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Posted by grandeman on Thursday, June 9, 2005 2:23 PM
39, but I'm looking good without much hair! [:D]

Aggro, I had you figured for an old codger cause your work looks like you've got years of experience!

Nice to see many younger guys here. Must be the computer thing, my experience is locally most MRers are older.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 9, 2005 2:02 PM
I'm a 12 year old living in a 41 year old body. Help!...

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Posted by chrismay on Thursday, June 9, 2005 1:42 PM
26 years young, and mine and my wife's first is T minus 6-8 weeks (he or she will be an engineer in training, so I thought I would include them)

hahaha
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 9, 2005 12:04 PM
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Posted by andrechapelon on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 6:31 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by mondotrains

QUOTE: Originally posted by Snake

The X-power of mag lamps has a direct relationship to age. At 30 you need a 3X, at 40 you need a 4X, at 50 you need a 5X, and so on... [:D] Now 54, I love my 5X mag lamp.


Boy, until this morning, I never realized how lucky I am because at 56, I can still paint beards on my HO scale figures, without glasses or magnifier lamps. Of course, I can't drive without my 3,000 diopter glasses for distance but who cares, model railroading is where I spend the majority of my time.

Mondo




I got the exact opposite problem. I'm 58 and have great distance vision, but need some pretty powerful glasses to read. OTOH, the lenses in both eyes are artificial since I had cataract surgery 4 years ago.

Andre
It's really kind of hard to support your local hobby shop when the nearest hobby shop that's worth the name is a 150 mile roundtrip.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 6, 2004 11:25 PM
43, crazy for the steel wheels on steel rail since I can remember.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 6, 2004 4:08 PM
I'll be 13 in a month.
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Posted by Mikeygaw on Monday, September 6, 2004 3:43 PM
update from my post here bout five months ago... 20 as of Saturday
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 6, 2004 1:44 PM
48 sep 30th
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 6, 2004 1:09 PM
Been drinkin (legally) for 22 years
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 6, 2004 12:43 PM
......27 here, been in the hobby since i was 11
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Posted by mondotrains on Monday, September 6, 2004 9:54 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Snake

The X-power of mag lamps has a direct relationship to age. At 30 you need a 3X, at 40 you need a 4X, at 50 you need a 5X, and so on... [:D] Now 54, I love my 5X mag lamp.


Boy, until this morning, I never realized how lucky I am because at 56, I can still paint beards on my HO scale figures, without glasses or magnifier lamps. Of course, I can't drive without my 3,000 diopter glasses for distance but who cares, model railroading is where I spend the majority of my time.

Mondo

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Posted by tstage on Sunday, September 5, 2004 10:46 PM
45...but a newbie. Just got into the hobby 4 months ago.

https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling

Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 5, 2004 10:11 PM
Just turned 63 and received a magnifying lamp which works great in addition to my opti-visor on my N scale stuff.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 5, 2004 7:32 PM
20.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 5, 2004 5:38 PM
14, 15 in November
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 5, 2004 1:53 PM
I have a 58 year old body with an 18 year old brain in it. I checked with the factory and they said it must be a manufacturing defect. Now if I can just get them to put my wife's 58 year old brain into an 18 year old body, I'd [censored][censored][censored]
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Posted by dave9999 on Sunday, September 5, 2004 1:48 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by kevin22

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Kevin,
[#welcome]. Tell us a little about you layout, or your plans to build one. Dave
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 5, 2004 1:42 PM
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Posted by twhite on Sunday, September 5, 2004 1:23 PM
64, but if I flip it, 46. Hm. Been in HO scale since I was fourteen, working on my second garage layout. And yes, gang, I ACTUALLY RODE IN THE CAB OF A CAB-FORWARD! Noisier than heck, but man, did it smell GOOD!
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Posted by rexhea on Sunday, September 5, 2004 1:10 PM
Since many of us are new to the forum, I thought it would be interesting and fun to kick Aggro's topic back into gear. Also in your post, lets add: How long have you been an active MR? How old is your layout?

I will be 59 in 8 days. That's the norm. But, at age 50 everyone has a choice to continue counting in the forward direction or in the reverse.

I'm 41. [:D][:D]

I have been in MR 1 year and my layout construction began 10 months ago.
[:)]
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Posted by RedLeader on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 3:23 PM
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:49 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

I won't say exactly, but I remember seeing PEs Red Cars in Long Beach,CA.I remember the Dark Day,Amtrak was founded,but I was in High School then.[:0]You figure it out from there.
I do most of my posting on the Trainsmag forum.

We will log you in as 49 plus or minus.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:36 PM
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:49 PM
I won't say exactly, but I remember seeing PEs Red Cars in Long Beach,CA.I remember the Dark Day,Amtrak was founded,but I was in High School then.[:0]You figure it out from there.
I do most of my posting on the Trainsmag forum.
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Posted by mikebonellisr on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:41 PM
66,been modeling for 30 years and still can't catch/keep up!
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:12 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Sante Fe 4-8-4

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W E L C O M E A B O A R D!
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 11:10 AM
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 26, 2004 11:20 PM
I once was 16, but now I'm 47. Seems like just yesterday I got married, He He

I've forgiven everything that forgivness will allow and theres nothing I can do about it now.

John

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