If you collect the clean sawdust after every time you cut wood–
–you might be a model rrailroader.
OK, if you carry a pruners and or side cutters around in your truck, just in case you spot that particular bush or shrub that is a gold mine of tree armatures, you might be a model railroader!
Mike.
When you cut the branches off your Christmas tree after Christmas and put them under a tree in the back forty so they keep dry, in case you need scale logs.
You may be a model railroader.
If you’ve ever taken a picture of your wife in front of a building, so that you can later use her height to determine the dimensions of the building from the picture…you might be a model railroader.
If your family tree doesn’t have branches, it has branch lines…you might be a model railroader.
If you’ve ever told your wife that there’s a typo on the credit card bill, and that big expense for “Bar Mills” was really your drinks tab at “Mill’s Bar”, because you don’t want her to know how many of their kits you bought…you might be a model railroader.
If you can say the term “stripwood” without chortling like Beavis and Butthead…you might be a model railroader.
If you have ever found a forgotten about unbuilt Athearn Blue Box kit in the back of your underwear drawer… You might be an model railroader.
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(I really have)
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-Kevin
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Knowing who Beavis and Butthead are might disqualify you right there.
If your boss ask you to fix his gadget, and you whip out your tools for model railroading in your car, you might be a model railroader. (True story)
If your shelving stacked high of uncompleted models buries you alive, you might be a model railroader
If a micromark catalog showing up in the mail gets you excited, you might be a model railroader.
If you wander around your backyard for an hour collecting broken sticks to use as a log load for your flat-cars–
–you might be a model railroader.
I have actually done this by the way.
If you can make your screw-ups look like they were meant to be that way…
–you might be a model railroader.
When you view a clearance sale table of miniature lights and a crazed expression comes over your face when you think how many buildings and structures you can illuminate with them…
…you might be a model railroader.
If you paid movers to bring an 18x18x24 large moving box full of dried sedium from Pennsylvania to Arizona…
–you might be a model railroader.
If you save little pieces of scrap plastic, you might be a model railroader.
If you spend more time in ac Moore and Michael’s than your wife,
you might be a model railroader
a collarary.
If you have built more houses out of plastic house for sale signs than you’ve sold, you might be a model railroader.
If your wife brings in the mail and says," your p**n mag is here" and it’s this month’s MR, you might be a model railroader.
She really says that!!
Terry
If you have a bumper sticker that reads I (heart)Model Trains you might be a model railroader.
When your wife asks you which locomotive you want to purchase next, and to show it to her in a magazine …in, say, November… [;)]
When you get a small barely-noticeable cash advance at the grocery store to spend at the hobby shop so your spouse doesn’t see the latter purchase when she does your online banking, you might be a model railroader. I haven’t tried this … yet! Disclaimer - use this idea at your own risk.