What Are Your Other Hobbies?

[Driline]

I collect 1960 - 1969 regular wheel matchbox cars. Here's a few pics of my "Matchbox Museum". I also do computer gaming (Enemy Territory) Castle Wolfenstein online. (The free version).

Oh, and my home honey do lists are long and never ending. Note to self. Buy a NEW house next time.

[eric719]

Astronomy and photography are my main hobbies in addition to model railroading. Astronomy takes up a lot of my time as I am active within a club. Especially during the summer when the weather is nice. Model railroading gives me something to do during the winter when we don't get under the stars much.

Eric

[Anonymous]

HUNTING ducks and geese...

Summer time Fishing and Camping..

Black Smith and welding yeah that's my every day job...

[Charlie]

Aside from model railroading, I also model Braille Scale modern armor, photography, following KU Jayhawks, KC Chiefs, ST Louis Blues/Cardinals

Ch

[Anonymous]

Computers and computer gaming take up some of my "spare time" along with working on our house now that I've retired.

Another major time expenditure (not sure you can call it a hobby) is swimming, running, and biking. At 58, I'm pointing towards my 10th (and final) Ironman triathlon next October. But first, my wife and I are doing the "Goofy Challenge" at Disney World this January. That's a Half-Marathon (13.1 miles) on Saturday, then the full Marathon (26.2 miles) on Sunday. 

You have to age. You don't have to get old.

Mike Tennent

[dinwitty]

computers and gaming on the computer.

Of course I have MS Train Simulator and Trainz and gobs of other train sim stuff

I level create with the Unreal game series, level making is creative and somewhat relaxing, and your making something exciting to have fun with.

as far as computer train games go,  some russian guy made this little cool train, I forget the name but this is the scheme.

everything happens on one screen, in 2d. You start with some money and you start laying tracks from  from one edge of the screen to the next, and or back to the same edge.

The years progress from about 1830 or so and continue up to the present (or future maybe)
The goal is to simply get a train that appears across to its destination by throwing switches where need be and turning signals green/red to control trains.  The tracks stay or you can remove and build but your tracks have to meet with the destinations  that appear on the screen edge.

As years go by you get the equipment of the day. You could have several train flying on the screen at once.

If you crash you can command this crane to come out and clean up the crash/track as it will be closed till you fix it.

By todays year you get superfast TGV's and other modern trains and their almost flying across.

It gets to be a pretty fun mumble jumble of trains.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Building and programming computers. I'm also a pretty good hacker.

Other pursuits have been:

Fast women

Alcohol

Fast cars

I gave up the fast women and alcohol due to health issues. I still dabble in fast cars.

[pcarrell]

I'll give you a hint....

I've never seen that kind of guitar stand before. Where'd you get it from?

My brother worked for a large music store and it was one of their display stands.  When they remodeled I was in the right place at the right time.  There's no markings on it, so I can't even tell you who made it.  It's pretty cool though.  It holds 5 guitars in a very small space.

Cool to see a lot of other musicians in the hobby. Though I guess we can also claim company with people like Neil Young, Rod Stewart and Phil Collins. Also the guys who originally founded MDC/Roundhouse were jazz musicians.

See, we're loaded with class!

So tell me, when you hear a diesel horn, do you try to identify what kind of chord it is? :)

I just wish I could play harmonica so I could imitate it!

[Santa Fe buff]

My other hobbies are Batman, Star Wars, Godzilla, OO7 collecting.

I also build scale plastic model kits.

I like oldies music and movies.

[Metro Red Line]

Other than my MRR hobby I most enjoy throwing my Tomahawks and knifes.  I  have two nice oak targets set up just outside of my layout building.  So if I need to take a break from the arduous job of MRR'ing then I just step outside and let em fly.
Terry

Interpretation: "Don't mess with me."

[bpickering]

Reading

• Science Fiction (currently a little over half-way through Dan Simmons' Olympos)
• History, mostly either RR-related or WWII-related (in the middle of MacArthur, by Sydney L. Mayer)

Occasional wood-working

• A bed for my son
• Built the porch on our house

Motorcycling (not nearly enough... until the afore-mentioned son's legs are long-enough to reach the foot-pegs, I'm pretty-much stuck in a "cage")

Gaming

• Currently only have time to really concentrate on one game, so went with one for which there is both local and online interest- Advanced Squad Leader
• Previously have enjoyed Star Fleet Battles, Rolemaster, Titan, the Mayfair "crayon" rail games, etc.

Legos

Brian Pickering

[scubaterry]

Other than my MRR hobby I most enjoy throwing my Tomahawks and knifes.  I  have two nice oak targets set up just outside of my layout building.  So if I need to take a break from the arduous job of MRR'ing then I just step outside and let em fly.
Terry

[Metro Red Line]

I'll give you a hint....

I've never seen that kind of guitar stand before. Where'd you get it from?

Cool to see a lot of other musicians in the hobby. Though I guess we can also claim company with people like Neil Young, Rod Stewart and Phil Collins. Also the guys who originally founded MDC/Roundhouse were jazz musicians.

So tell me, when you hear a diesel horn, do you try to identify what kind of chord it is? :)

[Metro Red Line]

Live steam. Inch and a half scale was too expensive, but full scale steam equipment was easy to get. But then I needed a crane to move the stuff around, so got one of those! Then I needed a place to keep the steam stuff and crane, got a two bay steam locomotive engine house. So when the UP got the SP they got me too with all the steam stuff!

Uh, live steam is a form of model railroading. Try again.

[metalfrog]

well let's see ham radio...keeping freshwater tropical fish....putting together electronic kit's.of course model rring is far the number one hobby for me.terry..........

[SilverSpike]

Woodworking - games, toys, jewerly boxes, windspinners, and other stuff of that type.

Shooting sports - target (rim and centerfire pistol, and rimfire rifle) and sporting clays/trap/skeet.

Photography - hopefull soon to be digital.

Cooking - before I went into railroading, I was a chef.

Nick

Interesting! I was in the restaurant industry for 18 years before I made a career change into IT, now cooking is fun again!

[SOU Fan]

Does NASCAR count as a hobby?

Go Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin.

-dekruif

[pcarrell]

I'll give you a hint....

Photography? I see those MRs down there too!

You caught that, did you?  Those are just the more recent ones.  The rest are put up.

[nbrodar]

Woodworking - games, toys, jewerly boxes, windspinners, and other stuff of that type.

Shooting sports - target (rim and centerfire pistol, and rimfire rifle) and sporting clays/trap/skeet.

Photography - hopefull soon to be digital.

Cooking - before I went into railroading, I was a chef.

Nick

[SilverSpike]

In addition to model railroading.....

Bicycling

Camping

Hiking

Canoeing

Watercolors

Photography

Website design

Cooking

[TheK4Kid]

Flying vintage airplanes, I'm a licensed private pilot, member of the Experimental Aircraft Association, also building and flying radio-control sailplanes and large scale RC airplanes.
Also own and fly a 1946 Ercoupe, presently helping to restore an  airplane that's now a national treasure, Harold Nuemans "Little Mulligan", actually an old monocoupe.
It will be on display at the Oshkosh Air Venture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin sometime in the next 24 months after restoration.
Spend one week of each year doing volunteer work at the Oshkosh Air Show each year.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

 Ed

[IRONROOSTER]

I enjoy woodworking, reading (mostly non fiction), antiqueing with my wife, board games with my sons, and computer games. 

Enjoy
Paul

[n2mopac]

Over the years I have had many. Most of them when by the wayside in favor of model railroading when I started in this hobby 10 yers ago. Ones that have been dropped or severely limited by railroading include stamp collecting, golf, bow hunting (deer and turkey), fishing, coin collecting, and severl other various collections. Ones that I still dabble in on a limited basis include deer hunting (firearm) and playing the trumpet.

Ron

[DavidH]

Hmmm.  My girlfriend is into hiking and skiing, so I guess those are now my interests too . . .  My own main interests aside from model railroading are travel and my high performance sports car.

David

[Angel_of_Mercy]

Yu-gi-oh! TCG

artwork

research lot's and lots of research ( making a sermon is complacated)

[Wulfblat]

My other hobbies include astronomy, cooking, scuba diving, travel, and Taekwon-Do. I am new to model railroading, and so I currently spend more money on this hobby, but the others have been or, in the case of travel, continue to be just as expensive. I spend far more time in Taekwon-Do than in all the other hobbies combined (save perhaps cooking), but that's just the nature of the beast.

[alfadawg01]

In no particular order of priority, I indulge in the following:  Travel (back to western Canada next spring), photography (trains, architecture, landscapes, flowers), and music (as both listener and performer....I currently play weekly in my church's worship band and have three synthesizers, an Ensoniq SD1, a Roland JV1080 and an Alesis Ion....I'm in the photo below, in the blue shirt on the riser to the far right)

[soumodeler]

I'll give you a hint....

Photography? I see those MRs down there too!

[perry1060]

I like to scratch build bird houses from 9-ply birch wood.

 

I also like to carve wood. This is one of my cottonwood carvings.

[selector]

Astronomy, classical music, choral singing, running, cycling, snowshoeing, gardening.  None currently competes for dollars except for a few dollars for the Choral Society membership and driving up to meet the snow.

You need a telescope for the astronomy right? Cycling, you need to keep your bike tuned, buy new tires periodically, right? Gardening, you need to buy plants, soil, fertilizer, etc, right? :)

No, I don't .  I have had these things for some time, and only recently came to toy trains.  I do admit that I pay for a bike overhaul once every three to four years, and that would include new tires, but that expense palls compared to the other things that I do. I have gardened for some time, so I have the implements and take care of them, and I save seeds.  So, these pursuits no longer compete for my discretionary income with the exceptions that I stated in my post.