Other hobbies? What's that? Haha just kidding, in addition to the trains, these activities have enhanced my life much.
I love music and though I do not play it much I do love collecting good albums. Except for a large digital collection I really just focus on CDs as that's what I have the capability to play and enjoy these days. I'm acquiring the parts slowly to build up a good stereo that'd fall between mid-fi and hi-fi but not be outrageously expensive. I have a good enough receiver with integrated amp but I dream of a high-power amp and appropriate floor standing loud-speakers one day. I once heard a pair of Vandersteen 2Cs at a friends house and fell in love with them from that point on.
I've been an avid cyclist at times, my main bike (and the fourth I've owned in five years) is a 1992 Bridgestone RB-2, racing style bike, that I've added parts too for a couple years. I wear the clothes and I like long rides in the Lancaster county countryside. I'll eventually add bags and other accessories so I can do short bike tours more easily. I've worked to promote cycling a little bit in my area as well as helping people work on their bikes.
I write poems occasionally, posting them for other writers to read and critique.
I like to get out of town 1-2x a month to go to fun places closeby for a day or two as I find it refreshing to just get out of one's stomping grounds occasionally.
Lastly and definitely not least, I take a lot of photographs throughout the year wherever I travel and for that I'm quite content with either my Sony point and shoot or even the camera on my phone.
Alvie
Here's my latest painting that I did this afternoon.
Tried a different technique for making grass and trees that Bob Ross used. While there's still room for improvement, it didn't turn out too badly.
Overview of my studio with the latest painting in the easel:
Tools of the trade:
Kevin
http://chatanuga.org/RailPage.html
http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html
Well, for me Model railroading has to compete with riding my Polaris 250 trail blazer quad (Model railroading's got to be cheaper. I just had to put new front tires and wheel lugs on it and it needs starter work now. Between parts and gas that my sisters oh so kindly take off of my hands after I fill the quad up.) muddbogging in friends fields, trying to build up a 1990 Jeep XJ for trail use and riding my 1952 Farmall H. Sadly work and the price of gas gets in my way
If you can read this... thank a teacher. If you are reading this in english... thank a veteran
When in doubt. grab a hammer.
If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer
If it doesn't move and is supposed to, get a hammer
If it's broken, get a hammer
If it can't be fixed with a hammer... DUCK TAPE!
Model railroading is my primary interest, but I also pursue (very) amateur astronomy and reading...history and 1930s and 1940s mystery novels.
Motorcycling.
The other half of my basement not filled with trains is filled with motorcycles. Primarily sport bikes (still have my last M/C that I road raced from about 10 years back). On weekends, when I'm not in the basement, you can usually find me up in the mountains carving corners on a motorbike.
cats think well of me I've been an avid cyclist at times, my main bike (and the fourth I've owned in five years) is a 1992 Bridgestone RB-2, racing style bike, that I've added parts too for a couple years. I wear the clothes and I like long rides in the Lancaster county countryside. I'll eventually add bags and other accessories so I can do short bike tours more easily. I've worked to promote cycling a little bit in my area as well as helping people work on their bikes.
Does the Buck sound Familiar, Or Quarryville?
Justin
Riding my mountain bike on converted railroad right of way that use to exist where I live. Now railtrails. Find many sidings at old companies. Even found a steel end of track bumper abut two miles from where I live. Use to be at siding for a feed and grain distribution company. Tracks been gone since the 1980's.
About ten miles from me is a bridge across the Connecticut river that is now for a railtrail.
The right of way extends about fifteen miles to where a shortline still runs that use to run through our town.
I can easily do forty miles a day but average about twenty five.
One of three railroads that use to exist in my area is still in use. I have to carry my bike across the active tracks to pickup another railtrail. This will become double track for Amtrak in the near future. A pedestran tunnel will be put under the rail line at that time. Many in the town walk cross the tracks at different points where it will will no doubt be fenced in.
Still an old bridge about a half mile from me that will become part of the railtrail in the future.
Rails are still in place.
Nothing fancy. A five year old LL Bean 15 speed bike that was given to me a year ago. GoPro 900 camera for videos and stills. Camera good for sky diving, canopy tours, kayaking. Chest support and helmet support for the camera. Camera has water proof case good to about 60 meters.
Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
JLK cats think well of me: I've been an avid cyclist at times, my main bike (and the fourth I've owned in five years) is a 1992 Bridgestone RB-2, racing style bike, that I've added parts too for a couple years. I wear the clothes and I like long rides in the Lancaster county countryside. I'll eventually add bags and other accessories so I can do short bike tours more easily. I've worked to promote cycling a little bit in my area as well as helping people work on their bikes Does the Buck sound Familiar, Or Quarryville?
cats think well of me: I've been an avid cyclist at times, my main bike (and the fourth I've owned in five years) is a 1992 Bridgestone RB-2, racing style bike, that I've added parts too for a couple years. I wear the clothes and I like long rides in the Lancaster county countryside. I'll eventually add bags and other accessories so I can do short bike tours more easily. I've worked to promote cycling a little bit in my area as well as helping people work on their bikes
I've been an avid cyclist at times, my main bike (and the fourth I've owned in five years) is a 1992 Bridgestone RB-2, racing style bike, that I've added parts too for a couple years. I wear the clothes and I like long rides in the Lancaster county countryside. I'll eventually add bags and other accessories so I can do short bike tours more easily. I've worked to promote cycling a little bit in my area as well as helping people work on their bikes
I've spent much time in Quarryville, but haven't biked there much at all. I've been through the Buck but haven't biked that either. Maybe before the summer's out I'll make some time to do so.
I am a caricature woodcarver. I have been carving for approximately 3 years or so. You can view my work at: http://iowacarver.tripod.com/
Corey
Railroading In Council Bluffs
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Visit my caricature carving website:
http://iowacarver.tripod.com/
Hiking, skiing, reading, jazz (listening/playing/reading about) and messing with my fish - Barracuda, that is:
Sean
HO Scale CSX Modeler
I have no other hobbies.
I have had others in the past, but with my bad back I am lucky to have MRRing.
I have a lot of equipment and stuff in storage from previous/other hobbies. I will never get out of them what I put into them.
I also found there is only so much hobby money to go around and I get more enjoyment out of MRRing than I did the others. SO guess which on won out?
I also tend to start and never finish hobby projects, so I have decided that MRRing willl be my last hobby.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.....
For me, model railroading and railfanning go hand in hand. I also like playing video games and muscle cars. I have a 1972 Oldsmobile 442 I'm going to restore one day. Earl...
Reading many of these posts over the years, and if we are to believe model railroaders, they have other interests that would seem to fall in the categories of :
1. Heavy drinking
2. Raising cats
3. Watching football
Tatans,
I hope that the # 1 hobby you mention only concerns fruit juices, soda pop, soft drinks and mineral water, otherwise I´d have to remind you that this is a family-friendly forum.
I like to fish, watch movies, listen to music, and of course model railroading. Although recently, I have taken a knack for riding four wheelers. My brother-in-law got me hooked, but I don't own one, yet. He has several and always says there is one for me to ride. We don't go fast or do anything crazy, but we go on trails and climb steep terrain and go through creeks. It's quite a challenge and fun.
Will
When I'm not playing with my trains, I enjoy the great outdoors. Hiking, backpacking, canoeing, fishing and gardening are some of the activities I enjoy. We're fortunate to live on property where we can actually do some of these things, plus the Shawnee Nat'l Forest is only a few minutes away. I try to stay in shape by walking at least 2 miles 5x per week, and working with weights 3x per week. I also get really involved with college football and hoops during their seasons.
I really enjoy putting together model aircraft carriers and detailing them, also military airplanes (carrier fleet of course). I also enjoy car audio installations. Gives me a sort of Picaso feel with designing a really awesome system. I build computers and play video games too. My cousin and I are into flight simulators, MS Flight Simulator. R/C cars my cousin and I would go to empty mall parking lots and race each other. I am looking forward to getting into R/C helicopters.
PS3, movies, barbecues, family fun time, and hanging with friends.
http://trainluver.shutterfly.com
http://thedailyvisitor.blogspot.com
When I'm not running trains or working on the layout, I enjoy hiking, camping, photography, reading, music and cooking. I'm also into classic cars and am supposedly going to take 50% ownership of a 1966 Chevy Corvair. I'm also going to attempt to brew my own beer.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
Well,
I read a lot, non fiction, primarily Physics and Philosophy.
I play some competitive chess now and again.
I shoot in a small bore league, we will be starting a postal match with a club in Great Britain soon.
What takes up most of my free time is walking with two Basset Hounds in the local woods.
Wife and 3 kiddos.
Sim Racing on my PC at: www.iracing.com
Alabama Crimson Tide Football
I'm surprised nobody has said this yet: Hunting!!!! That includes deer, elk, dove, hog, raccoon, squirrel, and just about anything else I missed.
Fishing and production (I'm an Aquatic Biology major)
Farm "work"
Wood and metal working
NASCAR
Working on the Tacoma
Playing church league basketball
Alabama Football and Basketball. Roll Tide!!
There are OTHER hobbies?? Seriously, I've done a lot of different things; model planes and cars, slot car racing, model rocketry, hotrods and drag racing. I've gotten the greatest amount of enjoyment from drag racing and model railroading, though. My back, neck and leg troubles have pretty much killed ANY desire to be under a car, and my reflexes are pretty much gone, so the drag racing's out. Not to mention, I can work on my train layout when the weather's crappy, especially in the winter.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
For me it's Hi-End audio, or should I say high quality audio and music listening. I guess they are very similar in a way: solitary enjoyment of a finer details in an indoors environment
My true passion is photography and videography, and I regularly attend charter photo freights. It's so refreshing to snap train pictures all day long without having to wait for hours for a train or deal with the hassles associated with hanging around the tracks these days.
I also enjoy attending concerts, especially blues, hard rock, and metal shows. I'm fortunate that a local mid-size theater brings in a decent selection of acts throughout the year, I recently started taking a point-and-shoot camera to shows, and would like to get serious about concert photography.
I enjoy working on and building computers. Oddly enough, I'm also a mac user, so my chances to build computers from the ground up are somewhat limited, if not downright impossible. Still, there's a lot of fine tuning and upgrading that can be done if you'r patient and have a small enough screwdriver :)
I have an 06 Mustang convertible, and have lots of fun driving it, even if I'm driving to work. Not planning on a lot of modifications on it, but there are a few things I feel the need to tinker with.
Dabbled in darkroom photography years ago - riding/ working on old motorcycles [owned 11; rebuilt last 4 ] - loved working on jet fighters in USAF & Air NG - riding sidecar rig w/wife, all over New England and eastern NY - reading mystery & adventure books - difficult crossword puzzles - PBS science, nature, space, mystery programs. My 2 cents......papasmurf
P. S. Forgot to mention my 54 John Wayne movies collection!
PCT hiker; (pacific crest trail) me and my son just got home from a 350 mile 3 week hike from truckee ,ca to dunsmuir,ca
were trying to finish the 2,650 mile trail in 3 to 4 years ,it goes from Mexican border to canadian border .
were about Half done ,got a nother 250 mile two weeker planned for after labor day ,up the John Muir trail to Yosimite .... great way to see America..Jerry
BIG JERR PCT hiker; (pacific crest trail) me and my son just got home from a 350 mile 3 week hike from truckee ,ca to dunsmuir,ca were trying to finish the 2,650 mile trail in 3 to 4 years ,it goes from Mexican border to canadian border . were about Half done ,got a nother 250 mile two weeker planned for after labor day ,up the John Muir trail to Yosimite .... great way to see America..Jerry
Wow thats crazzy!!! Ive hiked most of the Appalacian trail up here in maine and would love to do the hole thing some day. But wow!!!! My wife and i are getting ready to hike 3 4000 footers in New Hampshire in a couple weeks then in October where hiking Mt Washington.
We Dream of the Appalation trail as well. Been on parts in NJ and WV. We have also walked some of the Superior Trail. and much of the Superstition Mountains.
I also like to go on forums and see if I can get a response. That seems to be a popular hobby as well.