pet peeves

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by elias

Oh and Kids shows need to stop showing trains as little steam engines that go choo-choo and get with the present.

sadly it is so... but I know I can change that (clue: I'am an animator)
I forgot to mention my biggest peeve, that is when cousins get into my room and actually "play" with the trains. I caught them once and this is what I say (brace yourselves):
- one of them played with a painstakingly detailed RPO as if it were an airplane [:(!]
...then crashed it into a farm [:(!][:(!]
-another was banging the layout to see an "earthquake" [:(!][:(!][:(!]
- another did some really dirty stuff with a pair of figures. [:0]
-and the other one crashed two trains front to front over and over again [:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!]

[Anonymous]

Mine is when my daughter goes into my train room then leaves and forgets to shut the door. Enter Catzilla who terrorizes my towns causes major damage that I have to repair as best I can. The next time I catch that cat on my benchwork, well.....................

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rambo1

Watching children touch the layouts or rollingstock at club shows with the parents watching and not saying nothing.I open my mouth!..........

I never thought of that one. That would be another one of mine, too! I was at the Regina train show a couple weeks ago and there was this one kid with his grandpa who seemed to want to touch everything. Twice I saw people who had tables there tell the kid to stop. I think a good policy is "you break it-you buy it". If one of these kids ended of knocking a $500 engine off a table and the parents had to pay for it I bet they'd be a lot more careful in the future.

I'm still shocked after reading your post, flyingscott! That's horrible! It's amazing how destructive kids can be! I've always been a perfectionist and like to have everyhting in place on my layout. I'd freak and have to be restrained if that happened to me. I admire you for not murdering one of them! When I was a kid there was this toy store in a mall with one of those Brio play tables for kids to use. Whenever I'd go there the trains and stuff would all be thrown around and I'd always put everything back on the rails and make sure everything was nice and neat and in place. This summer I was in Winnipeg and there was a toy store in a mall with one of these. I was sooooooo tempted to put everything back in order on it, but didn't because I'd have looked like an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Uuuh, Sask, those weren't kids, those were my 12, 14 and 15 year old cousins!!!

[CP5415]

wives who don't let ya work on your railroad!

Gordon

[Hawks05]

i guess my mom telling me to stop spending money on the trains until i have a place to run them is getting on my nerves. i want to have stuff to run so when i do get the layout done i can run stuff instead of just looking at a layout.

[Anonymous]

same here!

[Anonymous]

My peeves about my trains:

-When the train suddenly stops because it's got no power. [:(!] [:(!]

-when the trains derail [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] [:(!]

-when the car uncouple [:(!]

-cleaning up [:p]

-when it takes forever for anything to arrive in the mail [;)]

-looking back at your childhood and wishing you were a little more nicer to that GP40 (At the cost

of one CN F9 Truck, I got a CN GP40 going) [:(]

-Realizing you don't have enough couplers to get all the Cars going [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] [:(!]

-Realizing you don't have enough PARTS [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] (x10)(This goes for everything I work on)

-Looking back again and wishing you did a better job at that "Assemble yourself" Gondola [:(]

I know if I see someone being desructive to MY train set, I'll blow my top.

I don't have much problems with Model trains, but if I start on my Lego hobby, I get egged about "Playing with toys"

[cbq9911a]

Some of my pet peeves:

1. Items that are not quite right, like the first run of Walthers Budd lightweights.

2. Cases where the manufacturer is clueless about the locomotive. An example is the Bachmann Russian Decapod. Bachmann modelled an Alco with the air pumps on the side. The best known Russian Decapod is a Baldwin with the air pumps on the pilot beam. Another example is the Lionel E5; it doesn't have the E5's corrugated side panels.

3. HO cars that are slightly too high or slightly too low for a Kadee #5 coupler.

4. Manufacturers who get their facts wrong or leave out facts. Eaample being the forthcoming Lionel NYC S motor. The Lionel brochure talks about how S motor 115 lasted in service until 1981 - but doesn't mention that it had a different number nor that it still exists.

[sparkingbolt]

I don't hate rivet counters as long as it's THEIR rivets they're counting. I know what is and isn't prototypical. I count my rivets when I choose to, but taking someone elses work apart is cheap, perhaps unless THEY are very vocal pious rivet counters. People in glass houses, ya know? Oh. And it's worse when they aren't modellers.

[Anonymous]

I hate it when people ignore me.

And I'm sure that nobody is gonna reply to this.

I just know it.

[Anonymous]

People who call them "train tracks". Tracks are left there by those who built or put them there--railroads, deer or what have you.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by emory

People who call them "train tracks". Tracks are left there by those who built or put them there--railroads, deer or what have you.

What about people who use terms like "coal car" and "hook"?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cbq9911a

Some of my pet peeves:

1. Items that are not quite right, like the first run of Walthers Budd lightweights.

what's wrong with those?

Here's another thing that gets on my nerves, that is when people who don't know boo about trains make up locomotive names just to impress me.

[CBQ_Guy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 4884bigboy

1. Stop "PLAYING" with your trains and go do something else- what else is there but trains!?

2. There's more to life than trains- trains are my life! [;)]

3. Why not try a "REAL" hobby-..... I'm sorry, modeling is the only REAL hobby. [;)]

That's what I think anyway.

I had the thought your statements would make a good sign to post on my layout room door! I've been saying the above for years - drives my wife (and probably my kids, too) nuts. Nice to see I'm not the only one. I'm 50 so it's definitely isn't something I'm going to grow out of...it's only gonna get BETTER!

[CBQ_Guy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Sask_Tinplater

QUOTE: Originally posted by FThunder11

when my brother messes with my model. when he gets in there and im not there once i come back then at least one car is derailed and none of the rolling stock is together and the layout is a mess. and my parents wont do anything to stop him.

If I were you I'd invest some money in a padlock!

...or a cattle prod!

[BRAKIE]

My pet peeves? And in this order
1.Rivet counters that think they are the only ones that are the only"true Modelers" and finds fault with everybody else modelers.All to sadly I was that type at one time.
2.Legends in their own minds that complain about every new locomotive made-not a rivet counter complaining about missing details for his favorite road that can be easily added by using after market detail parts.If he/she has that simple modeling skill.
3.DCC flag wavers that paint a pretty picture of DCC but leave out the hidden costs and other problems concerning decoder installation..I use DCC and like to tell the complete story.
4.Guys dress up like Engineer Bob and blowing wooden train whistles..Ok Ok,so I done that a time or two or three.[:0]
5.Look at all the toy choo-choos these guys have.GRRR! [:(!]
and finally
6 When a stranger asks.How much have you spent on all your toy trains? GRR![:(!] Why You want to buy them other then that buddy it NOYDB! I do get upset when somebody noises into my business.In all truth I do not even what to think about it- Suffice it to say way to much..

[dave9999]

Manufacturers taking the model out of model railroading. With all the RTR rolling stock and locos. Pre-built and lighted structures. EZ-track. I know that nowdays people have less time to do everything,but let's face it, the more we buy the pre-built ,RTR, EZ stuff, the manufacturers are going to shy away from kit products. I pesonally like to sit down in front of the television with a quality kit, paints, glue and make a structure look the way I want it to. I could just as easily take a pre-built and paint and weather it, but that doesn't feel right. Myself, I get a certain satisfaction from knowing I turned a bunch of loose parts
into that great looking drug store or roundhouse. I think the younger "modelers" are getting off way to EZ.
Hell, the generation before me probably thinks the same about kits. They had to build just about everything from scratch. Nowdays it's hard to find scratch building materials at the LHS. Soon kits will vanish as well. Just a thought. Dave

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by flyingscot

QUOTE: Originally posted by cbq9911a

Some of my pet peeves:

1. Items that are not quite right, like the first run of Walthers Budd lightweights.

what's wrong with those?

Here's another thing that gets on my nerves, that is when people who don't know boo about trains make up locomotive names just to impress me.

I hate that too. I have a friend who "supposivley" has some models....... "oh, a 4-6-2, that's an, uh, Nevada. Me: It's a Pacific, you silly goose![:(!][:p]...... I saw a Challenger pulling a frieght with a Big Boy in Pittsburg. Me: First of all: the Challenger is run by the UP and has never been that far east. 2nd: There's no opperating Big Boy, trust me, I would be all over it! [;)]

[AntonioFP45]

WHILE LISTENING TO RADIO STATIONS: The announcement of a railfan trip or hearing a commercial where a train is "suppoesedly" used in the background. Instead of hearing a melodic K series or P series horn, or the whistle of a big steamer, you hear an incredibly wimpy " Toy Train" Whistle "twooo-twooo-twooooooo in the background. Makes me grit my teeth and cringe!

[Anonymous]

rivet counters! let them count there own rivest leave mine alone.

[METRO]

1: Having to buy a set of couplers for every peice of stock because every company wants to use their house brand instead of kadees

2: When some mainline freight modeler refers to commuter running as the "light stuff"

3: When I wanna relax after a long day and I find my girlfirend at my workbench working on a new CP Dash-9

4: When dril bits break and you realize you don't have a spare

5: How I haven't seen an E unit outside a museum in years

6: The lack of good Japanese models in HO, I'd love to do the Shinkansen routes out of Tokyo but no it's all in N

[douginut]

Wifely logic...
"you spend every waking moment with your trains", and, you spent all of that money on those trains and you never play with them". in the same conversation.
" are you NEVER going to grow UP?" (nope!)

Doug, in Utah

[Anonymous]

How about this? Non modelers/railfans who sell trains on ebay and list a steam locomotive and tender seperately. Even worse is bidding on both and then getting just one and not the other. That happened to me once.

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Sask_Tinplater

How about this? Non modelers/railfans who sell trains on ebay and list a steam locomotive and tender seperately. Even worse is bidding on both and then getting just one and not the other. That happened to me once.

Thats insane! What locomotive did you attempt to get?

[AggroJones]

Not having enough money! Everything is getting too expensive now.

[Anonymous]

A quote I saw somewhere on these forums: "We don't stop playing 'cause we grow old, we grow old 'cause we stop playing."
Playing is good for you! It improves your skills and at the same time serves as a kind of a primitive meditation, relieves the mind. Improves the quality of life. Should we all suffer all the time to make us good citizens?
Let's keep on having fun, and let the others have their kind of fun, just as long as no one gets hurt by that fun. [{(-_-)}][:o)][:-^][dinner]

Best regards,
Oliver (38 years and still PLAYING!)

[Fergmiester]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rambo1

Watching children touch the layouts or rollingstock at club shows with the parents watching and not saying nothing.I open my mouth!..........

HELLO!!

This for starters. Some parents are clueless and brainless. I had an incident this past weekend where Daddy looked on, while johnny was jumping on an eight foot Iceberg exhibit trying to do the rodeo thing. And the reaction from some parents when you ask Johnny or Jill to "Please don't do that".

Pet Peeve #2 Mother in Laws (MiL's) who consider MR'ng a complete waste of time and that "You should consider something more mature to do" or "Don't you have any hose projects to do?" It's my vacation, shove off!

Pet Peeve #3 Disrespectful comments and who made you perfect!!!

Pet peeve #4 Neighbors who think your property is a throughfare because they ran out of space. I may have to refer to the "are cats and trains compatible" thread for some crowd control suggestions!

Condenscending MR'ng types who figure if you ain't running brass your not serious and should only be tolerated.

[BRAKIE]

I will add another pet peeve of mine..Those blasted thin hand rails that break if you just SNEEZE on the bloody things! [:(!] [B)][8][V] Surely there is a way to make a tougher scale hand rail.[:D] And yes,I handle my high dolloar locos with extream care.[:D]

[Anonymous]

Kevins: Flickering Fluorescent lights, Or Sodium Vapor lights that are going through their "End of life" Cylcle.