When I’m driving down the road and see lights on in the basement of a house I pass, I always wonder if there’s a model railroad down there. Anyone else think the same thing?
–Randy
We can always hope there is !! [;)]
Randy,
I always wonder if their basement is bigger than mine AND does it have a model railroad!![(-D]
Whenever I find myself in a non-modeling friend or neighbor’s huge basement, I always wonder what I might fill it with if it were mine…,[8-|]
Actually, I wonder if they’re down there mopping up the water that came in with this latest soaker!
Lucky you guys, we don’t HAVE basements out here in SunnyCal. We have garages. And since nobody ever parks their cars in their garages, I always keep my eyes peeled to see if the garages are open and if so, perhaps some kind of table or around the wall shelving or anything that looks as if it just might have plaster mountains on it, LOL!
Tom
What’s a basement? I don’t think they exist in California unless on a hill side.
Basement? Wazzat?
If there are any residential basements in Clark County I have never heard of them. As for garages, the only things I have ever seen through the open doors are motor vehicles and junque.
There ARE model railroaders here - but they either run garden railroads (in yards bigger than mine!) or build in spare bedrooms.
My empire is in my garage - the door of which is permanently bolted shut.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - in a Clark County, NV, garage)
That is funny…when I head to work in the early AM hours and see a fluorescent glow coming from a basement window, I always wonder if they have some kind of grow operation going on. LOL
HA hah hah…LOL !!!
I was thinking the same thing, Scenery, but not for trains…
LOL
Here in the Chicago area, nearly everyone has a basement, but they are almost all below grade, so there is no way you are going to see lights on in the basement.
Rich
Gosh, I wish I could!
In this part of Texas, anyone with a basement would call it an indoor swimming pool. Maybe not so much during this drought year, but normally a basement would soon fill up.
I do miss the basements of my youth in the northern Illinois area, but don’t miss the cold/snow that went with them.
There are soooo many basements in my neck of the woods of NE Ohio that I’ve nary gave it a thought.
Tom
There are only three things I miss since I left NY. Lupo’s Spiedies, Cortese Pizza, and basements.
Fortunately the weather here in NC is nice enough that my cars don’t mind living in the driveway so the two car garage has become the train room.
Since Phoebe Vet brought it up…
The three things that I miss since leaving northern Illinois (Joliet/Chicago) are:
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Italian Beef Sandwiches
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Father & Son Sausage Pizzas
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Basements suitable for model trains
NOPE. Never actually thought about it. [?]
Most of the time when there is a basement light on around here it is because someone is just watching the tube…
My wife shows Dogs and every couple of years we will have a litter of puppies. Over the years three new owners of the pups have been Train guys. One was from Victoria, one from Washington State and One from California. We still exchange E-Mails and photo’s of our layouts.
We currently have a litter right now in the family room. I am wondering if I am going to meet any new train guys.
Brent[C):-)]