You go though the trash to see if there's anything you can use on the layout.
Joe Staten Island West
Your mental imaginings for a model railroad yard includes adding diesel fuel drippings near the model trackage to smell like the real thing.
The smell of diesel fuel spills at the local gas station reminds you of the last railroad yard you visited.
Big Boy Forever You go to estate sales, ignore antiques or valuable items and look hopefully for model railroad gear.
You go to estate sales, ignore antiques or valuable items and look hopefully for model railroad gear.
Guilty. Soooo guilty. Add flea markets, garage sales, yard sales and antique stores to that.
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
(if) you think you're one of "the little people" in the observation car!
Conemaugh Road & Traction circa 1956
If you salivate when the railroad crossing gates come down and the alarms start ringing.
Modeling a railroad hypothetically set in time.
Phoebe VetMine does that.
Mine too! I check the forum first thing in the morning, just when you folks are heading for bed...
Sir Madog carl425 You type a "c" on the address bar of your browser and auto complete brings you straight to this forum. ... when you open your browser and this forum appears automatically.
carl425 You type a "c" on the address bar of your browser and auto complete brings you straight to this forum.
... when you open your browser and this forum appears automatically.
Mine does that.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
...if co-workers bring you empty boxes because they think you might use them to store your railroad equipment.
... If you model every railroad, but can't pick one.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
carl425You type a "c" on the address bar of your browser and auto complete brings you straight to this forum.
... if you have a multimeter and know how to use it for continuity testing.
Phoebe Vet steemtrayn ...you get off the computer and down to the train room. If you HAVE a computer in the train room.
steemtrayn ...you get off the computer and down to the train room.
...you get off the computer and down to the train room.
If you HAVE a computer in the train room.
Alton Junction
You type a "c" on the address bar of your browser and auto complete brings you straight to this forum.
I have the right to remain silent. By posting here I have given up that right and accept that anything I say can and will be used as evidence to critique me.
Your friends think it's weird that you every issue of Model Railroader dating back decades, but not a single Playboy.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
You go through a whole summer without needing to apply sunscreen.
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
Your dining room table is full of your building kits and other projects
...................................you build a layout across your entire foyer.
Rich
You watch real trains from different distances and try to determine if they are O, HO, N or Z scale sizes.
You might be a model railroader if every cupboard you open and every shelf you look at is full of unbuilt kits!
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
If you get up every morning at 3.30am to operate the early morning milk train on your layout!
If you would even think of using sterling silver for flat car tie downs. Lol
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Paul!
If you don't think reefer has anything to do with marijuana.
Enjoy
You see your wife's makeup brushes in the bathroom and ask her if she has any she can spare for weathering chalks!
Karl
NCE über alles!
You walk thru the plumbing department at Home Depot or Lowes, and imagine all the scale smokestacks, silos, tanks, etc that you could scratchbuild from an 8ft length of PVC pipe.
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
when you pull dry dead plants out of the garden, you wonder how they would look as miniature trees
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading