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Things that 5 out of 5 Model Railroaders Agree Upon

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Posted by Harrison on Saturday, November 3, 2018 7:08 PM

gmpullman

Two and a half modelers out of five love to ballast track. Two and a half out of five modelers hate to ballast track.

Model Railroading is fun!

Cheers, Ed

 

I am kind of in the middle, I do not hate to ballast, nor do I love it.

I think 5 out of 5 would agree that it was good Al Kalmbach was crazy enough to start a model railroading magazine in the middle of the Great Depression.

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Posted by BRAKIE on Saturday, November 3, 2018 6:17 PM

riogrande5761
Five out of five modelers agree that brass track is great.

I suspect you are talking about us old heads that has hands on experiance using brass track?  

I still kinda miss the Atlas brass track with fiber ties. You could actually bury the ties like you see on some urban industrial leads that has seen decades of deferred maintence.

Larry

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Posted by peahrens on Saturday, November 3, 2018 6:01 PM

gmpullman
Two and a half modelers out of five love to ballast track. Two and a half out of five modelers hate to ballast track.

I'm not so sure about that one.  I think four out of five love to ballast track and four out of five hate to ballast it.  It depends on how much is left to do on the layout.

And five out of five propose that their DCC system is best.  It's a Ford / Chevy thing.  

And five out of five think this hobby is NOT so expensive (or this thread could be moved or locked).

And five out of five will admit they are glad this forum is available (despite the search engine).Crying

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, November 3, 2018 5:52 PM

SeeYou190
Any additions to the list?

Five out of five Model Railroaders agree that applying multiple decal stripes or individual decal letters is the most trying and tedious task in modeling.

Two and a half modelers out of five love to ballast track. Two and a half out of five modelers hate to ballast track.

Model Railroading is fun!

Cheers, Ed

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Saturday, November 3, 2018 5:41 PM

As long as we are taking the mickey out of each other...

Five out of five modelers agree that brass track is great.

 

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Posted by BigDaddy on Saturday, November 3, 2018 5:38 PM

I think this is going to be a very short thread Big Smile

  • Track work ought to be near perfect.
  • You can't have too many feeders.
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Posted by BRAKIE on Saturday, November 3, 2018 5:19 PM

5 out of 5 agree KD couplers is the defacto standard.

5 out of 5 will agree "Model Railroading is fun!"

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Things that 5 out of 5 Model Railroaders Agree Upon
Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, November 3, 2018 3:37 PM

This started as a response to a thread over in Layout Building.

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It sounds like an interesting topic, so I am transplanting it to a new thread in General Discussion.

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riogrande5761
Welcome to MR forums where you can't get 4 out of 5 model railroaders to agree on many things

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7j43k
5 out of 5 model railroaders agree that trains are good (should we try for 6?).

5 out of 5 agree that not having trains is bad. 5 out of 5 agree that DCC can be VERY irritating.

4.98 out of 5 agree that painting decent looking clouds on a backdrop is impossible. They are all looking for that .02 guy. To make him an offer he can't refuse.

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I think 5 out of 5 would agree that Testors #1260 Dullcoat is something that it is terrible to run out of.

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Any additions to the list?

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-Kevin

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