Words we should ban from 3-rail disscussion.

[Dave Farquhar]

If people want to be nitpicky I can live with that, though I smile sometimes when I read, "Why is [manufacturer] selling 1:43 vehicles? I'm a hirailer." Why? Well, there's that third rail, and guess what the scale of the track is? 1:45. The track gauge of 1.25 inches in 1:48 is five feet, while everybody knows real-world track gauge is 4'8.5".

 So if you can't tell that your track is off scale, how can you tell that '57 Chevy is off scale?

The main thing that annoys me is when people look down on what other people do to enjoy their trains. If measuring stuff to make sure everything is perfectly scale makes you happy, that's fine, but don't look down someone who runs, say, 6-inch Marx cars and call them childish.

[DennisB-1]

Dave,

Certainly, there are those hi-railers who look down on others but it seems to me, that more often than not, it's the Toy Train guys that throw the jabs at hi-railers. Sometimes I think they feel like they have to justify the circle of track on green painted plywood. There's no reason for put downs from either side.

I like trains. It matters not if you're into the toy train look or hi-rail. This is a passtime to pursue in whatever way pleases you.  

 

 

[lionelsoni]

Amen

[phillyreading]

Fastrac!!   The system don't match up with most curve sizes.

Lee F.

[laz 57]

GRITS, NO ONE NEEDS EM.

laz57

[phillyreading]

GRITS, NO ONE NEEDS EM.

laz57

Laz 57,

You are going to hear from the Chief if you keep knocking grits!  Grits are not bad if you know how to cook them.

Lee F.

[laz 57]

LEE,

  Thats the whole point.  Someone got to stir the pot up once in a while.

laz57

[phillyreading]

laz 57,

So that's what is wrong!  Sounds like you & jaabat like to have fun!

Lee F.

[Andrew Falconer]

Forced perspective is forced on us because we are forced to put the 1:43rd scale cars in the front, the 1:48th scale and 1:50th scale trucks in the middle, and the 1:64th scale tractors and buildings in the back. This is because there is only so much space for Big O Gauge Trains.

Andrew

[laz 57]

laz 57,

So that's what is wrong!  Sounds like you & jaabat like to have fun!

Lee F.

LEE,

  We like being REBEL ROUSERs.

laz57

[Blueberryhill RR]

GRITS, NO ONE NEEDS EM.

laz57

GRITS are lumpy Cream of Wheat!!!!

[laz 57]

GRITS, NO ONE NEEDS EM.

laz57

GRITS are lumpy Cream of Wheat!!!!

OR as you put it CHUCK, all the sawdust that the CHIEF is making on putting the benchwork together.

laz57

[CSXect]

Actualy Grits are"like cream of wheat" butthey are made from Corn not wheat they are good with cheese, Here in the North it is a breakfest food eaten with butter or milk.

[pbjwilson]

From "My Cousin Vinny"

"Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than in any other place on the face of the earth? [.] Or perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove! Where they magic grits?" (Vinny)

[Jumijo]

 

Grits give me the sh*ts!

Jim 

[phillyreading]

LEE,

  Thats the whole point.  Someone got to stir the pot up once in a while.

laz57

Laz 57,

You sure stirred up the pot on this post.

Lee F.

[CSXect]

DU-Oh

Homer Simpson.

[CB&Q3007]

I like Grits and schrapel. (Did I even spell that right...)

I left toy trains for the world of scale once.  I have returned because it was a cold waste land of rulers and detail.  I hated it.

Most of the words listed make sence to me.  I would like to add;

<><>DCC or any thing like it

<><>Proto anything 

Now back to playing.

<><><>

[Jumijo]

 

tether

venerable

luposlipaphobia 

[CSXect]

Digital recorded sounds give me the clickity clack of a diecast steamer over tubular track and a wooden whistle I have 4 differnt ones