What do you do outside this hobby?

[conrail92]

Hockey! Best sport ever, love to watch it wanted to play but never had any teams near me to join :( So I'm stuck watching hockey Favorite team is the Penguins. Being from Pennsylvania...

[zgardner18]

Yeah, I would put Model Railroading my first love.  Growing up in San Diego I am a big lover of Surfing as well.  I enjoys all types of sports but ice hockey is my favorite to play.  I almost made pro baseball but a problem with a shoulder called a torn rotatercuff cut me off.  Snowboarding is up there as one of my favorites but my new favorite is being a daddy and teaching Jared about sports and trains.  Next month Jared will have a brother and one day the three of us will build a great layout.  Jared loves trains too.  I enjoy taking him up to the Cajon Pass for some railfanning.

[on30francisco]

Besides model railroading I read alot, occasionally watch TV and movies, listen to music ( big bands, classic jazz, oldies from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s) and take advantage of the pleasant climate and landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area by walking and doing outdoor activities.

[Don Z]

I spend my days in jail......no, really, I do. I maintain the computerized telephone switch that processes all of the inmate phone calls from the county jail. I have to repair the phones when the inmates decide to go on a rampage because they found out their wife is going to divorce them or other such nonsense. I also get to go to court to testify for the DA's office regarding the phone calls....it's amazing how dumb the inmates are when talking on the phones....admitting to their people on the outside what they did, even though they are warned they're being recorded.

I also enjoy woodworking, traveling around the country with the family in our 5th wheel RV and of course, railfanning!

Don Z.

[R. T. POTEET]

THERE IS LIFE OUTSIDE THIS HOBBY???

[conrail92]

Zgardner: Ha cool, I bet people there wouldn't guess you other hobby :P

[jeffrey-wimberly]

My job, when they have work that I can do, is building wood furniture for civilian contracts and making training aids for the army. My hobbies are model railroading and building/repairing and programming computers. I used to build hot rods but had to give that up due to my health. I still drive my last one.

[ezielinski]

I'm an ICU nurse by trade, working only weekend nights (Fri/Sat/Sun).  Outside of work and model railroading, I spend time with my wife and 3 kids, play my XBox, participate in what is called High-Power rocketry (way cooler than model rocketry), read books, build/rebuild/work on computers, play MechWarrior and Battletech, and love anything Halo.

[zgardner18]

conrail92,

I am in construction.  For the last 5 years I have been in construction management but my love is finish carpentry.  My problem is that I live in the Los Angeles area but work on the big island of Hawaii.  My wife and son are still in L. A.  My dream is to move back to Montana (where I went to college) and start my own finish Carpentry company, doing real craftman style work not production like in California.  good thing is I'm only 30 years old and have a lot of experience but have never owned my own business and these days aren't the best of times for constuction.

Other than that I am a big lover of Off-road racing.  I love SCORE and CORR.  One day I plan on building a truck like this:

I took this photo at the 2005 Baja 1000 in Mexico.

This is a picture of myself with THE Ivan "The Iron man" Stewart 

[csmith9474]

Model railroading is one of the smaller aspects of my life. I enjoy spending time with the family, doing things like camping, fishing, hiking and off roading. During the winter, model railroading becomes a more signifigant part of my life. It gets kinda cold around here to do a lot of outdoor type stuff in the winter.

[conrail92]

Just curious when were not modeling are dreams what are we doing? Where to you work and what other hobbies do you have? Or maybe Model Railroading is your life. :) Just a question I thought asking.