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Posted by stebbycentral on Friday, June 20, 2008 6:17 AM
You assume that the following train sets that you spotted at the local store are actually prototypical:  NASCAR; Major League Baseball, the National Football League, John Deere, Harley Davidson, and/or anything having to do with states of the Union.

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Posted by steemtrayn on Friday, June 20, 2008 2:10 PM
 Tracklayer wrote:

You may not be a model railroader if you're 40 years old and still living at home with your poor widowed mother who you talk vulgar to constantly that has to wake you up every morning so you can be to work on time, cook all of your meals, wash your clothes and clean your room. Also that has to have someone else build all of your layouts and scenery, maintain all of your locos and rolling stock while all you do is throw money at the hobby to kill time while you're waiting for your crack head/hooker girlfriend to get out of jail - again... Yes. I really do know someone like this I'm ashamed to say. I've never seen someone so mentally messed up, warped and dysfunctional in all my life... Talk about human waste.

Tracklayer

Leave my girlfriend out of this.

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Posted by dale8chevyss on Friday, June 20, 2008 3:21 PM

If you grew up on Lionel (not knocking them but they are more "toys" than accurate Models) and don't fully understand why someone else is trying to recreate something instead of putting up miles of track and running trains.  Or worse yet, crashing them into each other because the Lionels can take that sort of abuse but the BLI's can't and wondering why they won't couple correctly.

 

Also insisiting that higballing is part of the crashing and is a must at every operating session all the time.  

Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.

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Posted by dale8chevyss on Friday, June 20, 2008 3:23 PM
You are not a model railroader if you drive 80+ miles out of the way to go to a hobby store because it is the best one in a 100 mile radius. 

Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.

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Posted by railroadnut675 on Friday, June 20, 2008 3:47 PM
    Wait a second, isn't that a testament to what a hard-core modeler is? The fact that you would go 80 miles out of your way for a hobby shop?
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Posted by Wdlgln005 on Friday, June 20, 2008 4:10 PM

 stebbycentral wrote:
You assume that the following train sets that you spotted at the local store are actually prototypical:  NASCAR; Major League Baseball, the National Football League, John Deere, Harley Davidson, and/or anything having to do with states of the Union.

Any Train Set so sold dosen't come with a MTL,LL,Athearn,Atlas,Bachmann logo printed on the box. I may have forgotten train sets or accessories made by Lionel. American Flyer, etc. 

Any "Christmas Train Set" comes with a circle of plastic track, runs on batteries, or emits soap bubbles.  

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Posted by Autobus Prime on Friday, June 20, 2008 4:12 PM
Folks:

It's not your equipment, or budget, or skill level, or time available. It's not what particular way of the million possible ways you choose to follow this hobby, whether you're running Tyco Turbo Trains on a time table, or rivet-perfect equipment orbiting round and round. It's all part of the hobby.

But if you're not having fun with little trains, you're not a model railroader.
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Posted by PMeyer on Friday, June 20, 2008 5:04 PM

Your scratchbuilding repretoire is exclusively popsicle stick based.

 

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Posted by steemtrayn on Friday, June 20, 2008 6:21 PM
You refer to a tender as a "coal car".
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Posted by cacole on Friday, June 20, 2008 7:22 PM

The only train you own is a Thomas the Tank Engine set that you bought for $10 at a yard sale.

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 20, 2008 8:28 PM

You are gomez adams  Laugh [(-D]

 

You choose to go to a football game instead of working on your layout 

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Posted by aloco on Friday, June 20, 2008 9:36 PM
...you don't have lots of locomotives.
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Posted by loathar on Friday, June 20, 2008 10:27 PM

 Autobus Prime wrote:
Folks:

It's not your equipment, or budget, or skill level, or time available. It's not what particular way of the million possible ways you choose to follow this hobby, whether you're running Tyco Turbo Trains on a time table, or rivet-perfect equipment orbiting round and round. It's all part of the hobby.

But if you're not having fun with little trains, you're not a model railroader.

Well said...Thumbs Up [tup]

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Posted by dinwitty on Friday, June 20, 2008 10:40 PM

 railroadnut675 wrote:
   Well, I figured I would give it a try, what do modelers NOT do, or worse; What do phony modelers do?

 

If you ask is thats the fastest it can go.... 

 

 

You buy a train set and it says John Deere all over it... 

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Posted by pennsy-gg1 on Friday, June 20, 2008 11:21 PM

 

When you mention to a group of people that you're a model railroader and someone speaks-up and says, "Yea, me too. I put'em up every year at Christmas time 'til New Years!!" Dunce [D)]  They may not be a model railroader!

 

Pennsy

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Saturday, June 21, 2008 3:19 AM

how about---

The pride of your (three car) rolling stock fleet is the flat car with the two elves crosscutting a log on it, but only working when the wheels are rolling.

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Posted by snagletooth on Saturday, June 21, 2008 6:18 AM

 Whwn a dealer tries to sell you an old junky brass model for 3X's the price, "'cause, look, it's made of GOLD!"................and you believe him!    

When the guy at the back of the swap meets selling a Tyco "Silver Streak" trainset say's it a true replica of a real train, "haven't you seen the movie?",............... and you believe him!

When you hear modeler's say the phrase "Tyco's marketing phrase is 'At least we're not AHM!'"like it's a good thing..........and you believe them!

 When you hear someone at the club say "Well, yea, of course my high-nosed BN Life-Like GP50 can out-pull you're Bowser SW1500. I don't care if you got 1/4 ounce weight added with a helix humper and a NWSL can remotor. I've got TRACTION TIRES!"....... and you believe him!

 When someone lets you in to the "sacred basement" for the first time to see their triple decked  nearly-exact replica of the (insert railroad here), and the first words out of you're mouth are "Man, this reminds me of the trainset I had as a kid, but mine, of course, had actuall smoke coming from them. Now top that! Hu...hhuuu?"..........and you believe yourself

 You hear the guy's at the club talk about Athearn's rubberband drive.............and you DON'T believe them! 

 When you buy an empty Lionel box on E-Bay..............Dunce [D)]

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 21, 2008 12:28 PM

suprised no one qouted my gomez adams

 you hear someone talking about the "Fabled" 0-5-0 and go on the internet to find pictures of it

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Saturday, June 21, 2008 3:17 PM
 k4driver1361 wrote:

You are gomez adams  Laugh [(-D]

 

You choose to go to a football game instead of working on your layout 

There ya go.

You may not be a model railroader if you proudly show off your G.I. Joe train set, with real missile  launching action, no less. 

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 21, 2008 6:16 PM
 wm3798 wrote:

...if you visit a club with an elaborate layout, and ask "How long does it take to set this up every year?

Lee 

Heard that one many times. 

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 21, 2008 7:28 PM
 santafe347 wrote:
 wm3798 wrote:

...if you visit a club with an elaborate layout, and ask "How long does it take to set this up every year?

Lee 

Heard that one many times. 

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That happens at least once every year during the hollidays

 

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Posted by Packers#1 on Saturday, June 21, 2008 8:03 PM

you have no care whatsoever about those stupid toy trains that grown men play with.

You consider Bachman standard line (not Spectrum) to be the best products out there.

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Saturday, June 21, 2008 8:22 PM
You are my Rhode Island neighbor Cory. My Marklin looks like Hiroshima... SAVE ME YOSHI!

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Posted by twhite on Saturday, June 21, 2008 8:23 PM
 trainfan1221 wrote:
 k4driver1361 wrote:

You are gomez adams  Laugh [(-D]

 

You choose to go to a football game instead of working on your layout 

There ya go.

You may not be a model railroader if you proudly show off your G.I. Joe train set, with real missile  launching action, no less. 

OHMYGAW!!  You mean there WAS a G.I. Joe trainset and I MISSED IT? Shock [:O]

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Posted by sfrr on Saturday, June 21, 2008 9:20 PM
 santafe347 wrote:
 wm3798 wrote:

...if you visit a club with an elaborate layout, and ask "How long does it take to set this up every year?

Lee 

Heard that one many times. 

www.cvmrrc.com -The club I'm in

 

Santafe, do you guys run 2 rail O scale?

 

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Monday, June 23, 2008 9:29 AM
Sign - Dots [#dots]
 twhite wrote:
 trainfan1221 wrote:
 k4driver1361 wrote:

You are gomez adams  Laugh [(-D]

 

You choose to go to a football game instead of working on your layout 

There ya go.

You may not be a model railroader if you proudly show off your G.I. Joe train set, with real missile  launching action, no less. 

OHMYGAW!!  You mean there WAS a G.I. Joe trainset and I MISSED IT? Shock [:O]

Tom

Sure there was!  It was made by Tyco (big surprise) and for added fun you could have bought the A-Team train set as well.. No wonder people wonder about us model railroaders.Sign - Dots [#dots]
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Posted by trainnut1250 on Monday, June 23, 2008 11:45 AM
 trainfan1221 wrote:
Sign - Dots [#dots]
 twhite wrote:
 trainfan1221 wrote:
 k4driver1361 wrote:

You are gomez adams  Laugh [(-D]

 

You choose to go to a football game instead of working on your layout 

There ya go.

You may not be a model railroader if you proudly show off your G.I. Joe train set, with real missile  launching action, no less. 

OHMYGAW!!  You mean there WAS a G.I. Joe trainset and I MISSED IT? Shock [:O]

Tom

Sure there was!  It was made by Tyco (big surprise) and for added fun you could have bought the A-Team train set as well.. No wonder people wonder about us model railroaders.Sign - Dots [#dots]

I'm prety sure I need the A team set....

I hear Soundtraxx is working on an "A team" sound decoder...F1 is Mr T. "I pity the Fool"....

Guy

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:46 PM

trainnut1250,

ROTFLMAO.   Too bad I was in the library at the time I started ROTFLMAO.

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