If you collect the clean sawdust after every time you cut wood--
--you might be a model rrailroader.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
OK, if you carry a pruners and or side cutters around in your truck, just in case you spot that particular bush or shrub that is a gold mine of tree armatures, you might be a model railroader!
Mike.
My You Tube
When you cut the branches off your Christmas tree after Christmas and put them under a tree in the back forty so they keep dry, in case you need scale logs.
You may be a model railroader.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
If you've ever taken a picture of your wife in front of a building, so that you can later use her height to determine the dimensions of the building from the picture...you might be a model railroader.
If your family tree doesn't have branches, it has branch lines...you might be a model railroader.
If you've ever told your wife that there's a typo on the credit card bill, and that big expense for "Bar Mills" was really your drinks tab at "Mill's Bar", because you don't want her to know how many of their kits you bought...you might be a model railroader.
If you can say the term "stripwood" without chortling like Beavis and Butthead...you might be a model railroader.
If you have ever found a forgotten about unbuilt Athearn Blue Box kit in the back of your underwear drawer... You might be an model railroader.
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(I really have)
-Kevin
Living the dream.
wjstixf you can say the term "stripwood" without chortling like Beavis and Butthead...you might be a model railroader.
Knowing who Beavis and Butthead are might disqualify you right there.
If your boss ask you to fix his gadget, and you whip out your tools for model railroading in your car, you might be a model railroader. (True story)
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
If your shelving stacked high of uncompleted models buries you alive, you might be a model railroader
If you wander around your backyard for an hour collecting broken sticks to use as a log load for your flat-cars--
--you might be a model railroader.
I have actually done this by the way.
If you can make your screw-ups look like they were meant to be that way..
When you view a clearance sale table of miniature lights and a crazed expression comes over your face when you think how many buildings and structures you can illuminate with them...
...you might be a model railroader.
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
If you paid movers to bring an 18x18x24 large moving box full of dried sedium from Pennsylvania to Arizona...
If you save little pieces of scrap plastic, you might be a model railroader.
If you spend more time in ac Moore and Michael's than your wife,
you might be a model railroader
DigitalGriffinIf you save little pieces of scrap plastic
a collarary.
If you have built more houses out of plastic house for sale signs than you've sold, you might be a model railroader.
If your wife brings in the mail and says," your p**n mag is here" and it's this month's MR, you might be a model railroader.
She really says that!!
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
If you have a bumper sticker that reads I (heart)Model Trains you might be a model railroader.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
When your wife asks you which locomotive you want to purchase next, and to show it to her in a magazine ....in, say, November....
When you get a small barely-noticeable cash advance at the grocery store to spend at the hobby shop so your spouse doesn't see the latter purchase when she does your online banking, you might be a model railroader. I haven't tried this .... yet! Disclaimer - use this idea at your own risk.
This topic resurfaces now and again on this forum. I can't take credit for these two, but they're a couple of my favorites I've seen in previous threads:
- If you've ever told yourself "I can quit buying freight cars anytime I want"...
- If you've spent more money on your model railroad than some third world countries spend on the real thing...
PS - welcome back, Chip!
Dan Stokes
My other car is a tunnel motor
If you carry a scale rule in your wallet and use it in every toy department you pass, you might be a model railroader.
Paul
If you're on a nature hike, and you remark that some dried winter weeds would make good model trees...
(btw, I really did this last Wednesday!)
Bubbytrains
Before you throw away an old appliance, you consider if you could strip it for wires, or odd parts that might make flatcar loads.
If your Daughter ask's you to build her a "dollhouse" ..... and you do , in 1/87 scale .... then instead of giving it to her, you mount it on the layout......
Rust...... It's a good thing !
Along with Bubbytrains thing, if you have rediscovered a couple of old tool boxes, filled with misc. old clock parts, such as misc. gears, etc., computer fans, and parts, and any misc. old small appliance parts, and recently added, because of a post from Dr Wayne, a small box of disposable lighter parts,
Ya, you definately are a model railroader!
when you look at product packaging and think I can't use the product but I can use the package somewhere on the layout.
Joe Staten Island West
Spending money on Microsoft or Turbo Tax makes you cringe but you can easily justify a track plannng program........
If you are known around work as "the guy who likes trains".....
You might be a model railroader.
And welcome back spacemouse!
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
If your parents look at you and ask why do you need another locomotive or piece of rolling stock??? You reply to build a collection... And then get the deer in the headlights look fromantic your parents... You are beyond a shadow of a doubt a... MODEL RAILROADER!!!
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!