Well, yesterday I showed my wife a picture of the Broadway Limited M1a I preordered yesterday. Her reaction? "Wow that's pretty. Wait don't tell me; it's a 4-8-, I cant see the back, Two?"
I have to love that she likes the steam engines.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
Congrats on that wife of yours!
When I got my Bachmann On30 Forney acouple of days ago, my wife exclaimed "How cute"! She is very supportive of my hobby a real keeper for over 30 years now!
This is an interesting thread. Question 1: How does your mate feel about your hobby? Disapproves, tolerates, encourages, or shares your hobby. Question 2: How long have you shared your lives?
Notice there is no reference to gender or marital status.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
#1: Encourages
#2 46 years
Mine is fully supportive, although not for multiple locomotives each year. I average one-to-two per year so far. I think she's right. We've been married just under 38 years. I know mine's a keeper because she won't pass up a steam excursion we can afford, even to the extent of telling me we're going...not asking. Of course, I put up the token resistance, you know....for show.
Thinks it is a waste of time (but she got me back into the hobby), 31 years.
I know I have a keeper. We have been married for 50 years this past January. She likes going to train shows, riding excursion trains, and likes to railfan with me. She never complains about my purchases of HO locomotives & rolling stock. In fact, I have to be careful at train shows and not show too much interest in something, as she will encourage to get it. Even though I don't want it or it doesn't fit into my collection of Western Pennsylvania railroads. This morning we went to railfan CSX at a new spot. After about an hour, I started home, but on the way home, she suggested we spend a little time where we railfan Norfolk Southern. What a great suggestion on her part, as we were there for about an hour when NS's OCS train blew by. It's the first time I've caught these beauties, and it was all because of her. Yeah, she's a keeper too.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
I definitely have a keeper! After 42+ years she's grown tired of train shows but will still gladly go to visit the EBT or Strasburg with me. She's very supportive of my model railroading mania and will help with trees and other scenery but doesn't have much interest otherwise. Yep.........I'm very lucky to have her!
Roger Huber
A few years back I decided to get back in the hobby (in a new scale) after my son made me get my old train stuff out from the depths of the crawlspace. One day my wife, out of the blue, came home with an Atlas Trainmaster Gold Series loco and passed it over my shoulder while I was at the computer.
A couple of years later she came into the trainroom and saw it sitting on a siding and asked why I wasn't pulling my new Rapido coaches with it. I told her that Trainmasters with that number didn't have a steam generator in them so they could only be used on my freight trains. I said "I'll get one with the right # and run them together to pull the coaches." A couple of days later she walks in with a second loco and says "this one has the right # ." You can now pull your coaches with your two engines. She has come home with a few other things over the years, like a Proto SW1200. PWRS is not far away and they know what I am in to. So it is like she is stopping in to buy me flowers except much better.
She didn't blink an eye when I moved the Grand Piano from the trainroom to the living room. She doesn't see the point in having unused space in a house, as in a perfect livingroom that no one is allowed to use.
We were good friends for 14 years before we got married and have been married for 17 years. We are both very laid back and nothing seems to ruffle our feathers, even when disaster strikes. Getting upset about anything only compounds the problem.
What a Gal.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
My wife supports my habit. She actually got me restarted in the hobby 3 years ago. Last year she helped plan and cheerfully participated in a multiple location train vacation in PA. From time to time she makes suggestions for my layout and I always try to take them. She also supports my train slush fund for large purchases. We have been married 36 years. She is a keeper.
I also support her in her quilting hobby and have never commented on her very expensive machines. I also show interest when she is working on a project.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
My wife is supportive of my hobby. She spend extra time looking for a place we could afford in this area that had a train room. She comes to train shows with me to and makes sure I don't miss anying!
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
All of the buildings in the town part of this area are gifts from my wife and daughter.
We've been married over 32 years.
Jarrell
Mine is very supportive, although she doesn't "share" the hobby. But she knows it keeps me sane and out of trouble.
This June we''ll have been married 28 years.
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
About half my rolling stock was gifts from a now ex-fiancee. So are about a third of all my structures. She enjoyed going to shows and was my wheelwoman, memory card chaperone, and general companion on railfanning expeditions. I miss her sometimes.
In early 1960 I was introduced to a young lady who was an avid, and expert, lacemaker. As I was watching her crochet a bedspread we got to talking and I admitted to an interest in model trains (gross understatement!)
She also accompanied me on railfanning trips around the local area (Itazuke AB) and seemed to enjoy it.
That July, she gave me my first brass loco kit, a Kawai 'foobie' that approximated a JNR loco we had seen. Later that year we got married.
Now, 53 years, two kids, three grandkids and three great-grandkids later, both marriage and locomotive are still going strong...
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - because we both loved, and love, it)
My wife is supportive now for 32 + years. We have no kids of our own, but a precious foster girl. (To us, she's ours, to her, we're hers) We don't have much opportunity to railfan, but she(wife) gets as exited as I do when we can. UP Challenger has come to here Bend OR. in the past, we watched it cross the Crooked River Gorge (pretty dramatic) then caught up with it later in Bend and got up close, she loved it. And she was as p***** as I was when our local news channel had conviently announced the arrival of SP Daylight 4449, AFTER IT CAME AND LEFT! She wants to come along when I get the chance to get a look at the old SP yard in Eugene some time. She's a keeper too!
I do have to be careful not to over do it on the hobby time and under do the responsibilities, as can happen.
I couldn't post this in the now empty box above, the letters got giant. Dan
Tolerates
44 years
Roger Hensley= ECI Railroad - http://madisonrails.railfan.net/eci/eci_new.html == Railroads of Madison County - http://madisonrails.railfan.net/ =
1. Extremely supportive
2. 19 years and counting. (and we've only been on this earth for 33 years thus far!)
Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.
Daniel G.