What do u like

[Anonymous]

What part about mrr do u like the most?

[Roadtrp]

I may grow out of this (I'm only 51), but so far my favorite part of model railroading is watching my trains run. There is a beauty in the sight of a train going down the track that I just never get tired of. Watching a train come out of a tunnel or snake through an S curve is just about as good as it gets. [:)]

[AggroJones]

Weathering. Taking a detailed shinny model and turning it into a spectacular replica. I love the before and after aspect. After I weather a car or whatever, lookin' at my work and going, "Damn that's good!!!!", is the greatest part of model railroading.

[Anonymous]

Hey... watch it there Roadtrp "...out of a tunnel or snake through an S curve..." you're gettin' kinda personal now. [:D] just joking...

As my layout isn't finished the part I've enjoyed the most so far is building the layout.

[Anonymous]

I'm well along on the layout and I still love going downstairs and working on a project, but I think I like reading about both modeling and the prototype the most.

[cwclark]

I like every part of the hobby...(well except the plastering stuff)...my favorite part of the hobby is wiring and doing the electronic circuit projects...it's an adrenalin thing...spending months building circuits and watching it work (or not work) when the power is turned on...

[88gta350]

I like scenery building most myself. I love creating miniture worlds full of towns and people and rising mountains in the distance. My miniture world is exactly how I want it to be.

To me, it kinda gives you a power you don't have in real life... in mrr I can (literally) move mountains.

I also enjoy just letting my trains continuously run, imagining I'm at ground level seeing that big engine round the corner.....

I absoultely hate (no despise!) any electrical work. Wiring of track and switches and accesories has always been my achille's (sp?) heel. I've never been good at understand how electricity and electric circuits work, so I've always hated doing that part of the modeling. As a result, most of my model railroads are always very simply wired with few switches or yards.

[Anonymous]

kit building.
then watching them run on a track towards the horizon...model horizon

[AntonioFP45]

Watching colorful freight trains and stainless steel passenger trains running on the mainline at eyelevel. Whenever I visit a train show or club layout, I'll stand for 10 minutes or more in one spot and enjoy.

Varying speeds at eye level for me is also enjoyable. Watcthing a 50 car freight with 4 or 5 engines struggling, or a hot shot freight or passenger blasting by at 80 scale mph!

Call me wacko, but it's like a massage for my eyes! [:D][8D][8)][:P][tup]

[Eriediamond]

I like just about everything involved with building a layout, but must admit I love watching my consolidated or mike pulling a string of 40's era cars and operating signals and lights. I dislike the new fangled LED signals, prefer the old incadecent bulbs. I also like wireing and the electrical end of building duties, the soldering, etc., but I'm also no electronics tech. Cannot close without saying I also enjoy the "cyber" friendships here on the forums. Regards, Ken

[CBQ_Guy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bikeman_rr

What part about mrr do u like the most?

The food!

[CBQ_Guy]

But seriously, folks...
I like trying to create a scene so it looks as real as possible. I also enjoy operations and I kinda enjoy laying track, too.

I HATE, building benchwork and the time/effort it takes for wiring.

[Anonymous]

The food? Could you imagine eating enough HO scale hamburgers to count as a meal?[:P][;)][dinner]

SO, what is my favorite part of mrring?

Right now, kit building. Nothing else occupies my time since I dont have a layout yet, and 99.9% of the R-T-R cars you buy have to be modified for one reason or another anyway. But when I do get a layout, and my CB&Q F-3's go to Run 8 with 1940s era cars all the way around the curve...[:D]

[CBQ_Guy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cjm89

The food? Could you imagine eating enough HO scale hamburgers to count as a meal?[:P][;)][dinner]

White Castles! [:D]

[Anonymous]

I'd have to say scratchbuilding a structure - knowing that it's totally unique in the world, and wishing I could shrink myself down to HO scale and walk through the front door, then look out the window and watch the trains roll by. I used to feel that way when I was a kid, and somehow it hasn't changed at all.

[Anonymous]

I like yard work the most, it's always a good time to have the yard full of cars and looking busy.

I always keep a pair of SW1200s hooked up nose to nose for running about the yard.

[CBQ_Guy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy


I always keep a pair of SW1200s hooked up nose to nose for running about the yard.

Doesn't that look kinda, uh, COOL?!

I saw a prototype picture of this once and it really looked kind of funky to me with the two, flat cab fronts facing ahead at each end...but I thought it was somehow strangely neat looking, too.

I am planning a live interchange on my HO layout with the Rock Island running a transfer run onto Burlington trackage and into my main yard. I was at a swap meet a few years back and saw some Proto(?), I believe SW1200s , on sale for a good price in Rock Island paint...so I bought TWO.

Now you know why...

[Anonymous]

The first run after finishing a detailing project on a loco or car. Seeing the hours of effort you've put in resulting in a well-detailed, and (hopefully!) smooth-running loco that's that little bit different from the locos others have. I've been working over my (British) Bachmann diesel locos recently - these come with a bag of detail parts that greatly improve the appearence, even if retaining the standard tension-lock couplers requires a little thought (brass wire bent to shape and glued into holes drilled behind the bufferbeam).

[Anonymous]

Researching passenger cars, modeling them and operating relatively modern day business and excurssion trains on the ATSF, UP, SP and BN
Ch

[Anonymous]

"What do u like"

I like the room temp at about 74° and the beer temp at 34°. cjm89, could bring by about a half-million of those burgers? They'd go good with the beer.

[Budliner]

fixing some poor old loco
oh ya watching trains run

Ken

[n2mopac]

The short answer is whatever I'm doing presently. I really like many different facets of this hobby. It would probably be easier to name the areas I enjoy least. Wiring and electronics are probably my least favorite, not because I don't find them interesting but because I have the least knowledge and skill in this area. Same goes for custom painting. I would love to be able to do this well, but I'm certainly not there yet. I really enjoy scratchbuilding structures, but I don't scratchbuild rolling stock at all (though I do kitbash some from time to time). When it all comes down to it, though, I suppose it is all about operating trains. Operations would have to be what its all about for me.
Ron