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Are you an Operlector or a Collectarator

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anjdevil2
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Posted by anjdevil2 on Monday, December 4, 2006 11:20 AM
Operlector fer shure!!!   It's like my Roadrunner Convertible.  It was made to be used.  Besides this stuff gets dusty sitting around......and I hate to dust (or polish, as the case may be..)

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laz 57
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Posted by laz 57 on Monday, December 4, 2006 11:18 AM

RUNNER. Watch out for pile ups.

laz57

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Sturgeon-Phish
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Posted by Sturgeon-Phish on Monday, December 4, 2006 10:43 AM

Both!!!  All my American Flyers are "collectable" but I can and do run anything on the shelf.  A favorive activity for my Grandson and Granddaughters is to pick an engine and then cars to put on the layout, and run them for a while then change them out. 

This helps to keep them from getting dusty!

Jim

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Jumijo
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Posted by Jumijo on Monday, December 4, 2006 5:10 AM

I'm both. And darned proud of it!

 

 

Jim 

Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale

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Dr. John
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Posted by Dr. John on Sunday, December 3, 2006 9:51 PM
Q: "Are you an operlector or a collectarator?"
 
A: "Yes." 
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RR Redneck
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Posted by RR Redneck on Sunday, December 3, 2006 8:30 PM

Dude I am operlector to the EXTREME.

Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.

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IronHoarse
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Posted by IronHoarse on Sunday, December 3, 2006 5:01 PM

Definitely an Operator.

Ironhoarse "Time is nature's way of preventing everything from happening all at once."
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lionelsoni
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Posted by lionelsoni on Sunday, December 3, 2006 2:57 PM
Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Bob Nelson

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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 3, 2006 2:34 PM
I imagine that virtually everyone who participates regularly on this forum is a bit of both. Some will claim to be operators, but they're likely "collecting" trains as fast and as profusely as anyone else.  Others are supposedly accumulating trains under the guise that they don't have space for a layout (a very feeble excuse, I might add), but at some point they'll realize that trains sitting in boxes are really pretty useless and they'll eventually get off their butts and slap together a sheet of plywood.  Trains might look kind of colorful sitting on display shelves and gathering dust, but that puts them in the same status as the spouse's ceramic figurines or the daughter's Barbie Dolls (except the Barbies generally get played with)..
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darianj
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Posted by darianj on Sunday, December 3, 2006 2:28 PM
 jimhaleyscomet wrote:

I run everything I own!

 

Jim H 

Sign - Ditto [#ditto] Besides, If it's too good to be run, it's probably too expensive.

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traindaddy1
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Posted by traindaddy1 on Sunday, December 3, 2006 1:59 PM
No way Collectarator. OPERLECTOR FOR SURE!
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BMRR
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Posted by BMRR on Sunday, December 3, 2006 12:24 PM

    Well...... since I don't have a layout built yet, I guess you can call me a "collector".  Wink [;)]

Stan.

 

 

THE SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH.

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jimhaleyscomet
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Posted by jimhaleyscomet on Sunday, December 3, 2006 12:15 PM

I run everything I own!

 

Jim H 

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CSXect
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Are you an Operlector or a Collectarator
Posted by CSXect on Sunday, December 3, 2006 12:11 PM

 

 

I both collect and operate I won't own anything that I am afraid to run. My most expensive train is the B&O mike and passenger set by Lionel/flyer have ran it a couple of times but will not run it again untill I get the layout up and running with command controll. How about you?

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