How can the word “prototypical” fit in with a track structure that has a rail running down the middle. Not to mention that in real life size it only has one tie every 15 or 20 feet, and a turn radius of 54 feet.
I’ve started a list of words that should stay over in 87 land.
!. Prototypical
Forced perspective
Fast clock
What else can you think of?
[2c][:)][:D]
Lionel
MTH
[(-D]
I’ll tell you what I would like to have banned. I would like to see no more put-downs of folks who enjoy some different way of playing with their trains. We can start with the pejorative “rivet counter”, and, “They’re only toy trains.”
I just read a great article this morning on forced perspective. I’m all for anything that makes a layout look bigger. Fooling the eye is a very cool trick.
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“How can the word “prototypical” fit in with a track structure that has a rail running down the middle.(?)”
Easy…you get a 3-rail track that has the center rail painted black so you can’t see it easily. Gargraves and MTH have it. Just don’t look so dang close when running the trains [(-D]
“Not to mention that in real life size it only has one tie every 15 or 20 feet, and a turn radius of 54 feet.”
Put away that dang ruler and quit counting ties!!! Don’t you have something better to do…like running the trains??? [:P]
I’ve started a list of words that should stay over in 87 land.
!. Prototypical
I like proto-everything. Proto-sound. Proto-typical. Proto-plasm. Proto-zoa. That word stays.
Huh? No idea what that is. I lost any hint of proper perspective when I went to bifocals and started spending a bundle on 3-rail, scale-size, Prototypical toy trains. [;)]
Well if you’re clock is running fast, there are places to get that fixed.
What else can you think of?
Well we could always subsitute a bread box for a locomotive and that would solve the prototypical complaint. And we could use butter containers for the box cars. Instead of smoke coming out of the smoke stack we could just tape a cigarette to the top of the bread box. Hehehe…this is fun!
We could take your “fast clock” and use it to power the bread box. We could use twisty ties instead of couplers. But I’m still stumped on what to use in place of scale wheels. Maybe some marbles with holes drilled through them? [(-D]
Dep
P.S. My reply was all in fun…as I suspect this rant thread was too.
[2c][:)]
Union Pacific
30 days until York
what’s the best track?
[:D]
that should be banned. Everyone knows the answer is:
T-U-B-U-L-A-R!!!
All of the above. Our moto should be, “Lets play with our trains.”
add:
grits and goober peas
TUBULAR…ewwww…sounds like a deadly disease!!! [xx(]
Glad I got my innoculation of RealTrax to prevent that problem [(-D]
Dep
OK, all in fun, but Forced Perspective is a method by which I can actually use some items that fall on either side of the 1/48 scale. Like my tractor trailers…1/50th, and a number of cars, 1/43rd. so, I can still use these and finish some scenes and just call it “forced perspective”.
Dennis
Sounds cool to me. I run both scale and non-scale cars on the same train and just split them up.
I also have buildings that “look close” to 1/48, but may or may not be to scale. Forced perspective seems like a reasonable alternative when we don’t have the wide array of stuff available like HO does.
Geez…seems like just about EVERYTHING gets a fancy name nowadays. I remember when forced perspective was called “close enough”. [:D]
Dep
Scale speed should be banned
Delete SCALE from the three rail dictionary.
I submit the following:
cute
operational rules
insert RR’s name never used insert engine, paint scheme, etc.
waybill cards and timetables
rules of the road
no alcohol when operating trains
no beagles standing on tracks
Grits
Grits
Grits
The best instruction I got for running electric trains was:
“It’s your railroad, you can have it do what you want.”
Now I just have to figure out what I want my railroad to do… cut the grass, clean out the gutters…
lawsuit
“Chopped sine wave” [|(] It should also be banned from any transformers made in the future.