Other hobbies

[tore00]

My room is filled with 18 basses, about 3500 vynils LPs and more than 10000 cds (its just an estimation, I lost control of them).
 I think that you can imagine what is my hobby.

[Dave W]

Pretty much anything left behind or unwanted by people that got wind that I was into this. My grandfather had a duplex for about 50 years, many renters left them in the attic. I ended up with all of them, plus he gave me his personal collection from when he was young. Popular music at that time was marches & opera. A lot of John Phillip Sousa. I would like to get to Chicago & try to pickup more of the blues 78's that inspired goups like the Beatles & many others. Those seem to be scarce. I have a few unplayed Les Paul albums.

Nice. I hope you can get some blues 78s that interest you. Sometimes old records are hard to find but then you find a treasure trove of them somewhere.

[nofi]

check ebay to see some really high prices on rare blues 78's. especially those dealing with delta/country blues.

[Pilgrim]

 Many of those 78's have never been reproduced and it's possible that some of the copies you have are the only ones in existence.

I have one of the Ion A>D turntables and a big stack of 78's.  It's pretty easy to play a 78 on the turntable and use Audacity (free) to correct the recording to the 78 RPM playback speed.

I really, really want to digitally capture the 100+ recordings I have - the issue, as always, is time.

[nofi]

i have 2 stereo set ups . one for lps and the occasional 45 and the other for 78s. i have yet to find a 78 i like to play on it.

[Grog]

There was, maybe still is, a store that sold 78's locally. It was set up like a store would have been at the time. They always had a dumpster full of unwanted records. Out of thousands of records, they only had one blues recording, Big Bill Bronzy. Most antique stores didn't bother stocking 78's because they don't sell well. A lot of forgotten musical history just waiting to be rediscovered!

[TBird1958]

 A sunny winter afternoon with nice, harsh low angle sunlight and some models, old and recent.

Tho I really just model the Rio Grande in the '60s-'70s I do also enjoy other railroads and make a few models outside my main interest....
 Here's a Wabash GE U-25B (quickly dubbed "U-Boats"), this model took a lot work, including fabricating the handrails from brass wire and soldering them together.
 
 And a Pennsylvania Railroad GP-30 locomotive along with an N-8 "Cabin car" (caboose), the railings on their roofs are in fact a primative train radio antennea.       and with a heavy duty flatcar with a transformer load

And some additions to my Rio Grande layout models.....GP-40s and various rolling stock, some of which are beautiful models that require very little work - these are usually made in China from fantastic CNC diework and feature faithful detail.


[/IMG] And a nasty, rusty Great Northern boxcar....At least no one has chalked a pecker onto "Rocky" the Goat! Since every direction is up on the Rio Grande a "helper locomotive" behind the caboose

[Denis]

Those look great, Mark! Great Northern is my favorite of all the lines, although Southern is right up there alongside it. My Proto 2000 locomotives are all GN.

[Highlander]

It's the attention to the detailing that does it for me, even to the surroundings and backdrop...

Do me one favour please Mark - could you put up something scale-wise against one of those that would give a true dimension - I vaguely remember you posting something about how you set scenes but scale eludes me...

[TBird1958]

 Denis, I'll go out on a limb here and guess you like the tradition "Empire Builder" scheme as opposed to the later "Simplified" or "Big Sky Blue.......... I'm finding my Proto 2000 GP-30s are needing a lot of work to get them layout ready, the gearsets on the axles split! I'm rebuilding them with Atlas GP-7 motors and trucks for better compatibility with my Kato and Atlas locos.
 Kenny, next time I shoot I'll get some 1:1 scale objects into the pic for you but as a quick reference they are H.O. = (half O scale) scale 12" = 87 feet or 3.5mm per foot. Most models are around 7-9" long.

[Highlander]

Cheer's Mark... fairly familiar with the scale... putting something 1:1 will let people understand the level of detail I'm enjoying...

[Denis]

 Denis, I'll go out on a limb here and guess you like the tradition "Empire Builder" scheme as opposed to the later "Simplified" or "Big Sky Blue.......... I'm finding my Proto 2000 GP-30s are needing a lot of work to get them layout ready, the gearsets on the axles split! I'm rebuilding them with Atlas GP-7 motors and trucks for better compatibility with my Kato and Atlas locos.

Hard to beat that orange/green combo with yellow stripes and lettering. I need to check which ones I have (been a long time since I looked at them, but I've had them at least 10 years. And yeah, I've heard that it's wise to replace some of the axles on those things.

[TBird1958]

 Mmmm....Big Sky Blue, so very 1967.

Cool GN pics too! F-45s with Boeing 747 parts cars.
http://www.gn441.com/history1.html#calendar

[Highlander]

I don't remember H:O being THAT big...!!!

One of the things I REALLY enjoyed when we were over in KY was getting stuck at a crossing and watching what I called MEGATRAINS that seemed to take forever to cross...

[shadowcastaz]

woodworking


cooking

flyfishin



Great mopdel building guys! I guess thats where it all starts...