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What scale do you model? I'm mainly HO but also N. Never got into the bigger sizes honestly.

Good topic. Nice to hear what others do besides music.

As for me, my hobby of late has been fixing vintage electronics.....radios, tv's, stereo equipment, etc. So maybe that is still a "musical" hobby in a way, maybe not depending on how you look at it. I've had a pretty good success rate at reviving a lot of the stuff that's passed through my hands. No formal training on electronics either, just kinda picked it up.

Also, I like photography. More of a point & shoot technique, but I enjoy it just the same. I also love old cars & vintage motorcycles. I no longer own any, but I do enjoy going to car shows, the races, etc. I think I've been a car guy almost as long, maybe longer than I've been into music. The two kind of go hand in hand for me really. Which leads me to HO scale slot car racing. I've done that off & on since I was a kid.

I'm also a longtime hockey fan, especially of the Boston Bruins. Other sports I could take or leave, but hockey will always be a passion for me.

I no longer can physically play the game, but the love will always be there.

Finally, I don't know if you could consider history a hobby per se', but I've always been a history buff. Learning from the past is a very important thing in my book. Be it about life, music, drums, whathaveyou, I find history fascinating.

The Band

I'd consider History a hobby - also something I'm into thanks to my father. Man read more books and had more history knowledge than any teacher I ever had. And I'm with you with the Bruins ( Never liked the Whalers ) Only other sport I enjoy is Baseball. But I love the duels between great batters & pitchers. Lets go Mets!

Reading (primarily nonfiction). Movies. Baseball (can't play but I used to umpire and harbored big-league fantasies). Travel. Food (preparing and eating) and good beer.

Al

I've been into computers, stereo and model trains for decades! Recently spent over a week putting together an old computer with different OS's, just because I could! Included DOS 6.22 by itself and with Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 95 and 98, NT 4.0 and 2000. It was fun to go back in time!

I have 2 stereo systems, a more modern version and a vintage version from about 1971. I'm in the process of restoring 2 1971 vintage cassette decks.

Currently, my trains consist of HO and ON30. I'm in the process of restoring a Mantua locomotive that has a "chuffer" module I installed many years ago. It simulates the "chug chug" sound of the engine.

I'm driving my girlfriend up to Folsom, CA, next Sunday for a full week of training for her new job. We want to get there early enough on Sunday to check into the hotel and then drive back to Sacramento to visit the California State Railroad museum. We both love trains!

-Mark

Something about trains, they are just awesome. A venue here in CT called Cherry St. Station is right next to some tracks. What's awesome is you'll see both Amtrak and freight trains run on the line. One show we did a month or so back they drove by with a crane car and a few others for work on the tracks. Guys were waving as they went by, even blew the horn for us. Nothing better than a metal crowd all cheering for the train!

We are fortunate here in southern California to be close to a few train venues. My girlfriend won't fly, so we've taken Amtrak on some great trips! A few years back, we took Amtrak from Los Angeles to New Orleans and back from Chicago to Los Angeles, both directions in our own room on the train. Almost like taking a cruise! The price, fairly high, includes meals, which are pretty good. In between the 2 destinations, we drove over 2500 miles. Our best destinations? Washington DC and Gettysburg. So much history!

-Mark

Cycling Road and mountain biking. I've cut back on my mileage only getting in 300+ miles a week. Was logging when I was competing 12,000 + miles a year. I had a 12 year layoff and got back into it this past July as far as road cycling goes.