The reason we're addicted to trains - according to Steve...

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BMTRAINS

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I think that speaks for itself

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[Anonymous]

Thanks for the welcomes, fellas. Going along with what I wrote, there is a set of BN tracks that run about 1/2 mile from my home outside Des Moines. I hear the trains at various hours. Sometimes when I hear the horn blow, I just have to stop what I'm doing and get in my car or on my bicycle and watch it go through a nearby crossing. I always notice the sound of the train, especially at night when it is still (the romantic element again). I compose music and a few years ago I was commissioned to write a piece for the Boone, Iowa, Community Band. They have a steam train there called the Boone and Scenic Valley. The piece I wrote starts out like a train whistle: long, long, short, long. The band did a nice job on it and it was well received. My fascination with trains goes into many areas. At present the models are in boxes until my daughter moves out and the trains move in. Keep blowing your horn!

[Anonymous]

Ya I need a Lady to go Railfanning with..........

[Vampire]

My name is Bill, and I'm a train-a-holic... It started when I was a kid... I think it was something in the locomotive smoke from my Marx Big Rail Work Train... I've forgone alcohol, sex & drugs (but not rock & roll!) in pursuit of trains... Whenever we went on family vacations I always had to bug Mom & Dad to find me a hobby shop to peruse...

For awhile , I thought I was cured... the lure of high technology pulled me away from the tracks, both real and model, for many years. I even went as far as to sell off my entire collection from my youth [:O][:O][:O] (wish I'd kept the AHM/Rivarossi Heisler though... saved all summer to buy one at $78... most expensive loco I owned as a kid)...

Then the cravings began again... I turned the dining room of my first home into an office and began filling it with railroad items: pictures, lanterns, oil cans, etc. Soon I began building a pair of HO tracks, one above the other, running around the perimeter of the room. The first time I set up a loop of track on the kitchen floor to run my new Dash 9 and some Athearn intermodal cars I knew that was it... the fever was back!!

Things are even worse now. High technology has spread into the model train industry... The lure of sound equipped steam locomotives and the roar of a Lionel Veranda turbine is too great... I've remodeled my workshop to make room for a new 3-level train layout... I've gone on vacations and done nothing except visit train museums or ride/chase real trains... I joined the NMRA... went to my first convention in Cincinnati and met many fellow addicts... Now I'm making the final preparations in the workshop before train layout construction can begin.

So this is my sad story, fellow members. Oh who can save me from the monkey that Irv Athearn and those demons at QSI have wrought !!!! [:D][:D][:D][:P][:P][:P]

[Anonymous]

Bill

I at first wanted cured of this dreaded disease, I filed for Social Security Disabilities, but they looked at me funny, when I started to shake and make air brake release sounds, raising my hands to signal come forward and such they immediately signed the papers, but they were commital papers. I am typing this right now with my nose as the rather confining jacket they gave me it's hard to use my hands. I am now acting normal, but I think they may be onto me.