Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 23 Jan 2020 9:17 p.m. PST |
"How's this? In the seminal movie classic "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", the knights' quest takes them to a towering castle facade. Each knight exclaims in turn…Camelot! Camelot! Camelot! A realist, the coconut-clopping patsy named Patsy, played by Terry Gilliam, derisively speaks his only line in the entire movie, "It's only a model." Finally, a realist. And this? Our local newspaper includes the jottings of a religion columnist – a retired minister – who doesn't write about religion so much as he writes about his doubts about religion. In the spirit of both these viewpoints, I present my derisively-doubting realist approach to ten model railroad myths that are held up to us as the holy grail – but are really only facades…"
Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Old Glory ![Sponsoring Member of TMP Sponsoring Member of TMP](boards/icons/sponsor.gif) | 23 Jan 2020 9:37 p.m. PST |
Am I the only one who loves model railroad towns, but could care less about the trains? Russ Dunaway |
UshCha | 24 Jan 2020 2:09 a.m. PST |
Not sure that any of those are Modesl train specific issues and they really are not myths. Hefailed to cover the japanese approch or the T Track modular approach which avoides all of the above. a And no one locao and a few carrages idf fine for me. Not a single mention of Digital which may genuinely be a Myth or an evil monster to be actively hared ny many. The Wargame equivanent would be to ask some members if there gloriously painted lead figure were Plastic. |
razuse | 24 Jan 2020 5:55 a.m. PST |
Russ, I love model railroads..like the layouts and the trains. Set up a temporary one every Christmas |
Garand | 24 Jan 2020 6:42 a.m. PST |
Am I the only one who loves model railroad towns, but could care less about the trains? When I was in college I worked at a hobby store that specialized in model RR. I used to buy the building kits as a modelling project, just for fun. I never had any intention of building a layout or operating model trains… Damon. |
Extrabio1947 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Jan 2020 7:17 a.m. PST |
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Eclectic Wave | 24 Jan 2020 10:13 a.m. PST |
Extrabio1947 – That is a AWESOME find, kudos to you fine sir! |
14Bore | 24 Jan 2020 11:12 a.m. PST |
I love model trains, had some as a kid. Always tell people when they come up if I didn't get into Napoleonics am sure modle trains would be my hobby |
Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Jan 2020 11:42 a.m. PST |
Happy you like it boys!. (smile) Amicalement Armand
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Old Glory ![Sponsoring Member of TMP Sponsoring Member of TMP](boards/icons/sponsor.gif) | 24 Jan 2020 12:02 p.m. PST |
Extrabio, That site is fantastic just to look at !! I wish I had the skills and patience to achieve such towns !! Russ Dunaway |
von Schwartz | 24 Jan 2020 5:49 p.m. PST |
There are some gentlemen north of me, in Gainesville Florida who are…shall we say extravagant, in their hobbies. One fellow has his entire .25 acre backyard laid out with a model railroad world, another has a large gauge going out to his mailbox and then brings it back every day. One fellow has about 8 separate HO scale set-ups, 4' x 8' each, 4 for summer and 4 for winter. Another fellow runs cocktails out to his gazebo on an old Lionel set-up. |
Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 Jan 2020 11:49 a.m. PST |
Wow!… That is having style! (smile) Amicalement Armand
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AICUSV | 26 Jan 2020 3:10 p.m. PST |
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parttimegamer | 27 Jan 2020 1:37 p.m. PST |
@oldglory – nope, me too. |