My wife is the BEST!!! She encourages me in my hobby but we also take time to do things together and that keeps us both happy and close. When I work on trains she will visit the train room and see what I'm working on and when I finish a project or structure the first thing I do is proudly show her my work. I also bouce ideas off of her and she has accompanied me to hobby shops when we travel and to a few train shows. She also gives me ideas and her imput on my planned projects. Everything I model is personal such as names of stores using family member's names and influences from places we like to go. She does the bills and when we have some extra money she will say you can spend X amount, go make a train order. She may not be doing the modeling but she is very much a part of my layout. I AM ONE LUCKY MAN!!!!!!!!!!!
My wife really bugs me. She is always hounding me to expand the layout, take up more of the available basement space, spend more money, buy more locos and rolling stock, etc., etc., etc.
Cripes, I would have been happy with a 4 x 8 layout and a single loco.
Rich
Alton Junction
richhotrainCripes, I would have been happy with a 4 x 8 layout and a single loco.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
My wife is my partner in our layout. She built all the buildings you see in this picture and learned landscaping. so now I do track work, electrical and maintenance
My wife is awesome! Not only did she not dump me when I first brought her to my bachelor pad and showed her my old Cherokee Foothills layout, which was at the time in my bedroom propped up on a dresser and a set of cheap plastic shelves, she gave me the second bedroom in our first apartment together as a train room! She also rode the Catskill Mountain Railroad with me on our first vacation together and the Durango & Silverton on our honeymoon. For my 30th birthday, she took me to the NC transportation museum. Last but not least, when I showed her a picture of the BLI PRR Mountain I reserved, she correctly identified its wheel arangment. Could not ask for a more supportive wife.
it also helps that she tends to go to bed early while I'm a night owl.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
First, it is always something to me to see a thread rise from the dust and get new life. It is especially interesting to a relative newcomer to the forum, as I get to read something I would have otherwise never seen.
As for my wife, like many others, she is incredibly supportive of the hobby. She was almost as excited as I was to get started. She built the first structure, a general store, and has plans for a whole farm on the layout. She also expresses admiration for the work I do. (Feigned or real, it matters not to me--it still makes me feel good.) I count myself lucky.
Edit: One other benefit of participating here, I get to feel young. We have been married for 30+ years and that pales in comparison to many of you.
Richard
Hi all I am only copping grief about.
"When is the big shed you built for the trains actually going to start having the big layout built in it, and your trains and mine start moving into the shed".
regards John
Not since I taped her mouth, tied her up and put her in the closet.
Naw really, when I did have one, she was pretty good, as long as she got what she wanted. She liked driving the custom cars, I had though. I've been happily divorced for twenty years now. She remarried and my son's tell me, her and her husband bicker all the time. They both don't even like going to see her.
14 years retired now, 8 grand kids, I do what I want, when I want. Now if only my body will hold out.
Frank
Yes.
Have fun with your trains