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Okay...I'll throw my 2 cents in to the ring as well.... Started out with a Lionel set as a kid many years ago. When I got into junior high school, I beggd my folks to get me an HO set. I took a while, but it paid off. That set was a Tyco set. Came with a Mikado that , when I got to college, was later severely overhauled. I took off all the cast-on details, invested in a few Cal-Scale lost wax brass castings including an all weather cab, yanked out the original motor and replaced it with a Hobbytown motor and then filled any leftover space in the boiler with lead. That loco pulled about 110 cars on a flat railroad. After college, I was bouncing around a bit so I started to build a module HO railroad (still have it, but it's not set up). Bought a townhouse that had a finished basement that measured 10.5x20.5 feet. Funny thing, the railroad was 10x20 when all the door hinge pins were inserted. Also started running HO trains with a few other gents. Collectively, we all got introduced to live steam...1/8 scale railroading. When I moved into my house, I didn't have it in my heart to set up the old HO modules. I still have the all the supplies, track, modules,buildings, etc., but I can at least run the HO trains on other railroads. Now here's the interesting part...my start in G came as a result of wanting to scale up some kind of passenger car from G to 1/8" scale, 7.5" gauge. MANY dollars later, I found the Aristo Sierra series passenger cars that will scale up very nicely without being overly long (in 1/8" scale, the shorty sierra cars will be about 60 inches long). Otherwise, my G operations are basically from late November to March. Wife does the tree thing for the holidays...I do the train thing. She even gave me permission to run a branch line under the piano. Then she wanted to know if I could arrange everything to run two trains. Well sure...but that takes more track, more turnouts, another throttle, some wiring, etc. BTW...ebay has been a great place for new/slightly used G equipment, including LGB stuff. Then this holiday season, we spent a bunch on miniature porcelin buildings at the nearby Kohl's Dept. store. Just before Xmas, everything was 60% off. Buy on Wednesday, use your Kohl's charge and tell them you're a senior citizen (or at least I have an AARP card) and I took $250 worth of miniature buildings home for $83. Oh yeah...it's a hoot. Soon the train stuff will be packed up until next holiday season. I do know some people with permanent (indoor and outdoor G railroads), so I at least have places to go to continue to enjoy G railroading until next year. Just remember, the one that dies with the most toys wins...but it's better to enjoy now while were all still kids!
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