Last week,I was undecided wether I’d purchase another loco or other railroad goodies.Well,my problem is that I love owning locos or collecting them may be a better term.However to my lady’s opinion,I already had more than needed(12) considering I don’t have a fully operating layout yet.
She has a point…but I’m addicted so I went for another loco…wich brought another “problem”.The new loco would have been my thirteenth,the “not so lucky” number.What if it was plagued with constant derailing or stalling,or what else?Was having 13 locos going to mean havoc to the entire layout?No way to know I guess…
So I chose to own fourteen instead…Honestly,I don’t believe in superstitions at all but I wasn’t to take that kind of a risk…or was I supposed to?That’s what I told my lady…and she shook her head and…smiled.
I’m a little superstitious. If I go to buy a peticular loco and decide to buy a different one then the one I bought always seems to have problems. So when I go to a hobby shop or show I either buy what I have in mind or I go with nothing in mind. Crazy? My wife thinks so but it is consistant so that is my superstition.
I’m not superstitious, but one of the guys in my local N-scale club says, “If you’re rich, you obviously don’t have enough locomotives. You can’t have too many locomotives, even if you don’t run all of them.”
At least she smiled, mine left, though it wasn’t over the trains. The trains were with me before she was, and they are still with me now. Women come and go, but trains are forever. [:)]
Actually, the way you do it is when you get to 12, you buy a dummy,call it 12 1/2 and just keep going. [:P]
Nah–not superstitious. If there are 13 locos or passenger cars I wanted while visiting the hobby shop I’d buy all of 'em (assuming the credit card isn’t close to the limit). Hard to be superstitious when you’re born on the thirteenth of the month and life’s been good overall.[^]
Because of that. Every one of my locos and rolling stock matches all Kadee and NMRA RP 25 standards
I use a 12 gauge main bus with feeders every 3-4 feet
My Benchwork is built to take a meteorite impact.
My future basement will be the first story of a yet to be determine multi-story doomsday shelter.
I will have two doomsday shelters so that should the A-bomb Fall or the Death asteroid fall I can dive for cover now. Yet if Yellowstone decides to blow I have time to throw everything in the back of several U-Hauls and hot foot it to main where there are similar underground facilities set up.
I have started a project code named “Project Dooms Day” saving and documenting as much of everything as I can so should “Dooms Day” happen. This material is available to be redistributed to those that have survived.
I Refuse to fly on any airplane I do not own. And I detest driving. SO my chosen mode of conveyance is Train. And Since I cant get scheduled service to me, I will have to buy my own. Which might make the Yellowstone scenario. What I can throw in to a string of baggage cars.
Oh. And I counteract and make sure that only direct human intervention can be the reason for any malfunction on my layout because Me and Mr. Murphy have a long history together and as such I need to be ready for his havoc at all times.
So am I superstitious. Yes. A little over paranoid. Maybe. Insane. Debatable
PS I am also being buried with supplies to build a Full 10X12 model train layout. I hate to think that when I get to heaven, the only people who have opulent and elegant things are the Ancient Egyptians because they came prepared.
[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]Jacktal, listen here to my words of wisdom, don’t let these characters shake you up, every last one of them is superstitious. Really you can tell by the referances to broken mirrors, black cats, friday the thirteenth etc.[}:)][}:)] Com’n guys, you’re scaring the poor guy. Here’s the straight skinny. There’s nothing wrong with buying that thirteenth locomotive as long as it’s not a GP-13 or and SD-13. For some reason, they don’t run well unless you buy them on friday the thirteenth. Hmmmmm, strange!!![:-^][:-^][:-^]Anyway, you can take it from me, superstition[(-D][(-D][(-D]I laugh at it. I not superstitious[:D][:D][:D] Nope not at all[}:)][}:)][}:)][:-^][:-^][:-^]
[8D] That’s so cool – coming from the product of a culture which eats “hot-dishes” and washes a bloody mary down with a “snit” of beer !!
[;)]
I wonder if that’s how I got my (F7A) dummy [?] – Come to think back - no that was the end result of how I powered that athearn B unit !![:D]
[:D]Incidentally that dummy must have been my 121/2th – cause I’ve never been able to find a use for it !! [:D]