Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
Good to know that my stupidity actually does some good around here.
MTL, Redneck,
Your replies really abot railroad disease cheered me up today. My college football team got crushed and I needed a smile. My train sickness is one of the few things that keeps me sane. You guys keep up the good work and keep me smiling.
Dan
This is a very serious disease that should be spread throughout the population. Operation: Rerailer is under way!
MAD RAILROAD DISEASE
Highly Contagious To Males Of ALL Ages!!
The Symptoms: The afficted becomes confiused and agitated when not near any type of railroad. Will wander around dazed and disoriented, mumbling odd words like: run-bys, coal tipple, and crossovers. Often accused of not listening to wife. At the sight of a railroad, common behavior includes hyperness, sweating, and occasional hooting and hollering. THIS IS NORMAL DO NOT BE ALARMED!!
This Maddness is NOT fatal.
(exept to people who think trains are gay, stupid, only for small children, and to people who make fun of you at school/work of having this disease)
Cure (or something that keeps the infected person at ease)
Hospitalization is NOT NESSARY!! The affected must be surrounded by items of railroad interest. Should be encouraged to spend time sharing ideams other sufferers and Railroad fans. Train chasing and photography shoots will help. Incase of emergency contact your nearest train club or have to affected spend a weekend at local train yard.
This has been a public anouncement.
share this with other affected people!!
What happens in the operating room stays in the operating room.
danrunner wrote: MTL, MTL, get with the program...I wanna see a massive layout done by Christmas/Hannukah. (just joking)Dan
I glue my ballast.
Well I live in a small town in south Texas. I march in my high school's band. I am an avid hunter. In fact I went hunting Monday. I have been a train nut since I could say the word, but I could probably tell you more about firearms than I could trains any day.
Sorry to hear you aren't interested, but to be completely honest, we all use the forum. If you aren't interested in something, you can introduce your own topics and just skip over the football ones.
We talk trains most of the time, but we talk about other things in life sometimes too. Since the forum was slow lately, Dan brought up football to start converation. This part of the forum was meant to be like the "Coffee Pot" topic that the older users started-- you can go read some of their topics. Almost none of those are about trains either; This was started for people who like trains to talk to one another, not necessarily always about trains either.
And just to clear up any misunderstandings, I am really not saying this to be mean or to attack anyone, so please don't take it that way. This is just the way I have always understood this forum, and plan to use it that way too.
Football really aint my thing, lets keep it to trains.
"Layouts are supposed to be fun, and each one is a learning experience for the next one. I'm all toy trains all the time, so your layout is cool to me. Worry about a prototypical layout when you have the cash and a lot more room. You're running trains and having fun."
My feelings exactly. Its what I have the time and money for, so it is what it is-- fun!
Very excited about the Bears. The disappointing thing though is that I still have never been to a game, and now the ticket prices are skyrocketing. My brother's girlfriend works for a ticket broker though, so perhaps she will have extras along the way ... Aside from that though, there is a kind of energy in Chicago that hasn't really been collectively felt since the '85 team, as far as the Bears are concerned at least. Let's hope we don't get let down again like we did with that playoff game last year.
Yes it is
I did a lot of work on the layout this weekend. Here is a before pic of one of the main changes.
With the work I did this weekend, I tried to give my layout a permnanent fall look. Autumn is my favorite season, so now I will have it all year. There is also a quick picture of my new engine too.... It's an MTH GP-38 in UP livery. There is also a little of my Lionel Western Pacific U-36b in some of the corners.
It had barely any trees, and the ballast was painted inbetween the rails....
And here it is now..... There are trees all over the layout, there are shrubs and leaves on the ground, and there is real ballast on the rails (which made them suprisingly quiet)...
Demon09 wrote:Looks great.... Are those leaves on the sides of the hills?
Nope. pencil shavings with paint.
I'll try to make them larger.
will this work?
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