Heartland Division CB&Q MisterBeasley If you go to Starbucks and come away with one cup of coffee and 50 stirrers, or you leave McDonalds with one small order of fries and a dozen empty ketchup cups, you may be a Model Railroader. I can relate to that. Not necessarily Starbucks and McDonalds, but other places also. The wooden coffee stirrers and plastic ketchup cups are useful.
MisterBeasley If you go to Starbucks and come away with one cup of coffee and 50 stirrers, or you leave McDonalds with one small order of fries and a dozen empty ketchup cups, you may be a Model Railroader.
If you go to Starbucks and come away with one cup of coffee and 50 stirrers, or you leave McDonalds with one small order of fries and a dozen empty ketchup cups, you may be a Model Railroader.
I can relate to that. Not necessarily Starbucks and McDonalds, but other places also. The wooden coffee stirrers and plastic ketchup cups are useful.
Anyone else save toothpaste caps and whatnot with the idea to use them for vents or other details on rooftops?
Robert
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GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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If your family asks you what you want to do for your birthday and you reply go to the LHS and do some train watching, you may be a model railroader/railfan...
On that same note when your family asks you what you want for your birthday and you reply a locomotive, freight car, and vintage railfan DVD, your might be a model railroader/railfan...
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
At one time you had more HO scale Locomotives, rolling stock and supplies then your LHS.
If Model Railroading sneaks into EVERY conversation you have with not only friends, but also colleagues, you just might be a Model Railroader.
Wazzzy If your internet browser's home page is MR Forums.....
If your internet browser's home page is MR Forums.....
Not the home page but I do have it as a bookmark, with many another railroad websites.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Bubbytrains If your travel plans always include checking what hobby or train stores you might be able to visit.
If your travel plans always include checking what hobby or train stores you might be able to visit.
Guilty as charged...
If you have ever accidentally temporarily sanded your fingerprints off making wood for loads...you might be a model railroader- yes my prints did come bacj.
(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).
Bubbytrains
SpaceMouseOnly if you stick a coupler in your tow bar.
Here ya go!
https://www.modeltrainstuff.com/DP-Model-Train-Products-Novelty-Hitch-Cover-p/dpp-1002.htm
https://www.cmrproducts.com/truck-hitch-end-of-train-device/
Mike.
My You Tube
If you have a bumper sticker on the rear of your car that says, "My other vehicle is a ALCO", you might be a Model Railroader (or at least a member of the local Railroad Museum....). My Chevy Volt has one now that says, "My other vehicle is an EMD with a picture of an EMD GP9."
You might be a Model Railroader if you love to wear a t-shirt that says, "Your truck is 500HP? Then has a picture of a GP9 and underneath that says: "That's cute!"
Oh, and great to see you back Mouse!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Overmod ROBERT PETRICK SpaceMouse Only if you stick a coupler in your tow bar I know a guy who does exactly that. The question then becomes if it's a model coupler ... and if so, how small.
ROBERT PETRICK SpaceMouse Only if you stick a coupler in your tow bar I know a guy who does exactly that.
SpaceMouse Only if you stick a coupler in your tow bar
Only if you stick a coupler in your tow bar
I know a guy who does exactly that.
The question then becomes if it's a model coupler ... and if so, how small.
It's in about the right proportion to his Chevy Suburban that we could call is rig an EMD 2-tonner.
EDIT: He also has an actual 1:1 coupler, but that sucker must weigh several hundred pounds.
Hey, if I put this on a Panamera, can I put a sticker on the Suburban that says 'don't laugh, my other locomotive is a Porsche'?
done that
Joe Staten Island West
SpaceMouse ROBERT PETRICK If you pay an extra $35 fee to get a personalized licence plate for your car that reads 4884 (or something similar) . . . Only if you stick a coupler in your tow bar.
ROBERT PETRICK If you pay an extra $35 fee to get a personalized licence plate for your car that reads 4884 (or something similar) . . .
Only if you stick a coupler in your tow bar.
I know a guy who does exactly that. And living in one of those big square states out west where ranching is a very common activity, some guys attach all kinds of stuff to their hitches.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Overmod ROBERT PETRICK If you pay an extra $35 fee to get a personalized licence plate for your car that reads 4884 (or something similar) . . . No, that's a railfan thing. If you have a vanity plate that reads LIONEL or DCC4ME or MTH4884 or P48 ROX, then you might be distinguishable as a model railroader...
No, that's a railfan thing.
If you have a vanity plate that reads LIONEL or DCC4ME or MTH4884 or P48 ROX, then you might be distinguishable as a model railroader...
Yeah, maybe. But my non-railroad buddies don't distinguish between modelers and ordinary foamers.
ROBERT PETRICKIf you pay an extra $35 fee to get a personalized licence plate for your car that reads 4884 (or something similar) . . .
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
If you pay an extra $35 fee to get a personalized licence plate for your car that reads 4884 (or something similar) . . .
then you might be a model railroader.
G Paine You get a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking, and say what a wonderful gift ...
You get a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking, and say what a wonderful gift ...
George ... the switches! How could you forget to mention the switches?
If you are calculating your monthly budget, the line item for model railroading is under the Necessities column and not Discretionary Spending, you just might be...
You get a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking, and say what a wonderful gift ... you might be a Model Railroader (or a Railfan)
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
If you are flat, stapled, sometimes arrive late, and have lost more advertising over the past 20 years than hobbyists have lost hair ... you might be a Model Railroader.
DigitalGriffin mobilman44 If you select the family house based upon "train room requirements", You obviously are a model railroader............. Guilty...
mobilman44 If you select the family house based upon "train room requirements", You obviously are a model railroader.............
If you select the family house based upon "train room requirements",
You obviously are a model railroader.............
Guilty...
I did one better.
I DESIGNED the house with train room requirements in mind.
If you post ruefully about your engines and cars falling to the floor, but don't have money in the budget for kitchen mats or minnow netting ... you might be a model railroader.
If you have an inventory of structure kits, some over 30 years old that you know you are eventually going to find the perfect spot for, you just might be...
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!