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Post by runamuckchuck on Oct 22, 2024 1:33:15 GMT
To those who expressed regret and encouragement to take a deep breath and reconsider as I announced my imminent departure from active posting on OGF I offer my apology. While my discouragement arose/arises from the conflict of limited space in a room currently shared with the enjoyment of listening to recorded music of various genres I cannot deny that I have had an abiding enjoyment in model trains mostly of the O Gauge/scale variety.
While my listening/train room currently looks like a warehouse for an untidy record store and will not permit me to erect even a seasonal layout for Halloween or Christmas, I continue to purchase engines and rolling stock for that purpose if only time, health and the almighty will allow.
Perhaps coincidentally recent posts from other members who requested input on topics which I had actual knowledge appeared. I could not resist answering for no other reason than to be helpful. That and an encouraging thumbs up or PM for new members, or a member who was feeling ignored or under appreciated is a pleasure, not an obligation.
In an era of anonymity borne of the insulation of the email/message/text/tweet internet in which some folks are inclined to write and express opinions that they would never express if they were face to face the value of the civility of this forum cannot and should not ever be forgotten, taken for granted, or underestimated.
There is something special about this place and that is the reason that I hang around in the margins.
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Post by david1 on Oct 22, 2024 1:51:11 GMT
Well I like that you have returned to give us your wisdom, your thoughts on the train hobby and posting things that we may forget about!
Welcome back to this wonderful site to talk trains and sometimes about life in general.
Its always nice to have other opinions and thoughts. Keep enjoying your music also plus keep us straight when we go off the rails, mostly me.
Dave
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Post by Adam on Oct 22, 2024 11:41:27 GMT
Welcome back, I think!
I have had much less time for trains of late than I would like. But coming here for a few minutes each day gives me my fill and reminds me that when time does allow, I need to get back into the train room for fun!
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Post by dennym57 on Oct 22, 2024 13:58:40 GMT
I'm glad you're back. I listen to music while I run trains. (multitasking 😋)
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Post by runamuckchuck on Oct 22, 2024 15:07:31 GMT
I'm glad you're back. I listen to music while I run trains. (multitasking 😋) Currently in the less desirable situation for both. I am selling off a substantial number of records (1,000s) which I am stockpiling in the listening room. This is preventing me from setting up any sort of seasonal layout or listening to music. I end up doing neither. However while York was a welcome relief from moving records around (talk about heavy boxes) it is time to get back to it this week.
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Post by dennym57 on Oct 22, 2024 17:51:42 GMT
I'm glad you're back. I listen to music while I run trains. (multitasking 😋) Currently in the less desirable situation for both. I am selling off a substantial number of records (1,000s) which I am stockpiling in the listening room. This is preventing me from setting up any sort of seasonal layout or listening to music. I end up doing neither. However while York was a welcome relief from moving records around (talk about heavy boxes) it is time to get back to it this week. I've been buying records. My wife bought a turntable so I can play the records I still have. There is a actual record store here in the little town I live in. I find something there from time to time and the owner invites you to sit and chat.
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Post by healey36 on Oct 23, 2024 11:51:12 GMT
There's a recently-opened used-book-and-record store here in town...spent some time in there a couple Saturdays back. Lots of cool stuff, but I find it hard to understand how vinyl is better than compact-disc. Certainly were a lot of young folks in there snapping up old vinyl, so they must know.
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Post by atsda on Oct 25, 2024 1:57:12 GMT
Chuck, I have been so busy with so many things and a major project, that I have not been on the forum for about 10 days. I was glad to see that you are back. It The forum is a good place to come; I've missed reading the threads on a daily basis. Enjoy your listening, and find a place on the floor to at least put up a loop of track. Alfred
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Oct 25, 2024 15:40:39 GMT
There's a recently-opened used-book-and-record store here in town...spent some time in there a couple Saturdays back. Lots of cool stuff, but I find it hard to understand how vinyl is better than compact-disc. Certainly were a lot of young folks in there snapping up old vinyl, so they must know. No, no, they don't. IMHO, the biggest thing vinyl currently has going for it is either personal nostalgia for a past era, when vinyl was virtually the only avenue to enabling you to experience music on demand, or the pseudo-nostalgia of those who have no personal recollection of what a PITA it was to acquire and maintain a vinyl music library. I suppose anyone into toy trains has to give a pass to anyone into effectively obsolete audio technology, and who can explain the human urge to collect items they don't plan to use (or do so only intermittently in ceremonial fashion), but on the whole there's really noting I can see in vinyl that can't be done better and more flexibly with digital technology. Of course, if you are *really* into the *actual* music rather than the nuts and bolts and other minutia of how it can be replicated, even a tinny transistor radio or cheap earbuds will do just fine. [I'll sit down now . . .  ]
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Post by healey36 on Oct 25, 2024 16:05:23 GMT
There's a recently-opened used-book-and-record store here in town...spent some time in there a couple Saturdays back. Lots of cool stuff, but I find it hard to understand how vinyl is better than compact-disc. Certainly were a lot of young folks in there snapping up old vinyl, so they must know. No, no, they don't. IMHO, the biggest thing vinyl currently has going for it is either personal nostalgia for a past era, when vinyl was virtually the only avenue to enabling you to experience music on demand, or the pseudo-nostalgia of those who have no personal recollection of what a PITA it was to acquire and maintain a vinyl music library. I suppose anyone into toy trains has to give a pass to anyone into effectively obsolete audio technology, and who can explain the human urge to collect items they don't plan to use (or do so only intermittently in ceremonial fashion), but on the whole there's really nothing I can see in vinyl that can't be done better and more flexibly with digital technology. Of course, if you are *really* into the *actual* music rather than the nuts and bolts and other minutia of how it can be replicated, even a tinny transistor radio or cheap earbuds will do just fine. [I'll sit down now . . . ] Yeah, I don't get it, but when I pass the audio aisle in Walmart there's an entire rack of new vinyl nearly as big as the rack of new compact discs. They tell me both mediums are for dinosaurs, online digital music sales far exceeding the "tangible" offerings. Me, I'm too anal-retentive to go online digital...I want the "hard-copy" disc with the artist graphics and whatever passes for liner notes these days. Hence the piles of CDs cluttering up the home office. Regardless, if you've got a collection of vinyl, enjoy it. I would imagine a high-end turntable and amp still churns out some pretty good sound.
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Post by runamuckchuck on Oct 25, 2024 16:15:57 GMT
The discussion of which is better, digital or analog has legs about as good as the Lionel VS MTH disagreement. The one thing upon which we can all agree is that a box full of record albums is a heck of a lot heavier than a box full of trains ( even standard gauge 400Es!
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Post by Traindiesel! on Oct 26, 2024 16:23:41 GMT
I used to partake in those record clubs where you get ten vinyl albums for a penny then had to buy a few more at double the price. (If you didn’t they threatened you with imprisonment and interrogation). Got a large collection that way but quit buying vinyl in the early 90’s in favor of compact discs. Got a bunch of those too but quit buying cd’s when I bought my iPod in 2003. No bulky storage issues and I could instantly download my favorite music into a device the size of a deck of cards. I could also transfer my cd music into it, and with a little effort my records to cd to the iPod.
These days you can even download music into an even smaller thumb drive. Now I’m waiting for the technology to download music into the chip they’ll put in our heads.
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Post by runamuckchuck on Oct 26, 2024 16:48:05 GMT
BTO and preorders of trains are almost as bad as the record/book clubs!
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