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Train set or model railroad
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 2:25 PM
What do you think?
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Train set or model railroad
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 2:25 PM
What do you think?
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 2:58 PM
Its okay to have a train set thats where i started out but its get boring after a while so thats when your mind set comes in to play
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 2:58 PM
Its okay to have a train set thats where i started out but its get boring after a while so thats when your mind set comes in to play
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 3:43 PM
Who would have to ask?
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 3:43 PM
Who would have to ask?
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 4:49 PM
A model railroad is only a trainset if there is no imagination involved. People with no particular love for railroads can look at a wonderful piece of railroad modeling and say [I actually heard this at Chicago's M.S.I.] "that's some train set."
No Sir, ot be a railroad modeller takes mindset! Have fun.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 4:49 PM
A model railroad is only a trainset if there is no imagination involved. People with no particular love for railroads can look at a wonderful piece of railroad modeling and say [I actually heard this at Chicago's M.S.I.] "that's some train set."
No Sir, ot be a railroad modeller takes mindset! Have fun.
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Posted by vsmith on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:00 PM
A simple figure 8, on a sheet of plywood with roll out grass paper, styrofoam "mountiain tunnels" and "plasticville" structures DO a railroad empire make.

Another is Tinplate layouts, dont look anywhere realistic, but who cares! They are definitly "model railroaders".

   Have fun with your trains

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Posted by vsmith on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:00 PM
A simple figure 8, on a sheet of plywood with roll out grass paper, styrofoam "mountiain tunnels" and "plasticville" structures DO a railroad empire make.

Another is Tinplate layouts, dont look anywhere realistic, but who cares! They are definitly "model railroaders".

   Have fun with your trains

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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:37 PM
It's a model railroad if it is off the floor and you don't have to put away the track, loco, cars etc when you're finished running it.
Enjoy
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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:37 PM
It's a model railroad if it is off the floor and you don't have to put away the track, loco, cars etc when you're finished running it.
Enjoy
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Posted by krump on Thursday, September 25, 2003 2:37 AM
there are no lyrics that say... I've been workin' on the "train set"; but with a bit of creativity the song could become... I've been workin' on the (model) railroad - then again, that may be a given.
I'm learning that the local model railroad club doesn't even refer to train sets or layouts --- it's all in the TRAINing.

cheers, krump

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Posted by krump on Thursday, September 25, 2003 2:37 AM
there are no lyrics that say... I've been workin' on the "train set"; but with a bit of creativity the song could become... I've been workin' on the (model) railroad - then again, that may be a given.
I'm learning that the local model railroad club doesn't even refer to train sets or layouts --- it's all in the TRAINing.

cheers, krump

 "TRAIN up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it" ... Proverbs 22:6

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Posted by Puckdropper on Thursday, September 25, 2003 11:31 AM
I suppose it's in the mind set, and a little bit in quality. When you start buying Athearn and better quality cars, it's becomming a railroad...

My family still seems to think of it as "a train set" when it really progressed much past those old "life-like" things with horn-hook couplers. (They should be banned!!!)
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Posted by Puckdropper on Thursday, September 25, 2003 11:31 AM
I suppose it's in the mind set, and a little bit in quality. When you start buying Athearn and better quality cars, it's becomming a railroad...

My family still seems to think of it as "a train set" when it really progressed much past those old "life-like" things with horn-hook couplers. (They should be banned!!!)

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