The Most Interesting Man in the Train World

The industrys on his layout have listings on the New York Stock exchange...

 

Real railroads briefly considered using a center rail because his layout does...

 

He tips the bathroom attendants at York with gold bullion...

 

Whenever he rides The Broadway Limited it becomes The Broadway Unlimited...

 

The NYC wanted to name the Vanderbilt tender after him, but no one knows his name...

 

He is the most interesting man in in the train world !

 

 

"I don't always have time for a hobby, but when I do it's model trains."

"Stay O gauge my friends."

 

Jerry

Totally hilarious!! Thanks for making my day!

Well, maybe not sad, but that wasn't the first thing I noticed

For his new O scale layout lumber is being deliver to his home by rail cars.

 

He's been buying up 100% of Atlas O track production causing it to become scarce.

 

His O scale Classification Yard is going to be  larger than UP's 1 to 12in. Bailey Yard.

 

His new layout will cover three Time Zones and have its own ZIP Code.

 

Just for fun he has a 10,000 square foot Z scale layout.

 

He uses the Sequoia National Forest for his Christmas tree layout.

 

Has Atlas O make him an exclusive O-108 Turnout.

 

He uses two 55 gallon drums of oil to lube his equipment....WEEKLY!

 

 

 

 

       
       

AND.....

Train Show Crop Dusters stand in line to "pull his finger"

My kids and I and THE WIFE were all laughing this is a great thread

 

Thanks for the family fun time!!!!

His Cologne is the aroma of a freshly opened Vision Line Locomotive... his own natural scent.

 

As he walks into a layout room, his very Ora lights up the layout and trains begin to move.

 

While in the 5th grade, one of his steady girlfriends modeled for this ad.

He is quite simply... "The Most Interesting Man In The World".

 

 His presence alone can decontaminate train show attendees and buildings.

The Chattanooga Choo Choo had to leave from track 29 because the first 28 tracks were being used as storage for rolling stock for his Christmas railroad display.

Real railroads change their rolling stock to match his models.
locations, too.

the proper volume of smoke from a loco was based on him puffing on his favorite pipe

 

his dog fetches the derailments on his layout

 

Casey Jones had to borrow his bib overalls

 

the mighty sound of steam was based on him passing gas

 

 

When Rich says "it ain't gonna happen" he tells Rich "it will" and it does. 

Is the number one thread on the forum!

 

Also uses the words "lash-up".

He doesn't always do computer animation for movies in his leisure time.

But when he does things like The Polar Express happen.

Correct, I think this one really is true

He has reserved parking at York inside the Orange Hall for his Rolls Royce,  his chauffeur does the talksounds on his layout in the secret basement under Lionel Headquarters,  when he needs tech support he has a Orange & Blue Legacy Remote that has a direct line to Lionel's President and a elevator from the tech support room to the layout room. When he wants to run trains on a small layout his pilot flies the helicopter to the landing pad on the roof of the NJ Highrailers Club. Hugh Hefner has less lady friends than he does. He has the Super Bowl Trophy kept at his house until the day of the big game. He has serial number 1 of all the Lionel Big Boys recently made and his were overnighted by plane so he got all his before Christmas and already wrapped. LOL! Great Thread! Let's keep this going!

He never roots for the Steelers...

 

He is the most interesting man in the train world.

 

"I don't always watch football, but when I do I'm wearing a Ravens jersey!"

"Stay purple my friends."

 

Jerry

 

He grinds up diamonds for that special sparkle atop snow scenes.

 

Snow angels on his layout are made by real angels.

 

All his smoke units burn $100 bills

 

Vision Line Berkshires are so nervous about living up to his expectations that their pilot truck bearings fall out.

 

 

 

He knows what a lash-up REALLY is.
He needs no command control because he uses the Force.
He inspires Neil Young.

 

"I don't always have time for hobbies, but when I do, I prefer trains.  Stay O Scale my friends."

 

I should add this in my sig as well. Fits in well with Sheldon's quote from TBBT. 

Yea........I got the O bug bad lol.

 

The only thing light about him is passenger cars, and even they are heavyweights.

 

Legacy actually refers to Lionel mentoring his accomplishments.

 

He wanted a custom voice command, but loves vintage stuff,

 

 So he hired Neil Young to run his trains.

 (Title? Engineer..No...Conductor?..Nope...Brakeman

  Transformer Man of course)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Z.W. are his initials.

 

He was very tired when asked about naming the Jawn Henry.

 

700E is his lucky number.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Never gets tired of saying Gee,.. Gee,.. won again.

 

Claims to do what Frankenstein could not, at 18-20 volts.

 

Has developed a speed counting course for rivets.

 

 

Ok

I'm sitting here reading this post and laughing to myself for the last 10 minutes

I'm going down the basement to work on the layout

 

I will be back later today and I hope this thread is still here  

 

Happy new year everyone

Joe S

 

You know how it is, Brian.  There's no accounting for taste!  

 

- Mike

1. He was the one who convinced Charles Perkins that the CB&Q should quit thinking about competing with the eastern roads and just go Everywhere West.

 

2. When the Q introduced their new Budd streamliner and named it the Eurus for the proposed west-east run it was he who argued for an east-west run instead and a name change to Zephyr.

Don't have a clue who the guy is, nor what all this is all about... but that's a cute pin-up scene.

 

 

 

The Most Interesting Man in the World

There is no downside to this at all!  Bob S

Even conventional locomotives run in TMCC mode when placed on his layout.

Thanks John. I don't get out much.

 

 

With one look and a wink from his eye he uses the memory charm.

 

Obliviate (Memory Charm)

/oʊˈblɪvi.eɪt/ oh-bliv-ee-ayt

Used to hide a memory of a particular event.

 

Love it...

Darn, I always thought he was a Chiefs fan...

• He never asked because he always knew "WHO IS JOHN GALT"

 

• He knew the principles of the Twentieth Century Motors Company ambient static electricity motor and taught John Galt how to design and build it.

 

Alex

The downside is the upside.  Or vice versa.

 

Rail tie spacing was set to his gait.

 

It is ALWAYS 5 minutes til midnight

 

 

The Bell never stopped ringing for him

 

Dagny coined the phrase, John Galt Who??? After her first meeting with The Most Interesting Man, but Slug, in order to shield Johns pride, reversed it to "Who is John Galt?"

Coming soon...

Some say that his ZW is hewn from solid gold, and that Lionel supply his personalised boxer shorts.....all we know is he's called the Stig