Some married couples get into this hobby.And some wifes even have there own locomotives.To operate on the layout.And become very good at operating trains.It is something i have been wondering sbout.And i would just like hear from you guys about this.

Wife not really into operating trains but she has accumulated most of the Lionel Disney locos & cars over the years.

I bet she has a nice size collection.Because there are a lot o gauge trains that are done for disney.

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Originally posted by Bill Terry:
Wife not really into operating trains but she has accumulated most of the Lionel Disney locos & cars over the years.

YES, my wife has an MTH Daylight w/ 4 K-line streamlined passenger cars in O gauge and Christmas Grizzly Flats LGB set.
TumbleWEED

My wife has a box of N" Gauge trains that is HERS! does not play with it very often but has no problem tell you it's hers when it happens to find it's way out of the boxes!

My wife has some HO rolling stock and three engines all of which are never used. I've told her that maybe we should get rid of them so we could have more room,but she says no and they just just sit in a drawer. Who knows if she will ever run them again.

No, but she sure has purchased her share for us over the past 5 years.

My wife has three trains two G-gauge and one o-27. The g-gauge is Thomas The Tank engine she bought at Lionel when it was in Chesterfield Mich. They had a little annex store where you could purchase things. The other is Tweetsie the ETWNC train. East Tenessee And Western North Carolina Railroad narrow gauge. The last is a Hershey train made by K-Line.

My wife has 3 engines, MTH RTR New York Central set, MTH New York Central 4-8-2 L-3 MOHAWK PASSENGER SET , and she just bought the Imperial SD70Ace Norfolk Southern engine. We just bought DCS a month ago and she loves it. She likes to tag along with me to a train meet or to the hobby store. In fact she has found some nice rolling stock that I have missed.

Yes: The trains in our home/layout are a family collection. She owns a MTH JC Premier Blue Comet set, a collection of L. mint cars, + a mess of operating accessories including all of the oil field and operating petroleum accessories. (Our daughter owns most of the rest of the operating accessories, an MTH RK Challanger & Mohawk + appropriate rolling stock).

Neither prefers to operate, post here or attend train meets now. My wife does accompany me to local club open houses (such as the NJ Hirailers).

My wife and I were just married in Oct 2008 and I didn't know that she had an interest in trains. As I was preparing to move and was selling some items on eBay a few months before, she asked why I was getting rid of them? She said she LIKED trains and we should keep them!
Our new home has a large basement/garage and we are building our layout. Her first purchase was the Wms GG1 Girls Train and she has also bought quite a few HO models. We are just now able to run trains and she seems to be enjoying it. I picked up a NS Dash 9 from a forum member that will be a Christmas present as she likes NS.
She is in charge of the HO portion of the layout and enjoys finding scenery, bridges, structures, and the like at shows. We attended our first York meet this year and liked it a lot. I am indeed blessed!
You can check out our progress in the thread "the Appalachian, Tampa, & Santa Fe RR"

My wife doesn't have her own trains but she get the credit for getting back into trains, I am a big NASCAR fan and driver Tony Stewart, my wife was downtown one day and it started snow and wind blowing so hard she couldn't see so she stepped inside the store to get out of the storm. The owner was just putting the NASCAR train on one of his tracks on the layout. She saw it and he ran it for her, showed her what came with the set, answered her questions, and showed her the different drivers expansion set including Tony Stewart. She said she's be back with me later that week. I got home from work, she told me about it, we had doctor's appointments the next day, my doctor told me I was stressed and needed a hobby to relax. The rest is history, bought the train set & expansion set, started building the layout, soon adding more track, switches, 90 degree crossing, etc. Year and half later still working on the biggest change to it. My wife does sometimes run the trains I have but usually just likes to watch, she says she brought out the Train Monster in me!

Happy Halloween! Sincerely, Gary Phillips

Technically the polar express is my wife's train. She doesn't run it but that's probably because until recently all we had was an oval every year under the Christmas tree. She also likes to buy the Christmas box cars.

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no locomotives, but she has some Coach

I have my wife to thank for getting me back into the hobby. A one hundred dollar gift certificate to a local hobby store and information about joining a local O- gauge train club had me hooked once again. I am not sure that any engine is "hers", but she has been the main person who has installed the electronics in several engines (placed PS2 electronics into a PS1 engine and installed TAS electronics into an PW engine and in a Docksider engine). She is also the my scenic person on the layout and the chief author of our blog.

Rick

(SolarEclipse2 - you may want to edit your post to prevent any marital strife, just in case your wife happens to read the forum. I know the D and F key are right next to one another. )

No ...

JohnS, VERY good!!!

My wife has the Lionel "Virginia & Truckee" SSS set from the early 90's. It's the mandatory "tree train".

Jon

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Originally posted by Ranger Rick:

(SolarEclipse2 - you may want to edit your post to prevent any marital strife, just in case your wife happens to read the forum. I know the D and F key are right next to one another. )

Quite right. Thanks for pointing it out. I've changed it. Incidentally, I posted that from my iPhone, in the car, next to my wife waiting to go into a train show this morning. Sadly no deals.

Does my wife own her own train. You funny. My wife wants to take TNT to the basement if she could

No but she does love the B&O passenger paint scheme so I will be buying one of those trains for her some day.

My wife doesn't have any of her own yet but said she would like a "pink" one for herself. So i guess that means a girls set in the future or a could just repaint my 2018 pink.

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no locomotives, but she has some Coach

"Ya Tell me about it" When we go to York we make a stop at the Coach store for her. Of course that works out good for me in Orange hall.

When I bought the Lionel Texas Special set two years ago my wife liked it so I started calling it the Char Train, it makes Her smile when I say it and took a little sting out of what I spent on it and the add on cars.

John,

I tried to click on your "O Scale Trains" site but there was some error to the Tripod page telling me that there was no index page. You may want to check the site.

Rick

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no locomotives, but she has some Coach

John S (0773H non rompere la mia palle )

Okay, you got me. What does this mean?

Jon

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Originally posted by KOOLjock1:

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no locomotives, but she has some Coach

John S (0773H non rompere la mia palle )

Okay, you got me. What does this mean?

Jon

Coach designer bags. My wife has one. Don't see the attraction myself.

The wife keeps threatening to buy her own train in BNSF. I told her that such things will not be tolerated.

I believe that it refers to the line of purses and accessories for women that seem to be the rage. That is my interpretation. I think my daughters have some imitation Coach.

Rick

Yes, I purchased her the MTH Standard Gauge Pink Set. On a visit to the Toy Train Museum a few years back, she saw a pink set on the SG layout, and loved it. The MTH set is the closest I could get to that.
The pink set at the museum, is an MTH/Franks Roundhouse version(repaint). I have heard it referred to as a Mary Kay Set.
I've been searching for one of those for a few years, so if anyone ever hears of one available, please drop me an email.
Regards, Sean

Oh. My wife can't be bothered with designer stuff. Can't stand it. Doesn't like "chick" shows and movies either.

Jon

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Originally posted by trainman311:

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no locomotives, but she has some Coach

"Ya Tell me about it" When we go to York we make a stop at the Coach store for her. Of course that works out good for me in Orange hall.

Great minds think alike

This thread may sur pass all the YORK BADGES threads....

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Originally posted by KOOLjock1:

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no locomotives, but she has some Coach

John S (0773H non rompere la mia palle )

Okay, you got me. What does this mean?

Jon

Coach notice how the prices correspond with the new train releases. as Chris said it makes orange hall easier

That's INSANE! Why on earth would someone part with that kind of money for something that doesn't even have a motor in it? I'm serious.

My wife would seriously recommend counciling to someone who bought one of those!
That's what Walmart was invented for. None of those stores in our phone book, so I guess I don't have to worry about it!

Jon

My wife has one, too. But she did get it from an outlet for less than those prices. Nonetheless, she's not a candidate for counseling.

I have bought my wife more than one of those, if it makes her happy, she has no problem making me happy.

According to California's "community property" law, my wife has her own trains: one-half of mine....

Gotta chuckle at you guyz...every other one of you BRAGGING on your wive's genuine interest in your trains will live to RUE the day!!! They will produce for the VIEWING enjoyment of you and your attorney a disc showing your inventory and current values which you UNWITTINGLY made for them!!! On their way out of court, they will tell you AGAIN how glad they are that you collected these wonderful trains in which they FEIGNED interest...let's get REAL!!!

No wife, but the girlfriend has a few cars on the rails. Mostly ones that she liked at the store. A few aquarium cars because she is a marine bio major. All financed out of my pocket of course!

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Originally posted by Patchwork1:
No wife, but the girlfriend has a few cars on the rails. Mostly ones that she liked at the store. A few aquarium cars because she is a marine bio major. All financed out of my pocket of course!

So if you get married the cars stay in the family. If you break up, will she get her own locos to pull them or will she ransom them back to you?

yes!!..she's a certified train nut like me for o gauge n real one's..she really loves the Christmas stuff..Right now her Halloween beep n caboose is doing its back n forth routine on the mantle..cool..waycool

She doesn't want to hear about trains. She doesn't want to see trains. She doesn't want to speak about trains. Occasionally has nightmares about toy trains. She shutters when she hears a train horn in the distance. She will drive out of her way not to cross railroad tracks...

I can safely say she doesn't have her own trains.

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That's INSANE! Why on earth would someone part with that kind of money for something that doesn't even have a motor in it? I'm serious.

People could say that about us too. Why part with that kind of money for a Toy train!

Everyone likes different things weather you think it's justified or not.

Holy Cows Gordon, haven't seen a post from you in forever, glad your still on board.....Tomorrow my wife & I may take a photo of us on my 1 1/2" scale GP50 for our Xmass card. So she does put up with my hobby and likes most of my train friends. She does not have any O gauge of her own.

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My wife loves her standard gauge MTH B&O 384 set. And the pre-war 256 set with 4 700 coaches I got her. To her tinplate looks pretty! She also weighed in on the decision to by the Orient Express and Coors SIlver bullet.

Yes.

Karen has two LGB sets and several extra cars.

Here is a picture of one of her trains (well you can see the engine at least) under the family room Christmas tree from a few years ago.

Sylvia has, at last count, a wine boxcar, a Hershey chocolate syrup tank car and a Mogen David vat car. There may be a few more, but those I can remember right now.

Of course, she has a standing order in with Ebay for the Lionel Dalmatians operating car! (Anyone got one they want to get rid of at a reasonable price?)

At every train meet and hobby store, she's rooting around looking for more Dalmatian figures. I think we're up to six or seven at this point.

Not yet...but I'm getting her the Angel Train to put on her desk at work. She works for the Diocese of Allentown.

Yes she dose, she has the Lionel Grils set reproduction and the complete I Love Toy Trains set. All in the shipping boxs and never opened.

My wife collects Coca-Cola items,and has a few "O" scale trains in her collection.

She did buy both our sons first Lionel sets