How old are you, and what scale do you model ?...

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I’m 41 (soon to be 42) and I’ve always been an N scaler. But due to my eye sight growing increasingly worse, I’ll eventually have to move on to HO - which I don’t really have much of a problem with. As long as I can continue to run trains, that’s all that matters… ([:D])

Tracklayer

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HO

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I’m quickly approaching 50 years old, and have been doing HO since around 1964.

My first real “upgrade” of my layout was around 1970-71.

I’m still running that same layout, although updated. yet again, on my layout today.

Rotor

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I’m 41 also and I prefer HO scale. I dabbled with some N scale once but it never grew on me. I could do more with my layout if I switched to N scale but I’m just too fond of HO.

I also have some G scale stuff but it’s mainly for display and doesn’t run often.

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19, almost 20, started with HO when I got a set at 12, then switched to N 3years ago ;-DD

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“As old as my tongue and slightly older than my teeth.” Santa Claus, (Edmund Gwynn), Miracle on 34th Street, 1947 (?)

Feb 5 will mark my 58th birthday. (Remember that so you can send presents!).

My Dad set up a 4x8’ Lionel trainset when I was around 2 or 3. Had those until about 12 or 13, then bought some HO. Stored all the Lionel away and had fun with the HO. Got bit by the railroad bug again while in college and found N scale would fit in my room-and-a-half apartment. N scale ever since and never looked back. Still have most of the HO stuff but the Lionel stuff was given away while I was at college. [:(][sigh]

Darrell, on tracks, but quiet…for now

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37 feel like 47 sometimes. I’m in HO, Dad had a layout which I loved, but when my teenage years came it was sold.

Tried N scale and had a layout running but no scenery, sold it at about 25 yrs old

Just last year bought a 41/2 X 8 HO layout which didn’t last long major expansion in the garage but we moved house and I used it for firewood. Now a small switching round the computer desk layout, Lenz DCC and all mostly QSI loco’s. Having a ball!!

Ken.

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27 Y/O HO

my parents got me a 4x8 when i was 8 . i have also lived next to train tracks from the time i was 8 . but as far as model railroading i didnt get in to it till i was like 18 or 19 .thats when it came to me that there had to bemore to it than track on plywood

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17 Ho scale

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  1. HO Scale. All BNSF Power.
    Allan.
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I’m 40, and I like a challenge, so, N scale.

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36 & HO here.

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51 and HO here.

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I’am 63 and Been model railroading for 50 years on and off,I had one N-scale years ago,Now I’am in HO again,my first train set was a tyco saddle tank HO when I was 13years old.[^][:)]
JIM

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Soon to be 66 HO,I started in 1972 with a layout on 4x8 for my son’s birthday,and got hooked two minutes after I started to lay track,needless to say son got a different present.

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I’m 58. I started with HO, moved to O, and for the last 14 years I have been in S. I have found S to be the happy compromise between big enough to see and work with, yet small enough to have a layout in less than a large basement.
Enjoy
Paul

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I am 55 - was in N for a few years; now back in HO. I really missed ‘building’ models, and everyone in my area is into HO. I never really got out of HO(the layout was never torn down), and I am currently rebuilding it(more staging, remove the old DC cab control panels, and re-do the scenery). Been in model railroading since the first ‘Lionel’ trains set when I was 5 or 6!

Jim Bernier

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I’m 58 and in Normal scale. If I had unlimited room I’d probably go for HO, but under the circumstances it’s going to continue to be N.

Nah, you’d be surprised how good optivisors work!! [8D]

I’m well prepared in this department. I’ve got my reading glasses, my optivisor (knockoff), hand held magnifying glasses, my swing arm magnifier/light, and one of those little bases with two swivel clamps and a magnifier. For really detailed stuff like painting N scale figures, I call the wife. [:D]

Regards

Ed

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I’m 45 and I collect and/or model in HO, N, S, O-27 and On30. I have had layouts in all the aforementioned except S and On30 (just collecting in those scales, for now.) I currently have a small HO switching layout, an N switching layout, and I’m in the planning stages of an O-27 layout. I’ve been enjoying model railroading since I received my first train set (a Marx, tinplate windup set) back in 1964.

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Hi kids. I’m 70 and been at HO since 1949, with some long layoffs.