My wife found about about my new loco. She is steamed!

Maybe she and Scott Smith's wife can get together and start a Wives without jewelry
Support group.
Coarse then you'll have several woman breathing down your back instead of just one

David

Be happy boxing gloves are her weapon of choice. There's a big list of much more painful alternatives. I've been making it a habit to fill my wife's wish list first. Been working so far. We'll see how it goes when I order the 3rd Rail N&W K2.

Gilly

hello guys and gals.........

TSK TSK TSK...........SMILE

the woman who loves toy trains

Tiffany

I tell my wife everything ...Needless to say she bought me my Visionline Hudson in Florida last year...

Don't worry - you can take her.... Please...

My EX-wife said:

"It's the trains or me !"

I said I would miss her.

Eliot

My wife found where I hide mine when she tried to hide her new shoes

And I thought PW stood for Post War. 

In my house I'm the boss and my wife said I could say that.

Bill, she's saved your tail more than once! I started framing, that's what wood looks like Bill. 

Don

How about a new TV show called,"The Real Wive's of Model Railroaders".

Those sixteen ounce gloves can't hurt a fly. Buy another engine.

Pete

I am assuming that you are joking, but I really had a girlfriend say that to me. You know what? She's gone and I don't miss her.

Bruce

Don't fret over it. She'll wear down in time. They all do when they finally realize that the trains are better than having you hanging in bars with loose women, and blowing money on booze......

Yea at least she's wearing boxing gloves. My Daddy always said "Never teach a woman to shoot" . I have a cousin that should have listened to him. They got into an argument and she shot him with the .380 she had in her purse. Then she rides to the hospital in the ambulance with him telling him how sorry she is and how much she loves him . She nicked him in the side and told them it went off by accident.
Oh yea they're still together but they don't own a gun.

So if you see something on your credit card that says "Gun Metal" it may not be your engine. She may have just bought you a present you don't want

David

I have an "allowance" that I can spend any way I want and she gets exactly the same amount.  The funny thing is that she has always been the one to buy me the expensive items I have, including my PM 1225.  If you aren't just kidding around, pay more attention to her.  You won't be sorry.

 And definitely roll the tape so we can all watch!

 Joe,  U got some splaining to do!

You could just hope for "The Look". Then you have to buy jewelry

You need to learn how to multi-task... you can do it all and then come home and play with the trains.

Mike,

    Got any more room in that doghouse?

    Wives of members of The Gravely Tractor Club of America made T-shirts lettered GRAVELY WIDOWS. Here they are at Mow-In 2009 (a grand annual gathering of all things Gravely). They put two handlebars in a trench dug by a Terramite Mini-Backhoe and posed as though they had buried a Gravely.

I tell you gents, I have gotten one heck of a lot of laughs over these postings! The photo by Engineer Joe is priceless!

Joe I'm gonna post my comment I posted last year when you bought that beast.

Tune in next week folks when we hear Joe say " She painted ARUBA on the side of my engine cause with what that thing costs she could have gone there".

David

Beautiful... Engine. The look on her face is priceless.

"Let's see, after he falls asleep......."

Mike,

Chicken!  I think it's time to buy a few more engines and have them shipped directly to her workplace with a signature required and make sure you use her personal credit card-the one with 29.99% interest!

That should land you right on the canvas!

LOL!!!
This thread just cracks me up...

I blew my budget this year! Then I just got busted when a Y6b showed up at the door today

Things got very quiet this evening...

1- 2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8- (looks like he is down for the count)

Hope she doesn't find my York stash!

I laughed several times reading these.  I got busted yesterday when I left a new, for me, bright orange LL centennial GP9 by the window that always gets opened every morning.  'Huh? Oh, I've had that for a while.  I'm trying to learn how to put electrocouplers in diesels.  It's a new area I'm interested in'.   Just go technical on her.  Then it's like, 'Oh that's cool, I guess...'  End of discussion.  Cheers 

This has been an entertaining thread. Obviously, no one here is really hiding trains from the wife. It's the great fishing story.

don,

I see the new MR layout in hawaii has started.....

joe,

man after my own heart, put it on the table and say look hun, see what I just bought.

It's hard to hide a train when she's in the kitchen when the UPS man shows up!

Funny thing is that Scott has not posted!

Michael, just how steamed is she? Is she 2-6-2 worth of steam or what? Can't be too bad because at least you are able to post about it.

Right now there is a oil pump station I bought last month from trainnerd and 3 box cars from a train show on Sunday discretely "parked" under the layout waiting for the right time to appear.

Is that thing G Scale? Maybe she was just disappointed it wasn't O Scale???? I do recognize that "thrilled" expression. Must be a universal Wife thing.  I did have a ex-girl friend that got hacked when I spent money on my car and not her. She got immediately kicked to the curb . Saved me a ton of dating money.  With wives, the formula seems to work the other way.

Gilly

Must have something to do with Full grown, mature adults buying toy's for themselves. They just don't understand.

I never admitted to any of those things.

Michael,

I think that as long as she doesn't put the gloves down and pick up two frying pans you are probably okay!

Jim

I cannot relate to this post. All my life I have done as I have pleased within the self imposed limits of ethics, morality, legality and Christianity. I am an adult, a free man, there are no chains on me so I answer to and take orders only from the book of the good Lord. Men buy trains whenever they want to. Slaves don't.

 Like Ralph Kramden I am king of the castle. I put my fist down and said I am the boss and this is the way its going to be. Then I woke up. Excuse me I have to wash the dishes now. My wife would never use boxing gloves or bare hands,instead she uses a riding crop,very effective and she gets a lot of leverage with it. 

Dale H