You know you're getting old when the only long-term investment you make is buying green bananas.
Hi hon30critter
I like it its a bit like being very tall especialy at the middle
regards John
Lots of very funny comments!
I'm not old. I just keep getting taller than my hairline!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
One knows you're getting old when there are "kids" you work with who were born after you started your train layout. (I started mine when I was an eight grader and my 20 year high school reunion was a couple of summers ago. I won't go into further details on that one.)
You know when your getting old when hollywood try to remake classic movies from our era - and they all flop BIG STYLE. So maybe getting old aint that bad after all - we grew up in an age where people produced quality and had STANDARDS and produced outstanding things. Now we get boring and predicatable.
Hooray for us old folks.
Chris.
Loco Guy - is a state of mind - not an affinity to locomotives.
Sit back and enjoy your track...
denveroutlaws06You know you are old when you remember the first time pepsi released Crystal Pepsi.
Maybe it was a regional thing, but in Baltimore we had Almond Smash, produced by Suburban Beverage Corp. I don't know that it tasted like almonds, but it was red, carbonated and sweet.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
You know you are old when you remember the first time pepsi released Crystal Pepsi.
You know you are getting old when they are remaking movies that you never got around to seeing the original of even though you intended to.
Wazzzy 3 things happen when you are getting old. FIRST you lose your memory SECOND you lose your hair I can't remember the THIRD
3 things happen when you are getting old.
FIRST you lose your memory
SECOND you lose your hair
I can't remember the THIRD
FIRST, I lost my hair, then I lost my...where was I?
You know you are getting old when you hear a new remake of an old song, sing heartily along with it, and the young ones ask "how did you learn the words so fast?"
You know you are geting old when you have to support your chin, cheeks in order to shave.
You know you are geting old when gray hair doens't bother you anymore...ON youreself.
YOU know you are gettin old when you can name more fallen flags that operated during your lifetime than currently operating RRS.
you know you are getting old when...now where was I again?
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
yougottawanta You know you are old when: They ask for your drivers license and they ask is this AD or BC ! I came across a kid one day listening to an LP (do you remeber these ? ) on the sidwalk. I was so astounished to see this I asked him why - his reply - for nostagia reasons !!!!! I remember McDonalds sign that boasted "1 million hamburgers" Black and White TV with only 3 channels (if you were lucky ) When every one made a dash for the stores late Saturdays because every thing was closed on Sundays ! When kids were taught reading writing and arithmetic and schools werent used for social engineering or endoctrination. And teachers were allowed to spank ! YGW
You know you are old when:
They ask for your drivers license and they ask is this AD or BC !
I came across a kid one day listening to an LP (do you remeber these ? ) on the sidwalk. I was so astounished to see this I asked him why - his reply - for nostagia reasons !!!!!
I remember McDonalds sign that boasted "1 million hamburgers"
Black and White TV with only 3 channels (if you were lucky )
When every one made a dash for the stores late Saturdays because every thing was closed on Sundays !
When kids were taught reading writing and arithmetic and schools werent used for social engineering or endoctrination. And teachers were allowed to spank !
YGW
I remember just two channels in Omaha. Then we got an ABC affiliate, KETV channel 7. KETV recently saved the Omaha Burlington station by acquiring it and are now converting it into their news studio. Burlington Station is the prototype for Walthers Union Station kit and was facing an uncertain future.
charlie9 When you think 50' is a long car. And---when you wonder why so many of the people who post on here can't spell or don't know two from to from too or there from they're or their. Charlie
When you think 50' is a long car. And---when you wonder why so many of the people who post on here can't spell or don't know two from to from too or there from they're or their.
Charlie
Hi guys
Just remember we can't stop geting old but nobody said we have to grow up.
You know your old when you listen to Rock Radio and realize that most of the members of the bands of your youth are dead. My local radio just did tributes to David Bowie and Glenn Frey. But that made me think - most of the other bands I listen to are now down to one or two original members.
Maybe its time to buy the convertible I always wanted and go on a road trip before its too late ;-)
You know you are getting old if you read Howard Zane's thread about modeling steam, and most of the guys who named their ages were much younger than you.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Old days, good times I rememberFun days filled with simple pleasuresDrive-in movies, comic books and blue jeansHowdy doody, baseball cards and birthdaysTake me back to a world gone awayMemories seem like yesterday
Oh, old days, good times I rememberGold days, days I'll always treasureFunny faces full of love and laughterFunny places, summer nights and streetcarsTake me back to a world gone awayBoyhood memories seem like yesterday
(Old days)In my mind and in my heart to stay
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
I may have to grow older but I don't have to grow up!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Firelock76Come on people, you're not old, you're EXPERIENCED!
Yep I am really experienced in an awfull lot of things, however getting that experience has come at the cost of being completely worn out. I'll only be 59 on Friday but the miliage is that of your average 200 year old.
I wouldn't have changed a thing.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Espee & The Wobbly competed from Frisco and Oakland through the Altamont Pass and on to Sacramento. With stops in Stockton to compete with the Santa Fe...
WP Lives
Come on people, you're not old, you're EXPERIENCED!
Age and experience beat youth and a crappy haircut any day of the week.
And I'll bet none of you are likely to be so engrossed in your SmartPhone you walk into traffic and get squashed!
I don't come over here very often, but aren't you glad I did?
You know you are geting old when....What was the question?
Dan
I remember when Tim Horton played hockey.
You're sure you are getting old when you can remember blackouts and air raid wardens making sure your curtains and blinds are drawn.
Joe
SouthPennYou know you are old when you recognise the elevator music.
You know you're old when you can remember that elevator music was called Muzak.
angelob6660 You know when you're getting older is that the NASA space shuttle is retired. (I know all 5 shuttle names including the experiential 6th one.)
You know when you're getting older is that the NASA space shuttle is retired. (I know all 5 shuttle names including the experiential 6th one.)
I worked on the Shuttle Retirement Team. Enterprise and Challenger and Columbia('s remains) are older than me. I was alive for 132 of the 135 missions. The only one in the fleet I never laid my eyes on is Endeavour.
I saw Challenger break up with my own eyes in the sky at the age of four. Would have never figured that 27 years later, my office wall would have a certificate of appreciation for my help closing out the program. It has an embossed sticker on it that flew on STS-135.In 30 years, I'll probably be looking back how my signature flew on Orion and how quickly it came and went too.
The railroad you grew up on Southern Pacific/Cotton Belt into the Union Pacific at the age of 10.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
You know you are old when you recognise the elevator music.
You know you are old when you remember laying cardboard (hardboard??) ties.
OT Dean I remember when Mickey D's came to our town, just about the time i got my driver's licence, back in the '50s, and when I tell the kids who work at McDonald's today that back then you could go in, order three hamburgers, an order of fries, and a drink, hand over a limp buck---and get a nickel back, they're dumbfounded! 'Course, we didn't have State Sales Tax yet, to run it up to an even dollar. I came across a guy a few years older than I in the supermarket, about ten years ago, and overheard him tell his wife, "You know my memory doesn't stretch back to when we came in here!" I pushed my cart over toward him and said, "I know what you mean: the memory's the first thing to go." He replied, "No, it's the second thing," but I came right back with: "Well, I sure don't remember the first thing, then!" But I do remember the important things--all model railroad oriented. Happy modeling everybody! Deano
I remember when Mickey D's came to our town, just about the time i got my driver's licence, back in the '50s, and when I tell the kids who work at McDonald's today that back then you could go in, order three hamburgers, an order of fries, and a drink, hand over a limp buck---and get a nickel back, they're dumbfounded! 'Course, we didn't have State Sales Tax yet, to run it up to an even dollar.
I came across a guy a few years older than I in the supermarket, about ten years ago, and overheard him tell his wife, "You know my memory doesn't stretch back to when we came in here!"
I pushed my cart over toward him and said, "I know what you mean: the memory's the first thing to go."
He replied, "No, it's the second thing," but I came right back with: "Well, I sure don't remember the first thing, then!"
But I do remember the important things--all model railroad oriented. Happy modeling everybody!
Deano
I forgot to mention one thing when I wrote about my experiences at MickeyD's and young people will really find this hard to believe. When I started there in fall of 1968, MickeyD's employed no woman in the restaurants. I'm guessing there were some in the corporate offices but everyone working at a restaurant was male. Ours was a franchise store as opposed to a company store. The company asked the owner of our franchise if he would be willing to experiment by hiring women there and he agreed. I say women but like most of the male crew they were of high school age. I don't know if they were doing this experiment at other locations or not but we were told we would be the first MacDonald's to have woman working on the floor. I certainly had no objections. This MacDonald's was in Columbus, OH on High St on the far north end of town. Back then it was just a hamburger stand but was upgraded in the 1970s to have indoor seating like most MacDonald's today. It is no longer operating as a MacDonald's but as a bar-b-que restaurant.
Can you imagine today if a large corporation like MacDonald's had a men only policy?
When you see a RR signal tower and think... "When did they replace the ball signals?"
Jim