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dnhouston

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Re: N scale question of the week! 16 oct 2011
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2011, 05:20:30 PM »
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Almost 3 years, from June 2008 through March 2011 -- between work and family, there just wasn't any time left.
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Re: N scale question of the week! 16 oct 2011
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2011, 05:30:04 PM »
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Baseball season.  It's easier to flop on the couch and watch the game after dinner than to go up to tinker on the layout.  It's not a complete break, though... I can still tinker at the workbench with the game on the radio...

Fortunately football season is upon us, so I only lose a couple nights a week (Saturday home games at Towson, Sunday Ravens games on TV).

I'm gradually getting back into some projects now that the weather is cooling off.

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Re: N scale question of the week! 16 oct 2011
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2011, 06:07:44 PM »
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How about 30 plus years.  Whiel deployed in the Navy I had some equipment with me and on one ship 2 others and I would set up an impromptue layout on any flat service we could.  After marrage and my first son I let model railroading slide.  I would still buy one of the mags if it had something of interest and maybe 1 or 2 pieces of equipment a year but did no layout or modeling of any kind.  The only train related thing I got regularly was Trains magazine just to keep up with what the real railroads were doing.  My layout lay gathering dust, cobwebs and anything my wife or I couldn't use at the time on top of it for storage. 
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Re: N scale question of the week! 16 oct 2011
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2011, 06:17:50 PM »
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Normally its Motorcar season as it competes with my time and money for the layout. This year it has been my divorce that has caused me to really not do anything on the layout, even though I want to. I didnt even get to finish the little bit of track segment needed to get the layout to a train show in September that I really wanted to be at.
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Re: N scale question of the week! 16 oct 2011
« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2011, 07:03:57 PM »
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Quote from: Roger Holmes on October 17, 2011, 04:52:15 PM
Mike--My limits on modeling time are the inverse of yours.  You lose modeling time when you are taking classes and I lose modeling time when I am teaching them. I am an adjunct professor at one university and one college teaching legal studies and business law at night.  Whenever school is in session my modeling time vanishes first due to all of the prep and grading time.  I've decided to cut back in the spring to re-acquire some "me" time.

Roger - I feel your pain .. I usually teach 1-2 courses per semester - and it takes up a lot of time .. also, football season limits my participation at train shows with the local NTrak group .. but I try to get in 30 minutes a day doing something
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Re: N scale question of the week! 16 oct 2011
« Reply #20 on: October 18, 2011, 09:28:04 AM »
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A 10-year break between '74 and '84 (discovered girls), and an 8-year "pseudo" break between '01 and '09 when I started a train-related business. It was in '09 that I met a neighbor who was into N-Scale and I got back into modeling and taking inventory of my motley collection. I ripped-out the old layout and now planning the new one - just not sure when I can start laying track - the finishing of the layout room will take more $$ than I have at present.  :P
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Re: N scale question of the week! 16 oct 2011
« Reply #21 on: October 18, 2011, 01:08:15 PM »
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I have been actively involved in n-scale model railroading since 1974; thus about 37 years.  I was in graduate school working on a doctorate when I started; after I completed it in 1975, I could actually afford n-scale trains.  I had about a 20 year side trip away from model railroading for finishing high school, college, USAF, grad school, etc.  I returned at my spouses' suggestion when she saw how much I enjoyed setting up my old American Flyer stuff at my parents' home. :)
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Re: N scale question of the week! 16 oct 2011
« Reply #22 on: October 18, 2011, 03:40:17 PM »
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 :|     Time off from Model Railroading? Are you kidding. Maybe clear back in 1964/5 when as a High School senior I switched from HO Scale on a fold down train board in a kids playroom that had held Lionel & Marx To British "American Outline"0-0-0 "Trebble -0-Lectric" trains first set up on the floor. I have had three layouts since then in 0-0-0/N (Nine MM.) Gauge(Scale). plus some N Quack (trak) modules at various times. It is true during the Summer my other hobbies interfear a bid,Amature Astronomy with the Salt Lake Astronomical Society http://www.slas.us or operating RC model electric boats or WWII German RC tanks that shoot hopped up Airsoft  ,but usually one Thursday a week I have help working on my current Pike or between times do some work my self,plus OP Sesions when the boating season ends once a month.  Nate Goodman (Nato). Salt Lake, Utah.
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