This is an interesting topic. I was into trains when i was little as im sure we all were. my grandfather had a lionel layout every christmas. he passed when I was 7 and then my dad had only set it up once since. I got into airplanes next. started with RC airplanes when I was 12. i learned to fly them at a local airport, where my RC instructor dad owned the airport. I took flying lessons with him starting when i was 14, and soloed on my 16th birthday. got into wrenching on airplanes in highschool to trade for airplane rental. a few years later i got a job at a local maintenance shop where i ended up working for 15 years before leaving with another friend from there to start our own shop back at the airport i learned to fly at. we have grown the business pretty big for a small airport and work on aircraft from all over the country. in all of this, in my spare time, i built a pile of rc airplanes, then decided i wanted to build an aerobatic biplane, so i built that in 7 years, now am restoring a russian observation airplane, the only one in the country. airplanes, airplanes, airplanes. 2 years ago, my dad gave me the family lionel collection. i set it up in my basement. then the following christmas i set it up again...... .and... never took it down hahaha. now we have modified the layout making it bigger and adding more trains. we are working on wiring it now then its on to scenery. while i love my aviation business, and have an absolute blast blowing holes in sky with my biplane, theres just something about escaping to the basement some evenings with a glass of rum and watching trains run!
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