Andre,
Thanks for gathering all the bovine excrement into a single pile. Now, if some fertilizer distributor will kindly bag it up and take it away, the rest of us can get on with building our railroads.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
You’re quite welcome, Chuck. I figured I could outline the basic message in a few pithy sentences, after which we could all get on with something more interesting like watching water evaporate.
Andre
Andre–
If you’ve got a nearby creek, I’ve got a really nifty rock I could bring over, and they could watch the water wear it down, while the rest of us keep busy, LOL!
Tom [xx(]
Guess I don’t need my lunar calendar - just watch for this thread.
All I can say is that I’m sure glad the hobby picked now to die. There’s so much more S scale available today than anytime in the past 30 years that I’m having a ball.
Enjoy
Paul
Thanks Dave, those are great!
…and ON30, N, HO, DCC, etc…
Yes, let it die. We geezers have enough issues with high blood pressure. Enough already. [:)]
Rich
Good point!
In 1990 right after the Soviet Union disintegrated one of the local news stations sent a team to ASU to interview students on this calamitous event. One of them commented “Communism is really a good system and it would have worked too if only we had helped them out!” I still get a chuckle over that one!
Lets promote the hobby by waging war on the manufacturers.
Well, we can’t really see it evaporate…
But when it condenses out, turning the cinder cloud white a few feet above the stack, while the trees quiver to the roar and the ground shakes from the dynamic augment as a Y6 goes stomping by, you sure KNOW that it evaporated!!!
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design…
The hobby manufacturers are killing the hobby??? That’s certainly in their best interest. That would be like OPEC promoting green energy.
It is a complete myth the model railroaders are being priced out of the hobby. Last year I posted prices from the Walthers 50th and 75th anniversary catalogs. I compared prices for a variety of like items. In most cases, the prices had gone up less than the cost of living. One item, Instant Horizons backdrops, sold for almost the same price they had 25 years earlier. The fact is there has never been a better time to be in the hobby. Model railroaders get better value for their dollar than they ever have. The quality of products is better and there has been a great leap forward in the technology of the hobby. Yes, the new high end locomotives with all the bells and whistles, literally and figuratively speaking, can be pricey but there are plenty of options in the mid-price range and those locos are of higher quality than the equivalents of 25 years ago. Anyone complaining about the cost of the hobby today should get a little cheese with their whine.
It would appear logically to me that if more time were spent with the electric trains and away from these chat rooms, the hobby would be considerably stronger.
I’d eloborate more, but I’ve got trains to run, trees to build, telephone poles to install, and rolling stock to weather.
Happy choo choos!
HZ
That’s even better.
Andre
Jeez…as 28 year old looking to get into the hobby, I keep reading posts like these and I shake my head. My dad shipped our train stuff we had when I was kid 2500 miles so I could get started. He flew out here last weekend with my mom, and he and I spent a couple hours building a simple loop of track and got the locos running again. His lil’ 1956 steamer ran beautifully! Sure, it was a cheesy setup, but the point was I got to spend time with my dad and re-connect over trains that hadn’t run in 23 years.
Nevermind I read the same gloom and doom in forums about black and white photography, beer brewing, and fishing which all gripe about the same things. I’ll guess I’ll turn back to VIDEO GAMES (yes, that was sarcasm)
I’ll just crawl back into my hole and go back to my passions. [:)]