Trains is it real it is to me!

[Anonymous]

are your trains real too you i like to believe they are to you as they are to me . let me hear about your train's

well I am a indoor RR I like diesels I love diesels I had a stroke in 1998. woke up with out my left side not operational. after 2 half months in rehab what a terrible experience learning how to stand up without falling down and can't get up.
I was so glade to get home to see my sheltie jewel my train Dog. I had built a 48" wide shelf around the inside of my train room witch is about 16 x 14 with windows that I could have taken out to go into another part of my house that would have gave me another room 14 x 30 to extend my RR.
that was before the stroke and my life changed. yeep just that quick your life can change well now I am so thankful I have my little RR.
I get in my power chair and me and train dog go and open up train room next to are kitchen turn on my ultima transformer soon as the switch is turned on jewel gets excited.
I throttle up my f3's which is a consist aba ATSF silver & red with a phoenix sound car.
I just ignore that they are models not the real thing but for right at that time I am back in the 50's.
and the sound of the diesels starting is glorious to me I don’t even see the hook & loop couplers keeping my 3f3's pulling my 20 something freight cars with USA & Aristo cars with Aristo knuckle couplers on all.
I just sit there and look at my RR running those awesome detailed f3's and freight cars its just great I am so thankful for my RR.
I have another loop of f3's that are ACL pulling tank cars but I don't see my unfinished walls my undecorated RR I just love the sounds of my trains running metal wheels and sound "Thank God For this RR"
Life is good
Happy RR to you all enjoy i do i love mine.

[Anonymous]

Train-me, I think you just painted the perfect day spent watching trains. I myself don't have anything running at the moment, but in the past I have found it hipnotical to watch them and relax.

Thanks for sharing the moment.

[grandpopswalt]

TrainMe,

Good for you. Your trains give you pleasure and good reason to get up in the morning, I feel very much the same way about mine as well. I've just spent two years watching my father-in-law, who had no interests or hobbies, just staring out the window and slowly wasting away, a terrible way to go!

Where in Florida do you live?

Good luck to you.

Walt

[Anonymous]

walt near tampa bay west of the big pond .

[Anonymous]

Hi train me
Good for you I could not have put it better my self
Funny how when when your working on the line you can see all its faults and failings
and must do jobs.
But once those trains start moving all the sites sounds and smells appear and all the rest sudenly dissapears and all is real and right with the world.
One of lifes great pleasures that a non railroad person misses out badly on
regards John

[Kiwi Down Under]

Train me,
Yep, good on ya.
I had thought for years of starting my outside model train around the garden. but never really got motivated until we had a friend who took sick, sort of curred but shifted to a small seaside. town
Nice view, nice beach, ideal place to live I originaly thought, but what a depressing place.
Seemed that everyone in the place was either of deaths door, or thought they were and there entire converstation was around operations they had had, or were going to have.

I could not believe in such a nice place all these people were strolling around but dissapeared at the same time each afternoon to watch the soaps on television.

Not only older people, some were even only in their 20's,
In talking to them they did not appear to have any type of hobby or interest, apart from competing as to how crook they were, nothing to occupy their hands, brain, nothing.

Also, the odd kid around was basicaly the same, apart from Telly, nothing. Its like the depression was contagous.
After returning from that, I thought no way, get out and do something, use your hands etc. so I started on my garden railway.

Its far from finished, and probably never will be, but its a continueing hobby and just because I didnt have model shops etc close just made it more of a challange.

Thats why my wife put the web site www.gscalechuffchuff.com together so other people can see what can be done when you cant buy anything, so instead of just thinking about, you can do it.

Model railways is about doing it, not just talking about it, so to all those that struggle on and overcome handicaps to do things which we take for granted, good on ya, well done.

Tony

[Tom The Brat]

Hmm. Maybe I'll spend another hour this morning watching Annie pull the coaches[;)]

[vsmith]

For me its always been about the modeling, thats why I started in the first place. I've alway liked trains, and modeling , after a few disaterous attempts at smaller scale layouts I got into large scale, but its the modeling , kitbashing, that I like even when I stink at something or really create a disaster of a model, I always tell myself "Eh, its a hobby, dont sweat it" if I cant figure something out or it seams too complicated I put it aside , eventually I figure out a way to deal with it or I scrap it and move onto the next idea.

To me its about the ideas I can have, and the fun in creating those ideas.

[bman36]

Hey there,
Thanks so much for sharing your perspective. Life brings change and so must we be ready to change with it. Your thoughts remind me of my childhood when I would crouch down low and watch the trains go round. Getting lost in the moment I would imagine I was in the scene. Now as a father I have learned new joy in seeing my children do the same. Still I find myself getting lost in time as I gaze at one of my trains going around my outdoor line. What a joy it is! God Bless and take care. Later eh...Brian.

[Anonymous]

i realy thank you guys for posting.
got to go run my f3's now been watching train dvd's all day.
happy RR to you all!

[Anonymous]

yep up early this am going too run my train's before my monthly trip to the outlaw's [:D] [:D]
i love running my diesels ATSF ACL SEABOARD [angel]
happy RR

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Your stroke, my heart fart; funny how a real near brush with the hereafter can wake you up to the realities and what is important in life! He does work in mysterious ways!

Get on with it!

[grandpopswalt]

Gentlemen,

I'll add my perspective to this discussion. Like you, I had the heart fart followed with a quadruple bypass, and as you say Bob, a close brush with eternity opens your eyes. But I've come away from that experience with a much more clearly defined set of priorities. It's very simple really; life is too short to get aggravated over silly little things. Worry only about those things that you have control over, the rest, forget them. Anger is a terrible waste of effort; it solves nothing and only hurts you. You only go around once so if there’s something you want to do and can afford it, do it, you may never get another chance. Pay very, very close attention to your family, if you have one, because that’s really the only thing in life that’s important.

Walt

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by grandpopswalt

Gentlemen,

I'll add my perspective to this discussion. Like you, I had the heart fart followed with a quadruple bypass, and as you say Bob, a close brush with eternity opens your eyes. But I've come away from that experience with a much more clearly defined set of priorities. It's very simple really; life is too short to get aggravated over silly little things. Worry only about those things that you have control over, the rest, forget them. Anger is a terrible waste of effort; it solves nothing and only hurts you. You only go around once so if there’s something you want to do and can afford it, do it, you may never get another chance. Pay very, very close attention to your family, if you have one, because that’s really the only thing in life that’s important.

Walt

walt
it will realy open your eyes!