George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
I bought a Pan Am Boxcar RTR from Athearn.
I did have several other modern era equiptment around to run it with. =)
Now that my confession is out of the way I feel better. =)
But I liked the Limited Run concept by Satan the best.
dekruif wrote:12. You worry about your wiring/scenery/benchwork etc. in bed.
thats me
stokesda wrote:To take a different angle on this topic, there was another topic on this forum last year, or maybe the year before last called "You might be a model railroader if..."
*You have a manila folder in your desk (or a subdirectory on your computer) full of home-drawn trackplans that you know you'll never build, but they're too good to discard. *You've visited a hobby shop on a busy day, and wound up answering detailed questions for other customers before you shop.*When you are on Vacation in another city, and the First thing you do in your Hotel room is look in the phonebook for the Hobbyshops.
*You build a hot-rod designed specificly for train chasing.
*You've ever refused to buy a model freight car because the stencilled build date (which you had to squint to read) is a year off from the era you're modeling.
*Your spouse assumes you can fix light switches, toasters, radios, and vacuum cleaners because "you know all about that wiring stuff from working on your trains, right?"
*You've ever gotten into a debate over whether Kato is pronounced "kay-to" or "kah-to."
stokesda wrote: To take a different angle on this topic, there was another topic on this forum last year, or maybe the year before last called "You might be a model railroader if..." I copied the list below from the thread, because I thought they were keepers! Thought they could bear repeating here. Enjoy! You might be a model railroader if... *You've ever run two or more boxcars in a train, and hoped no one else noticed that they have identical road numbers. more than once *You slow down approaching a grade crossing; hoping that you'll have to stop and be the car closest to the crossing. Yep *Someone asks about a certain structure and you know the exact page where it is in the Walther's catalog you also know the walther # *You check the MR forum more than your e-mail server That actually hapenns dekruif
To take a different angle on this topic, there was another topic on this forum last year, or maybe the year before last called "You might be a model railroader if..." I copied the list below from the thread, because I thought they were keepers! Thought they could bear repeating here. Enjoy!
You might be a model railroader if...
*You've ever run two or more boxcars in a train, and hoped no one else noticed that they have identical road numbers.
more than once
*You slow down approaching a grade crossing; hoping that you'll have to stop and be the car closest to the crossing.
Yep
*Someone asks about a certain structure and you know the exact page where it is in the Walther's catalog
you also know the walther #
*You check the MR forum more than your e-mail server
That actually hapenns
dekruif
G Paine wrote:In addition to a vanity licence plate with the initals of a favorate RR, the family minivan is custom painted to match a favorite cab or hood unit. I have seen a number of vanity plates, and photos of a painted van - I think it was Chessie System
There was a photo a long while back on another forum of a guy who had is 40 ft. RV (a bus), and applied these big Santa Fe railroad logos on the side . Talk about over the top!
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