Matt,
Neither did I when I started collecting it. And it seems that I am still discovering new things that I wasn’t aware of. I still have lots of photos and information to draw from that I can post.
rich,
My wife always says she knows where I am and what I am doing when I am engaged in my train hobby. She has always been supportive. I have to admit though that I don’t always let her know when something new arrives.
I decided a while back not to buy anything that I can’t run on my layout. And my layout is mostly O27 radius curves, so 14" passenger cars and large Hudsons are out. I had a nice Marx E series diesel but decided to sell it because it seemed too big for my layout. And my area of interest is mostly late prewar and then postwar so I don’t just buy anything. That keeps me from accumulating too much lol. I do still have a Lionel Berkshire that I can run so long as not too fast.
My partner isn’t into trains, but she finds my enthusiasm for them very endearing. When it’s warm enough, sometimes I bring a train over and we set it up on her porch.
Although my layout is HO scale, I abide by the same rule. There was a time that I would buy anything and everything that caught my fancy. To make matters worse, as I would enter the front door of my LHS, the owner would reach under the counter and pull out a freight car, place it in the counter and say, “Here, you need this”.
Matt and Rich i’m with you both I collect Gilbert American Flyer don’t buy any other scale I’m hooping to start my layout later this summer or fall . my idea is a old department store layout as far as my wife she dose support my trains .
Oh, for goodness sake, I get it now. I totally misunderstood what you meant by “old department store layout”. I am sitting here laughing at myself. I was imagining a layout where the structures were old department stores. LOL.
What you should do, Chuck, is build that old department store layout and then get your entire family to dress in 1940s outfits and pose for a photo. Priceless!
