You might be a model railroader if...you actually enjoy sitting in stopped traffic at an urban railroad crossing!
Cedarwoodron
tomcat Everytime I go to pay a bill, just as I hand over the cash I think " Gees I could buy a couple of locomotives with this or a few rolling stock cars definately some more scenery .......Maybe another throttle or booster..........anything for the layout !!!!!
Everytime I go to pay a bill, just as I hand over the cash I think " Gees I could buy a couple of locomotives with this or a
few rolling stock cars
definately some more scenery .......Maybe another throttle
or booster..........anything for the layout !!!!!
I second this.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
You might be a Model Railroader if a real life 4-8-4 will turn your head faster than a cute young thing in a miniskirt!
Carey
Keep it between the Rails
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Tracklayer You might be a model railroader if you go around picking up little bits of junk and odds and ends up off of the floor and sidewalk and wonder if you can some how apply it to your layout... I'm the world's worst about doing that, and though I know it's weird I can't seem to break myself of it. Tracklayer
You might be a model railroader if you go around picking up little bits of junk and odds and ends up off of the floor and sidewalk and wonder if you can some how apply it to your layout... I'm the world's worst about doing that, and though I know it's weird I can't seem to break myself of it.
Tracklayer
What's weird about that it's called recycling and a lot of model railroaded do it.
Joe Staten Island West
Peeew I was wondering what that smell was !
You might be a modeler if you have on your bucket list being an engineer on the N&W J !!! : )
Posted by Sir Madog on Sunday, July 27, 2014 2:57 PM
You hide a dead fish underneath your layout to give your waterfront scene an authentic smell.
Ulrich
That could mean you are a fisherman and a model railroader not married!!!
If you speak DCC fluently, you just might be a model railroader.
richhotrain ......you convert your home's 200 amp service panel from AC to DCC.
......you convert your home's 200 amp service panel from AC to DCC.
Paul
Alton Junction
joe323 You have 3 work stations in your home office. You use one to telecommute One for your home computer and one as a workbench for the trains
You have 3 work stations in your home office. You use one to telecommute One for your home computer and one as a workbench for the trains
I have three workstations...One for locomotives, one for cars and one for structures.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
Geez Joe. You struck it rich with this one !
How about you might be a railroader if the babies crib is made to look a like a gondola ?
up831 With summer carrying on in full swing, here is an opportunity to stimulate those creative juices. We're all familiar with Jeff Foxworthy and his, "You might be a redneck if..." Routine. Well, here's a chance to apply it to our wonderful hobby and poke a little fun at ourselves at the same time. So, here goes. You might be a model railroader if when you hear the word "couple," you think of two railroad cars joining together. I'm sure everyone can do better than that.
With summer carrying on in full swing, here is an opportunity to stimulate those creative juices. We're all familiar with Jeff Foxworthy and his, "You might be a redneck if..." Routine. Well, here's a chance to apply it to our wonderful hobby and poke a little fun at ourselves at the same time.
So, here goes.
You might be a model railroader if when you hear the word "couple," you think of two railroad cars joining together.
I'm sure everyone can do better than that.
Forget the Telecommute - I have the other two!
Long Haired DavidA.K.A. David Penningtonmain man on the Sunset and North Eastern R.R.http://www.gmrblog.co.ukfrom the UK
If you look at coffee grounds and think Dirt.
Does anyone remember the MR joke from years back. His wife is divorcing him because he uses the remains of the coffee pot on his railroad. Is this grounds for divorce? It isn't even grounds for coffee - boom tish!
yougottawanta ... For vacation you plan your trip around train museums or out of state hobby shops Try to rent a caboose to honeymoon in : ) ....
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For vacation you plan your trip around train museums or out of state hobby shops
Try to rent a caboose to honeymoon in : )
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Of course, there's no "might be" about it. My wife and I planned our honeymoon to include tourist railroads and hobby shops, and we spent two nights of the honeymoon at the Red Caboose Motel in Strasburg, PA. Of course, she was already a railfan (before becoming a model railroader), since her family included railroaders from PRR, N&W, and B&O, and she enjoyed watching trains with her grandfather when she was little.
--Joe A.
Dannyboy6 ..If EVERYONE in your office knows you play with Trains...lol
..If EVERYONE in your office knows you play with Trains...lol
Everybody in my office knew it because every Christmas the office decorations included a 40" x 48" HO layout with a track loop around a tree, with cardboard false-front buildings carrying the names of co-workers ("Tom's Tavern", "Bill's Bookstore", etc.).
Really. I have six bookcases (not counting the storage shelves under the layout), plus the two-drawer filing cabinet with model- and rail-related paper. And this is after going through the magazines that are over 10 years old, and cutting out any articles I wanted to save, to conserve space.
Apropos of nothing: my wife added an enameled caboose pin to the end of her wedding gown (her idea), because: "If it doesn't have a caboose, it's not a TRAIN!"
Southeast......Southwest
Ship IT on the FRISCO!
Chief cook & bottle-washer, SLSF Arthur Sub, Paris, TX, circa 1975-1978
You plan out where a caboose could go on your property, how you would get it to your property, and ideas on how you can use it. Build a layout in it, use it as a guest house, or make it meet Amtrak standards and make it into an apartment that can be pulled around the country
..If your Thomas the Tank layout (for your grandson's visits) has grown to TWO tables.
Enjoy
CTValleyRR Are you still married? If so, it probably cost you a small fortune amd the knees of your trousers. It may surprise you; it constantly does me, that I’m still happily married to the same girl! If I actually knew how and could pass my knowledge to the world, I suspect that I’d be in line for a Nobel Prize. What’s even more surprising she came with me to a Hobby/ Train show recently and bought me some passenger cars!!!!! http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/231101.aspx?page=1 Cheers, the Bear.(Whose actual understanding of women could be written on back of a very small postage stamp in very large letters).
CTValleyRR Are you still married? If so, it probably cost you a small fortune amd the knees of your trousers.
Cheers, the Bear.(Whose actual understanding of women could be written on back of a very small postage stamp in very large letters).
At the risk of a thread hijack.... me too, coming up on 23 years (not counting 5 of dating before that). Like you, pretty much dumb luck! But there are some obvious no-no's.....such as missing anniversaries!
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
LIRRMAN
Two things
1. My wife don't throw any little plastic things away before I look at to see if it represents anything in HO Scale. I made a couple of neat windmills from the little plastic "tables" they use in pizza boxes. Just cut off the legs, sand and file a little and glue to a tall pole. I used a white sode straw.
2. In Cincinnati (I'm not a native) a vist to a funeral home to pay your last respects is not called a visitation, as I am used to, they call it a layout and I can never get the image of a train running around the casket out of my head.
.....you ask to keep your layout in the divorce settlement agreement.
Rich
If you see a huge room, and the FIRST thing you think of is how much layout you can fit in it.
Marlon
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