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Posted by OzarkBelt on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:41 AM

 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!Whistling [:-^]
Laugh [(-D] I'm sure.Whistling [:-^]
It's one of the few times that I'm the idiot driver!  Don't you hate it when that happens?Big Smile [:D]

Those SoapBox [soapbox] drivers! Laugh [(-D]Whistling [:-^]. 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! 

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:18 AM
 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!Whistling [:-^]
Laugh [(-D] I'm sure.Whistling [:-^]
It's one of the few times that I'm the idiot driver!  Don't you hate it when that happens?Big Smile [:D]
Corey
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Posted by OzarkBelt on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:12 AM
 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!Whistling [:-^]
Laugh [(-D] I'm sure.Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 9:11 AM
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!Whistling [:-^]
Corey
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Posted by DavidGSmith on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 8:57 AM

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

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Posted by OzarkBelt on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 7:48 AM
Johnboy wrote:

"You are a "Model Railroader" if you can find a use for every object that everyone else would throw out."


Laugh [(-D]- 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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Posted by Fawlty Logic on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 2:06 AM
You might be a model railroader if......you dream of trains rushing into tunnels.....you often dream of trains rushing into tunnels.  And the dream's meaning for you is obvious:  you have to try to make your portals as good as the ones you saw in your dream.  So you leave the wife in bed, get your sculpting tools, and go down to the layout to have fun.
Fierce-throated beauty! Roll through my chant, with all thy lawless music! thy swinging lamps at night.
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Posted by BNENGR on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 12:54 AM
You might be a model railroader if......the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning is how you're gonna build that mountain with the lake in front and..........Cool [8D]
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Posted by Ibeamlicker on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 11:59 PM
I dont know if anyone else has done this,but have you ever seen some kind of real life landscaping and thought that dont look right(prototypical?)
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Posted by sleeper33 on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 11:35 PM
 YOUR ON FIRST NAME TERMS AT THE LOCAL LUMBER YARD
Gav TRYING TO DO EVERYTHING AT ONCE AND NOT GETTING ANYWERE
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Posted by MisterBeasley on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 10:58 PM

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. 

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Posted by loathar on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 10:41 PM
If you go into any store and look at everything to see how it might work on your layout...
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Posted by last mountain & eastern hogger on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 10:39 PM

Whistling [:-^]

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)

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Posted by leejax01 on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 10:38 PM
If you scratch build your scratch building tools
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Posted by FriendlyEspee on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 10:33 PM

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.

 

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Posted by dale8chevyss on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 9:53 PM

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.

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You might be a Model Railroader if....
Posted by NSlover92 on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 9:50 PM

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

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