How Many Of You Are Between 40 and 80?

50 and I do care about how old I am, which answers another, related topic.  Caring about my age is NOT the same as lamenting it.  It really is about quality of life.... and QUANTITY OF TRAINS! YEE-HAW!!!

  

Carlton

65 & 1/2.  Just wondering latley how I'm going to get rid of all my "toys" before that final ride out of town.  I don't want my wife and son (who has already had to clean out two of his wifes relatives homes) to have to sell/give away my 20 or 30  unbilt plastic airplane kits, N, Ho and O trains plus my wood working tools.  He has no interest in them at all.  Otherwise, I guess i will just enjoy them for now.

63 years young and I don't care how old I am. It is just a number that allows you to be able to do certain things at certain ages i.e. drivers license voting etc. being retired affords me the opportunity to enjoy model railroading as many hours a day as I please. I'm the only one who can set my hours on the railroad.

2012 minus 1968 equals forty something.

54 and no longer counting. Others do it for me and don't let me forget.

much closer to 80 than 40! But who is counting?

 

Gunny

Hit 57 in July, but my wife ins't sure if I am turning 7 in December or our grandson is.  I tell her we are twins!

 

Kevin

Here you have a 57 year old. Odomoter rolled over a few times. Partial rebuild in 2003 due to motorcycle accident. Lots of new metal. Wiring still in good shape. All cylinders fire with an occasional miss. 

53 & 11/12ths (almost 54), been back in about 5 years, had knee surgery 2 years ago so it put me out of action being able to crawl up on the layout to work on it for 1-1/2 years, trying to make up for lost time now, still can only be on the knees about a half hour at a time, that's with kneeling on foam pads to cushion them too, looking at knee replacement surgery when I hit 60 so I need to have it all done by then (but when are we really ever done with a layout?) painted a backdrop for it on 4x7 foot sheets of foam board, getting the furring strips up to hold it to the wall, will be attaching shelving brackets to the foam board and furring strips to hold a trolley run along the wall and putting a second level on my 4'8" x 8'6" layout with 6'x 3'8" "L" addition.

Up against 3 walls so I have to climb up on it but better than "duck unders" with my back and knees but only place I have for layout so you do what you have to do. As I always say, "Not bad for an old fart, but for a young pup, I'm in trouble! LOL! When I get the backdrop done I'll post pictures.

Thanks for thinking of the rest of us Jerry!

 

Turned 57 back in August and believe I have earned every gray hair on my tired old head! 

 

Curt

I am 56 and Formaldehyde preserves me, because your a heartbeat and a breath away from the Cemetery. 

53, I was wait for the 40 to 80. I knew it was only a matter of time.

Brad

55 here. Younger horses get shot.... At least I'm eligible for the OGD (Old Guy Discount) at our LHS. Not too sure how much I like waitresses in their 30s asking "and what can I get for you, Grandpa?"

 

Gilly

Now, this will be the long list!

58, everyday of it and more!

I am somewhere close to the top end of that bracket. and enjoying every day of it..

 

" I was Born to have fun "

74 and don't care what the survivors do with my trains, I'll be gone and watching.

I'm in.  As someone once cracked wise, "If I'd known I was gonna live this long I'd have taken better care of myself."

 

Pete

I'm a bit more than half way . . .

I'm 70, which does not bother me...but my 93 year-old mother keeps saying, "I can't believe my 'baby', what's his name?, is 70".

Well I am 65 almost 66 (January) but run my trains each day and enjoy them greatly.

Im 56. I feel like 70.

Rob

Born in '49 and this is 2012 so I'm uh???

I'm in good company here. I'm 61, a widower, and will turn 62 on January 22nd.

WHAT IS THIS THE US CENSUS OR THE OGR FORUM.

 

TALK TRAINS !!

I'm between 80 and 87.  Actually closer to 87....

 

northern NJ...I-80 and I-87.  

 

- Mike

I am somewhere between 60 and 70 and they wont let me retire.

Hello.I am 44 but with all the health problems I have had I still know that I am young.I still know that I will still have to go for more heart surgerie in the next 3-4 months.all in all I know I'll make it for a long time.

My wife says Iam 74 going on 12

59.5 here.  Some days I feel like 95 and others 12. Some days my brain says "run" and my body says "no way!"  I still have all of my original teeth too.  A good point made up above is another thought in the back of my mind.  I don't want my wife and family strapped with disposing of all of my stuff.  I have some friends to help her get top dollar when that day comes.  As I've said to some, there will be no U-Haul following my hearse.

 

Phil

Jerry,

 

Since your asking, I am 55 going on 15! The reason for that is with my recent rediscovery of my long dormant hobby, ( I was 10) when I was suddenly and unexpectedly taken out of the hobby by my father with his removal of my American Flyers set to the attic.

 

Alternitively, I became involved in swimming competitively and when it came time to move from Amityville to Staten Island (the actual day of the move), and when I would have seen the boxes moved out of one attic and into another, I decided to attend a swimming meet instead!

 

Anyway, after all that time in storage I had forgotten about them!

 

I feel like a kid again and I'm enjoying it! It has a way of making us all deny our age and look outward toward our love of toy trains instead of inward. A certain amount of this is healthy, it helps us concentrate on what means and continues to mean the most to us. Since most of my life has been in service to others, I feel it's about time (finally) to concentrate on what matters to me.

 

Thank you for asking!

 

I suppose it is easy to lament one's past, but I am here to tell you gentlemen and ladies, the past is just the present preserved in memories and pictures, preserve them carefully.....Your relatives will remember you for that and will cherish the time you spent with them around this most sacred of hobbies.

 

Remember this:

 

Although some of you will not care what becomes of your collections after you are gone we can all preserve the hobby by putting the entire collection into a trust and thereby "pass it on" to another generation who will be thrilled to enjoy it just as Tom Snyder did and Frank Sinatra did with their collections.

 

Mike

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64

I'm Between A&B. Then again most regulars have know that for a while. ...

I just turned 42.

73, retired, a vet and I feel great.

42 here... Friends with Philo as in ten minutes away.. My truck is ready to

raid his house!!! How goes it Phil!!??

72 on Friday.

Yeah BXCXDan, you now own a lot of my O-scale 2-rail with little left now that I went back to my first love---American Flyer.  I wish I had known you when you were a designer at Lionel!

 

Phil  

Philo, Unfortunately, with all your O-Scale products you had, I had to rebuilt it into

'livable shape!!!"  Na, it was great stuff and added beautifully to the O Scale layout.

Thanks! How's the weather ten minutes away.. you are west of me, so you get the

'weather' first..

Dan