Glad to see so many young guys and the young at heart. This year will be my 39th anniversary of turning 30. Wow time goes fast.
Still playing with my trains and building a smaller layout.
I've seen tons of younger model railroaders on YouTube and Facebook, but its refreshing to know there is a group here on the MR forums that is in their 20s. That's why I started this thread- to get a sense of how there is still a younger generation who "plays with trains" instead of the other hobbies.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
I used to be under 30...back in the 70s. What a great time we had. Worked hard, played hard, danced a lot and chased girls...and rode my Harley everywhere. What was the question? My mind sort of drifted off for awhile...
WP Lives
Im 12 and love trains and model railroading.
Im under 30 in my mind !!!
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
I´m also joining the 29er club! Will hit 30 in September!
I've now celebrated my 35 aniversary of turning 30!
I think the cut-off was to early in this question and really should have been 40 or younger.
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
I'm turning 28 next month. I model 1940s Union Pacific steam, but I also have some other one-off locos. Got back into the hobby a few years ago after being away from it for about 10 years or so.
29. Proto-lanced regional carrier. (Fictional line that connects to two real lines in the same area, partnered with one....)
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
I am 29, going on to 30 in november.
I model the Wisconsin Central and CN fusion along with another shortline: St-Lawrence and Atlantic.
When I've got a throttle in my hand and I blow the whistle when approaching a crossing, I'm about 8 years old. My Truman Era birth date does not matter at all.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
28 and my modeling interests are listed below
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
I turn 20 in November.
Modeling the Bellefonte Central Railroad
Fan of the PRR
Garden Railway Enthusiast
Check out my Youtube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/PennsyModeler
I turn 23 in late July
The Beaverton, Fanno Creek & Bull Mountain Railroad
"Ruby Line Service"
Close.. 32 here.
I'm 30 in my mind but my body is 2 and a half times that. I'm still having fun with my trains.
Joe
I was under 30 when Jaws came out (the first one). As for being a 5-year-old on a sugar rush, that was during the Truman administration. Only yesterday, it seems. Good memories.
I have tried to maintain my behavior on a decidedly juvenile level throughout my entire life, and see no advantage in changing now. It works well for me.
Tom
I have been 30 twice. I wonder what my chances are of making it a third time.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
In early August, I'll be celebrating my 33 anniversary of turning 21. LOL.
In the near 2 years of being on these forums, I've seen numerous threads expressing concerns about the future of this incredible hobby...that we're losing the interest of the younger generations. This thread might just show otherwise.
Mark H
Modeling in HO...Reading and Conrail together in an alternate history.
Wow, a lot of 29-year-olds. Me as well, i'll be 30 in September.
It's nice to see that i'm not the only one, it's easy to feel that way. I've been to a couple of ops sessions in my area, but I always end up feeling a little funny hanging out with guys twice my age (my fiancé came to one, that was weird). Not that they aren't wonderful people with much to share, it's just that it would be nice to share my hobby with some of my peers. Usually when social aquaintances ask me what I do in my spare time I say kayaking or riding bikes - both of which I enjoy and both of which are much easier to explain than model railroading.
It's always suprising, however, when one of my 30y/o friends finally makes it back into the laundry room of my house and see's my little part of California in the 50's. The reaction is always positive; they even end up asking things like "hows that going" in conversation later on, and there were high-fives all around when one of my pictures made the Model Railroader newsletter. Of course, none of them have taken it up... yet.
S. Connor has it as youngest so far, as I am a year or so older than him.
-Alex Warshal
My Layout Photos- http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/ajwarshal/library/
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Oh, yes! I remember my sophmore year at high school.
That was they year that Kennedy was shot.
ROARING
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
I suppose I might just be the youngest guy here, heading into my Sophomore year of High school this fall.
Modeling everything midewest in HO steam on a 4x8 sheet of plywood. MOPAC, Illinois Central, Nickle Plate, Wabash, and Frisco. With N&W/NYC as an exception. Everything second-hand DC.
-S. Connor
My wife sometimes says I'm like a 5 year old on a sugar rush!! Unfortunately, I haven't actually been a 5 year old on a sugar rush since the Nixon Administration!
pt714 26 in August. P
26 in August.
P
Same here
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.