Trains.com

Subscriber & Member Login

Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!

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

6302 views
104 replies
1 rating 2 rating 3 rating 4 rating 5 rating
  • Member since
    January 2002
  • From: Summerfield,Florida
  • 269 posts
Posted by edo1039 on Friday, September 23, 2005 8:39 AM
Soon to be 66 HO,I started in 1972 with a layout on 4x8 for my son's birthday,and got hooked two minutes after I started to lay track,needless to say son got a different present.
Ed OKeefe Summerfield,Fl "Go New Haven"
  • Member since
    October 2003
  • From: oregon
  • 885 posts
Posted by oleirish on Friday, September 23, 2005 8:35 AM
I'am 63 and Been model railroading for 50 years on and off,I had one N-scale years ago,Now I'am in HO again,my first train set was a tyco saddle tank HO when I was 13years old.[^][:)]
JIM
  • Member since
    April 2003
  • 305,205 posts
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 23, 2005 8:35 AM
51 and HO here.
  • Member since
    February 2001
  • 415 posts
Posted by bbrant on Friday, September 23, 2005 8:29 AM
36 & HO here.
  • Member since
    February 2005
  • From: In the State of insanity!
  • 7,982 posts
Posted by pcarrell on Friday, September 23, 2005 8:17 AM
I'm 40, and I like a challenge, so, N scale.
Philip
  • Member since
    April 2003
  • 305,205 posts
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 23, 2005 8:09 AM
32. HO Scale. All BNSF Power.
Allan.
  • Member since
    April 2003
  • 305,205 posts
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 23, 2005 7:26 AM
17 Ho scale
  • Member since
    April 2003
  • 305,205 posts
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 23, 2005 2:45 AM
27 Y/O HO

my parents got me a 4x8 when i was 8 . i have also lived next to train tracks from the time i was 8 . but as far as model railroading i didnt get in to it till i was like 18 or 19 .thats when it came to me that there had to bemore to it than track on plywood
  • Member since
    September 2004
  • From: Christchurch New Zealand
  • 1,525 posts
Posted by NZRMac on Friday, September 23, 2005 1:49 AM
37 feel like 47 sometimes. I'm in HO, Dad had a layout which I loved, but when my teenage years came it was sold.

Tried N scale and had a layout running but no scenery, sold it at about 25 yrs old

Just last year bought a 41/2 X 8 HO layout which didn't last long major expansion in the garage but we moved house and I used it for firewood. Now a small switching round the computer desk layout, Lenz DCC and all mostly QSI loco's. Having a ball!!

Ken.
  • Member since
    May 2005
  • 1,168 posts
Posted by dgwinup on Friday, September 23, 2005 1:29 AM
"As old as my tongue and slightly older than my teeth." Santa Claus, (Edmund Gwynn), Miracle on 34th Street, 1947 (?)

Feb 5 will mark my 58th birthday. (Remember that so you can send presents!).

My Dad set up a 4x8' Lionel trainset when I was around 2 or 3. Had those until about 12 or 13, then bought some HO. Stored all the Lionel away and had fun with the HO. Got bit by the railroad bug again while in college and found N scale would fit in my room-and-a-half apartment. N scale ever since and never looked back. Still have most of the HO stuff but the Lionel stuff was given away while I was at college. [:(][sigh]

Darrell, on tracks, but quiet...for now
Darrell, quiet...for now
  • Member since
    April 2003
  • 305,205 posts
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 23, 2005 1:16 AM
19, almost 20, started with HO when I got a set at 12, then switched to N 3years ago ;-DD
  • Member since
    May 2004
  • From: California
  • 176 posts
Posted by Vampire on Friday, September 23, 2005 1:12 AM
I'm 41 also and I prefer HO scale. I dabbled with some N scale once but it never grew on me. I could do more with my layout if I switched to N scale but I'm just too fond of HO.

I also have some G scale stuff but it's mainly for display and doesn't run often.
  • Member since
    June 2005
  • From: Hot'lanta, Gawga
  • 1,279 posts
Posted by Rotorranch on Friday, September 23, 2005 1:12 AM
I'm quickly approaching 50 years old, and have been doing HO since around 1964.

My first real "upgrade" of my layout was around 1970-71.

I'm still running that same layout, although updated. yet again, on my layout today.

Rotor

 Jake: How often does the train go by? Elwood: So often you won't even notice ...

  • Member since
    November 2003
  • From: California
  • 263 posts
Posted by EL PARRo on Friday, September 23, 2005 1:03 AM
19

HO
huh?
  • Member since
    August 2005
  • From: Southeast Texas
  • 2,392 posts
How old are you, and what scale do you model ?...
Posted by Tracklayer on Friday, September 23, 2005 1:02 AM
I'm 41 (soon to be 42) and 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 - which I don't really have much of a problem with. As long as I can continue to run trains, that's all that matters... ([:D])

Tracklayer

Subscriber & Member Login

Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!

Users Online

There are no community member online

Search the Community

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Model Railroader Newsletter See all
Sign up for our FREE e-newsletter and get model railroad news in your inbox!