Do Brakmen run more trains?

Or some of us have been posting since week 1.  No contest though.  It's all good!

Jon 

I used to be on the old AOL board. That has to count for something.

I agree that Brakemen are to be envied. You know what they say "Brakemen have more fun!".

"We all now start out as brakemen, or OGR forum members with a small number of posts on the OGR forum. "

I thought that if we just started posting to the forum we were called a "New hire".

You actually start out as a "New Hire" when you first sign up. 

I must be the Rodney Dangerfield of the group.  I've been posting since nearly day 1 and I finally just made "Engineer" today.  

No complaint though because I have been having a lot of fun in my basement.

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Dennis

There are only 24 hours in a day so I suppose it makes a bit of sense that if you are on-line, like now, you aren't having fun on your layout: more time on-line less time at the layout. 

As to running trains, I suppose it depends on what 'running' means.  I know to some it means actually being there are the controls and varying speed, doing switching and de-coupling.  I never do that (have not used a remote or electro coupler in, oh, let's see, since I got into O gauge?).  But I imagine my trains run more than anyone's.  I always set my trains to cruising when I am in the workshop or up in the layout room.  Three trains (Mallet with scale reefers and caboose, ABBA ATSF F3s and nine passenger cars, and a Shifter with eight cars) and two 'streets buses have been running all morning, keeping me company in my workshop.  I just leave them running even when I turn to this computer, as now.  

My workbench is in the next room so I don't let the trains run unattended.  In the train room I have been in "construction mode" for several days this winter building my yard.  Before company arrived for Christmas, I vacumed all the sawdust, and removed all the debris of tools and scraps and am happily railroading again.  Next I have to add the power to the new yard tracks.  "Ain't" this hobby fun?

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Dennis

I've been a subscriber to OGR for over 15 years and was on the forum since week 1; you'd think I'd be at least vice president, LOL.

That may be true, or it may be that as lowly brakemen we fumble over not only the keyboard, but our thoughts as well  composing a post.  This of course limits the quantity of our posts, but certainly not the quality of them. Fred

I wonder if I can carry my seniority over from the big (1:1) railroad that I run on??    I have an FRA Locomotive Engineer's Certification Card....

R/

Galen

I run three at once on my little 10x6 layout.

Yes...so do I.

That card and couple bucks will get you a cup of coffee almost anywhere. 

Really?????? You need an FRA Locomotive Engineer's Certification Card these days just to get a cup of coffee????  Ohh and a couple a bucks????

Slowly but steadily working my way up to Conductor.  I only need a couple more thousand posts or replys.  LOL

Rick

To me, OGR is a technical Train reference Library.  I would not have a layout with out the information I find in discussion groups.