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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2012 15:57:17 GMT -8
MLB Network's Intentional Talk show with Chris Rose and Kevin Millar has a segment called "The Irrelevant Video of the Day". Today, they aired a clip of one of these dimwits that sees a train starts shouting about it. The video was of one of the ex-Metra/CNW E8's painted in a Illinois Central inspired paint scheme. It is really really embarrassing, because some already consider hobbyists a "little strange" to like trains, but now even more begin to believe "train people" are nine cents short of a dime! I've also wondered if some of these "screamer videos" are not done by some to ridicule rail fans. But, then I remember my days of volunteering at the Illinois Railway Museum and have to admit there are some "fans" that take the passion a little too seriously.....  |
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Post by onequiknova on Aug 14, 2012 16:21:55 GMT -8
That video turned out to be a spoof of another video, but those people are out there.
Speaking of IRM. The last time my girl and I were there, we rode behind Leviathan, and were held captive by a volunteer there who wouldn't stop talking to us about his favorite cooking shows. I was nice, but the guy wouldn't take the hint. I didn't drive all this way to hear all about the Iron Chef show you watched last night.
Honestly, very few people know I like trains. It's not something i advertise, mainly because most people who know nothing of the hobby think model railroading consists of setting up a loop of track on the floor, putting on your engineer hat, and shouting choo choo as the train goes in circles.
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Post by calzephyr on Aug 14, 2012 16:48:27 GMT -8
That video turned out to be a spoof of another video, but those people are out there. Speaking of IRM. The last time my girl and I were there, we rode behind Leviathan, and were held captive by a volunteer there who wouldn't stop talking to us about his favorite cooking shows. I was nice, but the guy wouldn't take the hint. I didn't drive all this way to hear all about the Iron Chef show you watched last night. Honestly, very few people know I like trains. It's not something i advertise, mainly because most people who know nothing of the hobby think model railroading consists of setting up a loop of track on the floor, putting on your engineer hat, and shouting choo choo as the train goes in circles. What, I thought it was manditory to wear the hat and shout!! HA! HA! So much for that. Most of the friends of mine know I like trains. There was an episode on King of Queens and of course, the train got wrecked and immediately burned up. He was running a Lionel S2 without a tender?  ?? Yes, it was TV and it made modelers to look silly. Larry |
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Post by onequiknova on Aug 14, 2012 16:50:15 GMT -8
That video turned out to be a spoof of another video, but those people are out there. Speaking of IRM. The last time my girl and I were there, we rode behind Leviathan, and were held captive by a volunteer there who wouldn't stop talking to us about his favorite cooking shows. I was nice, but the guy wouldn't take the hint. I didn't drive all this way to hear all about the Iron Chef show you watched last night. Honestly, very few people know I like trains. It's not something i advertise, mainly because most people who know nothing of the hobby think model railroading consists of setting up a loop of track on the floor, putting on your engineer hat, and shouting choo choo as the train goes in circles. What, I thought it was manditory to wear the hat and shout!! HA! HA! So much for that. Most of the friends of mine know I like trains. Larry Maybe I'm doing it wrong then! My good friends know, but that's about it. |
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Post by Brakie on Aug 14, 2012 17:02:05 GMT -8
Jim,I been in this hobby for 55 plus years and I stop worrying about what others think..They yell at there TV during a "professional" wrestling match or ball game while guzzling beer..That's their thing..My thing is trains. As far as that spoof video there are others covering several subjects. BTW..Screaming about a locomotive is one thing but,running around a public show in bib overall,red bandanna and engineers stripe cap while blowing a wooden whistle..  |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Aug 15, 2012 15:28:15 GMT -8
but,running around a public show in bib overall,red bandanna and engineers stripe cap while blowing a wooden whistle.. Maybe a red with white polka dot Kromer cap?  |
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Post by calzephyr on Aug 15, 2012 18:03:53 GMT -8
but,running around a public show in bib overall,red bandanna and engineers stripe cap while blowing a wooden whistle.. Maybe a red with white polka dot Kromer cap? Most of us are normal people that have an interest in heavy machines and watching a 15000 ton train of grain or ore coming off the Hill or down the Canyon to me is very interesting. We probably translate this feeling to model trains also, at least I do. I can experience an HO Berkshire leaving town and hear it and listen to the whistle blowing out of town. I believe that is what draws me to model trains since they are a miniature time machine. Larry |
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Post by arandall70 on Aug 15, 2012 19:00:44 GMT -8
Not sure how old many of you are, but try being 20 today and liking trains. I don't really care what anyone thinks anymore, but I used to not bring it up except to my close friends. It can be awkward when people find out, but its rarely a topic of conversation, except when I find out so-and-so's dad or grandad is into trains, lol. But I've never been picked on for it, I just thought I might be. Apparently that is a problem with some other young railfans.
I feel much like Larry, I like big machines. Growing up, I was into everything from heavy equipment to aircraft and ships, trains just stuck. I still have a casual interest in those other things, but trains are what I focus on.
Modeling appeals to me because I like railfanning in miniature and recreating the operational aspects of the prototype since I have not finished my degree and haven't had the chance to try and enter the industry.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2012 4:55:31 GMT -8
I'm an old fart born in 1960. I got my first Lionel for Christmas when I was two. I received my first HO for Christmas when I was five. Other than when the family has moved, I have usually had some sort of a layout for the last 45 years of my life. Enough of the background information.... Through out my life in school, I kept my interest in trains under my hat. Only close friends knew about the interest or saw the layout. I didn't come out of the closet about my hobby until I was in my twenties and working. Even then many of my co-workers found the hobby peculiar. Its a little unnerving when people look at you like they are looking at a sex offender. I have had adults basically ridicule me by asking if I put on bib overalls with an engineers cap and go toot toot as the train goes by!. You try to down play it by being cool and saying no of course not and attempt to explain the effort that goes into the hobby. They still say that's nuts and walk away. I think one of the reasons that this hobby and new blood is stuck in neutral is this perception that model railroaders are strange little people locked away in a dingy basement playing with toy trains. There are some total social outcasts in this hobby! I've had the "pleasure" to meet them at various meets and shows. But other than that 10% or so of the hobby, most are hard working "normal" people with families, homes and jobs. Unfortunately its that 10% that kills it for the rest of us......  |
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Post by KIM on Aug 16, 2012 10:30:34 GMT -8
As a teenager in the late sixties, I got a lot of grief because I still "played" with model cars and trains. My parents both dug in and told those offenders that at least I had something to show for my money, and that what I was doing was clean and respectable. This is our hobby. We're artists. If others can't handle that, then they're the ones with issues. While some are out messing up their minds with drugs, or creating whatever other mayhem, we are home enjoying a hobby that has rewards, both physically and mentally, and maybe even spiritually. Ignore the idiots, and just be an example of the artist that's in you.
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Post by calzephyr on Aug 16, 2012 11:45:48 GMT -8
Not sure how old many of you are, but try being 20 today and liking trains. I don't really care what anyone thinks anymore, but I used to not bring it up except to my close friends. It can be awkward when people find out, but its rarely a topic of conversation, except when I find out so-and-so's dad or grandad is into trains, lol. But I've never been picked on for it, I just thought I might be. Apparently that is a problem with some other young railfans. I feel much like Larry, I like big machines. Growing up, I was into everything from heavy equipment to aircraft and ships, trains just stuck. I still have a casual interest in those other things, but trains are what I focus on. Modeling appeals to me because I like railfanning in miniature and recreating the operational aspects of the prototype since I have not finished my degree and haven't had the chance to try and enter the industry. Big machines are interesting and I enjoy watching a B17 firing up the engines and taking off during old time air shows. The sound of those radial engines is a rare sound much as a steam engine today is rare since both were top dogs many years in the past but now are museum items. We toured the Aircraft Carrier Hornet this summer at Alameda California. Talk about big, but really it is small today by the standards of the new aircraft carriers. I enjoy all types of big machines and don’t really worry about others who don’t understand admiring great machines. I got to see one of the largest cranes in the world working a strip mine in Ohio many years ago. Talk about big! My first model train was a Royal Blue American Flyer 4-6-2 and dad built us a 4x8 and then enlarged it to a 6x10 in a year or so of operation. I still have the UP 4-8-4 from that layout which was torn down over fifty years ago now, but will remember it fondly always. When anyone came to visit, they always wanted to see the trains run and enjoyed seeing the smoke and whistle sounds of the American Flyer models. I am sure they thought this was not common but some of their hobbies were just as foreign to me. Larry |
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Post by calzephyr on Aug 16, 2012 11:49:11 GMT -8
As a teenager in the late sixties, I got a lot of grief because I still "played" with model cars and trains. My parents both dug in and told those offenders that at least I had something to show for my money, and that what I was doing was clean and respectable. This is our hobby. We're artists. If others can't handle that, then they're the ones with issues. While some are out messing up their minds with drugs, or creating whatever other mayhem, we are home enjoying a hobby that has rewards, both physically and mentally, and maybe even spiritually. Ignore the idiots, and just be an example of the artist that's in you. You have a great point. I learned how to solder, wire up different items on the layout and generally learned a lot about fixing or building things in general. Anytime you learn new procedures and ways of repairing and fixing anything, that has to be good. And add to the fact, we were not out getting into trouble is a double plus! Larry |
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Post by nberpa on Sept 5, 2012 8:51:13 GMT -8
I don't really care what anybody else thinks. If they want to make me out as an idiot, oh well. Really, the only real friends that I have are the people at the RR club. They understand me and I understand them. When I first joined (about 3 yrs ago), they told me "this is a place where all the train nuts get together. It's like a physical/mental therapy session for foamers." I had to laugh at that! When chasing trains, I always make it fast to stop at a RR crossing, hop out, get a pic, watch it go by, and race to get ahead of it for more pics. The only motion I do while railfanning is wave if it's a passenger train (only because the people wave at me). And no, I don't scream.  Cody |
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Post by umtrrauthor on Sept 5, 2012 10:03:37 GMT -8
And then, of course, there's this, which we have been trying to live down ever since it first aired...
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Post by bnsf971 on Sept 5, 2012 10:19:59 GMT -8
And then, of course, there's this, which we have been trying to live down ever since it first aired... Live it down? I've been trying to duplicate it! |
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Post by nberpa on Sept 5, 2012 11:40:26 GMT -8
And then, of course, there's this, which we have been trying to live down ever since it first aired... Live it down? I've been trying to duplicate it! been there, done that!  Just kidding! Funny! Cody |
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Post by calzephyr on Sept 10, 2012 10:09:17 GMT -8
Live it down? I've been trying to duplicate it! been there, done that! Just kidding! Funny! Cody At least some model trains got a laugh on TV. He probably would be arrested today by Homeland Security! Larry |
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Post by nberpa on Sept 10, 2012 11:52:32 GMT -8
ROFLMBO! ;D
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Post by Brakie on Sept 29, 2012 3:44:38 GMT -8
When chasing trains, I always make it fast to stop at a RR crossing, hop out, get a pic, watch it go by, and race to get ahead of it for more pics.
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Sounds normal to me.. ;D
Why's that?
Been doing that for years.. ;D
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Post by shoofly on Sept 29, 2012 7:53:31 GMT -8
I have had adults basically ridicule me by asking if I put on bib overalls with an engineers cap and go toot toot as the train goes by!. You try to down play it by being cool and saying no of course not and attempt to explain the effort that goes into the hobby. They still say that's nuts and walk away. I strongly feel if you are shy about what you enjoy, then people will open it up for criticism or even taunting. I'm the kinda person that doesn't care what others think or care for their approval. The next time someone starts throwing remarks to you, ask them this, i do... "So, what are you doing in your spare time that's so much better?" As they struggle to answer, say, "that's what i thought." And walk away. No need to explain the hobby or yourself. Don't be meek, and don't take anyone's condescending BS. Be proud, if someone has an issue, tell them "here's a quarter, go find a payphone and call your momma, maybe she'll care." Respectfully, Chris P |
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Post by gregw66 on Oct 17, 2012 15:31:40 GMT -8
Not only do I like trains but I am a minister. My kids call me a train geek, bible geek and computer geek. My response is the geek will inherit the earth. LOL. I don't care, I like to laugh at myself as much as they do. I don't care as long as I am doing something I love and enjoy.
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Post by redp on Oct 17, 2012 16:47:40 GMT -8
This is a subject I could write a book on. When I began my railroad career almost twenty years ago, I was told to keep it to myself and not to let my co workers know about it. One thing you dont want is the "buff" label. I watched over the years as some new hires came out and let everybody know they were train buffs. Most of them got run off in a short amount of time. The others were made fun of and basically treated like crap. Thats why I created the ID red P and I wouldnt sign my name to my posts, well the "P" kinda became my trade mark.
There was an engineer who was also a modeler who told me that working for the railroad would ruin the hobby for me. I didn't believe him, but it did. I went through a period of several years that had a real bad attitude. I hated trains, couldn't stand the sight of them. Then one day I got back into it again. Now I look back at what he told me and realize that working for the railroad actually made the hobby better. because I now have a better understanding on how things really work out there.
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Post by fr8kar on Oct 18, 2012 5:14:35 GMT -8
To add to what red P has said, my experience is the railroad is not very tolerant of foamers (the preferred term used by railroaders) in my area either. One of the guys from my conductor class is a self-professed foamer and was treated with suspicion right away. Even though he's pretty cut in and does a good job, people still measure his performance against the knowledge that he's a train nut.
I have kept my interests under my hat thus far, but should it ever come up, I'm not going to deny my interest in trains. Truth is, I think there's more of us out there than admit it. You almost have to be into it to put up with the conditions we work in, the long hours, the constant state of readiness you live under waiting for a call and the fact that your entire life and family has to exist around your seniority. If it's just a paycheck, I suspect there will be many who will wash out when the economy improves enough to offer competitive pay and benefits in other fields of endeavor.
I also see how my opinion of the hobby is affected by my job. For one thing, I spend a whole lot more time focused on the brake and coupling systems of cars and engines now than I ever did. It's rare that I see the prototypes for the era and roads that I model, so I'm not exactly overexposed to the things I'm interested in, but I certainly don't do any railfanning anymore and instead just stick to modeling when I have time.
One other thing: I refuse to have any models with BNSF on them. As much as I enjoy the view from an ES44, I cannot bring myself to own anything in orange and black. I think that would be the beginning of the end for me as a railroad modeler. 12 hours a day surrounded by the the orange and black is quite enough.
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Post by Brakie on Oct 18, 2012 7:23:41 GMT -8
I know the 9 1/2 years I spent working as a brakeman I kept quiet about my love for trains.,railfaning and model trains.
I never "railfan" on the job since one must keep his thoughts on their work and surroundings.I need not repeat how railroading doesn't suffer fools or the careless.
And yes,the railroad did change me in many ways for the better and also left me wondering at times why I threw away 6 1/2 years of family life..I was single when I brake on the PRR and was married when I worked on the Chessie.
I use my experience for planing and operating my ISLs. ;D
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