You have had Lionel a long time if.....

[Boyd]

You are at a hobby shop and 2-rail O scale track looks strange.

[raymans]

you think your new crossbucks are way too short!

[Anonymous]

There is nothing left to buy

[fifedog]

...you have to criticize MTH at every given opportunity!!!

[dwiemer]

The 10 scale foot #45 gateman looks right with your semi scale engines.  Your wife can roll off the names and types of engines from hearing you talk about it so much.

Dennis

[Kooljock1]

You ask the Park Ranger at Steamtown "Where do they load the pills?"

All men in blue carrying lanterns appear six feet too short.

The poor dude unloading boxcars down at the warehouse works way too slow.  A little more voltage and he should be able to really sling that stuff across the parking lot!

 

Jon

[jimsrpo]

Many of your old Lionel catalogs were obtained from "the nice lady in the glass cubicle" at the old Lionel showroom in New York City.

Jim

[Anonymous]

  You are under the impression that a K4 pacific is a 2-6-2 or 2-6-4.

  You wonder what the point of "double heading" deisel locomotives is when only one is powered.

    When you see a deisel electric and wonder what that wire is above the track.

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     "Thank goodness for the model trains. If it weren't for the model trains they wouldn't get the idea for the real trains." -A Mighty Wind

[wrmcclellan]

...you look for a D cell battery when your car horn quits working...

[jwse30]

... when you pass by real train tracks and wonder aloud why the ties are so close together
, and why they're made of wood.

 

J White

 

[USNRol]

when you look at an MTH catalog, you secretly wish you had "broke down" and started adding other manufacturers trains way back before you became a die hard, dyed-in-the-wool, "those other trains suck" Lionel cheerleader.

[Anonymous]

...when you see a cow or horse and wonder why it isn't fixed to a base, or you wonder why it walks instead of sliding around.

[Anonymous]

You up your L.A. 12 step meetings to 4 a week.

Bruce Webster

[Anonymous]

  I said desiel electric but I meant elecric engine, ones with cantanary wire. My bad.

[initagain]

 

 

.....you bought a 6464 boxcar or banked the four dollars it took you two months of delivering newspapers to save.   

[Kooljock1]

  I said desiel electric but I meant elecric engine, ones with cantanary wire. My bad.

So is this used by "The Little Engine That Couldn't"?

Jon

[billbarman]

i get mad when MTH says bad thing about lionel products lol i sometimes say outloud "Thats not true!"

[mersenne6]

 

   1. You watch a real train uncouple some cars on a siding and then, after it has departed, you spend time looking at the siding trying to figure out why you can't see the uncoupling section.

   2. You spend hours on Mapquest trying to find the location of the towns of Lionelville and Pratt's Hollow.

   3. The two odors you most identify with Christmas are burnt oil an ozone.

   4. Blue and Orange strike you as perfectly acceptable decorator colors for a bedroom.

   5. In the course of reading a history of railroad technology you are delighted to discover that the real railroads actually did try using magnetraction.

[laz 57]

You can't get the engine off the track because the MAGNETRACTION is stuck fast.

laz57

 

[wjstix]

Don't worry, that two rail track will look fine once you install the outside third rail !!

[Frank53]

. . . .you appreciate the understated elegance of tubular track . . .

[Dr. John]

. . . Curves larger than 31 inches in diameter look too broad.

[cnw1995]

Ozone is a positive, familiar smell.

You believe toy train smoke is supposed to be wispy.

You're always looking at how real-world things would look as a model on your layout.

'Pre-war' and 'Post-war' only refer to one particular conflict between 1939-1945.

You judge family vacations, business trips, and journeys of any kind by their proximity to hobby shops, the "home office" in Chesterfield, Michigan, and layouts open for tours.

You judge a gift of any kind and all sorts of found objects around the house by how it can be used on the layout.

[rtraincollector]

The newspaper you rewrap it in when you put the christmas tree train up for the year is older than you are.

[csxt30]

. . . .you appreciate the understated elegance of tubular track . . .

If we were voting on these, 53's would get my vote !! 

Thanks, John 

[Train Memories]

   You happen to be in an old Antique shop and you see a Lionel Set in the upper self and your heart starts thumping.....

[Jumijo]

The numbers 4-4-2 reminds you of a starter set locomotive and not the muscle car of your youth.

[RR Redneck]

...you have to criticize MTH at every given opportunity!!!

Hehe. I like this dude's style. LOL

[jimhaleyscomet]

.... you see a "real" train and comment out loud  "They use such small couplers!".

 Jim H

[hopper]

When you wonder why the southern paid  a million & a half for it's first trainmaster & you got yours for 49.95.