Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Chip Mouse:
Marvelous!. This thread may have set a record.
(My favorite) - "If the engineer can mistake his own FRED for a stop signal, your train might be too long". - C.E.
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MY observation (non humorous): Trains are not too long, it's most LAYOUTS that are too small.
Chip - I think this topic deserves forwarding to MODEL RAILROADER for publication. Much of which dererves reprinting and seeing the light of day.
CHEERS,
Your train is too long when it start to haul itself.
your train is too long when it takes all the ships in Starfleet(Star Trek) to pull your train, and they still can't pull it.
When the slack ran out and they measured it, it was the circumference of the sun
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
If your MUing 25 Big Boys together.
12-3...GO TRIBE!!!
If your CN train is in Montreal, Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans at the same time...your train may be too long.
If your Athearn BB engine sounds like it's in run 8 and not moving...your train may be too long.
If you filled a train with victims of Chuck Norris it'd be forever long!
Dan
GraniteRailroader wrote:go yankees
go yankees
After their lackluster performance tonight...
Anyway, if you finish the benchwork on your FIFTH layout, and you still haven't seen the caboose (or the FRED for you modern guys) from that first layout you built back in 'xx the train might be too long.
-Dan
Builder of Bowser steam! Railimages Site
If Magnus doesn't have enough BigBoys to pull it, your train might be too long.
http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/1232526/ShowPost.aspx
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
HAHAHHA aint that the truth !!!
wm3798 wrote: If you model in Hugely Oversize scale, you're train is too long no matter what, your industrial buildings too small, and your mountains are but mole hills!!If you're running Nice scale Life Like FA's in a trio, your train CANT be too long! Lee
If you model in Hugely Oversize scale, you're train is too long no matter what, your industrial buildings too small, and your mountains are but mole hills!!
If you're running Nice scale Life Like FA's in a trio, your train CANT be too long!
Lee
Army National Guard E3MOS 91BI have multiple scales nowZ, N, HO, O, and G.
Amen!
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It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
If, operating on the staff-and-ticket system, the ticket has been delivered to the agent at the destination station and your brake van still hasn't passed the start signal at your station of origin, either your train is too long or the distance between stations is too short.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - staff-and-ticket on the Tomikawa Tani Tetsudo)
If your main line is completely occupied, you have a continuous chain of cars from the train table to the carpet, and the locomotive is moving through the aisle, you train may be too long.
If the little plastic guys waiting at the crossing get hungry, order pizza, it is delivered, and the delivery guy eats it himself because it was getting cold while he figures out how to get to the customers on the other side of the tracks, your train is too long.
If somebody waiting at the crossing gets out of his car, crosses over the pedestrian bridge, and walks to work, your train is too long.
If all your customers are complaining that they have no more cars on-site and nobody can promise them new ones anytime soon, your train is too long.
If you are gaining seniority faster than the train is moving away from the depot, your train is too long.
If the fishermen by the pond have enough time to catch a fish, cook it, and tell their friends about the one that got away, and the train is STILL going by, your train may be too long.
If the engineer saw the coin toss for a football game, and the conductor was too late for the last whistle being blown, your train may be too long.
If EVERY other railroad is calling your management to complain about the blocked grade crossings, your train may be too long.
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nscaler711 wrote:it might be too long if you cant tell the back from the front or the front from the back
I have several trains that meet that specification - DMU and EMU sets. The longest runs with five (or six when I add the diner) cars...
And none of them are too long for the high platforms at Tomikawa...
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
If it is as long as the Elliots' Trackside Diner thread... your train might be too long!
George
"And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpet made of steel..."
If your lead engine is 4 time zones ahead of the mid train helpers.
CHUCK
Beyer-Garratt 6040 wrote: When you stall going up a grade and the weight of your train drags you back to the start of the grade, then your train might be too long.
When you stall going up a grade and the weight of your train drags you back to the start of the grade, then your train might be too long.
Nope. BTDT. You have a piece of ballast stuck in the running gear of your 2-6-2 Prairie on a 2.5% grade.
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"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
If a Kadee #5 snaps, your train might be too long.
If your consist requires more engines than your DCC system can support, your train might be too long.
It might be time for Digitrax to market 100 foot wind turbines and call it "Uberfan Model Power Supply" or solar panels for your roof.
After repeated problems with power; running these long trains.
Another hint that your train is too long is when you contort and bend at wild angles to get inside your helix and start pulling every peice of it out to find the locomotive.
If doubleheaded M-4 2-8-8-4 Yellowstones and a mid-train helper of a Rio Grande L-131 2-8-8-2 just whine and spin their drivers, then your train is not only TOO long, but your layout just collapsed!
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
If your running your train in the basement but the layout is on the 2nd floor, your train is too long.
Your train is too long when you have to rethink your railroad name Mississippi Short Line.
Your train may be too long when the dispatcher clears the main from Chicago to New York.
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If you have to dual gauge your z-scale model train layout with real standard gauge so the real UP 3985 can pull your train, then your train might be just about long enough.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
-If one of your layout's admirers hands you a business card from the Guiness Book of World Records, your train might be too long.
-If the lead locomotive is the one Richard Trevithick built in 1804 and the current mid-helper is a GE ES44AC, then your train might be too long.
-If you're sending out helper calls to local subway systems, commuter rails, train museums, tourist railroads, and railroad scrapyards, your train may be too long.
-If old locomotives are being restored just to help your train, your train may be too long.
-If the tension in the couplers is so great that when one breaks the lead locomotives catapult forward like a fighter jet launching from an aircraft carrier, your train may be too long.