Does this mean I'm getting old?

mike lets just say its an act of being mature .......... just pacing yourself.

Could be low T? They have a pill for that!!

Gunny

Mike, how about being ancient.......couldn't wait to open my Retirement Monthly magazine.  Center fold is a new camping trailer each month. 

Steve, Lady and Tex

Mike...I subscribe to both and I liked run 270 best however I have to admit that the other one got my "steam" going a little faster!!

Alan

Mike it's called the "geezer syndrome". Don

Yeah, but I'm sure you get Retirement Monthly just to read the articles, right?  

Guess I am old enough now to admit I have always bought OGR for the pictures.

Its possible to have most of what's pictured in OGR.
Can the same be said about the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition?
(for those of us in a committed relationship)

Mike,

   Definitely got a big chuckle out of your post, I know how you feel, not only the OGR but the Gun Dog magazine also, then the SI girls.  I have been married to a beautiful lady for over 36 years now, and although Kate and the girls are incredible, I have all I need right here at home.  However having worked for NASA, the latest zero gravity video of Kate, did give me some funny ideas.

No Mike we are not old, just mature enough to understand life.

PCRR/Dave

I consider the SI swimsuit issue to be a waste of good train money...how's that for old?

Bob

Bob Bob,

   Lets not get carried away here.

PCRR/Dave

I guess for myself I know I can probably obtain anything that's in OGR. Can't say that about S.I. (LOL)

Now that's funny!

You are infected with RAIL T!

Gunny, I tried that!  All I got was a nauseous feeling and a bad chalky taste in my mouth.

Not getting old.....Just the fact that there is now less skin in a Sports Illustrated magazine than on the Nightly News.

I think you have your priorities correct, and I think maybe your wife would agree with me. 

In answer to your question.....YES

In a word... YES!

I'd grab OGR first.....that's easy!!!!

I have never really gotten the SI swimsuit thing......It's like being really hungry and just looking into the bakery window.....just aggravates you!!!

After OGR I can touch my own trains!

No, just that you have your priorities straight - remember - trains will get you through times of no SI swimsuit issues better than SI swimsuit issues will get you through times of no trains.

There is one sure-fire test for determining whether you are "old" or not.

If you would rather have a back rub than a front rub...you're old!

I sure enjoy my back rubs...

Maybe a photo of Nina Agdal, or one of the other girls, holding a Legacy controller .... running a big 'ol steam engine .... in a bikini ... on an ocean side layout ?

EBT Jim,

   Oh yea that would do it all right!  The Train would need to be Tin Plate however.

Passenger Train Runner,

   If my wife would actually start to agree with me, then I would know I am getting old.

PCRR/Dave

That's funny....I don't care how old you are!!!

This was a great post.  Long, long, long ago, my mother purchased a subscription to Sports Illustrated for me.  I'll never forget, I was a teen boy, when that swimsuit edition showed up!  My mother was xxxxxxxxxxx!!!   No I didn't type the word.

Needless to say when that subscription expired my mom never renewed.  However, I did ask her about a model railroad magazine subscription.

I see no conflict between eroticism and model railroading. Both serve a useful function. Both are fun. Both appeal to the senses. Both are picturesque. Both are engrossing. Both are entertaining. Both have many threads to develop. And, both prolong youth. If you give both up, then you are REALLY OLD!!!

John C,

   Got to admit the SI was never delivered to my parents home, Grays Sporting Journal, Inside baseball, the Double Gun Magazines, and Burt Spillers magazine articles, that later turned into his books, along with Hemingway and other classics.  Hemingway is still my favorite author, Burt Spiller is 2nd on the list, SI never made the cut.  Us boys never had to look else where to see a beautiful lady, our mom was drop bead beautiful, and we saw her every day when we came home from school.

We had our Grouse dogs, Double Guns and O Guage trains, we got our 1st TV when I was 13 years old.  SI really never mattered much to us, our mountain girls swimming in the streams, with their cut off blue jeans & halter tops had SI bet 6 ways to Sunday.

PCRR/Dave

Sorry katie upton wins over any train i have  seen..

I have gotten to the point that I would really prefer a sandwhich.

When you remind them of their Father, or worst yet their GrandFather you're officially old. At least OGR still represents reasonable expectations...

Gilly

...guess I'm not that old yet!...and friday was my 49th B-day, and I liked "both" rubs!!!

Now, as far as "great looking curves" go...I'd grab the classic auto mag every time!...ok, I guess then that makes me sort of old, huh?

Could not agree more.

Oh, I dunno.  The 2-2-2 on the cover of SI has a certain appeal over the SD nose of Run 270....to me, anyway...through ANY portion of this old phart's trifocals. 

But I agree with the one post....everything in OGR 270 is negotiable with the wife;not so with that issue of SI!

Moving on....

KD

I am right with you on getting old.  Last year I was driving on

HWY 41 here in Hillsborough County, Florida.  Next to me was

my wife of then 45 years.  On the left of me was a (Two) SD 70's

CSX Juice Train going north.  Oh mercy was I in train heaven.  

However, on the right walking on the sidewalk across from the

the train (It was at least a mile long) was two count em two of

Florida's most beautiful attractions.

I am not talking about the Mouse or Orange Croves.  Nothing

gets by my wife.  She just looked straight ahead and said, " now

remmember dear, your By Pass Surgery a few years back.  Watch

the train."  Great advise.  That was a beautiful train.

Many thanks,

Billy C 

 Yes.

I'll second that! 

I'll have to look for that Roco catalog.

Ummmm   my wife like Scott Smith's wife knows how to make our lives miserable if we turned the wrong way for a rub.  I think the OGR choice is the safer one. 

As I read this (train) thread I glance to my right--I have the SI desktop calendar next to the monitor.  A new beauty every morning.  My wife gets me a new one (calendar) every Christmas.  It reminds me of todays date.