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I'll admit I'm not who I say I am...
Posted by magicman710 on Monday, September 3, 2007 9:10 PM

I have always told all of you that I'm a O gauge model railroader... Well, the truth it I'm a HO modeler, I just thought about getting into it, got the B&O and all, but I'm just a simple HO person now. Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by rtraincollector on Monday, September 3, 2007 10:02 PM
I knew that from your post over on modelrailroad side from way back . I just figured you might be trying both out. as some do .

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 3, 2007 11:20 PM
Well, no mod for you now. But you've got your own place so you probably don't care. :)
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Posted by PhilaKnight on Monday, September 3, 2007 11:39 PM
Don't worry about it. I was all over the board. HO,N,O,and G Have sets in all gauges. Just gave the N gauge to the nieghbors kid. Still have a huge box of HO at the mother in laws. And the G is packed away in the basement.
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Posted by trigtrax on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 4:18 AM
Repent now! You still have time to save yourself! Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by fifedog on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 6:47 AM

Poor Grayson...seduced by the DARK SIDE.

It's all good, kid.  Just don't get caught up in the FLAME WARS going on the MR boards right now.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 7:41 AM
 fifedog wrote:

Poor Grayson...seduced by the DARK SIDE.

It's all good, kid.  Just don't get caught up in the FLAME WARS going on the MR boards right now.

 

Thats for ever happening over there sorry to say I always hear about that going on there.

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Posted by daan on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 9:11 AM
Don't worry, it's a kind of evolution. First h0, then after you get bored with it, 0..Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by cnw1995 on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 9:16 AM
Come back to the light! I started in N - like Philaknight sez, there's lots out there in all the scales.

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Posted by Dr. John on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 9:59 AM
Started in O when I was a tyke, went to HO for about 30 years, dabbled in N, flirted with S then regained my senses and I'm back with O gauge. Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by locomutt on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 10:32 AM

Grayson, don't sweat the small stuff. Back in the early 60s I started modelling in HO,

 dabbled in N and started in O scale in 1975, and been there since.

To each their own, and there's a Scale out there for everybody. 

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Posted by 4kitties on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 10:40 AM

 Dr. John wrote:
Started in O when I was a tyke, went to HO for about 30 years, dabbled in N, flirted with S then regained my senses and I'm back with O gauge. Big Smile [:D]

This reminds me of me!  Only I did my flirting with G.  All the rest, I could've written it.  I too was in HO for a long time, 33 years, then I finally came around.

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Posted by alexweiihman on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 3:18 PM
Shock [:O]  WHAT!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by anjdevil2 on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 3:38 PM
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Cue the Imperial March<<<<<<<<<<<(re: Darth Vadar)Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by billbarman on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 6:37 PM

Somewhere in between I collected HO for a year, Had seom track And thomas the tank engien stuff, If you look on youtube you can acctually watch the series I made with them if you type in Billbarman, Then I realized that lionels were just better in every way, I didnt really like how small the HO ones were.

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Posted by traindaddy1 on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 6:46 PM
The more I play with my "O27" trains and wish I had more room, I think back to my 50 years of "HO" when 'space' was never a problem.  Can't forget those 'glory' days. Whatever gauge, enjoy the present and dream. Smile [:)]
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Posted by CSXect on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 7:10 PM
Grayson the only answer to your situation is to build a nice layout sceniced with big trees that could pass for huge ho trees or avarage O scale trees and then you could have a libray of buildings in both O and Ho to switch out depending on what scale you feel like runningCool [8D] How is this possible????? simple use ho track and run Ho and On30 which is O scale narrow gauge that is the same width as ho trackLaugh [(-D]
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Posted by rtraincollector on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 7:46 PM

Okay lets really confuse him now the other alternative is go with O 2 rail and put HO inside of it (sorry can't have switches or cross tracks thou) and then you could if you really got bored have the O gauge 2 rail run down the HO and if you really wanted to put n inside of the ho but thats a whole nother story lol .

 

Just have fun greyson but in honesty you could have all 3 and swap them out and the buildings from time to time till you figured which you really like best.

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Posted by Eriediamond on Thursday, September 6, 2007 5:50 PM

Confession time??? OK! I've nothing to confess really, but want to admit I'm not an O scale or O gauge modeler---- yet! I have, however, had experience with O and S tinplate back in the 40's-50's time zone as a kid. Also had no elaborate layout with all the operating cars and such, just a Lionel Scout set. That set had a short life as I remember. I had this great drive to find out how things worked and that Scout set became a card board box of train parts I couldn't get back together again and my lower back side became--- well, let's just say it was painful to sit down. Anyhow, I have this urge for those old trains again and started "hanging out" here and haveing a ball seeing the old trains and knowledge you all share with us here. I do have a few HO scale locos and cars I use on our club layout and we do have an O tinplate there also. So, one of these days, I'll be laying track on the floor, and haveing fun again. Thanks to all here for shareing with guys like me. Ken

 

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Posted by Dave45681 on Friday, September 7, 2007 1:24 PM
 rtraincollector wrote:

Okay lets really confuse him now the other alternative is go with O 2 rail and put HO inside of it (sorry can't have switches or cross tracks thou) and then you could if you really got bored have the O gauge 2 rail run down the HO and if you really wanted to put n inside of the ho but thats a whole nother story lol .

 

Just have fun greyson but in honesty you could have all 3 and swap them out and the buildings from time to time till you figured which you really like best.

If you are willing to give up the switches and crossings, you can also run HO on 2 of the 3 rails of 3 rail. Just make sure to switch the power supply connections in between running sessions.  HO motors don't like AC and most O gauge don't like DC! ;)

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Posted by magicman710 on Saturday, September 8, 2007 8:30 PM

 DaylightFan wrote:
Well, no mod for you now. But you've got your own place so you probably don't care. :)

True to that! Hey, for anybody that wants to join, the URL is in my sig line! Big Smile [:D] Jason, I said I would consider making YOU a mod..... Wink [;)]

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