Willing to wager all the loose change in my pocket that it’s the letter about using Lionel uncouplers to hold unused cars on the wall. BTW, my pockets are empty…Gary
I think it is the fact that the April issue comes in February.
I quickly scanned the magazine three times before I found it. It wasn’t as obvious as it has been in recent years. In the past, a photo usually gave it away.
Thanks for ruining the surprise, Gary. [:(][N]
Yeah, this one was kind of boring looking so I skipped it. Upon reading it…it’s actually rather silly - they have done better. The hook was the guy’s wife’s name, April.
I didn’t even remember this was the April issue till this thread.
Having long since past the age of 12, April Fools jokes are more than a bit foolish in my view - not one of MR’s better traditions.
Sheldon
Yes, that fact is joke enough for the whole year.
I thought it was the Security Gate article. [(-D]
I’m with Sheldon on that.
I like that article, and was aware of Lance having those for some time since I follow his blog and other progress on his site. I’m planning to add some gates similar to that to my layout.
LION has several high powered magnets that came from hard disk drives. Him uses them to hold tools and even a hot soldering iron. Him thinks they could hold a freight car without any problem. Him had to page through the issue several times before he found the joke.
ROAR
I knew I should’ve done the article about using pocket change as a way to weight my N scale cars.
Dunno about N scale, but I use pennies glued in my HO cars for weights all the time. About the cheapest weight material there is.
–Randy
dimes set upright. [(-D] they’d make a good looking coil load for gondolas.
I started reading the article because the one just in front of it interested me. The further I got into it I said to myself hhhmmmmm. What months issue is this? Yep it was April. Funny Funny stuff… Brought to you from the warped minds once a year at MR.
Thanks guys for the laugh!
RMax
Hey, we used pennies to weight my son’s pinewood derby car a couple year’s ago. Cheap and easy to measure out.
One the subject of April Fools jokes, I guess I don’t get most of the jokes anymore. Perhaps it comes from working in Dilbert Land, but we have many things that have got to be a joke, yet are dead serious, I can no longer tell humor from an operating policy.
Canada just recently banned the penny, so I have a huge container of freight car weights !
Haven’t seen the April issue of MR myself yet, but it sounds like the joke is on us with a $2.00 price hike !
Mark.
Sheldon:
I respectfully disagree about the appropriateness of MR’s April Fools annual joke! In this day and age we need all the humour we can get, hokey or not, because most of what is going on in the world right now is not very funny.
Dave
I’m between a couple of you on this one. I have no issue with the concept of the April Fool’s joke itself – a lot of folks need to lighten up a little, and, to quote George Bernard Shaw, “We don’t stop playing becuase we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing,” That said, though, it’s always bothered me that lots of magazines do it, even though we’re reading the April issue in Feb / Mar. That’s just as annoying as seeing Christmas stuff right after Halloween.
And here I thought the joke was the new Athearn releases…the center pull out ad for Broadway Ltd…the Walthers “upgraded” RDC-3