Indoors and outdoors.

Anonymous · January 11, 2007, 9:51pm

I used to buy Model Railroad magazine to feed my jones between issues of Garden Railways. Aside from admiring the layouts, I found nothing to ease my cravings. There really isn’t much we have in common, other than a love for trains.

DMUinCT · January 13, 2007, 9:55am

Am I typical? How many followed this course?

As a child I loved trains and was introduced to Lionel. As a teenager I moved to HO. As an adult I returned to Lionel (Collecting, not operating). As I approached retirement I built an operating layout, outdoors, in “G” gauge.

Are HO people more interested in Modeling? Are Lionel people more interested in Operating?

I am not a “Rivit Counter”, I run what “I” think looks right, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I find 1/29th and 1/32nd can be freely intermixed, if I like a "Dash 8 or Dash 9, does it really matter if my favorite railroads never had any?

Have fun, do your thing!

RR_Redneck · January 15, 2007, 10:21pm

This has nothing to do with the other thread on indoor track plan. REALLY

But for years I have wanted to have an artical in MR. But I have not tried very hard for along time.

This past weekend we had to travel so when my wife and I stopped at a book store I bought and Model railroader and Great something ideas. what ever. Can’t even remember.

After flipping through both magazines page by page twice before we arrive to my outlaws home.

Then looking page by page during the weekend .

I realized us outdoor folks really don’t have anything in common with the indoor folks. Largescale or not.

The construction, design, reasoning is really very different.

I get more out of CTC or TRAINS mag studing 1:1 RRing than I do indoor layouts.

Yes we (I) can say we love the hobby as a whole. But making something work and run outdoors is SO very different.

I’m just sharing thoughts of this weekend. We even stopped and visited another GRRer on the way home and the whole theme evolved around “outdoors” and building things to with stand the outdoors.

I can understand why many folks would wonder, " what is GRRing doing in MR??"

Big reason why I like it. I also model in N scale and O guage (three rail), and I can tell you it is nice goin hands on with the plants and I like the difference in the way things are done.