10. For the first time ever, I have noticed that my LHS guy is crabby and the inventory is dusty.
9. The hobby is getting too expensive. Why I just paid $1.49 for a pack of 5 carbon film resistors at Radio Shack.
8. If I buy a single issue of MR magazine, it costs $5.99 and what do I get? Nothing, absolutely nothing.
7. Does anybody make a good brass steamer for under $5,000?
6. The guys on the other side of the pond have more fun than I do.
5. My 60' x 44' basement isn't big enough to build a decent layout.
4. Can't someone invent smoke that looks realistic on an HO steamer?
3. My DCC loco won't run on my new MTH DCS layout. Are there no standards?
2. No one on the forum can help me with a simple question such as, "My loco won't move, what is wrong?".
1. No one is addressing important issues like The Hobby Is Dying or The Sky Is Falling.
Alton Junction
ROFLMAO
hear hear!!
I'd add: it interferes with time for golf (equally frustrating), and golf interferes with MRRing.
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
10 reasons why I hate this hobby...
10} For the last time EVER, my LHS closed its doors.
9} The hobby is getting to expensive. Why, I had to file for bankruptcy after I purchased my last loco.
8} If I buy an MRRIng magazine, I have to read the ads, making me buy more MRRing stuff.
7} I have to take out a signature loan at 129% APR to buy a brass loco.
6} I can't make a realistic looking pond.
5} I have no basement.
4} I am allergic to HO scale smoke.
3} Why oh why, can't I run a DC loco lashed to a DCC loco lashed to an MTH loco?
2} I cannot understand why the forum is here?
1} The Hobby IS dying and I discovered the falling sky was really just an apple, proving Newton's theroy of gravity. But the gravity of this situation is worse when my loco hits the floor...
-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.
The toilet seat backs inside the new HO passenger car bathrooms are a scale .0005" inches too tall and no one will correct it!
You can see this if you take the roof off, drill through the door and look at it with a 10x magnifying glass! Haaarumph! Outrageous!
How dare the manufacturer be so neglectful! Time for a boycott! Ok.......whose with me?
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
richhotrain10. For the first time ever, I have noticed that my LHS guy is crabby and the inventory is dusty.
I myself have noticed a general grumpiness pervading many hobby products lately...
I can't tell if this is serious and funny, but it's good reading.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
While this is funny and not all-true for everyone, I do think the hobby is quite expensive.
Also, my #1 reason for hating this hobby (there are hundred reasons for me to like it tho) is that I live in Canada, and prices are higher, selection and variety of available products: lower.
Bah...
Antoine
Dusty boxes drove many away. Doesn't matter whats in them or the price. Its that darn dust
Jim
And the REAL Sad part of all of this is - it is mostly all TRUE!
BOB H - Clarion, PA
Soo Line fan Dusty boxes drove many away. Doesn't matter whats in them or the price. Its that darn dust
If the boxes are so dusty, then why are they asking this year's prices for them.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
"If the boxes are so dusty, then why are they asking this year's prices for them."
Have priced dust lately?It is getting way to expencive.
Reason #12
Its all China's fault, bring back manufacuring to the US!
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Almost 60 years in the hobby I can give 60 darn good reasons why I hate this hobby and I can only give you 5 reasons why I still enjoy the hobby.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
MotleyReason #12Its all China's fault, bring back manufacuring to the US!
Reason 12 is in conflict with reason 9!
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Go see the Bosun. He'll issue crying towels and keys to the weep locker to anyone who's in need...
Hate is far too strong an emotion to waste on inanimate objects and petty annoyances. I reserve it for people who wish to kill me or deprive me of my personal freedom.
If the petty annoyances outweighed my personal satisfaction I wouldn't be a model railroader. There are plenty of other ways to burn up spare time - and, as a retiree, I have LOTS of spare time.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - because I want to)
Antoine L.Also, my #1 reason for hating this hobby (there are hundred reasons for me to like it tho) is that I live in Canada, and prices are higher, selection and variety of available products: lower.
So buy your stuff from elsewhere. It is just as easy to shop in another country for less as it is to shop in ours. Personally I am much happier about getting Loco's, track or anything else from a third world country and giving them a hand up in the process. It sure beats sending all those C-130 Hercules full of grain over just to keep these people alive for another day. Canada is a very wealthy country full of highly educated people, so lets do what we do best and help others along the way by teaching them to fish and letting them do it.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
AntonioFP45The toilet seat backs inside the new HO passenger car bathrooms are a scale .0005" inches too tall and no one will correct it!
Hey, Antonio
Don't I recall a batch of passenger cars that really did have the toilet seats glued onto the wrong side of the bowl (hopper) ?? Harrumph, indeed!
Perhaps reason 13 should be that the rivet counters pick apart every new release from a manufacturer and scare off potential sales.
Have FUN, Ed
angelob6660 I can't tell if this is serious and funny, but it's good reading.
I meant mine to be a funny response to his..... I thought his was a funny too...
Ah yep! As the late Marshall Sam McCloud would say "Hey, now there ya go!"
All kidding aside, I like this hobby more than ever (inspite of preordering, outsourcing, and the consequential high prices).
I tend to overlook small discrepancies, but in defense of our "rivet counting" brethren, we should keep in mind that it's because of them that we have beautiful plastic models with detailing and drives that rival or sometimes beat 1990s production brass models that came with $500-$1000 price tags .
gmpullman AntonioFP45 The toilet seat backs inside the new HO passenger car bathrooms are a scale .0005" inches too tall and no one will correct it! Hey, Antonio Don't I recall a batch of passenger cars that really did have the toilet seats glued onto the wrong side of the bowl (hopper) ?? Harrumph, indeed! Perhaps reason 13 should be that the rivet counters pick apart every new release from a manufacturer and scare off potential sales. Have FUN, Ed
AntonioFP45
Not a.good hobby for the impoverished. They need to stick to cigarettes and booze.
Model Railroading is Fun.
Dave Nelson
Soo Line fan Not a.good hobby for the impoverished. They need to stick to cigarettes and booze.
Jim, you forgot the wild, wild wimmen!
Keeping clear of, "Sigareets and whiskey and wild, wild wimmen," not only kept me from going crazy, it left me with enough money to buy model railroad stuff. Of course, the pounding roar of low-cutoff steam exhaust probably did drive me insane.
(In Japan, railfans are called, "Railroad maniacs." Hmmm...)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with smokeless, silent steam)
tomikawaTT Soo Line fan Not a.good hobby for the impoverished. They need to stick to cigarettes and booze. Jim, you forgot the wild, wild wimmen! Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with smokeless, silent steam)
Lets not get carried away with this clean living thing, a man has got to have a little fun..............
My contribution to this thread:
Jim,
Even at 72, don't let the snow on the roof fool you.
Frank
I hate spending on average $500 a month on this hobby. What else could I do with $500 a month. Hmmmmmm.
I could go to a movie almost every night. ( Most movies are junk)
I could save up and go on a cruise ( I might get stranded, Ebola or some other disease )
I could eat out more often ( the restuarants don't exactly use the most healthy stuff)
I could save up for a home theater ( I'll become a couch potato )
I could collect NASCAR diecast cars ( this could work out )
I could buy a top of the line quadcopter ( I can see myself getting into some serious trouble here )
I could buy a BMW (plenty of people have BMW's so I would not be so special)
Please don't take any of my comments seriously, I'm just having fun here.
I spent most of my money on women and beer. The rest I just wasted.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
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Catt and Steemtrayn:
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!