Sir Madog I am too old to become a father, but maybe I can persuade my son to call his first-born GOSHONZ
I am too old to become a father, but maybe I can persuade my son to call his first-born
GOSHONZ
Simple Ulrich, ask that the great grandson be called GOSHONZ Ulrich after you and your passion!
You know you are hooked when you "smell" coal burning first thing in the morning....
You know you are hooked when you use the Whyte system and call a car a "0-2-2-0", a straight truck as a "2-4-0" and a tractor trailer a "2-4-4-4-0"....
You know you are hooked when you are BB-Qing with Bitumous coal..?
you know you are hooked when you Ballast your driveway with fresh stones...
You know you are hooked when you ask you neighbor if his new car is "oil or coal fired"?...
you know you are hooked when you cannot stop thinking of stupid "you are hooked" train things!!!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Jake.
If you have ever read any of the books on Chuck Yeager, the P-51 was his real one and only love. In his Bio's, the stories of him and his P-51 in WW2 are good reading.
We are four miles from the Robert's Bank Rail Corridor (very busy) Those loco horn blast sound like they are across the street sometimes. There is a company that has a number of WW2 vintage planes that you can go and have a dog fight in for a $1000.00 an hour.( on my to do list) A lot of these dog fights take place over our house as we are out in the country. The best days are laying in the back yard with a Beer on the lounger watching these WW2 planes in Dog Fights and listening to those trains blowin their horns.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
CP5415 You know you're hooked when you're walking through a craft store with the wife thinking to yourself if the stuff you're looking at would be useful somehow in a modeling situation
You know you're hooked when you're walking through a craft store with the wife thinking to yourself if the stuff you're looking at would be useful somehow in a modeling situation
Happens to me so much...............................
cjcrescent You know you're really hooked when a 4-8-4 under steam will turn your head faster than a pretty young thing in a mini-skirt.
You know you're really hooked when a 4-8-4 under steam will turn your head faster than a pretty young thing in a mini-skirt.
Been there.
Actually, you know you are hooked when you turn your head for an SW1 while there is a P-51D Mustang making passes above you, and you barely so much as twitch at the sound of the Merlin.
To show you what a P-51D sounds like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5fjKEXXPQ8
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
galaxy You know you are hooked when you purposely move next door to a train museum..... You know you are hooked when you volunteer at the museum just to be around The trains all day... You know are hooked when you have a G scale Garden layout in the yard, an O scale layout in the Attic, an HO scale layout in THe basement, an N scale layout in the spare bedroom and a Z scale layout in an under bed box...and an American Flyer S layout for under the the Tree at Christmas.... You know you are hooked when you only allow the sending of Christmas cards with snowy train scenes... You know you are hooked when you name you first born son "Aitch-oh" You know you are hooked when all your son's first initials spell out : G, O, S, HO, N, Z. For Gary, Oliver, Steven, HOrace, Neil and Zane..... You know you are hooked when you name your sons Mallet, Haiwatha, Kanawah....in honor of trains... You know you are hooked when you buy an abandoned warehouse to house your layout.... You know you are hooked when you open a train shop to support your hobby, and to get rid of your "excess" trains......{is there such a thing as "excess" trains?}
You know you are hooked when you purposely move next door to a train museum.....
You know you are hooked when you volunteer at the museum just to be around The trains all day...
You know are hooked when you have a G scale Garden layout in the yard, an O scale layout in the Attic, an HO scale layout in THe basement, an N scale layout in the spare bedroom and a Z scale layout in an under bed box...and an American Flyer S layout for under the the Tree at Christmas....
You know you are hooked when you only allow the sending of Christmas cards with snowy train scenes...
You know you are hooked when you name you first born son "Aitch-oh"
You know you are hooked when all your son's first initials spell out : G, O, S, HO, N, Z. For Gary, Oliver, Steven, HOrace, Neil and Zane.....
You know you are hooked when you name your sons Mallet, Haiwatha, Kanawah....in honor of trains...
You know you are hooked when you buy an abandoned warehouse to house your layout....
You know you are hooked when you open a train shop to support your hobby, and to get rid of your "excess" trains......{is there such a thing as "excess" trains?}
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Carey
Keep it between the Rails
Alabama Central Homepage
Nara member #128
NMRA &SER Life member
Brought to you by the letters C.P.R. as well as D&H!
K1a - all the way
tomikawaTT Yo, Galaxy! My desktop default screen is a bright orange 762mm gauge center-cab electric (Kurobe Gorge Railway EDS13) - and the icons are positioned to clear it... Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Yo, Galaxy! My desktop default screen is a bright orange 762mm gauge center-cab electric (Kurobe Gorge Railway EDS13) - and the icons are positioned to clear it...
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
You know you're hooked when you stop at a tourist overlook, stare out over the panorama and start figuring how you would put a heavy duty rail line through the 1:1 scale scenery - and then selectively compress it to fit the two car garage...
You know your hooked when you spend all your money on locomotives, the only thing you can afford to eat is Ramen Noodles!!
when one considers building a throttle apparatus that resembles locomotive controls.
BATMAN cudaken You know when you are hook when you dream about winning the Lottery and building a free standing train room that looks like a 1:1 round house! You mean like this Ken? This is the new roundhouse at the local RR museum. The first think I thought of was "think of the layout you could put in here". ">
cudaken You know when you are hook when you dream about winning the Lottery and building a free standing train room that looks like a 1:1 round house!
You know when you are hook when you dream about winning the Lottery and building a free standing train room that looks like a 1:1 round house!
You mean like this Ken? This is the new roundhouse at the local RR museum. The first think I thought of was "think of the layout you could put in here".
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galaxy you know you are hooked when your bumper sticker says "Proud parent of a HO RR"!
you know you are hooked when your bumper sticker says "Proud parent of a HO RR"!
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
CSX_road_slug When you step into a wide-open 100'x40' basement at a neighbor's house, and can't stop imagining what a helluva layout would fit in there.
When you step into a wide-open 100'x40' basement at a neighbor's house, and can't stop imagining what a helluva layout would fit in there.
Or you're looking for a new place, because you just bought a brand new truck, and you want a garage to protect it from the elements. Then, when you're checking the place out and discover a 33x35' basement under each apt. in a duplex.. "garage, what garage?? Oh yeah.." Started moving my existing layout from my ex father-in-law's place to the new one before we'd even finished unpacking.
...when you time your commuting schedule to side-by-side with your favourite passenger train. Toot toot!
Streamlined steam, oh, what a dream!!
...you hit the road at 4:30am to drive five hours to go to an eight-hour-long operating session.
Then drive five hours back the same day.
-Fritz Milhaupt, Publications Editor, Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc.http://www.pmhistsoc.org
You know you are hooked when your desktop's default screen is set to the latest MR Magazine cover.
You know you are hooked when you bought the worst house in town...just because it was next to the RR tracks and you could FEEL the locals as well as see them go by!
You know you are hooked when you mentally convert everything in 1:1 to your model scale...
You know you are hooked when EVERY VACATION centers around trains...and you OH likes them too!!! {true story for me and MOH- we like to go visiting to steam train tourist RRs {and a few classic historic diesels too!}
I know I'm hooked when I'm sitting here at 1:30 a.m. reading about other guys posting their reason for being hooked, and I agree with everyone.
-Bob
PS: I'm going to read this tomorrow and see if I remember why I wrote this?
Life is what happens while you are making other plans!
I hate Rust
You know you're hooked when you go to the train club at 4:00 pm on Friday and leave at 8:00 am on Saturday morning.(been there ,done that several times)
You know you're hooked when you go to the train club to take inventory and realize that the 400+ cars on the layout are not enough.
hahaha yep, I agree UP those LHS guys recognize me before I'm even in the door!
You know you are hooked when you call your pusher, I mean the LHS and they have caller ID so they answer the phone "Derek! How are you?" plus you get e-mails all the time asking if he should pre-order this or that for you. Most of the time you say yes.
Hopelessly hooked in CT, Derek
galaxy You know you are hooked ...when you have a knuckle coupler for a trailer hitch! You know you are hooked ...when your bumper sticker says "my OTHER car is a Heavyweight {or streamlined} Passenger car" You know you are hooked when you make coffee for the wife and ask "will that be steam or diesel?" instead of "cream or sugar"!
You know you are hooked ...when you have a knuckle coupler for a trailer hitch!
You know you are hooked ...when your bumper sticker says "my OTHER car is a Heavyweight {or streamlined} Passenger car"
You know you are hooked when you make coffee for the wife and ask "will that be steam or diesel?" instead of "cream or sugar"!
When you realize just how you want to paint your fictional roads units, while your working on a model aircraft.
Imagine this 8-40BW painted in aluminum with green stripes on the nose, and a green lighting bolt down the side. with the roadname letters being green and switching to aluminum while hitting the lightning bolt.
Testors aluminum paint, is pure amazing.
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
When you're standing on the platform at the depot and scanning the track to make sure there aren't any loose fastenings (except for those attached to the top of your neck" !! ).
Dennis
BATMANWhen you are out in your trailer while it is parked in the driveway, having the wife thinking you are getting it ready for camping season, when in reality you are lying there wondering if you can rig an around the ceiling layout in it somehow.
Okay, now that would be really cool.
Richard
when you're plotting what you're buying next, MTL BN fallen flag 4 car set anybody?