Demographics

[Woodie]

Thought I'd start a thread on demographic, so we all know who is where/why/who etc.

Country?
Town?
Nearest City?
Age (approx)
Usual supplier?
Closest supplier?
Layout(s)?
Name of Layout?
Layout theme or era?
Layout Gauge?
Layout Age?
Preferred brand for Rolling Stock?
Club Membership?
Which Club?
How did I find "The Guage"?
Into trains since?
Most annoying hinderance that prevents you working 24 hours a day on you layout or railfanning?

Additional info?


TOOT!

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[jimnrose]

Country - USA
Town - Orleans Ma.
Nearest City - Boston
Age - 63yrs young
Usual Supplier - random mail order
Closest Supplier - Snow's Retail Store
Layout Size - 34' x 26'
Name of Layout - no name (yet)
Layout Theme or Era: Steam 1930 - 1960
Layout Gauge: HO
Layout Age: 18 mo.
Preferred Brand of rolling stock:immature
Club Membership: Yes
Which Clubs: Nauset RR Club; Palm Beach RR
How did I find The Gauge: friend
Into trains since 1999
Most annoying hinderance that prevents me from working 24/7 - limited knowledge

 

[rhensley@anderson.cioe.co]

Country? USA
Town? Anderson
Nearest City? Indianapolis
Age (approx) 61
Usual supplier? Train Central - Indianapolis
Closest supplier? Train Central - Indianapolis
Layout(s)? Yes - One
Name of Layout? East Central Indiana
Layout theme or era? 1970s-80s Short Line
Layout Gauge? HO
Layout Age? 19 years
Preferred brand for Rolling Stock? Athearn - MDC
Club Membership? No
Which Club? N/A
How did I find "The Guage"? Don't Remember
Into trains since? 1949
Most annoying hinderance that prevents you working 24 hours a day on you layout or railfanning?
Looking for Work
Additional info? Active in the NMRA on local and national level

Roger

Roger Hensley - rhensley@anderson.cioe.com
== http://cid.railfan.net/eci_new.html ==
== East Central Indiana HO Scale Railroad ==

 

[Biggerhammer]

Country - USA
Town - Concord NH
Nearest City - Boston
Age - 31
Usual Supplier - eBay or IHC
Closest Supplier - Home Depot! (I get more there than at hobby shops...)
Layout Size - 4x8
Name of Layout - River City Road
Layout Theme or Era: Steam, very early 20th century
Layout Gauge: HO
Layout Age: 3 mo.
Preferred Brand of rolling stock: cheap, intact
Club Membership: Not as yet
Which Clubs:
How did I find The Gauge: a posting on thathomesite.com directed me here. Shamus, Woodie (and of course Susan

) made me want to stay
Into trains since 2001
Most annoying hinderance that prevents me from working 24/7 - limited funding
Pet peeve- I've yet to find a book that makes DCC comprehensible
favorite moment of railroading- the first time an engine pulls a decently-long consist over new track and doesn't leave anything derailed.

 

[Catt]

Ok ,heres my turn

Country? USA
City? Grand Rapids, Mich.
Age? 56
Usuall Supplier? Rider's Hobbies,Ebay
Closest Supplier? Rider's
Layout(s)? Yes
Name of Layout? Grande Valley RR
Layout theme or era? Modern shortline
Layout Guage N scale
Layout age 2 years and newborn
Preferred brand of rolling stock? None
Club membership? Yes
Which club? Riverbend Model Railroad Club
How did I find The Gauge(Big Blue) Posting on Trainboard
Into trains since? The beginning
Most annoying hinderance that prevents you working 24/7 on layout or railfanning? Family,Food,and sleep
Addional info. I am founding member of IronRailz the only West Michigan NTRAK group.

I am also the Nscale Forum mod here on Big Blue

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Catt! NARA#1 & A freelancer for life

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[Shay2]

Country? USA
Town? Salem, Ohio
Nearest City? Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Age (approx) 50
Usual supplier? Anyplace cheap!
Closest supplier? 5 Hobby shops within 12 miles.
Layout(s)? 2...one O Gauge, one HO
Name of Layout? HO Rush Run River Logging Co.
Layout theme or era? 1865-1920
Layout Gauge?
Layout Age? almost 1 yr, each
Preferred brand for Rolling Stock? humph!
Club Membership? N/A
Which Club? N/A
How did I find "The Gauge"? Catt sent me...
Into trains since? age 7
Most annoying hinderance that prevents you working 24 hours a day on you layout or railfanning? ...Banks

Additional info? I started in O Gauge and ended up with these cute lil HO things...I now have about 45 pieces of rolling stock and 12 engines, mostly Logging type.

The detail got me hooked and I'm in HO to stay.

I still maintain my O Gauge layout, but haven't done much to finish it for the last 7 months.

I buy and sell on Ebay a lot as well as Hobby Shops locally and I am fortunate to live in an area that has several "Train Estate Auctions" every year.

Rich




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Rush Run River Logging Co.

 

[Woodie]

Country? - Australia
Town? - Sydney
Nearest City? - Sydney
Age (approx) 45
Usual supplier? TOm's Discount Hobby Store (Nth Ryde) 45 mins drive.
Closest supplier? - As above
Layout(s)? - Yes
Name of Layout? - Garahbara Railway
Layout theme or era? - Australian/Victorian/New South Wales of 60's * 70's.
Layout Gauge? - HO
Layout Age? - 3 months
Preferred brand for Rolling Stock? Steam Era models, Austrains, Lima.
Club Membership? - No
Which Club? -
How did I find "The Guage"? - Internet Search for "train chat"
Into trains since? - day dot.
Most annoying hinderance that prevents you working 24 hours a day on you layout or railfanning? - Need for sleep.

Additional info?
WIll be combining electronics with modelling for as much automation as I can.

TOOT!

 

[Sir_Prize]

Country? USA
Town? Port Charlotte, FL
Nearest City? Tampa, St. Petersburg(100mi N), Fort Myers (40 S) & Sarasota (40 N)
Age? 31
Usual supplier? Who ever has what I want.
Closest supplier? Gulf Coast Model Railroad
Layout(s)? 1
Name of Layout? Ohio & Florida (overview)
Layout theme or era? Present, but freelance
(Bring it, Run it, Enjoy it)
Layout Gauge? N
Layout Age? 5 months(in brain), 1 month into
building it.
Preferred brand for Rolling Stock? Whatever rolls good, and interests me.
Club Membership? Just joined.
Which Club? Sunshine Model Railroad Club
(Largo, FL)
How did I find "The Guage"? Trainweb Search
Into trains since? Since knee high (After seeing a Steamer and a derail in the same place; not same time; in Lodi, OH).
Most annoying hinderance that prevents you
working 24 hours a day on you layout or
railfanning? Working to support it.
Additional info? In it for the detailing

, craftsmenship and keeps my mind off being single.

Also, good for keeping me busy after Spinal Surgery(Now Cleveland, OH has a piece of my heart and back, literally).

 

[Steamnut]

Country? US
Town? Ernest (really)
Nearest City? Indiana (Pa) Pittsburgh
Age (approx)30something
Usual supplier? E-bay, Greenburg Vendors, Sulphur Springs
Closest supplier? Catfish Hollow Toys

Layout(s)?yes
Name of Layout? Allegheny Valley
Layout theme or era? steam shortline in the early '70s
Layout Gauge? N G and 15"
Layout Age?
Preferred brand for Rolling Stock? Bachmann
Club Membership? Sorta
Which Club? Northwest Pa Steam Engine and old Equipment assn (wher the 15" ga is)
How did I find "The Guage"? Stumbled over it by accident
Into trains since? a little tyke
Most annoying hinderance that prevents you working 24 hours a day on youR layout or railfanning? M-O-N-E-Y
OTHER: I got a rather fun "job", I sell live steam lokeys in gauges from 32mm to 7-1/2"

 

[Virginian]

Country?USA
Town? Santa Rosa, Ca.
Nearest City?San Francisco, about 50 miles south of here
Age?51
Usual supplier?Fulton Station
Closest supplier? about 20 minutes drive, during light trafic times.
Layout? yep..but just gettin' started layin' track at present
Name of Layout? Bill Kesling Memorial Railroad
VGN and N&W, 195O-1967...Virginia and West Virginia
Layout gauge? N
Layout age? jes a baby!!
..Rolling stock? Micro Trains, so far..(.all micro trains couplers, whatever the manufacturer).
Club membership? Yep
Which club? Sonoma County Model Railroad Society (HO)..for photos and info., see web site : http://www.scmrrs.org
...find "The Gauge"? surfing the web for train and model train info....a link, but I don't remember where...but what a lucky find it was

Into trains since? As long as I can
remember.
Most annoying hinderance...? the gauge

I think 'History', for me, is one of the best parts of this hobby...I love researching the locos, rolling stock, lines, operating history, etc. of "my" rairoads. And of course,looking at old photos of my home town and state, and learning about railroads in other parts of the US and the world.
Thanks Woodie
VGN

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[YakkoWarner]

Country? USA
Town? Santa Ana
Nearest City? Los Angeles
Age? 33
Usual supplier? Train Crossing
Closest supplier? Train Crossing
Layout(s)? Yes
Name of Layout? Parker's Train
Layout theme or era? Thomas the Tank Engine
Layout Gauge? Brio
Layout Age? 6 mos
Preferred brand for Rolling Stock? Kato
Club Membership? No
Which Club?
How did I find "The Guage"? internet search
Into trains since? age 8
Most annoying hinderance? Hunny-dew list
Additional info? Parker is my 3 yo son and his train is somehow more important than mine. :0

 

[shamus]

Okay, here my two penny worth

Country? England
Town? Near Wellington
Nearest City? Litchfield
Age (approx) 65
Usual supplier? Walthers
Closest supplier? Local Model Shop
Layout(s)? YES
Name of Layout? Badger Creek Lumber Company
Layout theme or era? Logging
Layout Gauge? HO standard Gauge
Layout Age? 2+ years
Preferred brand for Rolling Stock? Scratchbuilt
Club Membership? Was NMRA (Not now)
Which Club?
How did I find "The Guage"? Can't remember
Into trains since? Aged 7
Most annoying hinderance that prevents you working 24 hours a day on you layout or railfanning? Don't have that problem, now retired, sleep between the tracks.

Additional info?

Built too many I think.
http://www.index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&sort=D&output=5&cmdtext=%22TEMPLAR%2C+PAUL%22

Just started to tear down part of it to re-build for the better


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[N Gauger]

Country? USA
Town? Eddystone, PA
Nearest City? Philadelphia
Age (approx)42
Usual supplier? Nicholas Smith Trains (I should just forward my Paycheck)

Closest supplier? Same
Layout(s)? 1 N (Coffee Table) 1 HO (5" below Dining Room Ceiling) 1 12' X 9' G (in Basement)2 other Shelf units 1 in Office at work (N) 1 in Living Room (HO)
Name of Layout? JGBSMF&W RR
(Janine, George, Bart, Steve, Mike (Me), Fred, Wayne, Rhonda (My very understanding Wife)

-- Also stands for: Just a Great Big Super Mother F'n Waste RR - My Mother actually helped name it!!
Layout theme or era? - G is steam - N are Diesel - HO has the Acela on it now - but I have a SP Steam I run around the Ceiling also.
Layout Gauge? See above
Layout Age? all are approx 12 Yrs
Preferred brand for Rolling Stock? Aristo
Club Membership? Just our "Club"
Which Club? See Above
How did I find "The Guage"? Link from another page
Into trains since? A kid watching "Dad's" O gauge going around the tree
Most annoying hinderance that prevents you working 24 hours a day on you layout or
railfanning? Sleep - Work (but I need to work, so I can buy MORE TRAINS!!!!) LOL

Additional info? I have had 8 layouts from 1984 to Present, The biggest & Best was an N Gauge (Hence my moniker) based on the DM & IR with 140 Ft of track, 3 levels, and 3 yards. We had to dismantle it in 1988 when I decided to get married & move out of my Mother's house.... I also am an Assistant Teacher at the Railroad Museum of PA During the Winter - During the Summer I show my 72 Catalina at car shows.


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My wife says if I buy One more Train, she'll leave me...
Gee I'll miss HER!!!!

-- N Gauger


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