Tom Trigg
Derrick I am with your DOD (Dear Old dad) it is just glorified playing with trains and it is better for you to be doing that than sitting in a room somewhere drinking booze and smoking pot.
Mike; this world has two hemispheres and i happen to live in the southern one, here it is summer time it is around 30 deg ebery day and it is too hot to even wear sox.
However fell lucky as in this part of the world we would give anyhting (except our trains) to experience a cold white northern christmas with all that goes with it. Instead, here we sit around the pool and eat crusctaceans (prawns, crabs, lobsters etc oyster too) and drink very cold wine and beer; for Christmas.
Rgds ian
NeO6874 wrote: not to continue this more than is necessary... I'm just browsing the Garden RR forums (thinking about convincing my dad that the money spent is worthwile.... he thinks its just glorified playing with trains) Derrick Moore - HO Scale, N Scale, and (to a degree) Lionel and American Flyer are all taked about in the Model Railroader General Discussion forum - though if youhave more specific questions about the Lionel/Flyer stuff, the Classic Trains forum would probably be your best bet. To the rest of you guys - perhaps I'll be around more in ths spring (if I can get my dad to go for the idea of a garden rr). Also, I wouldn't be too hard on Derrick - I think he's relatively new (and a little lost).
not to continue this more than is necessary... I'm just browsing the Garden RR forums (thinking about convincing my dad that the money spent is worthwile.... he thinks its just glorified playing with trains)
Derrick Moore - HO Scale, N Scale, and (to a degree) Lionel and American Flyer are all taked about in the Model Railroader General Discussion forum - though if youhave more specific questions about the Lionel/Flyer stuff, the Classic Trains forum would probably be your best bet.
To the rest of you guys - perhaps I'll be around more in ths spring (if I can get my dad to go for the idea of a garden rr). Also, I wouldn't be too hard on Derrick - I think he's relatively new (and a little lost).
You're right. I AM lost. Anybody got a road map?
Capt Bob Johnson wrote: Oh Boy! Here we go again!Another @#$%^%$%^&# coffee shop thread! Like bad pennies, they pop up all the time!Somebody, QUICK!, Stomp on it before it reproduces!Talk about something as useless as teats on a boar hog!
Oh Boy! Here we go again!
Another @#$%^%$%^&# coffee shop thread! Like bad pennies, they pop up all the time!
Somebody, QUICK!, Stomp on it before it reproduces!
Talk about something as useless as teats on a boar hog!
Oh GREAT, here we go AGAIN..................
Train 284 wrote:Oh great another one.....we are in for a bumpy ride folks! Hang on!!!!!!!!!
Capt Bob Johnson wrote:Dan,He's right, it is glorified playing with trains!He just can't imagine how much fun, how educational, what a friendship builder, what a self esteem enhancer it can be.Look at all the math involved in getting things to scale, the grades to the correct percentage, figuring how fast to run because the model can go 180 scale mph, but the real thing can barely do 60! Think about how you will need to develop problem solving skills in order to get it done and working. Think how the girls will be impressed that "You did all that?" Consider how good you (and he) will feel when you have it flawlessly running. You will make friends both here on the forum, in a possible GRR club in your area, and in folks you get to help you with the heavy work! You will also gain a rudimentary education in practical electronics!GO FOR IT!
Dan,
He's right, it is glorified playing with trains!
He just can't imagine how much fun, how educational, what a friendship builder, what a self esteem enhancer it can be.
Look at all the math involved in getting things to scale, the grades to the correct percentage, figuring how fast to run because the model can go 180 scale mph, but the real thing can barely do 60! Think about how you will need to develop problem solving skills in order to get it done and working. Think how the girls will be impressed that "You did all that?" Consider how good you (and he) will feel when you have it flawlessly running. You will make friends both here on the forum, in a possible GRR club in your area, and in folks you get to help you with the heavy work! You will also gain a rudimentary education in practical electronics!
GO FOR IT!
I guess i worded it wrong then - he thinks of it as the kind of playing with trains that most (all) of us did when we were younger -- cheap plastic stuff on plastic rails that runs off of D-Cell batteries. Much like the ~12 year old Bachmann "Big Hauler" that we set up under the christmas tree.
I think the biggest turn-off for him is that the G-Scale locos are extraordinarily expensive.... (then again, i think he was looking @ a live-steam loco...)
He's not one of the "tinkering" types - he'd rather have it "done right" the first time and then never do anything with it afterwards, save for watch it run.
You get a lotta self-respect/estem building from seeing that steam loco kit you made run flawlessly... for about 5 minutes til the running gear on both sides falls off (I don't wanna talk about it....)
btw - I don't need girls - already got one ... and she thinks I'm off my rocker for playing with trains, but she likes the gimmicks* that they have (smoke...)
*I'm completely out of my element here - I own/am amassing HO equipment. Though the prospect of a live-steam garden RR has always intrigued me. I just need a back yard in which I can get a ~5 mile loop in (with a passing siding) and then an Atlantic (anyone know what used steam goes for these days?**)... and the OK from insurers to have a boiler running @ 300 PSI.
** and yes, I'm joking, a 1:1 loco would be a bit extreme...
-Dan
Builder of Bowser steam! Railimages Site
Where did the cook go?
Still don't have my hash browns yet.
Also, I wouldn't be too hard on Derrick - I think he's relatively new (and a little lost).
Wouldn't dream of it, it's just that we've been here so many times and the management always have to get involved. It's easier talking trains with the odd - short - drift off topic.
Kim
tangerine-jack wrote: Why would anybody on this forum want to build an HO locomotive?
Why would anybody on this forum want to build an HO locomotive?
Just askin'. Well, does ANYBODY have a topic?
Next thing you know they'll be spilling tea into the harbour...........................
With any luck this thread will be nuked early, before the name calling and bad blood starts up.
Right, I'm out of here lest I become an instigator of more posting.
The Dixie D Short Line "Lux Lucet In Tenebris Nihil Igitur Mors Est Ad Nos 2001"
As usual I am with you jack, in fact you sounded almost like me!
Rgds Ian
Derrick Moore wrote:Oooooooooooookie dokie.Why are we ?
Perhaps there needs to be some clearly defined rules on what exactly "chat, info and ideas" are in order to stay on topic. We can't stay on topic if we dont' know what the topic is. Are we only to discuss roundhouses and activities pertaining to them, or is it open forum for whatever pops into mind railroad related or not? Questions questions.
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