MacManNM

MacManNM

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Any of you guys that are still into this hobby, or are thinking about getting your kids into it, Hobby lobby has 1/2 off all their train stuff till the new year. I went and bought a bunch of stuff for my son (ok, for me too).
 
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Even tho' it's...

...pretty much after the fact, thanks for the great pics Buckeyfan...

Model railroading is a pretty cool hobby, like this one, you can get in as deep as you care to...everything from a simple circle of track around the tree to near insanity.

My dad is into model 'planes and that's how I got started, but he did put together a 4x8 American Flyer-based layout, complete with Plasticville structures, roads, 'phone poles, etc. ostensibly for me, but over the years it fell into disuse and was packed away...after a bit I was introduced to model cars by a friend and I was hooked on models again...AND did the slot-car thing with scratch-built chassis, modded Russkit motors, Mille-Miglia wheels and tires and a Cox controller...then came the band and music...and the opposite sex...

Quite some time later, I was interested in putting together a simple Chrismas thingee for grins and bought a few hobby-related mags...NO-NO...GO BACK!!! DANGER!!!

Anywho, as I said earlier, you can get as involved as you care to, and it's pretty nifty designing your own little world...you can pick any time period, you can specialize in narrow-gauge logging railroads or simply build a switching yard to make up consists in a logical manner. You can buy RTR, or kits, or scratchbuild engines, rolling stock and structures and then of course there's "scenicking" or the art of playing god..."creating" mountains, rivers, forests and the like...

I'm into HO myself, with pretty much middle-of-the-road motive power and cars...mostly Athearn, none of those incredibly expensive, imported, virtually hand-made, brass imports...a cool grand for an engine is not an oddity.

My speciality is scratch-built structures, one of which is a switch tower. 1:87 scale with individual studs and clapboards, working doors, accurate treads and risers for the stairway, a few commercial lost-wax castings...built to spec, as though it were actually 1:1...this is my little corner of insanity...

It all reared it's nasty-little head this Christmas...I found myself in a hobby shop looking for a O gauge car for a cousin's kid. He's trying to wean the child off of the hand-powered Thomas stuff and into the real-deal...between the synchronized engine sound, smoke and bells and whistles, I doesn't look like it's gonna' be a problem...

jimHJJ(...maybe there is some hope after all...)
 
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