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
stokesda wrote: ...Your tax refund check arrives on the same day as the new issue of Model Railroader... and you open the magazine first......
...Your tax refund check arrives on the same day as the new issue of Model Railroader... and you open the magazine first......
Guilty
you have done everything you can think of in the model world, and now the only thing you dream of is.........
How can I get my hands on the real thing?
Would I get a tax break if I opened a Train museum?
Can I build a spur off my closest branch line to my backyard?
In a dead sleep you mumble. "Train...Train" smile really big and continue sleeping.
I actually did this one night acording to my wife.
.........you decide to super-detail a super-detailed locomotive! XD
or when you finaly decide on switching eras, and coasts right after you have built your east coast layout and paid $1000's on frieght cars (yea i did that, i now model Modern UP.....after i did the whole 70's CR.....and early CSX...... )
Army National Guard E3MOS 91BI have multiple scales nowZ, N, HO, O, and G.
electrolove wrote:...you modeled the Rio Grande in HO scale :-)
About half my fleet is Rio Grande (GP40, FT-ABA and FT-ABB sets)
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.
RicHamilton wrote: Packer wrote: You spend more on trains in one day than you ever did on a girlfriend in 6 months. (guilty, I spent 180 in a day, I only spent 60 in 6 months for my ex-girlfriend)And now you know why she is the ex....
Packer wrote: You spend more on trains in one day than you ever did on a girlfriend in 6 months. (guilty, I spent 180 in a day, I only spent 60 in 6 months for my ex-girlfriend)
You spend more on trains in one day than you ever did on a girlfriend in 6 months. (guilty, I spent 180 in a day, I only spent 60 in 6 months for my ex-girlfriend)
And now you know why she is the ex....
Actually, I dumped her. She just got mad about it.
lvanhen wrote: Packer wrote: You have more engines than your mother has shoes. (Never will be guilty, I doubt all of us put together has more shoes than her [I have 11 locomotives, she has 3 closest full of shoes, in addition to a garage of them {which is why I don't have a layout anymore, the shoes took it over}])Your mother is Imelda Marcos?
Packer wrote: You have more engines than your mother has shoes. (Never will be guilty, I doubt all of us put together has more shoes than her [I have 11 locomotives, she has 3 closest full of shoes, in addition to a garage of them {which is why I don't have a layout anymore, the shoes took it over}])
You have more engines than your mother has shoes. (Never will be guilty, I doubt all of us put together has more shoes than her [I have 11 locomotives, she has 3 closest full of shoes, in addition to a garage of them {which is why I don't have a layout anymore, the shoes took it over}])
Your mother is Imelda Marcos?
How did you know (she was philipino)?
You have at least 1 sound-equipped loco (became guilty a week ago)
easyaces wrote:You have'nt run the layout in a few days ,and when you do you find mice, spiders, etc., have nested or set up shop in one of your tunnels and on a runthru you suddenly have passengers !
1,your office desk drawers ar full of kits, paint mr mags and rollingstock
2. you run a switching layout on your bosses desk
3. a display case in work contains finished kits from no. 1
(all True)
Gav
lvanhen wrote:When cleaning up your "stash" you realize you have enough unbuilt kits of structures/rolling stock/scenery details to last past 2050!
Glad to know I.m not the ONLY ONE to have this problem! LOL!
TheK4Kid
Just remembered a few more:
You spend more on your model railroad annually than most third world countries spend on the real thing.
Your tax refund check arrives on the same day as the new issue of Model Railroader... and you open the magazine first.
You show your layout to friends, and the first thing they say is "How long did it take you to build this?" followed shortly by "How fast can it go?"
(Disclaimer: all of these were from a previous thread from a couple of years ago called "You might be a model railroader if," so I can't take credit for their originality. Same for the first two ones I listed on my previous post - forgot to mention that the first time! )
Dan Stokes
My other car is a tunnel motor
Robby P. wrote:you wake your wife up in bed about a idea you have for the layout, and ask her opinion on it.
you wake your wife up in bed about a idea you have for the layout, and ask her opinion on it.
Did this many years ago, but it was about food. I was on the 4 - 12 shift as a Gas Co. Serviceman and I got a late call to turn the gas back on in a classy restaurant after a minor fire in the exhaust vent. After I got all the equipment back on, the Chef sat me down and asked if I would like an order of Garlic Escargo in butter and a coffee as he had two orders made up and due to the long wait, the customers had left. I told him that I had never tried them. He said, "you'll like them". He sat me down at the Chefs Table in the kitchen and at 1:30AM I tried my first Escargo. One word, DELICIOUS. After mopping up all the melted butter with the crusty bread the chef came over and asked how they were and I told him. He said there is another order keeping warm if you want it. So down went another order of Escargo, crusty bread and coffee.
When I got home at gone 2:30AM, I woke the wife and told her what I had tried and that she was going to have to try them the next time we went out. She was NOT amused. You see, she had to get up at 6:30AM to go to work.
She got even with me though. She had always loved raw oysters on the 1/2 shell and was always trying to get me to try them. UGH! So she would try Escargo, but only if I tried raw oysters. Now we are both addicted to both of them.
BUT, she has still not forgiven me for waking her up at 2:30AM+ to tell her about the Escargo.
Blue Flamer.
You are a model railroader when you don't mind doing those honey-do's...especially if they are in the general(term used very loosely) direction of the hobby shop. " No honey, I insist....really, really, I don't mind, but you know how traffic can be, It may take an hour...atleast."
You are a model railroader when you take apart a perfectly good loco/rolling stock to "superdetail" it and it ends up as "weathered".
You are a model railroader when the train show vendors know you by name and they ask, " Are you going to get that loco that you haggled over for the last 3 years to save $4.53"?
You are a real model railroader when as you build your layout, people ask you, "How can you stand those fumes?" You reply, "What fumes?"
Finally, you are a REAL model railroader when you will deny yourself food in order to buy more train stuff. That's a hardcore modeler right there.
k4driver1361 wrote: You run your locomotives to tease your pets( I know this is cruel, but it is funny)lean over the layout and get senic stuff on your shirt......I hate when that happensYou scratchbuild a Locmotive then learn it will be available allready built
You run your locomotives to tease your pets( I know this is cruel, but it is funny)
lean over the layout and get senic stuff on your shirt......I hate when that happens
You scratchbuild a Locmotive then learn it will be available allready built
The more usual case. And I;ve pulled 70 with one engine, club record is 90. How he got past stringlining I'll never know.
-Morgan
You scratchbuild a Locmotive then learn it is available allready built
You have equipment from more than one RR. (I have some DRGW stuff now)
You spent more than 200 bucks on an engine, that isn't even DCC ready or painted. (not guilty, can't afford brass)
When you spend more on trains than you ever did on your car. (guilty, my car cost 1600, I've spent over 2000 on trains)
When you wonder if you should get payed to haul long trains on club layouts. (guilty, me and a couple of other people run trains over 30 cars long. I've gone up to 60 with with 2 engines, they hit around 50-70 with 3 or more)
-you've ever run two cars with the same road number, and hoped that nobody would notice.
guilty. in fact my 21 car OGEX coal train still has 2 or 3 of the same numbers despite my best efforts. noody's noticed though because nobody's seen it.
Oh @#%* now all of you know
cudaken wrote: You have cars and engines shipped to where you work so you won't hear it from the wife!
You have cars and engines shipped to where you work so you won't hear it from the wife!
Good one, Ken! I've seriously considered doing that before, but I've always just sucked it up and had them sent to the house anyway.
How about these?
- you've ever told yourself "I can quit buying freight cars any time I want."
- you've ever bought an unusual freight car just because you thought it looked cool. Then you bought another one or two, just so it wouldn't look lonely or out of place.
- you've ever run two cars with the same road number, and hoped that nobody would notice.
- you're exicted to see the final season of "The Sopranos" because you heard that Bobby has a model railroad layout, but when you see it you are disappointed to realize he really has a "toy train" layout, and there is a distinct difference... but nobody cares when you try to explain it to them.
Buddah wrote: wow all of thse post are great and make me laugh, heres a few that all happened to me recently.. since I just moved.#310) IN my case when the wife does NOT leave or give the.. ITS ME OR THE TRAINS SPEACH! like so many others have posted, My wife took the demotion. In a war she knew she wasn't going to win, SO She calls the trains my WIFE and shes the MISTRESS.
wow all of thse post are great and make me laugh, heres a few that all happened to me recently.. since I just moved.
#310) IN my case when the wife does NOT leave or give the.. ITS ME OR THE TRAINS SPEACH! like so many others have posted, My wife took the demotion. In a war she knew she wasn't going to win, SO She calls the trains my WIFE and shes the MISTRESS.
The Mrs. being the mistress may not be a bad thing if . . . . . .
#301) Before moving had multiple arguements with the wife about the location of my layout.
#302) found the house of our dreams but I didnt like it for it had a finished basement, the 2 car Garage is too small so its not an option.
#303) Had to give the misses the pros and cons of letting me have the basement for my layout instead of turning it into a family room and guest area as she wanted. ( even after she tried to bribe me with a 60" flat screen LCD TV )
#304) when my 2 year old son knows how to say choo-choo better than mommie.
#305) when my 9 year old son is waking me up early saturday morning to go to the train show 100+ miles away at 6 am in the morning, when we plan to move into our new house the next day.
#306) U sneak out of work early just to stop by your LHS and make it home before the wife knows I detoured!
#307)when the debate for your layouts placement goes from Basement.... to.... garage..... to ....I will remove the roof and build a new floor above the previous one. ( making my 2-story house into a 3-story one)
#308)When U map out the back yard for your Train .. ooops I mean "storage" shed U tell the wife about. lol
#309)when moving day comes and no one is allowed to move ANY of your train parafanalia, and not to mention your prize posesion Loco's rides in the front seat next to you.
cudaken wrote: 600 watts a side stereo system is playing train sounds. (sure get some odd looks from people walking by) You know what your LHS has in stock better than the owner!
600 watts a side stereo system is playing train sounds. (sure get some odd looks from people walking by)
You know what your LHS has in stock better than the owner!
I've got 320 watts/side Onkyo and get the same looks from my neighbors.
I just went into a new Hobbytown USA and had to show the owner that he actually had 5 of the 6 items he told me he didn't carry. Got the standard "People don't play with trains anymore" answer from the guy...
If you just glued weights to a bottom of a car with CA then you flip it over but all the CA isn't dry so it runs down the side of the car right where your thumb is and you glue your thumb to the car right over the last of a decal you have that you put on the car not even a hour ago, then you panic and pull it off fast, whichs rips that great decal right off
Joe