Hello everybody,
just wondering who takes their MR or Trains magazine to work to read at their break times. I take the Trains magazine with me and read it for everybody to see at lunch or break, ie put it on the table in the open. At first the co-workers look but have not yet said anything, So I would like to put it out to everybody else. Have you done the same and what was the response/experience?
Frank
guilty as charged. i take my modelrailroaders with me to work. i read on my breaks at my station. it provides relaxation if only for a little while. only a few know what im reading and dont give me any gruff about it. even though they could as im only 23.
I do that all the time!!![:P]
I take them to school all the time (I go to middle school right now).
What did it do at the beginning? Get me labeled a dork, lol. Oh well; I wound up teaching a mini-course on the subject to anyone that was interested this year.
Mine don’t make it past my bathroom…let alone my work…[;)]
David B
I keep a supply in the bathroom also, but I also carry mags in my car to work. As a pastor, my breaks generally come while waiting in a hospital waiting room, or at meetings, or when I am in the office and stuck on the sermon, so they travel with me.
My wife is less than thrilled that I have that stack in the bathroom at home when we have company coming over. However, the bathroom in the basement where the train room is gets away with leaving them scattered all over.
To go a step further, my church is in another town 50 miles away, so I carry tools and a few kits with me so that I have something to do in the idle time. Many kits have been started and finished in the church.
Bob
My primary job is a college student. I can’t read them in class because I’ll miss the lecture. Sometimes it would help to read MR when the lectures are boring[(-D] My secondary job is delivering furniture and I am constantly behind the wheel. I don’t think my boss, or anybody in traffic, would appreciate me reading MR while driving. I have seen people read books behind the wheel though, but not me.
Even though my only job is Under Aged Model Railroader, when I have an unread issue, I take it with my all around the house [that is also School too since I am HomeSchooled].
When my magistra [{ma.geese.tra} my teacher/mother {hey, I got to put some of that Latin to use}] gets boring, my mind wanders downstairs and into the future. O’ the fantiseese. Op sessions, completed scenery, a third locomotive to run the yard, and Jimminy Barstow’s [the Manager in Chief of my Railroad] House on the hill.
Sure do - all the time. My coworkers love it.
-RC
I always carried about 5 MR in my grip. Any spot time was spent in MR.
Bob
I do, too!
Living outside the town where I work, and having to use a passenger ferry ride of 20 minutes each way. What could be better than using that time reading Trains and MR? Over the years I have received a lot of interest and comments from some of my by-sitters, reading /looking at great photos over my shoulder!
Best regards for the weekend!
Never did. There was never time or absent ethics for leisure reading at work, and I worked at several federal government agencies. On the occasions when there wasn’t enough work to keep me busy, I did research to expand my work knowledge, and as a result, sometimes wrote papers for use by co-workers to help us do a better job… Did read newspapers on the train to/from work, but mostly tried to catch up on sleep to compensate for routine 12-hour workdays (includes commute), but occasionally took railroad-subject books to read at the hotel during out-of-town assignments… Regardless, at the first opportunity to retire, I took it.
Mark (retired supervisory auditor for one of the fed’s Inspector Generals)
I am retired now, but I never did take magazines to work and read them there when I was working.
Nowadays when I collect the current MR from my PO Box, I dive in to the Subway Sandwich shop next to the Post Office and spend a leisurely hour or so eating a meatball sandwich, reading MR and looking over the girls from the beauty shop next door who have their coffee break at the Subway same as me.
Ah, to be alive now that spring is here[:-^]
Bruce[:)]
I’m a locomotive engineer, so they ride in my grip and I haul them out for a short period of time during my layovers. In freight, where the layovers were generally longer, I used to take a specialized small plastic craft toolbox with me. It would hold a couple of cars or a locomotive, tools, spare parts and paint supplies. Made those long layovers easier to take, but with the shorter layovers in passenger service, I can’t do that anymore.
Breaks? Who waits for breaks? 
Mine stay at home. I do take the odd Jegs or Summit Racing catalogue to work.
Work? Job? Don’t we wish, I hate to tell anyone, there’s a recession out there, there really is .
I thought the majority of people still worked?–and what does this have to do with anything?[%-)]
When I go on a trip, either business or pleasure, I usually put a copy of MR, RMC and/or the Walthers catalog in my laptop case, so I’ve got it for the plane ride, the airport terminal stockyard or the hotel with 3 TV channels, all showing Nancy Grace.
Sometimes, I forget to take them out and they piggyback to work with me.