pet peeves

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Jetrock

I'm 34 years old and I play with my darned trains.

I don't shove 'em around the track going "choo-choo", but if I spend twelve hours painstakingly detailing a model or nailing down track or debugging my wiring or trying to fix that infuriating spot on the layout that always causes a derailment, I'm doing it because it's FUN, and if it's FUN then I'm PLAYING.

Becoming a skilled musician takes years of practice and patience, but when a skilled musician takes to the stage, regardless of how skilled or respected or how much he or she is being paid, they're PLAYING their instrument. So if Jimi Hendix could play guitar, I can play TRAINS!

Jetrock, my hat is off to you!! I will turn 33 on monday 3-15 , andI PLAY with my trains. I spend many hours laboring to detail my locos and rolling stock, or whatever ,but th point is ... I HAVE FUN EVERY SECOND I SPEND WITH MY TRAINS, SO THEREFORE ,I DO PLAY WITH THEM!!
My REAL pet peeve is the little bent rods under your couplers that allows for magnetic uncoupling!! Most of us spend countless hours detailing our trains, making them "accurate" (no I'm NOT a "rivet counter",either!), but then when you put them down on the rails , in a decorated scene, and those uncoupler rods STAND OUT!!!!!!... Making it OBVIOUS that SOMETHING is out of place. Unless it's impossible to reach your rolling stock to uncoulpe them, then I think magnetic uncoupling is overkill, REAL TRAINS ARE UNCOUPLED MANUALLY, AREN'T THEY??

[Anonymous]

Too many "peeves" to designate any as "Pet "....since "Pet" denotes something unique, or at least rather outstanding.

Peeves..in no particular order...
-The cost direction the hobby has taken.[V]
-Evangelical rivet counters[:o)]...enjoy whatever you prefer...just don't PREACH to everyone else...(I don't like Jerry Falwell, either).
-Evangelical DCC'ers[xx(]...same as above, so, STOP with the preaching already.....(I don't like Jimmy Swaggert, either).
-Ebay whiners.....has any of these folks ever been to a real, live auction ? Everybody , except for one person, actually loses out on what they want, to the final bidder. Get over it, or don't patronize auctions at all.[V]
-Idiot parents at train shows...[B)]and there are more and more of these every year....and the rotten little ankle-biters they have spawned.
-Folks who post gigantic signature-pictures on these threads, like this one, ruining the readability of the thread for everyone else.[:(]
-Retailers who take us for granted, even when we have been loyal and regular customers.[:p]
-Posters who just HAVE to answer forum questions incorrectly, with either zero knowledge of the subject, or with neither patience, nor ability to read the question correctly.[:0]
-Threads and posts generated for the sole purpose of running up post-counts..the "Star Search" crowd.[:o)]

Anyway, my pet peeves don't include those unfortunates who like to ask about "whether I still play with toy trains"...especially in front of others. My response is "Yes I still do....do you still subscribe to Hustler ?"...or "Do you still take medication as part of that spousal abuse program you were in ?"...this goes for anyone...in the house or out, whether friend, relative, whoever.
regards;
Mike[;)][:D]

[Anonymous]

Pet peeves?

1) Visiting my favorite hobby shop, filled with male patrons usually. The occasional female drops in with another female friend and complains about all the guys there...as though we're all molesters, waiting to attack the child or her. This isn't a raunchy adult bookstore, ladies! We're there for the hobby, not you! (No offense intended towards women who do patronize hobby shops and get as much a kick out of being there as I do! [:)])

2) Repeated phone calls about something placed on back-order and being told "It's coming." I know it's coming, but will it be this millennium or the next?!?[:(]

3) Nit-picking twits at the LHS whom seem to always have a comment or two while waiting behind you in the check-out line in respect to what you're holding. I've been asked rather sarcastically several times, "What are you buying that for?" Obviously I want it, you ***! What other reason would I have it?[:(!]

If I seem a bit cranky this morning, I apologize to the forum. Haven't had my obligatory two cups of coffee yet and I'm feeling down right onery![(-D]

[Anonymous]

1. People shaking their heads and asking "How many trains do you have?!?", with the implication being that my hobby is a waste of money in their eyes.

2. Limited run items that are sold out even before the release announcement.

3. When your club is having a "work session", and less than 10 per cent of the membership even bothers to show up.

4. eBay sellers who don't put road numbers in their item description.

**vent mode off**

[easyaces]

QUOTE: Originally posted by preceng

I concur with "Train Set". "Oh....he's downstairs playing with his train set." They just don't get it ... ... do they guys?

[:(!] "train Set"? Now thats one that really gripes me! To me a train set is something for little kids to take out of its box to play with , then put it away when you're done. Sorry, but I have a hobby of Model RailRoading with scale model trains, and I don't play with a "train set"!

[Anonymous]

I have no objection to rivet counters. I object to their rivet counting in my basement. I don't like the use of "train set", but I understand that's what the uninitiated are going to call a layout. Female visitors to my layout are not allowed to use the word "cute". Maybe that's why there are no female visitors, except for my wife. She persues her hobbies on the other side of the basement and I build and run trains on my side and we respect each other's achievements. Her experience in faux painting, etc. let her to ask if she could paint some backdrops for me. How can I complain about that? I saw some of the faux painting work she did in a class at Home Depot and she can paint a sky backdrop for me anytime!

Ed Briley
Independence, MO

[AggroJones]

http://www.broadway-limited.com/products/images/nwhopper/many.jpg

Those new BLI hoppers are very impressive. But note the cost. $150 for 6 cars! Too high indeed!

[Budliner]

my sisters cat
killed my layout 20 years ago
cat is still around tigger
well he dident mean it

[Noah Hofrichter]

I hate it when my friends at school call it my "train set." As has been said before it is a MODEL RAILROAD. They used to call it a choo choo train. I would realy get mad then.[:(!][V]

A Also hate when companies say they're going to release something and they don't do it for along time. Especially when I've got it on order at the LHS

Noah

[Anonymous]

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

[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]

[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.

[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!)

[AggroJones]

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

[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?

[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.

[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

[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

[Anonymous]

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

[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]

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! [;)]

[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

[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..

[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!

[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!

[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.

[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]

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]

I hate it when people ignore me.

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

I just know it.

[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.