Dave,
The Lady who runs the Rail Station wants me to set up in front of them. I love it!!!!
Toad
Geee do we stink, B O or something, I do get acused of smelling like old people some time. Or are the other scaler's just not with the sharing like us.
Dave
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
ttrigg wrote: hoofe116 wrote: And here I thought I was the only one that happened to. What is really the ticker, is when you go to the store that sells "All Scales" and find that their Large scale inventory consists of: three building kits, six cars (4~5 boxes of each) one engine and three LGB starter kits. Ask a question of the sales clerk, and get "Nobody does that, we all do HO."
hoofe116 wrote: And here I thought I was the only one that happened to.
What is really the ticker, is when you go to the store that sells "All Scales" and find that their Large scale inventory consists of: three building kits, six cars (4~5 boxes of each) one engine and three LGB starter kits. Ask a question of the sales clerk, and get "Nobody does that, we all do HO."
Dip sticks......
What is really the ticker, is when you go to the store that sells "All Scales" and find that their Large scale inventory consists of: three building kits, six cars (4~5 boxes of each) one engine and three LGB starter kits. Ask a question of the sales clerk, and get "Nobody does that, we all do HO." This store happens to be about ¾ mile from my house, but guess I'll drive the 30 miles each way to the store that welcomes me at the door, and proudly shows their new large-scale products. They even allow me to look at their vendor listings and will special order and they pick up the postage from their store to my house. It's not as fast as doing an online purchase, but friendship and customer service count for a lot.
Tom Trigg
And here I thought I was the only one that happened to.
I developed that thought today in a post on MLS, as it happens.
No more trains shows for me. I'll buy off eBay, where the products are all display models run once around the track. At least the sellers are glad to see money.
No, I'll add a bit: Two years ago I went to the StL G meet. I was told it was that. It wasn't, but there were two dealers of G gauge and one old guy who had a complete G scale train. The rest was HO. I had money and wanted the train. You'd think that would be enough. I asked if I could pick up the cars and look at them and was told "No!, You might break it! Those are very expensive." (Price was $110 on sticker). So I tried to get information out of him as to what it represented. He just stared at me, then turned around and started talking to his pal, Ignoranter.
I did score some HLW tipper cars and a flatcar off the one G dealer who would get off his butt and talk to me. The other one wouldn't.
Drive 25 mi one way for that crap?
Les W.
William, yeah that happens alot, HO guys tend to think they are the only true model railroaders, but everyone knows its the HOn3 guys who are the keepers of the Holy Grail, at least in their own minds, but dont tell the Proto48 guys, that think they have the Grail, and so do the N guys
There was a reason I was doing G as a Lone Wolf modeler for a couple years before I got involved with the guys on MLS. It was precisely becuase of the unpleasant people I kept encountering back in my HO days, I loved the hobby but I really didnt care for the other people I encountered, many were just plain unfriendly, so i kept to myself, and I had a really bad experience at a local narrow gauge club open house where all non-club visitors were treated like we had leprosy or something, the only friendly person was the hostess at the front....it happens, its a not uncommon model railroader experience unfortunatley.
Have fun with your trains
When I took my mom out for Sat. dinner she picked up the paper and found a show near us which on the picture there was G Scale and HO.
I went flyn down the road with mom in tow to the 2 annaual depot opening and they had 2 lay outs. None was G, all HO. I asked where the G was and was snipped at. Just several folks there HOs did not want to talk at all or they thought they had dry wit or they just had there nose up at me.
You know I don't mind others layouts. They work hard on them. But crap if I am going to get it from some HO small palm size cheese wiz turd. So I went and spoke to there wives who was alot more recepitve.
Toad - Dirty Jobs
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