pretty much a Lone Ranger, in fact I have a framed picture of the Lone Ranger with a pocket knife attached to the frame in my home office. Although I live north of San Diego and have seen layout in Balboa Park (San Diego Train Museum) (see above ) I don’t normally join into groups and its still a prettly long drive (as dougdagrump mentioned)
I’m a lone ranger all the way. Given my schedule, and the rural area that I live in, joining a club (if there even was a local one) is pretty much out of the question. That’s why I come here! [:)]
A loner, I’m too opinionated and maybe a little selfish in my hobby to get involved with a group. I want my trains my way. By the way, didja know that only a highbrow can listen to the William Tell overture and NOT think of the Lone Ranger? John
I am a plankowner in the local train club, but it is a generalist’s club: a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. We have no space of our own and are just about to embark on building a multi-gauge, very plain layout just for running trains. If we ever find space . . . .
Several memebers have layouts, running the gammut from N to G and Standard Gauge.
I do work mostly alone: like many here, my tastes are sufficiently idiosyncratic that no one else does anything right [;)]
Too many goofy rules in the clubs that I have seen. I like the sound of the club that Roy is in.
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I belong to a modular O gauge three rail club. I used to belong to an HO modular club too. My main observation of both is that there is a lot of buying but not much modelling going on in either. I enjoy the camaraderie, but my tastes in modelling are totally at variance with both clubs. I run trains mostly to break them in, but the other guys really don’t know much about the Glory Days of steam…or even care much about it. The HO club was mainly interested in participating in shows to attract more modellers who will participate in shows and so on. The O gauge club is mainly concerned with entertaining kids. They have lots of buttons on the side of each module to operate accessories. Most people who look at the O gauge pike are more interested in pushing the buttons and watching a light come on, an animal cavort about in a scratchbuilt zoo or a Santa Claus flying about than in the trains. Ho-hum! The retention rate is dismal for both clubs as people lose interest in standing about trying to protect their trains from the depredations of little kids or standing around watching their train run 'round and 'round with no real operation. I do my modelling at home and my operating at club shows, but nobody ever notices real modelling, but they will “oh” and “ah” over the latest model pulled out of the box. I guess we clubmembers all have our own ideas of what interests us about the hobby and that all stays home.
Count me in your Lone Ranger Club.
Wayne
I do belong to TCA but as far as local clubs we have about 7 local train nerds here in a 10 mile radius that go over each others house and run trains. Pretty cool and get some good idears.
laz57