I'm glad I found this one. If anyone is familiar with me from other threads, I can get a bit long winded when I'm not hitting the backspace key over and over correcting mistakes.
I had no idea how much time I was spending in my train room until one day my grandson asked his grandmother, "Nan, where's Poppy?" In which he got a resounding, tell all, cat's out of the bag now, "PROBABLY DOWNSTAIRS IN THAT **** TRAIN ROOM!!"
So to all wives out there who pretend to be interested in your husbands hobby and shower him with praise and encouragement in his endeavors to further his interests, BUSSSSSSSSSSTED!!!!!!!!
My "ease of distraction" has diminished quite a bit since I finished building the train room and getting it up and running. A bit of décor after the track was down and the trains were running, coupled with a long haul attempt to put in an elevated track for my grandson's train that I never thought would end. But finally it too was done and I turned my attentions to building a covered bridge along one side of it. Being elevated it lent itself to this venture. My trains run on the floor. I'm very old school. No tables, no mountains, no uphill or downhill, just set it on the floor, tip-toe around and try not to step on something, then turn on the layout, sit in my bar chair, and run it remotely. I'm not that old school. I woke up in 1971 on Christmas morning to a DT&I Yardmaster set that was on as crude and oval as you can build, and promptly turned my attention to the cool hot wheels loopty loop set next to it. It wasn't until I was 52 that my interest in trains began. Still have the Yardmaster set, sits on a shelf. But oh do I love running the trains I have now. I have 57 rolling stock that make up 5 running trains with 11 to 12 cars a piece. I also like to get creative and run all 57 behind one locomotive. I barely have just enough track on the inner oval to park them when I'm finished. One more car and I could hook the front coupler of the loco to the rear coupler of the last car.
I plan to start a trestle bridge soon. I run the trains while I work. Wife still pretends to be happy for me that I have a hobby, no idea baby boy busted her by telling me what she said. I love that boy. He's why I got into trains. He can take or leave them but I love it. I wish I had the money to rebuild the house and set up my grand plan layout. But I don't so I just continue to try to figure out ways to make the one I have even better. I think I'll get off her and go spend some time "IN MY **** TRAIN ROOM!!!"