If you buy a new TV or kitchen appliance and refuse to let your wife throw away the packaging because that styrofoam would make a great mountain if you just drape some plaster cloth over it...
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
If hearing the song "Locomotion" makes you want to head for the train room, you might be a model railroader.
If the song "Night Train" inspires you to run an operating session in the dark with full-volume DCC sound, you might be a model railroader.
- Adam
When all else fails, wing it!
If you have ever uttered the words " at least I am not spending the money on drugs or strip bars" You might be a model railroader.
mobilman44If you select the family house based upon "train room requirements",
.
How about if your entire "whole house remodel" project is actually a thinly disguised ploy just to meet these "train room requirements?"
-Kevin
Living the dream.
If you select the family house based upon "train room requirements",
You obviously are a model railroader.............
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
EnzoampsIf you see no irony between your slow turnout motors and your fast clock, you might be...
Speaking of irony...
How about military personnel working on railroads,
wearing full camo —
And, High Visibility Vests?
https://www.army.mil/article/153773/army_railroaders_undergoing_dramatic_change
Cheers, Ed
If you dig through a clinker pile you helped create almost 70 years ago for unburned coal to break into small pieces for realistic loads on your cars you might be-----
herrinchoker
If you build a structure or bridge half way though and clapping during each phase until completion and totally excited. Then you're a model railroader.
I did this back in September when contacting my first kit.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
If you repair a old junker locomotive and make it new again. Then you're a model railroader.
If your parents look at you and ask why do you need another locomotive or piece of rolling stock??? You reply to build a collection... And then get the deer in the headlights look fromantic your parents... You are beyond a shadow of a doubt a... MODEL RAILROADER!!!
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
If you are known around work as "the guy who likes trains".....
You might be a model railroader.
And welcome back spacemouse!
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
Spending money on Microsoft or Turbo Tax makes you cringe but you can easily justify a track plannng program........
when you look at product packaging and think I can't use the product but I can use the package somewhere on the layout.
Joe Staten Island West
Along with Bubbytrains thing, if you have rediscovered a couple of old tool boxes, filled with misc. old clock parts, such as misc. gears, etc., computer fans, and parts, and any misc. old small appliance parts, and recently added, because of a post from Dr Wayne, a small box of disposable lighter parts,
Ya, you definately are a model railroader!
Mike.
My You Tube
If your Daughter ask's you to build her a "dollhouse" ..... and you do , in 1/87 scale .... then instead of giving it to her, you mount it on the layout......
You may be a model railroader.
Rust...... It's a good thing !
Before you throw away an old appliance, you consider if you could strip it for wires, or odd parts that might make flatcar loads.
Bubbytrains
If you're on a nature hike, and you remark that some dried winter weeds would make good model trees...
(btw, I really did this last Wednesday!)
If you carry a scale rule in your wallet and use it in every toy department you pass, you might be a model railroader.
Paul
This topic resurfaces now and again on this forum. I can't take credit for these two, but they're a couple of my favorites I've seen in previous threads:
- If you've ever told yourself "I can quit buying freight cars anytime I want"...
- If you've spent more money on your model railroad than some third world countries spend on the real thing...
PS - welcome back, Chip!
Dan Stokes
My other car is a tunnel motor
When you get a small barely-noticeable cash advance at the grocery store to spend at the hobby shop so your spouse doesn't see the latter purchase when she does your online banking, you might be a model railroader. I haven't tried this .... yet! Disclaimer - use this idea at your own risk.
When your wife asks you which locomotive you want to purchase next, and to show it to her in a magazine ....in, say, November....
If you have a bumper sticker that reads I (heart)Model Trains you might be a model railroader.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
If your wife brings in the mail and says," your p**n mag is here" and it's this month's MR, you might be a model railroader.
She really says that!!
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
DigitalGriffinIf you save little pieces of scrap plastic
a collarary.
If you have built more houses out of plastic house for sale signs than you've sold, you might be a model railroader.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
If you spend more time in ac Moore and Michael's than your wife,
you might be a model railroader
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
If you save little pieces of scrap plastic, you might be a model railroader.
If you paid movers to bring an 18x18x24 large moving box full of dried sedium from Pennsylvania to Arizona...
--you might be a model railroader.
When you view a clearance sale table of miniature lights and a crazed expression comes over your face when you think how many buildings and structures you can illuminate with them...
...you might be a model railroader.
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
If you can make your screw-ups look like they were meant to be that way..