What other hobbies do you have?
BelFast
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Just curious what hobbies others are into?
Figured I'd post this, since I'm fairly new.
Personally, I paint automobiles, with a history of spraying locomotives, agriculture equipment and recreational vehicles. I do a bit of airbrushing on hobby grade RC bodies, and have a few 3D printers and a large bench top CNC machine.
Figured I'd post this, since I'm fairly new.
Personally, I paint automobiles, with a history of spraying locomotives, agriculture equipment and recreational vehicles. I do a bit of airbrushing on hobby grade RC bodies, and have a few 3D printers and a large bench top CNC machine.
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Sounds like those hobbies will keep you busy welcome to the Forum.
If I'm not spending money on Audio it usually goes towards fishing, & hunting, gear like to Mountain Bike and collecting guns and going to the range, and going to concerts.Home Theater
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I like cars but can't afford them as a hobby.
Video games: retro games, new games, console games, PC games, all of it. Some people love watching movies and TV, same thing but interactive. It's not all control a space ship & shoot the bad guys anymore there are some incredible in depth stories told in video games these days. Graphics and detail are to an insane degree in the AAA space.
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woodworking.
creating things from my own visions.
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Took the new camper out for the first time last week. Yesterday I took the motorcycle out for a good ride and today I'm spending the day on the boat. As long as it involves being outside I'm there.
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Fishing, golf, ummm, errr, other unspeakable (but Constitutional) activities, and model railroading.
Kind of in that order too.So, are you willing to put forth a little effort or are you happy sitting in your skeptical poo pile?
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Usually expensive ones like maintaining old cars, flying high power rockets, old computers, keeping the wife happy...
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I like to mountain bike, tinker with the bikes. Keeping the vehicles clean, relaxing by the pool with the family and the weekly bottle of vintage wine.
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I thought I'd post some photos of my resurrected model railroad layout. Here is an Erie Lackawanna SW9 switcher pulling into the general service area for a much needed washing and top up on sand for the traction system.
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Great thread! My other hobby is anything car related. Autocross, Cars 'n Coffee, working on the car, taking a nice drive and recently getting the car out on track. I'm not very competitive in any class that I run so I am mostly in it for the enjoyment.
3 seasons of the year this is my "other' hobby.SDA SRS 2.3tl, SDA 1C, SDA 2B (TL mod), Reserve 200 -
SeleniumFalcon wrote: »I thought I'd post some photos of my resurrected model railroad layout. Here is an Erie Lackawanna SW9 switcher pulling into the general service area for a much needed washing and top up on sand for the traction system.
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Awesome! Which railroad?
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SeleniumFalcon wrote: »Awesome! Which railroad?
I used to be an engineer/conductor (also seems like a lifetime ago). Awesome wouldn't be on the list of words I would use to describe that miserable employment... Model railroading does look neat though and I do admire the time people put into it.Remember, when you're running from something, you're running to something...-me -
SeleniumFalcon wrote: »Awesome! Which railroad?
Soo Line. We covered the subdivision from Chicago toward Minneapolis, the Soo then proceeded to North Dakota and Canada, we also had Chicago north and east to Sault St Marie to the Canadian connection and all points between including Northern Michigan and Wisconsin. I recently found my materials from train dispatcher school and some materials I had kept, including a train order log etc. Most everything on the railroad was done by train order, which we issued and operator’s typed out on manual typewriters on usually seven or eleven copies of carbon paper. Only a portion of the system from Chicago north was centralized traffic control. A good deal of the system was not even reachable by radio, you telephoned stations and dictated orders which the operators often had to put in a string on a hoop on a pole which the engineer and conductor put their arm through and grabbed as the train was going past the station -
I wish I had a photo of my grandfather's Model Railroad setup, which was a large L shape, maybe 30ft x 30ft. As a kid I was amazed and it took up the entire basement of a large house, except for a walled off model airplane workshop in one corner. When he passed, my grandmother donated it to a local model railroad society that painstakingly dismantled it and set it up again at their location.George / NJ
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SeleniumFalcon wrote: »Awesome! Which railroad?
Soo Line. We covered the subdivision from Chicago toward Minneapolis, the Soo then proceeded to North Dakota and Canada, we also had Chicago north and east to Sault St Marie to the Canadian connection and all points between including Northern Michigan and Wisconsin. I recently found my materials from train dispatcher school and some materials I had kept, including a train order log etc. Most everything on the railroad was done by train order, which we issued and operator’s typed out on manual typewriters on usually seven or eleven copies of carbon paper. Only a portion of the system from Chicago north was centralized traffic control. A good deal of the system was not even reachable by radio, you telephoned stations and dictated orders which the operators often had to put in a string on a hoop on a pole which the engineer and conductor put their arm through and grabbed as the train was going past the station
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I think large bags of mail was delivered to the mail cars in a similar way, the train just slowed down and the bag was grabbed.
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SeleniumFalcon wrote: »I think large bags of mail was delivered to the mail cars in a similar way, the train just slowed down and the bag was grabbed.
Yes, they did.
This was going on, even in NJ, as late as the early 60's.
My grandmother's brother (my great uncle) was a postal worker and he worked at the dispatch hub in Camden, NJ before it was moved out to Bellmawr, NJ. From the stories he told us kids, he worked there both before and after his service in WW2 and started out doing the distro to the train lines for the station drops. They had an office at the local passenger train hub and they would sort mail at the distribution hub and then truck it a few blocks to the rail station. The bags of mail had the station names on them. Even if the train wasn't stopping at the station, unless it was an express, they dropped mail at every stop.
The stops had poles with swing arms and hooks. The conductor responsible for the mail would grab a bag with a pole and jam it on the swing arm hook as the train passed. The bag's forward momentum would hit the hook and swing the arm around to where the bag was hanging over the platform where the station operator could get it without getting in the path of the trains. The transfers went both way, from distro to station and from station to distro.
Lots of Southern NJ was very rural up until the early 1970's with very few paved local roads. Train tracks crisscrossed everywhere though. So it was the most efficient and reliable way to get the mail to the rural towns that didn't have modern connections.
Some of the towns were so "remote" that they were still getting mail drops in to the mid-60's because there wasn't enough residents to warrant a unique zipcode. So some zipcodes covered a few hundred square miles.
Some of the train stations had a freight station and a passenger station and the freight stations had a few transfer hooks. Some of the towns have restored their old stations where they were or moved them and made local town museums/community centers out of them. Some have the original transfer hooks in their museums and a couple had replicas made to mount in original locations.Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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SeleniumFalcon wrote: »I thought I'd post some photos of my resurrected model railroad layout. Here is an Erie Lackawanna SW9 switcher pulling into the general service area for a much needed washing and top up on sand for the traction system.
I still have my Dad's Lionel trainset and track from 1957.--Gary--
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SeleniumFalcon wrote: »I thought I'd post some photos of my resurrected model railroad layout. Here is an Erie Lackawanna SW9 switcher pulling into the general service area for a much needed washing and top up on sand for the traction system.
I still have my Dad's Lionel trainset and track from 1957.
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My only other hobby is and has been cooking. Even chef Ramsey would be impressed with the cooking tools I have at my disposal. It's a labor of love. It's getting so bad that I might have to aquire more storage for out in the garage. The kitchen extended out to the garage decades ago and now the garage has a "dedicated wall" about 22 feet in length just packed to the gills and as far up as one can reach on their tippie toes with all kinds of staples, specialty items and kitchen tools.
Then there are the kitchen items in the closet, shop and DR. Oh!...and my spice collection even I am jealous of. I "guess" you can say that I am a collector of cookbooks as well, although nowadays, I am pretty picky with my selections. I would venture to say I have about 120-130 cookbooks....something like that. Some are almost 4" thick.
Oh, my manners.....welcome to the forum @BelFast!
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I buy, collect, trade (and of course drink) tequila.
Good to know, Jody! I'm all ears for recommendations. I picked up a bottle of the Fortaleza blanco to mix cocktails with yesterday!
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My only other hobby is and has been cooking. Even chef Ramsey would be impressed
When's the next dinner party? I'll bring the stuff to mix up some cocktails!
