Hey guys, you want your girlfriends, or wives to be interested in model railroading? Here's what I did. At first, my girlfriend thought that "Toy Trains" were just that, for children only...then one day the blender broke. Never one to pass up an opportunity, I waited for her to go out, then pulled a "Red Green" style fix-it job on it. When she came home and saw the contents of two tool boxes, and the former blender's guts spread all over the kitchen table, she was furious! Now I had her just where I wanted her. I patiently explained that if she would let me have some space for my layout, I would be working on that instead of murdering her appliances. This of course made perfect sense to her, so she not only let me have the space, but checked out what the hobby was all about by going with me to my LHS, and she was hooked from then on.:thumb: