nscaler711it might be too long if the wheelslip indicactor light blows and you welded your locomotives wheels to the track!
I had something like that happen once!! Don't think I'll try that one again either!!
When you blow decoders like they were popcorn----on all locomotives.
When the roster is all out there on one train---all 110 of 'em
You just discovered that your continuous circuit is helixed to another circuit---
Your electricity bill is such that the local constabulary come to see if you have a grow op------
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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When you have to ask the question, "Is this train too long?".
Alton Junction
If you have 100,000 models of the UP 4-8-8-4 Big Boy, as well as 10,000 Centenial DD-40X's, plus roughly enough locomotives to where your roster is on a roughly 1scale loco:1 real loco ratio, and all are at 100% throttle, with locomotives accually on fire, and you cause all of North America to black out, with the train not moving, then you have a long train (as well as a completely impossible and unprototypical Big Boy roster and what could be the world's largest electric bill.)
Jim, when I got started I collected nothing but Santa Fe Warbonnets for that very reason. They all looked the same to her, it took awhile before she realized how many I got up to.
I all so keep a list so if or when she sells them she won't sell a $700.00 engine for $20.00.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
You fellas know your never supposed to let your wife's ever to see your engines anywhere near the caboose because that means you spent more money. A fellow once collected trains near here and his wife hated his hobby so when he bought a new car or loco and she asked how much he spent on it his reply was always a few dollars, sadly he passed and she sold his collection of brass and other expensive cars and what not for a few dollars apiece not knowing the value of her husbands prized "toys" . Good thing I dont have that problem ,I collect trains and she collects dolls and beanie babies.Have fun guys and try not to smoke the wiring Jim.
If your layout has a peninsula, and the engineer is waving to the passengers, while going in opposite directions past each other, your train might be too long.
Marlon
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If the bridesmaids are all tripping down the aisle, your train might be too long...
If you leave Washington D.C at 1:00 pm and get a ticket for blocking traffic in Richmond VA at 1:01 pm, then your train might be too long...
If you have to resort to a satellite phone to talk to the caboose, then your train might be too long...
If Jeff Foxworthy can complete his whole act while walking alongside the consist, then your train might be too long....
If the birds flying north past the caboose turn around to go south before they reach the cab, your train might be too long...
If it takes more than a couple of hours to stretch the slack out of the couplers, then your train might be too long...
If your railroad enters into and completes a merger with another railroad before you pull into the station, then your train might be too long...
If the engineer's getting a tan while the conductor's getting frostbite, then your train might be too long...
If it takes the conductor more than an hour to walk the train hollering "All Aboard!", then your train might be too long...
If your train can leave Las Angeles and arrive in New York City at the same time, then your train might be too long...
If you can measure your train length in parsecs, then your train might be too long...
When your passengers board the train, and have to get off before they walk far enough to find the bathroom.
When you get the train moving in the morning, go to school and lacrosse practice, get home, and it's still on the first lap.
When you fall asleep waiting for it to pass.
When your taking a video of it, and run out of memory before half of the train reaches you.
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If a representative from guiness book of world records is on hand for an ops session......
A friend of mine that owns a 10,000 sq ft o scale layout in the detroit area routinely runs 300 car coal trains. Recently (about a month ago) he broke the guiness record with a 1205 car train. It didn't make it very far, maybe 50 ft, but it was enough to break the record.
Here is a youtube from last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k38V0cKrv8
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If the helper engine is MU to the lead engine, your train is to long.
When you're sitting in your car waiting for it to pass.
CAZEPHYR Your train is too long if the front coupler of your locomotive is coupled to the rear of your own train on the giant loop!! Cheers
Your train is too long if the front coupler of your locomotive is coupled to the rear of your own train on the giant loop!!
Cheers
That happened to me once.
Frank,
Thanks for bringing it back up - this is probably the funniest thread I've read on this forum. Favourites:
"When the talking hotbox detector curses at you."
"If you're getting married and see a FRED on her dress, then her train is too long."
And here's one of my own:
When the caboose of the train in front of you adjusts its' speed and direction the same time as your loco, your train is too long.
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Hello everybody,
I know this is an old post, but now I can finally add my thoughts. On my layout I know that the train is too long when the helper is still going up on the helix while the lead locmotives are heading down the helix.
Frank
"If you need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm."
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ferky wrote:If you salvage an aircraft carrier catapult and steam system just to get your train to start to move.
Thats just to fill the boilers for all them Big Boys :rimshot:
Dallas Model Works wrote: If your train is longer than this thread, your train might be too long.
If your train is longer than this thread, your train might be too long.
SpaceMouse wrote: PAERR wrote: If you have time to read all of this weekend's troll related posts before the last car of your train clears the yard... your train might be too long!-GeorgeNo one has that much time.
PAERR wrote: If you have time to read all of this weekend's troll related posts before the last car of your train clears the yard... your train might be too long!-George
If you have time to read all of this weekend's troll related posts before the last car of your train clears the yard... your train might be too long!
-George
No one has that much time.
I'm only in high school,so..........
I DO!!!!!!
MisterBeasley wrote:If those Red Sox win another World Series before the train passes, your train might be too long!
Well, maybe I was wrong. I think you need to add a couple of tankers full of Dirty Water to that train...
Go Sox - see you next year!
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
When the train going by on the other mainline is your train.
Enjoy
Paul
When the rails start moving instead of the locomotives, your train is too long.
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When turning up the throttle dims the house lights.
When it's on four adjacent tracks at once.
When screws pull out of the benchwork during an emergency stop.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
if Guiness refuses to put your train in the record book, your train is too long.
If you emptied Fort Knox buying cars for your train, its too long.
if you ran out of number digitis on the decal sheet to number your consist, your train is too long.
If you have to put a weight capacity limit on your steel re-inforced benchwork, your train is too long.
If you get complaints from other hobbyists that their car orders from walthers are in constant backorder, your train is too long.
If you have to replace your couplers with ones made from zircanium, your train is too long.
If the lead car is all rusty and the yard crew is putting freshly painted cars on, your train is too long.
If your engine ran from one end of the layout to the other and you still havent pulled the slack out of the couplers, your train is too long.
If you hand the switch list to the train crew on a forklift, your train is too long.
If your peddle freight crew went thru 15000 crew changes and still growing, your train is too long.
If you hire a marathon sprint runner to be a brakeman, your train is too long.
If your triplex ran out of steam just pulling the slack out, your train is too long.
If you ran out of DCC addresses for your train, your train may be too long.
Craig
DMW
Dan