Been modeling long?

[Anonymous]

ho as a kid . got out for 6 years . trying to build another small 4x8 ? double sided .

[Anonymous]

Before the age of eight, I coveted my brother's American Flyer trainset. Later, I got an awful battery powered train. But my
interest never died. It was after I got married that I really got into it. My new wife thought it was just a phase I was going
through. Little did she realize, and 29 years later here I am.

[Anonymous]

Before the age of eight, I coveted my brother's American Flyer trainset. Later, I got an awful battery powered train. But my
interest never died. It was after I got married that I really got into it. My new wife thought it was just a phase I was going
through. Little did she realize, and 29 years later here I am.

[Anonymous]

I've been modeling just 3 years but must say I've never had such a facinating and exciting experience as this hobby offers. I got my start by reading a western that described loading cattle on train pulled by a Baldwin mogul 4-4-0 engine. I didn't know what the terms meant but looked them up on the web and found the meeting of UP 119 and the Jupiter at Promontory, Utah in 1869. I was hooked and have been an old time steam and more enthusiast since. I am now working on my first layout on a Western theme that I hope to display at a local show during the Thanksgiving to Christmas holidays.
Thanks Model Railroading for many hours of entertainment and education!

[Anonymous]

I've been modeling just 3 years but must say I've never had such a facinating and exciting experience as this hobby offers. I got my start by reading a western that described loading cattle on train pulled by a Baldwin mogul 4-4-0 engine. I didn't know what the terms meant but looked them up on the web and found the meeting of UP 119 and the Jupiter at Promontory, Utah in 1869. I was hooked and have been an old time steam and more enthusiast since. I am now working on my first layout on a Western theme that I hope to display at a local show during the Thanksgiving to Christmas holidays.
Thanks Model Railroading for many hours of entertainment and education!

[Anonymous]

My dad got us started in HO in the mid 50's when I was about7. I kept up until high school and girls interupted. Built a few cars and structures in college, then a long lapse. My daughter got me interested again about 8 years ago. Wow! What a difference in the kit quality and the RTR steam locos.

[Anonymous]

My dad got us started in HO in the mid 50's when I was about7. I kept up until high school and girls interupted. Built a few cars and structures in college, then a long lapse. My daughter got me interested again about 8 years ago. Wow! What a difference in the kit quality and the RTR steam locos.

[Anonymous]

wow has it been that long?
HO from age 8 until now.
Also G scale for a few years.
And a little Lionel O for a few years.
Maybe I need to join a 12 step program.

[Anonymous]

wow has it been that long?
HO from age 8 until now.
Also G scale for a few years.
And a little Lionel O for a few years.
Maybe I need to join a 12 step program.

[Anonymous]

been modeling since early high school

[Anonymous]

been modeling since early high school

[BRAKIE]

I started in the hobby at the age of 3 running trains on my dad's layout.i haven't look back since but did find time to build a model of the RMS Titanic and still race 1/24th and 1/32nd slot cars from time to time.

[BRAKIE]

I started in the hobby at the age of 3 running trains on my dad's layout.i haven't look back since but did find time to build a model of the RMS Titanic and still race 1/24th and 1/32nd slot cars from time to time.

[Anonymous]

My 1st engine was a Mantua Shifter kit in about 1952-3. Flex track was available only in steel at the time because of the Korean War.

I was forced to get out of the hobby for a short time, until my boys were older and I could use them as a reason to get back in.

I'm sure that I would have gotten daughters involved in trains too.

[Anonymous]

My 1st engine was a Mantua Shifter kit in about 1952-3. Flex track was available only in steel at the time because of the Korean War.

I was forced to get out of the hobby for a short time, until my boys were older and I could use them as a reason to get back in.

I'm sure that I would have gotten daughters involved in trains too.

[Anonymous]

I started about 12 years ago working on my 3rd layout at present
Always been a HO modeler

[Anonymous]

I started about 12 years ago working on my 3rd layout at present
Always been a HO modeler

[Anonymous]

I started in N Scale in 1974 when a girlfriend gave me a set. Been in this scale ever since, on and off, depending on my motor racing commitments. I'm a member of the local N scale club.

Toy de Carvalho
Jhb, South Africa.

[Anonymous]

I started in N Scale in 1974 when a girlfriend gave me a set. Been in this scale ever since, on and off, depending on my motor racing commitments. I'm a member of the local N scale club.

Toy de Carvalho
Jhb, South Africa.

[Anonymous]

I'm just about 17 right now and have been into trains for as long as I can remember. My first electric train was a Playmobil G scale set that has had track and rolling stock added to it and I still have it now. I was about 5 or 6 when I got my first HO Bachmann starter set. The number of HO trains I had grew very quickly as more and more items were added. I think sometime around grade 2 my Dad built me my first layout. The HO layout has grown a great deal since then. Ever since I was a little kid I had wanted a Lionel train after seeing a picture of my uncle's Scout set. When I was maybe 10 I got a Marx set. I now have a very large collection of Lionel, Marx, American Flyer and many other tinplate manufacturers and a layout to run them on. I have a more realistic layout with my HO and a tinplate layout with my larger trains. I love both and why choose one when you can have it all? I have no intention of slowing down whatsoever and since I'm quite young I've got an awful long way to go with my love of trains!

[Anonymous]

I'm just about 17 right now and have been into trains for as long as I can remember. My first electric train was a Playmobil G scale set that has had track and rolling stock added to it and I still have it now. I was about 5 or 6 when I got my first HO Bachmann starter set. The number of HO trains I had grew very quickly as more and more items were added. I think sometime around grade 2 my Dad built me my first layout. The HO layout has grown a great deal since then. Ever since I was a little kid I had wanted a Lionel train after seeing a picture of my uncle's Scout set. When I was maybe 10 I got a Marx set. I now have a very large collection of Lionel, Marx, American Flyer and many other tinplate manufacturers and a layout to run them on. I have a more realistic layout with my HO and a tinplate layout with my larger trains. I love both and why choose one when you can have it all? I have no intention of slowing down whatsoever and since I'm quite young I've got an awful long way to go with my love of trains!

[h42man]

As a kid in the mid forties, I had a tinplate layout. Trains were always on my "Santa" list. I remember in the late forties looking at a Model Railroader mag. at the local drugstore and thought it was all Prototype info. I guess thats when I discovered scale models.
Even during my pursuit of girls, getting married, Navy and career I have always been an armchair model railroader and have purchased material for future layout.
Now I am retired and plan to fini***hat layout in the basement that has been under construction for the last 20 years

h42man

[h42man]

As a kid in the mid forties, I had a tinplate layout. Trains were always on my "Santa" list. I remember in the late forties looking at a Model Railroader mag. at the local drugstore and thought it was all Prototype info. I guess thats when I discovered scale models.
Even during my pursuit of girls, getting married, Navy and career I have always been an armchair model railroader and have purchased material for future layout.
Now I am retired and plan to fini***hat layout in the basement that has been under construction for the last 20 years

h42man

[Anonymous]

Been in and out since around 1948, am in N scale now, developing a 80+s.f. layout.
Total years probably around 43, can't shake the impulse to "play" with trains, just a kid nearing retirement age.

[Anonymous]

Been in and out since around 1948, am in N scale now, developing a 80+s.f. layout.
Total years probably around 43, can't shake the impulse to "play" with trains, just a kid nearing retirement age.

[Anonymous]

Having been started in a love of trains by my father during world war two with homemade train made of scrap wood, thread spools and buttons it's hard to remember exactly when I got started . It was then the usual graduation through Marx, Lionel and several other brands of tinplate before a friend and his brother introduced me to HO trains. My first kits were a Globe silver Rock Island boxcar and a Mantua B&O gondola, shortly after that Athearn came out with their line of inexpensive plastic kits and every Nickel I made at various part time jobs went into buying them and the soon to follow plastic F7s. I wish we had some of the fine running equipment of today back then. Todays modeler don't know how great they have it.
Walter E. Kulpa Newton, Iowa

[Anonymous]

Having been started in a love of trains by my father during world war two with homemade train made of scrap wood, thread spools and buttons it's hard to remember exactly when I got started . It was then the usual graduation through Marx, Lionel and several other brands of tinplate before a friend and his brother introduced me to HO trains. My first kits were a Globe silver Rock Island boxcar and a Mantua B&O gondola, shortly after that Athearn came out with their line of inexpensive plastic kits and every Nickel I made at various part time jobs went into buying them and the soon to follow plastic F7s. I wish we had some of the fine running equipment of today back then. Todays modeler don't know how great they have it.
Walter E. Kulpa Newton, Iowa

[Salidoor]

I'am into models trains for over 25 years. I'am into "Via" and Alaska trains as well as any special trains lfor instance "The Coca-Cola" trains. I only got one problem and that iis that the hobby become quite expensive because our moey's value is so low.
Fank you for this oppertunity. I'am from Pretoria in South Africa.

[Salidoor]

I'am into models trains for over 25 years. I'am into "Via" and Alaska trains as well as any special trains lfor instance "The Coca-Cola" trains. I only got one problem and that iis that the hobby become quite expensive because our moey's value is so low.
Fank you for this oppertunity. I'am from Pretoria in South Africa.

[Anonymous]

I inherited the hobby. Father (an N-scaler since the start of Arnold) gave me my first train at the age of 7 (a Triang wind-up). Being 38 now, I've modeled in H0, H0n3 and now P87 over the years.