures related to those movies. My basement is just packed with toys and trains.
I love Jeeps, and have a pair of them. A 2005 Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon, which is my family car, and a 1981 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler. The CJ is heavily modified with the usual lift, upgraded axles with lockers in each, and a fuel injected Chevy V-8. I've had it for 26 years now, since the day I graduated from college.
I also love riding my motorcycles - one is for sale - but I ride them to work 12 months a year, so I can't really call that a hobby.
Finally, I have a kayak I take out whenever I get a chance.
Thanks to all for your posts. We are certainly a diversified group but with a common thread.
There are other things to be interested in? ;)
I enjoy camping and do it quite often (at least once a month)
I'm not sure you would really call it a "hobby", but I spend most of my Saturdays, with a few exceptions, building homes with the local Habitat for Humanity chapter. As I spend all week at a desk, I enjoy the a chance to get out and work with my hands using something other than a keyboard. And usually at the end of the day you can step back and actually appreciate what you and your fellow volunteers have accomplished.
The weekends that are exceptions? Those are the ones when there are train shows nearby!
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Pre 1970 baseball cards, gardening, and have a few firearms that probably have cobwebs in their barrels. Anybody got some St. Louis Browns cards they want to swap? Defunct teams are my specialty- even the trains take a backseat to them.
Penny Trains Last week I tried something new. Riding down the basement steps upsidedown on my butt. However I don't think I'll take it up as a hobby!
Penny!!!!!!!!!! that sounds painful
Other interests Hmmmmmmmmm where do i start.
Grandkids
Mrs
Farming
Motorcycle Hillclimb & Dirt Drags
Vintage Christmas decorations
Camping
Reading, (especially first person non-fiction about WWII)
Old Movies
Occasionally I like to do a little Hunting
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Bruised and contused but still kickin!
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