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Post by david1 on Mar 13, 2024 16:08:49 GMT
This is a easy one, we all have a mental disorder and the treatment is to buy trains.  Bingo!!!! Give superwarp1 A prize!!! Dave
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Post by atsda on Mar 13, 2024 16:39:15 GMT
I got my first train (Lionel 736) when I was 6, and liked them ever since; they looked realistic to me. That introduction developed into an interest in real trains, which I began riding and photographing when I was in my teens. I like the robust nature of the Lionel O gauge trains; handling them and operating them –the lights, smoke, and especially their sound. The mechanical and electrical nature of the trains, switches, and accessories has always fascinated me. I enjoy solving the associated problems that come up. I don’t do much in the way of collecting per se; I acquire items occasionally, when I like something / or it has a place. I never got into the modeling/ building aspect of the hobby – I like operating the trains (euphemism for ‘playing with’). Alfred – old man running old trains.
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Post by curtis on Mar 13, 2024 20:51:06 GMT
My first thought was BECAUSE I CAN. Then I realized I am not a collector but a runner. I have never had a train around the tree except for two or three years ago when I got a G gauge set. Had it around the tree for two years. I am mainly O gauge with some OLD HO and some N along with some G. When I was young I lived for Christmas morning to be able to get to the basement and run the O Gauge trains that were always set up in secret. I just LOVE trains. I think part of the problem is we emulate trains in real life. When I get hurt I yell WOO WOO. When I get excited I CHUFF. When I bleed it looks like trains coming out!
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Post by curtis on Mar 13, 2024 21:05:20 GMT
Oh and almost forgot. Having had some serious life threatening things happen since 2019 my doctors say I am like an old steamer or diesel that just won't quit. How can they say that? Because they have been inside and see the trains running all around in me.
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Post by Country Joe on Mar 13, 2024 23:59:02 GMT
I don't know how to explain it. Like Denny, the reasons that model trains fascinate me are many and complex and difficult to explain. I love the motion, sounds, lights and all that goes into creating a miniature world. R/C cars, boats and airplanes are somewhat interesting while trains are fascinating. I don’t think I really know why.
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Post by runamuckchuck on Mar 14, 2024 0:02:56 GMT
I don't know how to explain it. Like Denny, the reasons that model trains fascinate me are many and complex and difficult to explain. I love the motion, sounds, lights and all that goes into creating a miniature world. R/C cars, boats and airplanes are somewhat interesting while trains are fascinating. I don’t think I really know why. Maybe your avatar should be the Ever Ready Bunny!
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Post by Traindiesel! on Mar 14, 2024 1:04:53 GMT
This is a easy one, we all have a mental disorder and the treatment is to buy trains.
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Mar 14, 2024 1:20:30 GMT
This is a easy one, we all have a mental disorder and the treatment is to buy trains. The sad thing is how many of us will watch the video, and be silently calculating how to reproduce the model railroad effects depicted in the film as it plays! 
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Post by Traindiesel! on Mar 14, 2024 1:38:24 GMT
The sad thing is how many of us will watch the video, and be silently calculating how to reproduce the model railroad effects depicted in the film as it plays!
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Mar 14, 2024 1:42:35 GMT
The sad thing is how many of us will watch the video, and be silently calculating how to reproduce the model railroad effects depicted in the film as it plays! Nah -- there's a number of blow-up dolls available from the slow boat that could play the role . . . just sayin' . . . 
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Post by dasboot on Mar 14, 2024 1:45:54 GMT
There are two things in life which will always bring a bit of happiness, a dog and a toy train.
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Post by azdutch on Mar 14, 2024 1:46:02 GMT
I guess I'm a bit of an outlier. I consciously chose the hobby. When I was about 40 I was diagnosed with an aortic aneurysm. My doctor told me I couldn't lift more than 15 pounds. At the time, my free time was consumed by restoring a '67 Ford Fairlane. I thought long and hard about new hobbies, and I liked trains as a kid. I had a Lionel set when I was little, but my parents replaced it with an HO set when we moved from Chicago (basement) to Las Vegas (no basement). HO wasn't fun, it was just frustrating. I bought an MTH starter set in 2013 and it stuck. Trains are now my primary hobby.
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Post by Traindiesel! on Mar 14, 2024 2:02:17 GMT
Even harder would be getting your wife and mother in law to play their parts! Nah -- there's a number of blow-up dolls available from the slow boat that could play the role . . . just sayin' . . . 
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Post by atsda on Mar 14, 2024 2:04:48 GMT
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Post by Traindiesel! on Mar 14, 2024 2:16:35 GMT
I don’t remember seeing any of those Lionel commercials as a kid. Except for a Johnny Cash commercial in the 70s. It didn’t matter to me then, I was already cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs with trains anyway from my Dad and Grandfather taking me to train shops.
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