Do Model Railroaders Have Other Hobbies?

HEY COLORADO HIRAILER, 

Studebaker had a model called the "Dictator", but dropped the name when Hitler came to power in 1933.

FDR also came to power in 1933, so the change from "Dictator" to "President" was natural!

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HEY OGAUGENUT,

Sailing, huh? 

What type of craft:  Catboat?  Sloop?  Cutter?  Yawl?  Ketch?  Catamaran?

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BAD ORDER:  I just checked, and the Brooklin Stude I have is a 1935 Dictator...I

think Brooklin makes/made at least one other 1930's Studebaker.   I am no authority on Studebakers beyond my general interest in medium price orphans of the '20's and '30's. Studebaker managed to make it out of the Depression, as many did not, and through WWII.  Interesting to see that my thought that a lot of train guys were also, like me, into cars is again verified.  I first got that notion decades ago,  in an old car magazine (might have been Cars & Parts), when the car they were featuring was photographed in a northeastern Ohio garage, with stacks of Marx train set boxes behind it.

funny it seems hot rods/bikes and railroads go together. here's mine

2001 v6 mustang converted to a 2001 roush with a 4.6 swap 3.55 gears.

1991 z28 picked it up cheap and am in the process of restoring it. it runs and drives but don't trust it yet it sat for over 10 years.

1986 Iroc z28 it sat in a field for 8 years the list of what has been done to this one is long. Ill start with it was repainted hugger orange removed the 305 and dropped in a 454 BBC removed the red interior put in black. pulled out the 700r4 and put in a built th400  3 inch exhaust. the motor is a 1973 ls6 just under 600 hp. new wheels and tires. 2 shows for the car and 2 trophies

HEY COLORADOHIRAILER,

I'm sure you're aware that Studebaker made Covered Wagons in the 19th Century before entering the Automobile business in the 20th.

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I enjoy machining, build miniature railways in 5" scale, 15" gauge, and restore full size locomotives.

Seems like this topic goes around once a year, but I've noticed a pattern of a lot model railroaders also interested in almost anything else that has wheels and a motor.

For me the list outside model railroading is:

Freelance musician (trumpet)

Antique cars

Civil War reenacting

Local History

Vintage Audio

I'm probably the only Forum member who is deep into bel canto opera.  I have over

400 recordings and DVDs.  P.S. Bel canto opera was written between 1810 and 1850. The major composers were Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti.

Lew Schneider

Pete, is this like the NCRS meets where they judge and award for factory originality and / or correctness of restoration?

Nick, This is by people's choice, ie. other Norton Owners at the National Norton Rallies held once a year in different locations in Canada and US. This was in 1985 and 1993 when the majority rode their bikes to the rallies. I built this to be ridden, not as a show bike. Today many trailer their bikes and some of the bikes are professionally restored. Different crowd and standards.

Pete

I do auto resto and race r/c boats and collect die cast cars..

Dear Bad Order Hal,

Before becoming totally blown away by this hobby in 2005, (a hobby that had been packed away for over 40 years in a long forgotten attic), yes I did have hobbies.

The hobby which took me away from toy trains was competitive swimming as a young boy and baseball card and comic book collecting. When I moved to Staten Island I had to swim for another club but my baseball cards and comic books came with me for a brief while I recall that the American Flyer Train set came out but was quickly stored for posterity by my father again because he wanted to save them for when I could appreciate them.

I married my college sweetheart and moved out at 23 this was in 1980 and have been working ever since for the family business.

When my wife and I had a daughter in 1990, I became interested in showing her a hobby of mine so at Christmas time in 1995 I bought her a K line Christmas Set which I put around the tree without much success.......her interest was dolls!

Little did I know that in 2005, that my Dad would reawaken my train hobby by giving me a starter set so late in life (I was 48 he was 78). As a matter of fact in the next year he gave me back my S gauge trains, by that time I had an O gauge train table well under construction and no more room to build an American Flyer table.

Over the years I had many different hobbies going to fishing shows, and boating shows, car shows and I recall being quite skilled at model plane building.

Mike Marice

With my 2 kids in middle school and high school, a lot of my hobbies involve coaching or watching them participate in spring and fall sports.

When time permits, I try to keep up with:

Running

Boating/Sailing/watersports

Travel

Golf

R/C cars and helicopters

Music (still working my guitar skills)

you sound like me

auto resto cars are in a above post

r/c boats use to race them (electrics) still have a national record in namba

diecasts well have them too not many about 20 total

HEY MIKE,

Thanks for the interesting history of your hobbies! 

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This thread should have ben titled:

I like the Earnhardt IROC car Jhainer!

Other than trains, I like to draw.  

Here is a picture of two of my wife's cars..

 I also made the frame out of 1x3 pine

A couple trains..

I also enjoy woodworking, you can see a couple pictures below of a computer desk I designed and built from scratch, a couple tables, and cat tree (all from a couple years ago).

LOL.R/c boat...IMPBA here....Id forgot to post my pics...the white spaceshuttle boat down to the jeep are mine and all won trophys for best paint work..second is my black neon and wifes yellow neon....third pic was on old show truck that id won 57 trophys and was in off road mag..last one is my 68 charger that id prostreeted and my first car...been in storage for 16 years....well last pic is my wife with madison IN driver steve davdison and kyle perkins....

I enjoy repairing desktop and laptop computers for friends and family. If you have old laptops that you don't want I'll take them, fix 'em and give them away free to someone who doesn't have one.

I taught my son and daughter to fly model RC planes.  Now we are inseparable... trains in the winter and planes in the summer.

My son is a better pilot than me now.  My daughter is just getting the hang of it.  I included a video... This was one of the top ten days of my life.

Ron

Used to do Ham radio.  Not anymore.  KC6NNL  Matt

My hobby?  Girls half my age.   

Now that I'm over 36 it's completely legal.

Lotsa Vette fans on here.  My brother would have enjoyed it.  When we were out

joyriding in my mother's new '54 Chevy, we saw one of those first white Vettes

in a tiny dealer showroom in Mt. Washington, Ky.  My brother was hooked.  He

got at least one, that he ordered and picked up in Bowling Green.  I gave him

membership in a Corvette club for Christmas that year.  The closest I came to getting one was in 1960, when I could have gotten one for , I think, $500 more than a Superstock 348 Impala.  I went with the Impala.  The price spread now is a lot wider, and deserves to be, between Vettes and current Impalas.

Oh, yes, Bad Order, very aware of Studebaker building Conestogas.  I think they got their start in autos in electrics.  I built the requisite model of the Highway Pioneers 1910 Studebaker electric coupe, and have been to a LOT of vintage car shows, but don't think I have seen a Studebaker electric, although I've seen Detroits and others.

that r/c Plane video was cool that corsair looks to be a very nice flying plane. your daughters flight looked like the first time I flew but mine didn't fair that well. it was a cadet senior if I remember correctly. about 15-20 feet from the ground I lost lift and nose dived into the ground prop broke and front gear came off. last time I flew. it was a buddy's plane

From May through October, I bike outside.

I read history..........I have been concentrating on the centennial of WWI.

i enjoy reading and studying the Civil War. I have visited most of the major battlefields of the Eastern & Western theaters.

i enjoy naval history from the Greeks through the present, especially the evolution of dreadnoughts.

i am interested in and read about evolutionary biology, especially the interplay of climate and disease on human evolution. The effects of climate and disease on the the history of civilization since about 400BC is a hot topic for me. Areas of interest include the plague of Athens and it's effect on the war between Athens and Sparta; the plague of Justinian and the subsequent spread of Islam;  the Little Ice Age and Black Death and lastly, the Spanish Influenza.

Peter

When I'm not puttering with trains I'm out paddling my stand-up paddleboard (SUP) which I built a couple of years ago. I also bicycle though I haven't had as much time for that now that I have a 2 and 7 year old. At night I usually end up playing World of Tanks on the Xbox (I worked in the game industry until recently). I also enjoy making things. My current project is a set of wTrak wooden train tables for my kids. I saw them at the Seattle train show a few weeks ago and they were hands down the neatest thing I saw. If you have small kids or grandkids check out the plans at http://www.wTrak.org 

I consider my trains to be my midlife crisis and some of you guys are validating what I keep telling my wife: "Honey just be thankful I'm into trains. Other guys midlife crisis require wearing a helmet, paying moorage fees or a building second garage!"  

Gaming,Golf,Freediving.

Sorry guys ,I forgot to post this video.. spring till fall we run the boats and winter is trains..Here is one of our R/C boats..its my wifes ..me doing a test run on a nitro rigger...

The RC plane video brought back many good memories for me as well.  I started with a Sig Cadet, got into aileron control with an A-Ray, and then built an 8 foot double dihedral wingspan sailplane with a high start bungee type launcher. It was a lot of fun until we lost our flying field. 

Do you want me to believe that there ARE other hobbies?

Jerry

Gee, Erie Lackawanna,

you remind me of someone I know who models the DL&W, and collects Pontiac "Goats".

Artie

Oops, I guess I should mention my other hobbies:

fly fishing, and fishing in general (salt and freshwater), kayak fishing, canoeing, boating, camping, astronomy (10" Meade reflector with clock drive), skiing, and sci-fi movies.

Take care,

Artie

Well, as long as you're talkin' RC, my favorite Radio Controlled vehicle is this 36-year-old Army Fast Attack Vehicle.

I've dabbled in RC Electric Airplanes and Helicopters, RC Electric Scale Boats (I built a 112-pound Scale Tugboat (powered by a car battery which also served as ballast), but my favorite is this FAV!

The Cats love to scamper around the house with it, and the Dogs try to avoid it in the back yard.

This is the only RC ground vehice that has a True Automotive Gear-Type Differential...the newer ones have a stupid slip-clutch on each axle.

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Wow...dogs usually chase, cats usually hide and avoid...just my limited observation..

some of each sometimes ignore...interesting how these different critters have

individual personalities....my midlife crises apparently started at the age of

7 and have continued to this day

I Brew too

lots and lots of delicious beer!

Yes  Can't wait until spring to get flying again although  our club flies indoors at the high school gym once a week.. It's not as  easy as it looks.  I do have a Cub on skies and another on floats (electric) both handle well in the snow. It' just been too darn cold to fly and retrieval might be a problem with so much snow in case of a crash.  Thanks for the video.

Howdy, Colorado Hi-Railer

Two of our 3 dogs avoid the vehicle: to them it's because it's unpredictable in its movements. (Even though it's ME that makes it so wildly maneuverable).

The third dog is young and feisty. She will chase, but will never get within touching distance of the FAV.

The Fast Attack Vehicle is boss of the yard!

The cats hide, then leap out at it, but they too never touch it!

When I leave it sitting on the floor, their curiosity causes them to come over and sniff and examine it, but when I move the throttle just a little, they scamper!

Here's a picture that destroys the myth that Canines and Felines are natural enemies:  The Cairn Terrier is Trixie, and the Calico is Annie.

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HEY IBREWTOO,

I'm a lifelong fan of the Suds also!

Last night we went out to a steak house and I had a 32 ounce mug of Bud REGULAR.

The steak wasn't that good...too tough.  (The shrimp were fine though).

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