How Many Love Their Wife, or Significant other…But..

Like many others, my wife couldn't care less about the trains, and only tolerates me dragging her on excursion runs.

However, She has bought me trains for Christmas several times, so I know our love over rides the dislike of spending the money on trains.

I've gotten her interested in a couple hobbies over time but it fades after a few years.

She seems most content to just watch TV and do family oriented things.

 

But after 26 years we are pretty stable in our ways and we still enjoy taking time out to just be together.

 

Take Care and God Bless one and all.

Mine asks what new package came today. For her birthday (April 26) she want to go to York. She comes up to the train room and asks what she can do, since I am at track laying and wiring there isn't much. But she is ready for scenery, if I ever stop adding more room and re-laying track............

Our avatar is from April, after we sent Saturday at york we went to the strassburg Railroad and had our picture taking in front of the engine.

 

While my wife is very supportive of my "train lifestyle", she considers the train room to be my domain. Recently I have asked her to help with a couple of projects, which she has gladly done, and even enjoyed.

 

I suspect that as the focus shifts away from construction and more toward scenery, she will get more involved. In a perfect world, I would teach her how to weather cars, engines and structures.

I am thankful and very appreciative that my wife is heavily involved in our shared train hobby / layout.  Throughout almost 45 years of marriage we have worked hard, raised a great family, sent our kids to good schools, lived well but by no means extravagantly, and saved regularly. We actively support each other's many hobbies, do several of them together, but we each have our own interests as well. She never asks what things cost, knowing we won't buy what we can't afford, and usually wants to get more things that I do at train shows. She helps build benchwork, run wire, build scenery, lay down track, reach places I can't get to on the layout, and run trains. She can quickly figure out how anything works. If you are in this type of a situation, you understand what it truly means about being married to your best friend. And train friends make for good times spent enjoying the hobby together.

My experience with trains is people either like them or don't like them at all.  1 or 0.  I grew up with 4 siblings and I am the only one that likes trains.  I have 5 kids, and none are interested in trains.  I have 8 grandkids, and none are interested in trains.  I have 9 great-grandkids, and one is passionate about trains and cars.  He is 5 years old.  

 

If you think trains are difficult to share with a wife or girl friend, you ought to try engineering.  I graduated from engineering school 52 years ago and am still working because I really enjoy engineering.  But I cannot explain what I do to most engineers much less to non-engineers.  Most of what I do is high tech stuff for the military.  

You mean the 20,000 dollar toilet seats? *smile* ...and I say that with
humor,not being serious,my dad was an engineer doing similar things for 20
years
On Mar 16, 2015 2:19 PM, "O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum" <alerts@hoop.la>
wrote:

Love the binary analogy!

 

On Saturday, I met a local forum member and his wife and was blown away by his wife's support for his bobby and actual knowledge. Like aforementioned, she too gets hands-on with the scenery and detail work. As a man who was divorced (sadly) a few years ago, it gave me hope. 

 

My renewed interest in trains is only since Thanksgiving but my dogs don't seem to mind . . . though they do get a little freaked out from the whistle blasts!  Before the separation, I was into pinball machines. She HATED that despite the fact that my pinball friends were all family-oriented and that our pinball get-togethers were only once a month or so. All things to consider if God gives me another chance!

 "it gave me hope"

 

Of course there is hope. If you set your priorities, stick to them, and don't rush, there is surely a nice lady out there who would love to enjoy our hobby. At the very least, having recently met a couple that are both into O-Gauge, you know it is possible. Good luck with your search.

I'm pretty much solo, although I do have my kids hanging with me in the train room. Sometimes she comes in to hang out with the kids. While my wife could care less about the trains, she will never question what I spend ( as long as the bills are paid), or how many times i change the layout, etc. She know's the trains are important to me & a connection to my Pop.  She's even gone one many a railfan trip in PA but would usually bring a book to keep busy.  Now that we have kids, she comes on rail picnics, & a few train shows with the kids.