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QUOTE: He continued to tell me that if it is not brass an engine just probably is not worth my time and money.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by capriguy I recently went to an open house not far from home and took the tour of a club's track. The layout was a two level figure eight with a duckunder. Effort was put into detailing, but not much, the club president explained that they were more interested in function over form. Whatever floats your boat I guess. Anyhow, I am just a beginner and I told him what kind of equipment that I had and what I wanted to do with my layout. The first thing he told me to do was to throw everything I had away "It's not even worth it to bother seliing it just toss it" and go down to the hobby shop and buy code X track, number Y turn outs and a Z DCC system. He continued to tell me that if it is not brass an engine just probably is not worth my time and money. By his guesstimate, I should drop about $1000 to get into the hobby and not to bother with it if I didn't . And then after telling me all about how much the layout was worth and the clubs guidelines for letting new pieces onto the layout, He relentlessly tried to get me to agree to join his club! A week later he mailed me another entry form. Here is my reaction: If it costs me a thousand dollars to do anything, I better have a money back warranty on how much fun I am gonna have. No way am I gonna spend a thousand dollars on this hobby, total, ever! DCC is cool, horn-hooks are not, I should be allowed to work into this hobby with out being pressured to go whole hog. With his bull-headed look at how things should be, I am not suprised that the club only consists of him and ONE OTHER PERSON! I will never go back to that club again. If this hollier than thou idiot or any other lays into me again with a Hitler spawned, egotistical, communistic "do it my way or don't do it at all" attitude I am going to explain to them that they should read the bible again on excepting others, and then I'm gonna knock his dentures through the back of his head. There is more than one way to tie a shoe, sure, some ways are better.
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!