How old are you, and what scale do you model ?...

[vsmith]

forty somthin'

doing large scale 1/20.3

[Anonymous]

I'm 40. I model On30.

[joeyegarner]

I am almost 42 and have been in HO since I was 12, with more time off than on. I spent about a year with N scale back in the early 80's but HO has always been my favorite. Seems anything bigger is too big anything smaller is too small. My son is also putting together a collection he is 19 and also spent some time with N scale.

[Anonymous]

Started with American Flyer, now a ***.

That could make me a senior old fart.

Any guesses?

[Anonymous]

55, On30, G, 7 1/2" gauge, 2' gauge.

[trainboyH16-44]

15, HO, with an N on the way.
I don't like being 15. In Calgary, you're not allowed to go on the LRT with a bike unless you're 16. oh, well, I do it anyway. Who wants to bike home 20Km, uphill all the way, in the rain and against 50kph winds. Not me......(mad rant continued)
Trainboy

[Anonymous]

30, HO.

Did N for a couple years as a teenager, then bailed on MRR'ing for college, drumming, girlfriends, future wife, etc.

As soon as I got married, I got the old MRR'ing bug again.

I struggled A LOT with choosing a scale, but have decided it's got to be HO for me. It just feels right, and that's my best explanation of why I'm choosing HO.

[jdolan]

I'm 65 and have been in ho since 1970. Working on 5th layout.

Jack

[rexhea]

I am 60. Started HO modeling in the late 60's early 70's and revived 2 years ago for my retirement with more time, more space, less money. [:D]

REX

[Train 284]

14, HO ang G, also soon to be live steam, building a small speeder. Also 15" gauge.

[Anonymous]

I'm 59 and been in HO for 40+ years. working on my third, and probably not my final layout. Been thru conventional, multiblock wiring to dynatrol, and now to DCC and heavens know what else.

[palallin]

41. O.

[twhite]

Will be 66 December 10th of this year, and have been in HO since about 1955. Still have some of my original Varney and Athearn metal cars, and Silver Streak wooden cabeese and reefers. I slip the Silver Streak reefers into my Accurail and Intermountain reefer consists and nobody knows the difference, HAH! Who says they didn't build 'em back then!
Tom [:P]

[prospekt mira]

42 and starting again in N scale.
My father had a hornby HO set around my crib when I was less than 1 year old. I stayed in HO until I was 18 when i decided to switch to N scale. after less than 4 months I went to University and then worked in a couple of places Toronto, Manhatten, and Moscow. I returned to Canada and pulled the 20 year old stuff out and now have a proper layout. (still have a box of a bunch of 25 year old HO stuff though, some of which still works).
My 13 month old son loves watching the trains go round and playing with the PA DCC throttle. My favorite train is out of my choosen period, its a GO train and I ride the proto version each day and from our balcony we can see it go by. Its my favourite since each time I run it,my son screams papa since when he sees it in the afternoon he knows I'll be back home soon.

[Anonymous]

55 Y/O. Collect Z,N,TT,HO (AC/DC), S, 3rail 0, G. Operate N, HO (AC Marklin), 3rail O.

[loathar]

40 and an HO'er. Started in 027 at age 5, tried N for very brief time, and stuck with HO ever since.(still wish I would have kept my Lionel stuff though. The prices these days! WOW)

[Anonymous]

45 and N scale...

[mopacforever]

36 years old, HO.

I have spent 18 years in the military. I was raised on MoPac and grew up not too far from the Jenks building in NLR.

[Piedsou]

Turned 58 in June. Model in HO.
I got my first train sets (one Lionel and one Marx) at Christmas 1949 when I was one and a half. Got some more Marx sets over the years. Got my first HO about 1958-9. I got an Aristo Craft box car for 89 cents. Later, when I finally got a dollar, I bought a set of trucks for it (50 cents) and two pieces of Atlas 9" straight Snap Track for another 50 cents (25 cents each). I got an Athearn rubber band drive Hustler train set a few months later. The rest is history.

[ChessieFan13]

old enough to know better and young enough not to care...............[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]

no but really im 26 and model HO for about 15 years.....just got back into it xmas of last year when the boy got a set from St. Nick

[BentnoseWillie]

I'm 35, and have been playing with or building trains in HO since age 6.

[tstage]

I've modeled 87.1:1 since 2004 and have been 1:1 since 1959.

Tom

[scubaterry]

53 year old HO'er. Late bloomer started about five years ago.
Terry

[Anonymous]

56 and still in HO after 40 years.

[Anonymous]

26 N Scale!

[ARTHILL]

Hi kids. I'm 70 and been at HO since 1949, with some long layoffs.

[Dr. John]

I'm 45 and I collect and/or model in HO, N, S, O-27 and On30. I have had layouts in all the aforementioned except S and On30 (just collecting in those scales, for now.) I currently have a small HO switching layout, an N switching layout, and I'm in the planning stages of an O-27 layout. I've been enjoying model railroading since I received my first train set (a Marx, tinplate windup set) back in 1964.

[egmurphy]

I'm 58 and in Normal scale. If I had unlimited room I'd probably go for HO, but under the circumstances it's going to continue to be N.

QUOTE: Tracklayer: I've always been an N scaler. But due to my eye sight growing increasingly worse, I'll eventually have to move on to HO...

Nah, you'd be surprised how good optivisors work!! [8D]

I'm well prepared in this department. I've got my reading glasses, my optivisor (knockoff), hand held magnifying glasses, my swing arm magnifier/light, and one of those little bases with two swivel clamps and a magnifier. For really detailed stuff like painting N scale figures, I call the wife. [:D]


Regards

Ed

[jrbernier]

I am 55 - was in N for a few years; now back in HO. I really missed 'building' models, and everyone in my area is into HO. I never really got out of HO(the layout was never torn down), and I am currently rebuilding it(more staging, remove the old DC cab control panels, and re-do the scenery). Been in model railroading since the first 'Lionel' trains set when I was 5 or 6!

Jim Bernier

[IRONROOSTER]

I'm 58. I started with HO, moved to O, and for the last 14 years I have been in S. I have found S to be the happy compromise between big enough to see and work with, yet small enough to have a layout in less than a large basement.
Enjoy
Paul