wallyworld You put smoke fluid in a incense burner.
You put smoke fluid in a incense burner.
hahahaha! have to suggest that one to my girlfriend!
(Sorry all, but I bent the rules to "Train Fanatic").
Your idea of "walking the dog" is setting a G scale doodlebug at full throttle and letting him chase it half the afternoon.
Walking 7 miles to the nearest rail yard, carrying a cooler, 3 sub sandwiches, and a lawn chair is considered "light".
Standing outside in -40 degree weather for 3 hours, seeing 1 train, then walking 5 miles to the nearest gas station because your car engine froze, is no more than a "you're late for dinner again, dear" from the wife.
Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
-Bill Bryson
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
When you are late for a hockey tournament championship game due to admiring a train shop's M.T.H. Coors Light Bullet Train. Still want it....
When you have a 16' long wall in your den and all you can see about 2/3 the way up from end to end is nothin but boxes full of train items. and a shelf at one end of it about 3 1/2' long and 5 feet high full of trains on track 3 rows deep each of the 4 shelves.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
And that would be me!
servoguy When your closet is full of boxes of trains, and your clothes are hanging on the back of the door. Bruce Baker
When your closet is full of boxes of trains, and your clothes are hanging on the back of the door.
Bruce Baker
.............your friend left his 671RR S2 Turbine at your place 3 months ago after an operating session and you find yourself lovingly cleaning and lubricating it as if it were your own.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
when in math class when the number of any memorable postwar locomotive comes up your mind starts to woder for the rest of class... and the drawings on the side of your paper show it
When if people were to look under your furnature and in your closets theres at least one train related box or item under or in each of them...
"No childhood should be without a train!"
Lee,
If you want more information on AF clockwork you might want to look at Northwoods Flyer's thread on Pre-War American Flyer Pictures - An Invitation on this site. Check the index on page 1 and read through the entire index. There are several posts with pictures and descriptions of the trains listed (pp15 and 16 for example).
When something you did to repair a loco or switch or some other piece of equipment is used at work for a project completely unrelated to trains.
Lee - Yes, that's how they started around 1907.
This video shows one running on 3 rail O gauge. But when they first were sold they ran on O gauge 2 rail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmn1ATMTRi0
Enjoy,
Ray
Bayville, NJ
Life is what happens to youWhile you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
Whenever you plan a vacation with the wife and kids you also look to see what train stores are near by!
Cobrabob.
Toy Trains, they are not just an adventure, they are a way of life !
Ray,
I didn't know that A.F. did wind-ups.
I have about four A.F. steam engines in S gauge, and about 20 freight cars, with about a 6 ft. by 8 ft. S gauge layout of track inside my O gauge.
Lee F.
When your wife warns that her job may move to Boston and you reply "isn't that near Malden?"
Jon
On your e-harmony profile you list a great love of o gauge as a desirable quality in your mate!
Penny Trains Or.... You married the RIGHT woman and SHE'S the one suggesting the upgrades! Becky
Or....
You married the RIGHT woman and SHE'S the one suggesting the upgrades!
Becky
You can still remember vividly how the floor vibrated beneath your feet as the O gauge Phoebe Snow went by on the New York Society of Engineers outside third rail layout upstairs in the Lackawanna Hoboken terminal.
Pete
"You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light." - Edward Abbey -
When you decorate for Christmas, the first thing you think of is setting the trains up in the living room, and leaving them up until new years!
I know I reread what I found and it said clock work first then added electric O and wide gauge so the clockwork of coarse was 2 rail but not the S we think of when you say American Flyer
RT - Not to worry, I'm not trying to insult anyone, just having a little fun.
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You think of Jerry Williams(founder of Williams trains) and not Serena Williams(tennis star).
You know that Mike's Train House(MTH) is not a building.
You know that Ives(Ives Trains, until sometime in the 1930's) wasn't part of Currier & Ives.
You remember that American Flyer was originally three rail trains, before WW2.
Being an American Flyer Fanatic I just couldn't resist. Lee, American Flyer was originally on two rails before they went to three (clockwork trains).
A "Big" fan of S Gauge but still a fan of O Gauge,
You also compile a list of public layout displays to visit.
balidas Isn't that a fact! 8ntruck: You refer to a Lionel dealers listing when planning your next vacation.
Isn't that a fact!
8ntruck: You refer to a Lionel dealers listing when planning your next vacation.
You refer to a Lionel dealers listing when planning your next vacation.
If you owned a Hudson car in honor of the 700E
I guess I'm not one of "you". Hope I am still welcome on "your" forum
Little Tommy
When your wife dangles a trip to Grandpas Train Depot over your head as a way to get you to complete that home improvement project she wants done.
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
...The Christmas layout you set up in your living room 13 years ago is still there, AND you are still married and on speaking terms with your wife...except when occasionally she complains "why does my living room look like a garage", and the explanation that there are required upgrades in progress does not satisfy...
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