I started thinking about using DIN rails and terminals for that-------don’ need those burns
Thanks for the reminder. I dislike when forum managers cant seem to stop those subscription renewal pop-ups. Very annoying. They might want to take the cost of 1 subscription and hire a first year programmer for an hour to fix it.
The fact that some current manufacturers don’t make straight DC versions of their very highly detailed (and very expensive) steamers, but insist that their dual and triple mode locos will work just fine on regular DC for we Old Fart Dinosaurs who really don’t NEED DCC or DCS or whatever other 'D’s" are out there–and there are a LOT of us still running around happily throwing Block Signals.
Offer the stuff in straight DC as an option,so we can run the newer stuff along with our older stuff. Hey, we’re a viable market too, folks.
Tom [:)]
I also dislike when others get grumpy over small things. Not irritances with the hobby but things like whining. Who cares if someone whines? This thread was started by asking what people dislike and if they want to whine they can. The person who was complaining about whining was basically whining about whining. Just let people respond the way they want regarding what they dislike about the hobby.
not a whole lot. When I was wiring the layout I was drinking Monster energy drinks; when the drink was empty I typically quit a few solder joints later. what sucked was sitting cross-legged on the floor wiring over my head on my 3-foot high layout. Another is just getting my layout operational. I want to sue the gleam method, but haven’t bought the stuff, and I’m waiting till scenery is done to start cleaning the track. so you might say it’s due to my own slowness at building scenery. and the third thing I hate is the cost! I’ve found some cheap ways to build good structures though (foam board and printed brick patterns off the comp), and scenery isn’t too bad. freight cars are now on sale by the dozens, but still, there’s a ton of money in my layout and it’s a long way off from being relatively completed
The hobby itself is fine. Oh some parts like wiring are less fun than others like track laying, but I really don’t dislike them.
What I dislike are the inconveniences, no well stocked hobby shop in the area, long drives to train shows, lack of basic parts in my scale, etc. All of these can be overcome, but it would be nicer if they didn’t have to be.
Enjoy
Paul
The mismatch between my talents and my ambitions is always an irritant.
Dave Nelson
I dislike the ignorance in the hobby…not much you can do about it but grin and bare it. [(-D]
Since I have reasonable expectations, I have no reasonable complaints.[:-^]
If I get tired of the thing I’m doing, I do something else for a while. If I get tired of the whole railroad thing (seldom) I can always spend an afternoon birdwatching at the Fremont Street Experience or along the Las Vegas Strip. (My wife doesn’t mind my looking, as long as I don’t touch.)[}:)]
I sometimes get mildly annoyed at people who don’t seem to be able to do the simplest things in model railroading without using some commercial product. (I get rather more annoyed when my neighbor’s dog yaps at me for walking up my own front walk.)[:(!]
I used to say that hatred is too strong an emotion to waste on inanimate objects. Now I extend that idea to cover dislike. Maybe I’ve mellowed in my old age…[8D]
Or, maybe I’m just too lazy to bother…[zzz]
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - eventually)
I really dislike:
1). The anti-rivet-counter attitude - Look, we’re not all going to be great modelers, but don’t knock those that make better models just because they are detail-orientated while you couldn’t care less (or can’t be bothered). Put it this way: If you see someone post that they stripped & repainted an incorrectly painted factory model and you think, “Get a life!”, then you’re one of them. If you think, “Hey, nice job catching that one!”, then you’re not. You don’t have to re-do your own models, but how about a little appreciation for the knowledge and effort that others use in creating better models instead of calling them evil, hmm?
2). The desire for mediocrity - Sort of tied in to #1 above, but the difference is that not only do some resent the rivet-counter, but there are those that actually prefer low-quality model railroading and will defend against any call to improve to the Nth degree. For example, I once got into a discussion here with someone who claimed that the Walthers Hook & Loop coupler (from waaay back) was better in all ways than a Kadee (mostly because Kadees have a knuckle spring and Hook & Loops don’t). At first, I thought he was joking…but he wasn’t. Hey, if you like 'em, great. But don’t try to tell me they’re better.
3). The quelling of discussion - I personally detest the idea that forum topics are locked early, not just here but everywhere. Just because they have the potential to go bad or are somehow boring to the moderators and/or forum regulars. Or just because it addresses uncomfortable on-topic ideas or even hammers a manufacturer when they deserve it. As long as it doesn’t violate the rules, I think we ought to be able to dicuss anything on-topic until the cows come home (or later). If i
Well let’s see…
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Crawling around on the basement floor - then trying to stand up.
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Gluing my fingers together when I use ACC.
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Problems that only happen when a guest is visiting - and that go away the minute they back down the driveway.
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The rising cost of the hobby itself and the LHS that hardly ever turns its inventory - or when they only have 3 of a given item and I need 4.
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Dropping a tool and having it roll into the least accessible part of the layout.
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Wiring - good grief I don’t like that
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Lack of patience from time to time - especially over a simple little problem and the more I work on it, the worse is seems to come,
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I miss the old Athearn Blue Bix kits. I grew up with those.
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My big thumbs - geez, didn’t mean that the way it sounded. Sometimes I am all thumbs especially when it comes to those tiny screws - or when I manage to launch my last Kadee coupler spring across the room.
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Referring back to number 1 - being on the basement floor and the phone rings or the dog needs to go out - NOW!!
I am sure there are others - but these are the things that really frustrate me.
Um, ya. What I don’t like about the hobby. Plaster. I hate mixing and spreading plaster, hydrocal, whatever. Unfortunately with my layout I can’t avoid it. [banghead]
Ballasting, now that is something I love. It goes so quickly and my neck never hurts from hunkering over the track. Really. BARTENDER!!! Another double please.
First of all, there is nothing I strongly dislike in my hobby - it would not be my hobby, if there were a strong dislike. There are a few things I am not so keen about, like soldering or attaching those tiny user applied detail parts, that keep on “jumping” from my tweezers, forcing me down to my knees and crawl on the floor in a futile attempt to retrieve it. I am sure, however, that one fine day I will have learned how to solder without burning my fingers and how to attach those parts properly.
I am a mediocre model railroader, with no ambition to graduate into the league of master model railroaders. I don´t have the means and the skills for that. I like to socialize, share views and opinions, and chat about hobby related issues and even beyond that. Like in all other aspects of life, our hobby also has its own share of people, who show a lack of respect and/or social competence. It is those people who sometimes take the fun out of the hobby for me.
In the hobby itself - I dislike nothing. There are parts of it I like less than others - painting people and making trees - but, my girlfriend (soon to be wife) helps with those and her company makes those tasks a real pleasure.
The one thing I could do without is the us/them attitudes between these factions:
steam/diesel
freelance/prototype
continuous loop/point to point
DC/DCC
Sound/No Sound
N is better/HO is better
Brass/Plastic
The hobby was better back in the day/It’s better now
Model Railroader isn’t as good as it used to be/Model Railroader is better than it used to be
etc., etc., etc.
These debates get old in a hurry and I really think we all can respect what the other folks are doing, even if it’s not our style.
Hear hear!
I also dislike the fact that I can no longer look up at anything close under the layout because of my graduated glasses.
Perhaps I should get another pair with the closeup lens at the top and the distance lens at the bottom, I’d like to watch the optometrist’s face when I asked for that!
Building benchwork - I hate using power tools.
Steam locomotives - models are nowhere near as much fun to watch as the real thing.
Layouts with electrical shorts that can fry decoders.
Layouts with misaligned rail joints that keep kicking locos and cars off the track.
Anachronistic scenery and details on layouts.
Train set quality locos and cars (e.g. Tyco, Model Power, Bachmann, etc.).
Small production runs, pre-order, and ever increasing prices on locos, cars, and some structure kits.
I’ll respectfully disagree with the complaint about “trainset” rolling stock. All of mine was picked up from dumpsters and yard sales, cost an average of $.10 each. So I have to spend 5 bucks each on wheelsets and couplers still cheaper than even the Athearn kits.
I’ve got only 2 complaints:
Athearn stopped the kits, why? I certainly don’t care to spend double to have one assembled for me when I can put together 3 of em while watching House. Yes I liked em…
2nd why does every manufacturer feel they have to make an F unit? Frankly they’ve been done to death. Except for Stewart/Bowser there are hardly any locos that don’t say GE or EMD. Steam guys have similar problems.
Working under the layout doing wiring. I have a rotator cuff injury and wear trifocals.
It is another model RR challange and is my least favorite task.
Bob
I strongly dislike the people on internet forums who in their minds believe their way of doing things to be far better than mine and then proceed to tell me why.
John
I hate negativity. Man, do I hate negativity. I love DCC because I don’t have to have a “negative” side to my track.
Seriously, I wish my layout were several inches higher, so I would be a bit more comfortable working under it. I’ve got one of those 45-degree rooflines, though, so for every inch I raise the layout, I lose an inch of space on each side of the room. So, the layout height is a compromise.
And, I’m not as young as I used to be. It only takes a few minutes in an awkward position beneath the layout to make me come up sore. I need glasses, but I’d have to say that since I got back into modeling, my hands are steadier and my fingers deal with small-scale work better. Getting old isn’t the greatest thing in the world, but it sure beats the alternative.