You might be a Model Railroader if......

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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  • You’ve ever plunked down half your paycheck for equipment in your favorite scale, and then wondered what it would be like to model in a different scale.

*You’ve ever sold a perfectly good freight or passenger car, only because the new superdetailed one you just bought makes the old one look bland.

*You really agonize over decisions like, “Should I buy flowers for my wife or turnouts for my new staging yard ? or Do I need to buy flowers to get these turnouts in the house?”

*You talk about your favorite scale with the zeal and fervor of an evangelist promoting his religion.

*You see a piece of plywood, and your first thought is to imagine what kind of layout could be built on it.

*You haven’t let your son play with “his” trains since last Christmas.

*You honestly feel that, if your wife buys a new video tape, that entitles you to buy a freight car, and a new outfit for her means an engine for you. Fair is fair.

*You’ve ever gotten into a debate over whether Kato is pronounced “kay-to” or “kah-to.”

*You’ve ever worried about spelling the coupler “Kadee” or “KD.”

*You name the places on your railroad after your wife and children.

*You’ve ever traced the route of a wire under your layout by pulling on it.

*Brass isn’t something you polish, it’s something you paint and weather.

*You spend more on your model trains in a year than some Third-World nations spend on the real thing.

*The latest issue of N scale railroading arrives on the same day as your federal tax refund check, and you open the magazine first.

*The latest issue of N scale railroading arrives on the same day as your state tax refund check, and the only reason you open the check first is so you’ll know how much you can afford to spend as you read the ads in the magazine.

*You lobby to reorganize your N Scale club as a not-for-profit museum in a vain

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You speak a lot of truth… experience I presume. Very Nice!!

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[tup]Excellent! A “20 [plus] Questions” guide to diagnose our disease![8D][yeah]

Now: How about a 12-Step Recovery program to go with it?

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I am not addicted I can give up anytime I want…after next weeks train show [:P]

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I think it was Mark Twain who said “It’s very easy to give up smoking. Why, I’ve done it dozens of times.”

Dave Nelson

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I was able to give up smoking but not MRR.

I like the sign that says: “I gave up model railroading - it was the worst weekend of my life.”

Bob

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I’m guilty of way to many of those…

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That’s a nice list - oh, so true!

Here’s one from personal experience…

“When eating out and seeing a countertop, table, desk, etc. for the first time, you start figuring out what sort of minimum radius you could fit on it…”

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When your English Professor asks you to please articulate your speech and you answer that you’ll be happy to, as soon as you can find a longer boiler and an extra set of drivers.
Tom [:P]

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You refer to a sexual experience as “Coupling”

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I fit most of that list exactly. I hated when i showed my cousins my railroad all thet were worried about was how fast the train can go. And the kitchen being taken up so your family has to eat in the den applies to me right now.

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[:O] Oh, no! You are describing me!!! [:O]

I really am a rampant, rabid model railroader! [:P]

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You slow down approaching a grade crossing; hoping that you’ll have to stop and be the car closest to the crossing.

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You hit the nail right onthe head! One thing you missed -you proudly show off your rr to someone who stands in the doorway & says “that’s nice”

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How about becoming defensive when she tells company you “Play with train’s”.

NOTE: Terry

Great add-on for MR.

These are Jewel’s.

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Anyone out there every been caught “multitasking” ???

For example, I was sitting at the kitchen table this past weekend. The table was covered with my model RR stuff (scenery) on one end, and the other end I made enough room so that I could play Monopoly Jr. with my daughter with one hand while my other hand was painting some brick walls on a building…

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When your kids stand infront their present boxes in christmas and tell each other: “Bet is another train set”

When someone asks about a certain structure and you know the exact page where it is in the Walther’s catalog

When you prefer to tell the wife you were in a bar with your friends rather than telling her you were at you LHS checking the new 400 bucks DCC system.

When a girl wearing an engineer’s cap is sexy.

You’ve ever had a B-day cake in form of an engine

Disney World is great because it has trains and monorails

You’ve entered the key word “4-8-8-8-4” in Google just to see if something appeared

You check more the MR forum than your e-mail server

Model railroading is more than a hobby, is a way of life…

You’ve ever wondered which piece of your collection to save first in case a fire

You’ve ever sworn by your trains

You’ve ever taken your son on your lap infront of the layout and told him: “Someday all this will be yours”

You’ve ever tryed to explain your kid the concept “realistic” operations while playing Thomas-the-Tank-Engine with him.

I could go on… Ha HA HA HA

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When your layout takes up more than 50% of your home.

When you have more invested in your trains than you do in your home and vehicle.

When you have to store some of your train stuff at other places because you don’t have room for it at home.

Guilty as charged!

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all very good.

Here are some of that I am guilty of.

You draft friends and family who aren’t model railroaders to help run your model ralroad because not eneugh people showed up on operating night.

You build a hot-rod designed specificly for train chasing.

You ask the land lord for permission to install a wall-track system.

You sulk because you have to spend money on un-neccissary things such as bills because it takes money away from your model train budget.

Your local hobby shop can’t keep locomotives in stock because you buy most of them.

You tried to talk your parents into buying you a brass passenger train as a christmas present.

You were a steam locomotive for holloweeen. (Ages 7,8& for me)

You move, and it takes 39 boxes just for the train stuff, and 10 for everything else.

Suddenly you proclaim “Behold!!! THE POWER OF STEAM” in public just to watch peoples reactions.

You ever dated a fellow railfan.

You have ambitions to rebuild Allen McClelland’s V&O Afton Division because its loss is just to much of a shame to let stand.

Thats my list.

Thanks all for reading.

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I am going to have to do this one.I wonder what people will do. Only one way to find out.[:D]