Are YOU That Guy?

seaboardm2 posted:

Allan Miller posted:

Trust me, Jon, there are plenty of those folks around in all segments of the hobby. It doesn't take long to recognize who those individuals are. I don't have a "ton of trains", but I do have a lot of them (all brands), and have had very few problems over many years with the vast majority of them. I like to take good care of my trains--Z, HO, On30, O, and G--and the environment they are run, displayed, or stored in.

You have z scale trains?My friend ether you have super real sharp eye sight.Or you have one heck of a magnifying glass.

Nope! Have had really lousy vision (nearsighted) since fourth grade and have worn glasses ever since. I have very little problem working with Z and have had it since it was first introduced in the U.S. by Marklin many years ago. I used to write regularly for the original Z Scale magazine, now Z Track magazine, It is published by a fellow I first met at the NMRA National Convention in Pittsburgh (1990, I believe) where our Z exhibit took "Best in Show."  Rob Kluz was just a teenager at the time. Z has come a long way over the years, and is a great scale for modeling scenery that dominates the trains, just like in real life.

H1000 posted:

I almost enjoy troubleshooting and fixing trains as much as I do running them.

That makes you a true train doctor, IMO. Please take this as a sincere and high compliment, which it's intended to be.

I do not have the background, knowledge and skills to be a train doctor, but whenever I do fix something or solve a problem on the layout, I feel great. Arnold

Well, as the old adage goes, it’s a tinkerer’s hobby.  Some guys can’t figure out why an engine derails at a switch every time and will blame the company who sent him this defective engine.  Another guy will figure out in ten seconds to put a cardboard shim under one side of the switch and be running the same engine over it flawlessly since.  Something gets lost in the translation perhaps.  And the new technology ‘bells and whistles’ combined with the cost, I can see how that could stress a guy out.  So much for tinkering.  Ramming speed!!!

William 1 posted:

Well, as the old adage goes, it’s a tinkerer’s hobby.  Some guys can’t figure out why an engine derails at a switch every time and will blame the company who sent him this defective engine.  Another guy will figure out in ten seconds to put a cardboard shim under one side of the switch and be running the same engine over it flawlessly since.  Something gets lost in the translation perhaps.  And the new technology ‘bells and whistles’ combined with the cost, I can see how that could stress a guy out.  So much for tinkering.  Ramming speed!!!

I must have a thousand shims on my layout, maybe 10,000. LOL

FireOne posted:

 I wouldn't wish that on on a Hi Point.

At least you can send a Hi Point back to Mother and have it returned in perfect shape...  ;-)  

H1000 posted:

I almost enjoy troubleshooting and fixing trains as much as I do running them.

I actually like troubleshooting and fixing trains MORE than running them!  Must be why I have so many projects going... 

Mitch