If you wander around your backyard for an hour collecting broken sticks to use as a log load for your flat-cars--
--you might be a model railroader.
I have actually done this by the way.
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
If your shelving stacked high of uncompleted models buries you alive, you might be a model railroader
If your boss ask you to fix his gadget, and you whip out your tools for model railroading in your car, you might be a model railroader. (True story)
wjstixf you can say the term "stripwood" without chortling like Beavis and Butthead...you might be a model railroader.
Knowing who Beavis and Butthead are might disqualify you right there.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
If you have ever found a forgotten about unbuilt Athearn Blue Box kit in the back of your underwear drawer... You might be an model railroader.
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(I really have)
-Kevin
Living the dream.
If you've ever taken a picture of your wife in front of a building, so that you can later use her height to determine the dimensions of the building from the picture...you might be a model railroader.
If your family tree doesn't have branches, it has branch lines...you might be a model railroader.
If you've ever told your wife that there's a typo on the credit card bill, and that big expense for "Bar Mills" was really your drinks tab at "Mill's Bar", because you don't want her to know how many of their kits you bought...you might be a model railroader.
If you can say the term "stripwood" without chortling like Beavis and Butthead...you might be a model railroader.
When you cut the branches off your Christmas tree after Christmas and put them under a tree in the back forty so they keep dry, in case you need scale logs.
You may be a model railroader.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
OK, if you carry a pruners and or side cutters around in your truck, just in case you spot that particular bush or shrub that is a gold mine of tree armatures, you might be a model railroader!
Mike.
My You Tube
If you collect the clean sawdust after every time you cut wood--
--you might be a model rrailroader.