Hobby Trains

Hobby trains have been my hobby all my life. Ever since I received my first one when I was 6, I have collected and treasured them.
I guess my mother afterward regretted it, as she spent quite a hundred dollars on my pastime. It was no surprise that as I was about 10, she told me Iâ€™d have to work for my own money by helping her more around the house. By the time I was 16, I started to get small student jobs in order to be able to increase my collection.
While I was a pre-teen, I favored HO scale hobby trains because they looked bigger and colorful. I would buy pre-made or pre-assembled tracks, because I didnâ€™t want to bother much with the setting. I just sought after to see my train run.
However, once it was up and running, I would place objects around my hobby train and create adventures in my mind. I must confess that at first, I used actions figures that had nothing to do with hobby trains, like my Ghostbusters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures.
As soon as I had to earn my own money to pay for my hobby trains, I started to take care of them a lot better. No longer I put obstacles or hostages on the rails for the trains to run over or set up train wreckages. With time, I even started buying clean-up materials in order to keep my hobby trains in order.
I as well began to give more attention to the layout. Tracks started to have more curves and tiny construction and cars started replacing action figures as the surroundings of my hobby trains.
By the time I completed university and moved out, I had changed my hobby trains preference from HO scale to N scale. This is because I became as attracted in the settings that my hobby trains would run through as in the trains themselves. And as my apartment was small, N scale would let my railroads have longer runs and more complicated layouts.
My original layout was too ambitions, and it took me months to finish. Part of the reason is that the effort involved in creating the scenario was a bit too vast and resulted in weekends where I would do nothing. In the end, I determined to decrease the track length and discard some ideas that were just out of my skills, like a tunnel, and build something simpler but more realistic. The result was a little, very, very simple town where my railroads took people to the 7 or 8 buildings that existed in it.
With time, I became better at it. I have much more experience with the effort involved, although I still have a tendency to go a bit in excess of what my time and my funds allows me. The only trouble is that I donâ€™t have much space, so when I terminate a layout and have a few runs with my hobby trains, it doesnâ€™t take me long to want to take it out and construct a new or altered one.

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