What else do you collect? One hobby/interest or many?

So, would my flat black GT I-drive be considered old?...going by your treks. Mine's tweeked for 4" and 4 1/2" of travel, avid titanium brakes, full XT gear and carbon monkey lite bars...never did install the Sram twist shift..maybe someday. I see you don't mess with discs either..

-GT I-drive xtr4000{yes, it has a kickstand now...hehehe}

-the "mother-in-law" room w/Kawasaki sleds{spare electric start chassis}

- the "other wife" getting new glass seals and the start of the interior rehab

Wine.  I have a temperature controlled cellar that holds a little over 200 bottles.  I mostly collect Cabernets from Napa Valley and some Italian and French red wines.  I also collect salt & pepper shakers.  I am a flyfisherman, so you might say I collect trout flies.  I have several hundred of them in 6 fly boxes.  Matt

I don't collect them, but I couldn't resist buying a Westinghouse front-loading washer and dryer set in the origional box a few years ago.

I still have my 45's dating from 1954 thru 1965. However, I'm no longer buying them. Now, I buy fishing lures. 

Funny I lose fishin' lures.

So much talent and knowledge on here!!   

 I am a fisherman, too, but the fish don't know it!!!   I just like a pan of fried bluegill filets once or twice a year, It reminds me of the old days when me and dad went fishing and mom would fry it up!!

I collect old radios, railroadiana, antique toys, antique prints ( lithographs ) and dust.

Bruce 

matt b

Great story.

 My dad was my best fishing buddie,

He was my best rail fanning buddie, also.

Fry? No..Smelt..... I used to love collecting smelt in a net to fry up later 

Ed, I'm not sure...was supposed to be the 1st year for the flat black frame..probably '99-'00...I'd have to try and search that for sure. Only two colors that year I think, flat black and sunrise{blah}.

Fly fishing...what a waste...tried these and they didn't catch one single fly!!!

...so, as an off the wall "free to a home"{don't care if it's good or not} here's what I found on an air duct in our house 11yrs ago...1st email gets it..you pay shipping....you try catching flies with them!

Seriously...

..."and dust".....LOL 

I've been fly-fishing for the past 30 years with the same 3 fishing buddies.  All of our kids are grown up and I'm the last to retire.  We've fished all over California, Colorado, and Wyoming.  We didn't always catch the "Big Ka-Hoona" but we always had a good time!  They say fly-fishing is the poetry of fishing.  It is all in the presentation!  Matt 

Since my wife and I don't have kids it gives me lots of time to dabble in other hobbies.  Some of them include firearms, fish (have 3 aquariums up and running), and recently we started buying foreclosed condos and fixing them up on the weekends.  When I told her that I wanted to get the trains out again and put in a permanent layout she was all for it and wants to help, so trains has now gone on her list of hobbies. 

I collect my sons' tuition bills and student loan statements. Lol. Trying to buy engines and rolling stock uses up any other funds, pretty much.

So, throwing a few shells in my pocket and heading to the swamp is a fun, cheap morning or afternoon with Rowdy ......

What do you shoot in the swamp?    Anything in particular, or just play around?

I'd like to try fly fishing, but you can't just fish off the bank like I do at my favorite place.   Too many trees and no real clear areas except a dam.    We have locally produced show by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlfe.   The host fly fishes Ky lakes and streams on several shows each year.  The big gills hitting  fly sure look like fun. 

 Ducks. There are some mallards hanging next to Rowdy in the photo.

Rowdy gets the giblets when I butcher the birds.

Jim

I did that for years, too, with three boys.  Doesn't kill you, although it feels that way at the time.

What I learned was, no kid ever calls home and says, "Dad, I need money to buy beer."  That's because they already bought the beer, and now need money for the lab fees and books, etc.

So, it does come to an end some day?! Lol.

Two boys, here.

Annual in-state tuition, room and board at Rutgers (New Jersey's state university) College of Engineering ..... $26K. Beer funds not included.

My other son, out-of-state at U of Maine, same money.

Its adding up. And, honestly, my wife and I really didn't plan for it. Lol. Well, not so many laughs, actually.

Jim

No kids, so we collect sunsets every night from our bedroom lanai. Don

I hear you guys about collecting the college bills. My twins last day of high school is today, then in September both off to college like my oldest. That will be 3 kids in at the same time. Even at state schools, it will be a wild ride. 

But, the latest I've started to "collect" in a limited way is mid century furniture. I have a beautiful Drexel bedroom set that was my parents and wanted to find some matching pieces. It's amazing that this stiff isn't in higher demand. solid mahogany, dovetail joints, an exquisite (though unrepairable) finish, and prices that are most often below the college dorm look of Ikea furniture. Picked up this table for $100. 

Tim

While I don't actively collect anything on the scale of my PRR by Lionel, I do cherish some items of my youth to include my Father's coin and paper currency collection. 

I also have a lot of Hot Wheel Treasure Hunts, Plasticville and other "O" size die cast vehicles that never made it to the layout.

 My '63 Schwinn Corvette.

My Dad's WWII pistol which he relieved from an Italian Officer.  I also have his Rockola M1 Carbine from the same conflict.

Lesney Matchbox from the 60s

I still have about a dozen cars

when we were kids. would go

directly to the toy section when

Mom would go shopping.

Yellow and Blue boxed cars for 25 cents.

couldnt beat that.

Ride and race motorcycles..road/drag, collect records and vintage stero equipment and enjoys cars etc...

Hiya John

Very cool stuff from your Dad. I'm curious .... was that 1911 manufactured by Beretta? Did you ever try to determine its date of manufacture?

Does the holster have a name on it?

My Dad somehow brought back his Carbine (which replaced the Springfield 1903 bolt actions that they were initially issued) and his NCO's 1911 from his service in the Pacific.

Thanks

Jim

I collect strange machines called "Luminographs" :

But as it's impossible to find, I build them and collect them.

Pidjy,

Fascinating! What do they do?

Hi Cocoloco, each machine is different. The one with the 3 green bulbs is a lamp controled by an antenna ( the closer you get to the lamp the brighter it shine ) another machine is used to show how a radiometer react to different lenghtwaves of visible light, another one is using a Tesla bulb and a mini Van der Graaf generator to show that you can bring power without contact to a light bulb, a motor etc etc... all those strange phenomenones that were shown in some traveling shows in the late 19th century. 

So I guess I am not alone in my habit of collecting multiple items.  Very interesting range of collections as well.  Its good to know so of the services that other members can do. 

Camera and Darkroom gear

Woodworking tools

Wives (hey it's Utah)

Those pinball machines look like ultimate fun.

The "Luminographs" are, without doubt, the most unusual hobby I think I've ever seen.  Fantastic.

Don, how about we trade your view for my kids...just once!

Besides Postwar, MPC, LTI Lionel, I collect vintage Tyco Slot Cars and Trains (early brown box Era). Vintage O gauge Plasticville, vintage Corgi and Matchbox Superkings Die Cast, and Outdoor Blow Mold Plastic Christmas Decorations. Also Fontanini Nativities

Two more of my hobbies and that's it....somebody told me once that "he who dies with the most toys - wins"..if I get anymore my wife will kill me!

-Tonkas{rehabbing for my son, then I'm keeping them for him later}...4 more geting rehabbed as I post this...

-and just a few model kits...this is half....like some of your train collections, it kind of snowballed...alittle...

In Summer; Flying Model Rockets, Camping, and occasionally others.

Winter is reading and some Rocket building and Trains are all year round.

Computer games are a constant as well.

The list goes on and on, I move between one and another as the mood strikes me.

See my website for a longer list and Pictures.

Wow!  I am very impressed!!  Is it all original or did you assemble it from several?  What theatre was it in?  I am the curator of a museum that has a 3/11 Wurlitzer completely original at the NYS Fairgounds in Syracuse.

www.empiretheatre.org

Wurlitzer,

The console is from Opus 1714.  It was a Style B special, divided chambers.  It was originally installed in the Harris Theatre in Findlay, OH.  The pipes and mechanism ended up in a home installation in Ft. Wayne.  All I have is the console.  The pipes that I have are from various manufacturers.  Most of the windchests I built myself.  Some are recycled. 

This project is much like my train layout, never finished.  When I get tired of working on the trains, I go to the organ and visa versa.

I don't know why, but it seems that quite a few people I know from the organ industry are also involved in trains.  It must be that we like big, loud, dirty machines!

Tom

Other major interests are vintage stereo which includes having lots of LPs, cassettes, CDs and Reel to Reel tapes. I have three 100 w/ch plus systems and two walls of speakers in my train room.  High lights are :  Receivers:  9090, 9090db, SX-1010, speakers:  JBL L-100, HPM-100, AR3a, RTR Akai Gx-280D-SS, Teac A-3300SR.

I also have a lot of tools and a workshop including an older Shopsmith model 10E, welder, small metal lathe, four older Craftsman and Delta 18 to 24 inch jigsaws, drill press, band and table saws etc.

Charlie

I did not know there was anything other than trains to be interested in!Guess I have a 1 track mind!!!