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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Jetrock I'm 34 years old and I play with my darned trains. I don't shove 'em around the track going "choo-choo", but if I spend twelve hours painstakingly detailing a model or nailing down track or debugging my wiring or trying to fix that infuriating spot on the layout that always causes a derailment, I'm doing it because it's FUN, and if it's FUN then I'm PLAYING. Becoming a skilled musician takes years of practice and patience, but when a skilled musician takes to the stage, regardless of how skilled or respected or how much he or she is being paid, they're PLAYING their instrument. So if Jimi Hendix could play guitar, I can play TRAINS! [/quote] Jetrock, my hat is off to you!! I will turn 33 on monday 3-15 , andI PLAY with my trains. I spend many hours laboring to detail my locos and rolling stock, or whatever ,but th point is ... I HAVE FUN EVERY SECOND I SPEND WITH MY TRAINS, SO THEREFORE ,I DO PLAY WITH THEM!! My REAL pet peeve is the little bent rods under your couplers that allows for magnetic uncoupling!! Most of us spend countless hours detailing our trains, making them "accurate" (no I'm NOT a "rivet counter",either!), but then when you put them down on the rails , in a decorated scene, and those uncoupler rods STAND OUT!!!!!!... Making it OBVIOUS that SOMETHING is out of place. Unless it's impossible to reach your rolling stock to uncoulpe them, then I think magnetic uncoupling is overkill, REAL TRAINS ARE UNCOUPLED MANUALLY, AREN'T THEY??
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