CTValleyRR Are you still married? If so, it probably cost you a small fortune amd the knees of your trousers.
Cheers, the Bear.(Whose actual understanding of women could be written on back of a very small postage stamp in very large letters).
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Let's try this one: You go to the (insert store type here [for me is usually the electronics or hardware store]) looking for items that are not for your model railroad and the employee at that store assume it is for your model railroad.
Another one I just thought of: Family will get you anything you want for birthday or Christmas as long as it is NOT model railroad-related.
.....once you have finally built that bathtub layout.
Rich
Alton Junction
LOL ! THAT would be a shocking expierence !
How about these :
You try to get the building permits department to approve a freaight car as living space
For vacation you plan your trip around train museums or out of state hobby shops
Try to rent a caboose to honeymoon in : )
Cut deals with spouse that if you allow her to buy .... then you can buy the latest MTH with sound, steam, decoder....
Try to figure out how to fit a layout in the family car and drive and operate the RR while driving
If you see a huge room, and the FIRST thing you think of is how much layout you can fit in it.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
.....you ask to keep your layout in the divorce settlement agreement.
Two things
1. My wife don't throw any little plastic things away before I look at to see if it represents anything in HO Scale. I made a couple of neat windmills from the little plastic "tables" they use in pizza boxes. Just cut off the legs, sand and file a little and glue to a tall pole. I used a white sode straw.
2. In Cincinnati (I'm not a native) a vist to a funeral home to pay your last respects is not called a visitation, as I am used to, they call it a layout and I can never get the image of a train running around the casket out of my head.
LIRRMAN
CTValleyRR Are you still married? If so, it probably cost you a small fortune amd the knees of your trousers. It may surprise you; it constantly does me, that I’m still happily married to the same girl! If I actually knew how and could pass my knowledge to the world, I suspect that I’d be in line for a Nobel Prize. What’s even more surprising she came with me to a Hobby/ Train show recently and bought me some passenger cars!!!!! http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/231101.aspx?page=1 Cheers, the Bear.(Whose actual understanding of women could be written on back of a very small postage stamp in very large letters).
At the risk of a thread hijack.... me too, coming up on 23 years (not counting 5 of dating before that). Like you, pretty much dumb luck! But there are some obvious no-no's.....such as missing anniversaries!
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
..If EVERYONE in your office knows you play with Trains...lol
..If your Thomas the Tank layout (for your grandson's visits) has grown to TWO tables.
Enjoy
Paul
You plan out where a caboose could go on your property, how you would get it to your property, and ideas on how you can use it. Build a layout in it, use it as a guest house, or make it meet Amtrak standards and make it into an apartment that can be pulled around the country
Southeast......Southwest
Ship IT on the FRISCO!
Chief cook & bottle-washer, SLSF Arthur Sub, Paris, TX, circa 1975-1978
Really. I have six bookcases (not counting the storage shelves under the layout), plus the two-drawer filing cabinet with model- and rail-related paper. And this is after going through the magazines that are over 10 years old, and cutting out any articles I wanted to save, to conserve space.
Apropos of nothing: my wife added an enameled caboose pin to the end of her wedding gown (her idea), because: "If it doesn't have a caboose, it's not a TRAIN!"
--Joe A.
Dannyboy6 ..If EVERYONE in your office knows you play with Trains...lol
Everybody in my office knew it because every Christmas the office decorations included a 40" x 48" HO layout with a track loop around a tree, with cardboard false-front buildings carrying the names of co-workers ("Tom's Tavern", "Bill's Bookstore", etc.).
yougottawanta ... For vacation you plan your trip around train museums or out of state hobby shops Try to rent a caboose to honeymoon in : ) ....
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Of course, there's no "might be" about it. My wife and I planned our honeymoon to include tourist railroads and hobby shops, and we spent two nights of the honeymoon at the Red Caboose Motel in Strasburg, PA. Of course, she was already a railfan (before becoming a model railroader), since her family included railroaders from PRR, N&W, and B&O, and she enjoyed watching trains with her grandfather when she was little.
If you look at coffee grounds and think Dirt.
Does anyone remember the MR joke from years back. His wife is divorcing him because he uses the remains of the coffee pot on his railroad. Is this grounds for divorce? It isn't even grounds for coffee - boom tish!
Long Haired DavidA.K.A. David Penningtonmain man on the Sunset and North Eastern R.R.http://www.gmrblog.co.ukfrom the UK
You have 3 work stations in your home office. You use one to telecommute One for your home computer and one as a workbench for the trains
Joe Staten Island West
Forget the Telecommute - I have the other two!
up831 With summer carrying on in full swing, here is an opportunity to stimulate those creative juices. We're all familiar with Jeff Foxworthy and his, "You might be a redneck if..." Routine. Well, here's a chance to apply it to our wonderful hobby and poke a little fun at ourselves at the same time. So, here goes. You might be a model railroader if when you hear the word "couple," you think of two railroad cars joining together. I'm sure everyone can do better than that.
With summer carrying on in full swing, here is an opportunity to stimulate those creative juices. We're all familiar with Jeff Foxworthy and his, "You might be a redneck if..." Routine. Well, here's a chance to apply it to our wonderful hobby and poke a little fun at ourselves at the same time.
So, here goes.
You might be a model railroader if when you hear the word "couple," you think of two railroad cars joining together.
I'm sure everyone can do better than that.
Geez Joe. You struck it rich with this one !
How about you might be a railroader if the babies crib is made to look a like a gondola ?
joe323 You have 3 work stations in your home office. You use one to telecommute One for your home computer and one as a workbench for the trains
I have three workstations...One for locomotives, one for cars and one for structures.
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
......you convert your home's 200 amp service panel from AC to DCC.
richhotrain ......you convert your home's 200 amp service panel from AC to DCC.
If you speak DCC fluently, you just might be a model railroader.
Posted by Sir Madog on Sunday, July 27, 2014 2:57 PM
You hide a dead fish underneath your layout to give your waterfront scene an authentic smell.
Ulrich
That could mean you are a fisherman and a model railroader not married!!!
Peeew I was wondering what that smell was !
You might be a modeler if you have on your bucket list being an engineer on the N&W J !!! : )
You might be a model railroader if you go around picking up little bits of junk and odds and ends up off of the floor and sidewalk and wonder if you can some how apply it to your layout... I'm the world's worst about doing that, and though I know it's weird I can't seem to break myself of it.
Tracklayer
Tracklayer You might be a model railroader if you go around picking up little bits of junk and odds and ends up off of the floor and sidewalk and wonder if you can some how apply it to your layout... I'm the world's worst about doing that, and though I know it's weird I can't seem to break myself of it. Tracklayer
What's weird about that it's called recycling and a lot of model railroaded do it.
You might be a Model Railroader if a real life 4-8-4 will turn your head faster than a cute young thing in a miniskirt!
Carey
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