How do you know if your train might too long? (more added)

[MisterBeasley]

If those Red Sox win another World Series before the train passes, your train might be too long!

[GraniteRailroader]

Amen!

 

 

 

 

 

 

go yankees

[nscaler711]

 

 HAHAHHA aint that the truth !!!

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 

[steemtrayn]

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

[NeO6874]

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. 

[CNW 6000]

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!

[loathar]

If your MUing 25 Big Boys together.

 

 

12-3...GO TRIBE!!!

[R. T. POTEET]

This topic has been floating around for more than a month now!

Your train might be too long if . . . . .

. . . . . your caboose crew goes to beans on the front platform of the leading SD40-2! . . . . .

 . . . . . your locomotive has already spotted itself under the water plug at the next division point before the caboose has cleared yard limits at the last one! . . . . .

[arkansasrailfan]

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

[Don Gibson]

 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.

(Most discombobulated) - " At this point, we can invoke Hawking's virtual particle annihilation equations using the measured gamma radiation data and equivocably state that your train is probably too long. - M.Z.J.

Say Wha?

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,

 

 

 

[Dave Vollmer]

Your train is too long if there's a five-second time delay between when the rear-end brakeman swings his lantern and the engineer sees the light from it.

[CNW 6000]

If you think your train is too long your layout is too small!

[Dallas Model Works]

If your train is longer than this thread, your train might be too long.

 

[dinwitty]

if Guiness refuses to put your train in the record book, your train is too long.

 

If you emptied Fort Knox buying cars for your train, its too long.

 

if you ran out of number digitis on the decal sheet to number your consist, your train is too long.

 

 If you have to put a weight capacity limit on your steel re-inforced benchwork, your train is too long.

If you get complaints from other hobbyists that their car orders from walthers are in constant backorder, your train is too long.

If you have to replace your couplers with ones made from zircanium, your train is too long.

 If the lead car is all rusty and the yard crew is putting freshly painted cars on, your train is too long.

If your engine ran from one end of the layout to the other and you still havent pulled the slack out of the couplers, your train is too long.

If you hand the switch list to the train crew on a forklift, your train is too long.

If your peddle freight crew went thru 15000 crew changes and still growing, your train is too long.

 If you hire a marathon sprint runner to be a brakeman, your train is too long.

If your triplex ran out of steam just pulling the slack out, your train is too long.

If you ran out of DCC addresses for your train, your train may be too long.

 

 

[ferky]

If you salvage an aircraft carrier catapult and steam system just to get your train to start to move.

[SteamFreak]

When turning up the throttle dims the house lights.

When it's on four adjacent tracks at once.

When startup makes the rails pile up behind the head-end power like a broken conveyor belt.

When screws pull out of the benchwork during an emergency stop.

 

[jbinkley60]

 

When the rails start moving instead of the locomotives, your train is too long.

 

[IRONROOSTER]

When the train going by on the other mainline is your train.

Enjoy

Paul 

[MisterBeasley]

If those Red Sox win another World Series before the train passes, your train might be too long!

Well, maybe I was wrong.  I think you need to add a couple of tankers full of Dirty Water to that train...

Go Sox - see you next year!

[Derrick Moore]

If you have time to read all of this weekend's troll related posts before the last car of your train clears the yard... your train might be too long!

-George

No one has that much time.

I'm only in high school,so..........

I DO!!!!!!

[Derrick Moore]

If your train is longer than this thread, your train might be too long.

 

[CAZEPHYR]

 

Your train is too long if the front coupler of your locomotive is coupled to the rear of your own train on the giant loop!!

 

Cheers

[dinwitty]

If you salvage an aircraft carrier catapult and steam system just to get your train to start to move.

 

Thats just to fill the boilers for all them Big Boys  :rimshot: 

[danmerkel]

When you stall... going downhill, your train might be too long.

[nscaler711]

it might be too long if the wheelslip indicactor light blows and you welded your locomotives wheels to the track!

[reklein]

Your train is too long if Bruntons helix is filled up.

[da_kraut]

Hello everybody,

I know this is an old post, but now I can finally add my thoughts.  On my layout I know that the train is too long when the helper is still going up on the helix while the lead locmotives are heading down the helix.

Frank

[tbdanny]

Frank,

Thanks for bringing it back up - this is probably the funniest thread I've read on this forum.  Favourites:

"When the talking hotbox detector curses at you."

"If you're getting married and see a FRED on her dress, then her train is too long."

And here's one of my own:

When the caboose of the train in front of you adjusts its' speed and direction the same time as your loco, your train is too long.

[nik .n]

 

CAZEPHYR

 

Your train is too long if the front coupler of your locomotive is coupled to the rear of your own train on the giant loop!!

 

Cheers

 That happened to me once.

[don246]

When you're sitting in your car waiting for it to pass.