Just AnotherPerson (05-22-2023)
I don't "play with trains". I am not a model railroad, I am a railroad modeler. By that I mean although my roads have always been small I have always attempted to run them as if they were actually railroads (with certain limitations of course). I have always built "short line railroads" with limited motive power serving out of the way communities. I also firmly believe the only true locomotive is steam powered!! And the smaller the better.
I like the roads from the 20's and 30's because of the mixture of the freight cars. Sit at a railroad crossing today and the bulk of the cars are either covered hoppers or piggyback trailers all looking the same. To me the era of the "Billboard Box Car" was fascinating and highly artistic.
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DGUtley (04-17-2023)
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
About a year before we lost our first son, I found an old train set I'd purchased for the kids when they were young. I got to tinkering around with it and had it running in a couple of days. I've always been a modeller. Planes, trains, automobiles, boats, anything that could be put together regardless of origin and material. Homemade kites were the bomb.
This is my crown:
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Collateral Damage (04-17-2023),Docthehun (04-18-2023),MisterVeritis (04-17-2023)
I'e always been into trains. Lionel O Gauge. I was in the train shop this weekend and I think I'm going to take all of mine in there to be given the one-over. Then, I think I'm going to get some of them out for my 2-year old granddaughter. She'll have a ball
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Docthehun (04-18-2023),stjames1_53 (04-17-2023)
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
stjames1_53 (04-17-2023)
For waltky: http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
- Thucydides
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote" B. Franklin
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
Docthehun (04-18-2023)
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Collateral Damage (04-17-2023),DGUtley (04-17-2023),Docthehun (04-18-2023),stjames1_53 (04-17-2023)
Yeah, yours look like mine generally did. Just as nature never finishes with the Earth Old Guy in Florida never finishes his empires!!!
For the record what got me started in trains was when I was in the 4th grade we would get a magazine in class "My Weekly Reader". On the back page of one issue was a huge Lionel layout with a kid my age at the controls. I said, I gotta do that. After I got out of the Navy and started back in college I had an apartment rather than living in the dorms. I bought a Varney HO train set and assembled it on the floor of my living room. Then I made the mistake of buying a "Model Railroad" magazine and saw what was possible and the rest is history
Last edited by OLD GUY IN FLORIDA; 04-17-2023 at 12:08 PM.
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Docthehun (04-18-2023),stjames1_53 (04-17-2023)