Come on in and join I will be posting more as I we go, I will start off only with one.
You might be a Model Railroader if, you insist on using your dremel tool with cutter disc to open everything. Mike
You might be a model RR if you spend the summer outside landscaping an acre of land and the winter inside landscaping a 4X8 sheet of plywood.
Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.
Daniel G.
If you go to a dentist for a tooth cleaning, and bring along a wood kit so you can "distress" the boards with the used instruments, you might be a model railroader.
You are a "Model Railroader" if you can find a use for every object that everyone else would throw out.
Johnboy out..........
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
When you are landing in an airplane, you look down and study the detail of the stuff on the roofs below.
You refer to your own rear end as a "caboose."
When you pull up to a grade crossing and the lights start flashing, you smile and wait patiently.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
"You are a "Model Railroader" if you can find a use for every object that everyone else would throw out."
- that sounds like me.
How bout this one- You might be a Model Railroader if you can be found trackside and muttering "I bet I could model that."
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You might be a Model Railroader if you comment on the weathering job on a train rolling by at a grade crossing. I could do better.
Dave
secondhandmodeler wrote:If your car is swerving not because of a cell phone, cigarette, kids, but because you whipped your head around to see a train going by. I've never done this by the way!
OzarkBelt wrote: secondhandmodeler wrote:If your car is swerving not because of a cell phone, cigarette, kids, but because you whipped your head around to see a train going by. I've never done this by the way! I'm sure.
secondhandmodeler wrote: OzarkBelt wrote: secondhandmodeler wrote:If your car is swerving not because of a cell phone, cigarette, kids, but because you whipped your head around to see a train going by. I've never done this by the way! I'm sure.It's one of the few times that I'm the idiot driver! Don't you hate it when that happens?
Those drivers! . i can see it now. While on the road, watch out for people smoking, drinking, talking on the cellphone... and watching the train go by!
Your driving down a familiar road and you know the grade crossing is just around the curve and you slow down to a snails pace and pray to yourself for a train to go by.
Your waiting for a train in the station when you look down at the rails and you see a piece of ballast lying on one of the ties, you quickly leap down on the tracks and remove it. In your mind the rest of the waiting passengers on the platform are cheering you when in reality they're all scratching their heads at what they just saw.
OK, Well maybe you're not a model railroader if you do that, maybe you're just plain whacko !
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The early bird catches the worm.
But, the second mouse gets the cheese!
OzarkBelt wrote:How bout this one- You might be a Model Railroader if you can be found trackside and muttering "I bet I could model that."
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Conrail5 wrote:Your driving down a familiar road and you know the grade crossing is just around the curve and you slow down to a snails pace and pray to yourself for a train to go by.
Or, how bout, you wait at a grade crossing for at least 10 minutes in case a train comes before passing!
BNENGR wrote:It's a hot summer day in the city, you and the family are in the car. Kids are complaining, wife's ornery, you come to a grade crossing, lights flashing, gates come down, it's a real long train, you are in 7th. Heaven leaning out the window with your camcorder oblivious to the nagging and complaining going on in the background.................Daddy! I have to go to the bathroom!..............You say, yes that Was a nice consist!
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Packer wrote:When you refrain from buying something because it ain't accurate. Guilty. (I passed out on the newer P2K Gp20s in BN, since the walkways are supposed to be black, I also passed out on older GP18s because the whole bottom was green)
Driving threw the Fraser Canyon and you are going "East" and you pass a Train going "West", you flip a high speed U turn and floor it to get to the best spot you can remember for a good shot.
As far as Model railroading, You know you are a Model Railroader when you Wake up wondering if one of your Loco's is past it's service time. And actually haveing a spreadsheet thats says it is :)
Mike
How about if you go to the LHS and take the long way back just to see what is going on in the train yard to see whats new!!!!
JIM
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
...if you respond to a thread like this one...
Your daughter has to move your grandson's B-day party from Sun to Sat, because one of the two LHS is closed on Sun. True
Your late for the party, because you were chasing trains. True
Then you leave early to get a photo of an old NYC wooden trestle you hadn't noticed before. True
You drive 4 hours on trout fishing trip to another state and spend more time looking for natural ground cover than fishing. True
Your wife wants you to go shopping with her and you won't go unless she goes by the LHS. True
You have to leave a wedding reception early to get a photo of a building that would make a good prototype on the layout before dark. True
You n the wife look for a place the country, you want the one to the crossing, she doesn't, so you compromise and buy one a ¼ mile away, but you can still see the trains through the woods. True
You're really happy when the kids start leaving home, because you finally have a train room. True
You already have the plans drawn up for the building and the layout you want, if you ever hit the lottery. True
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