There are two pantographs on either end of your roof and only one is up at a time.
cabinet Bob posted:Past by the rarest Menards flatcar 4 years ago for 20.00 and bought it tonite for 315.00. I'm going to meeting..see you soon Play Trains. LOL
WOW Bob! So do you have them all now?
Buy your wife a Legacy locomotive for her wedding anniversary.
Your infant son's first name is "SD70ACe".
Portions of a train are integrated into a room of your home.
You know the dates for York Apr/Oct for the next two years, but have absolutely no idea what month your wife was born.
It makes sense to you to postpone the purchase of prescription meds, so that you have money to spend at York.
You check yourself out of the hospital AMA to attend York.
You post on OGR, and mention "York" at least three times; assuming everyone will know what you are talking about.
mike g. posted:cabinet Bob posted:Past by the rarest Menards flatcar 4 years ago for 20.00 and bought it tonite for 315.00. I'm going to meeting..see you soon Play Trains. LOL
WOW Bob! So do you have them all now?
missing 2, a boxcar and a flat with Paul Menards car on it.
cabinet Bob posted:Past by the rarest Menards flatcar 4 years ago for 20.00 and bought it tonite for 315.00. I'm going to meeting..see you soon Play Trains. LOL
Bob,
What Menards flatcar was the first?
franktrain
cabinet Bob posted:mike g. posted:cabinet Bob posted:Past by the rarest Menards flatcar 4 years ago for 20.00 and bought it tonite for 315.00. I'm going to meeting..see you soon Play Trains. LOL
WOW Bob! So do you have them all now?
missing 2, a boxcar and a flat with Paul Menards car on it.
I will Keep my eye s open but there is no Menards here so if would be a hard find if someone bought it and moved it here!
When the UPS driver says "You must have one heck of a train set". true story
franktrain posted:cabinet Bob posted:Past by the rarest Menards flatcar 4 years ago for 20.00 and bought it tonite for 315.00. I'm going to meeting..see you soon Play Trains. LOL
Bob,
What Menards flatcar was the first?
franktrain
That's a very good question, and I don't really know myself. Maybe Mark could chime in here to tell us more. He sent me a picture of the 3 I was missing a while back but don't know the dates. I could look at my early ones and let you know.. Bob
Hi my name is Russ!
You did say addiction right?
I have changed scales over the years like most on here, my issue with my addiction is that I still have ALL of the past scales collections! 
Latest illness is 1 1/2 inch scale outdoor riding railroads, but . . . . . . I still do O, ON30, and a little HO. 
Russ
If you wife wears a hat that says "Pray for me. My husband collects toy trains."
Or your wife's hat says "Play with me, my husband has his toy trains"! LOL
Gilly@N&W posted:Buy your wife a Legacy locomotive for her wedding anniversary.
I just bought my wife a Bachmann On30 Tweetsie Ten-Wheeler for our 12th.
You know you're addicted when you ask your 4 year old daughter when she's planning to leave home so you can have her room for "the layout"! LOL
When UPS builds their new shipping & distribution facility next door with a conveyor ramp into your front porch and they have 24/7 coverage with a rep on site with a desk on your front porch, you might have a train addiction!
You know your addicted when even the USPS fill-in carrier who is working the day your regular carrier is off comments they know the plain brown box they are delivering contains trains.
This really happen.
russ
Your very first argument as a married couple occurred at Skagway, Alaska as your new bride got ticked that you wanted to spend the day there just taking photos of the White Pass steam locomotive 73 which was under steam...
True story, of course.
When friends buy you a shirt that reads:
"I've spent all my money on trains! The rest I just wasted."
franktrain posted:cabinet Bob posted:Past by the rarest Menards flatcar 4 years ago for 20.00 and bought it tonite for 315.00. I'm going to meeting..see you soon Play Trains. LOL
Bob,
What Menards flatcar was the first?
franktrain
The oldest ones are 2010.the flatcars with Menards trailers on them.
You tell the wife she has to give up her walk-in closet as you need it for storing trains
When you start selling trains to buy trains
(I'm doing that now )
John C. posted:When friends buy you a shirt that reads:
"I've spent all my money on trains! The rest I just wasted."
Ha! I have this shirt. 
cabinet Bob posted:franktrain posted:cabinet Bob posted:Past by the rarest Menards flatcar 4 years ago for 20.00 and bought it tonite for 315.00. I'm going to meeting..see you soon Play Trains. LOL
Bob,
What Menards flatcar was the first?
franktrain
That's a very good question, and I don't really know myself. Maybe Mark could chime in here to tell us more. He sent me a picture of the 3 I was missing a while back but don't know the dates. I could look at my early ones and let you know.. Bob
Our first train cars (not counting sets) were made by Lionel and sold exclusively at our stores.
2007 - Paul Menard #11 Pittsburgh Paints Racecar on "Menards" flatcar
2008 - Paul Menard #15 Johns Manville Racecar on "Menards" flatcar
2009 - Paul Menard #98 Johns Manville Race Hauler on "Lionel" flatcar
Following these train cars, we started making our own and the selection expanded exponentially from there.
-Mark the Menards Train Guy
cabinet Bob posted:franktrain posted:cabinet Bob posted:Past by the rarest Menards flatcar 4 years ago for 20.00 and bought it tonite for 315.00. I'm going to meeting..see you soon Play Trains. LOL
Bob,
What Menards flatcar was the first?
franktrain
The oldest ones are 2010.the flatcars with Menards trailers on them.
This is correct for the cars that we started making ourselves.
-Mark the Menards Train Guy
You wear a T-shirt that says "Still plays with trains".
Rich Melvin is your idol.
You call your favorite train shop and the owner knows who you are just from the sound of your voice.
You have a collection of real railroad bells and signal heads in your storage closet.
You approach a grade crossing and hope the gates and lights start flashing, because you want to get stopped by a train.
You love the smell of ozone.
You have recordings of train sounds on your cell phone.
"when you realize that you are not getting any ups delivery today, and they stop to see if you are still o.k. anyway."
you hear the train coming, get ahead of it, just to put coins on the track, so you can add them to your collection.... and you tell the wife you need to go get gas in the car...
And your wife reminds you that you had to sell the car in order to buy more trains! And she used your train-crushed coins to buy food! LOL
I do hope when approaching a grade crossing the crossing lights come on and the gates come down, I want to be stopped by a train! Heck, I'm disability retired, what have I got to hurry to now except the hobby shop or bathroom? Plus I do have a train whistle sound for a ringtone and and crossing signal sound for text alerts. But am I addicted? Hell yes and thank God there's no cure for it! LOL!
How about when your Pickup Truck has a bumper sticker with a N.Y.C. Logo on it and says...
My other cars all have knuckle couplers !
Forgotten-Branch posted:How about when your Pickup Truck has a bumper sticker with a N.Y.C. Logo on it and says...
My other cars all have knuckle couplers !
And they actually do:
(not my car, but I remember the hot topic when something similar these came up for sale a few years back - OGR may have even been involved? My memory may be fuzzy there...).
-Dave
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Hey Dave, That picture looks just like what's on the back of my Chevy Silverado. I bought mine a few years back from the Walthers catalog, and paid around $15 bucks. I'm pretty sure I've seen them lately on Amazon from an outfit called Rail Driver for $24.95. So if the urge hits anyone out there... they are available !
When spending $800 on a new washing machine seems like a giant waste of money, but $800 on a mint JLC engine seems like a genuinely great deal!
HMS, thats right!! great point. (new carpet for 800, wait, what , really? Discount E700 for $850!!...What a Dealio......open wallet)
<salute sir, great point> lol
sitting in CAD class and start throwing around the idea in your head of a half scale railroad meaning the trains are half the size of real trains
constantly asking your god parents if you can put train horns on the family car
every hobby /toy shop you visit you go looking for trains or you ask a store clerk if they have any
you have fantasies of driving a train with your crush
in grade school you pretended your school bus was a train
you start shaking when someone gives you a train
wanting to watch a movie only because it has a cool train scene
you constantly hear train sounds in your head
when riding in the car on a road next to railroad tracks you constantly eyeball them just hoping you'll see a train
your friends always think of you when they see a train
the stories you wrote in english class almost always had a train in them
Yeah i'm a train addict
Traded My Wife a New train set for a Dog!!!!
(mr Timothy, devious, sir, devious!! and I like it)
(now, I gotta run to check online for a trailer hitch coupler... I Want one!) <s>
"If, when reading all the great posts on the OGauge community, you see all the stuff that, well, now, You Gotta Have as well!!" 
(ya'll are brilliant train folks!) <salute>
You might be addicted to trains when you walk into the hardware store and ask the guy if has any grass color.
J Daddy posted:yes I am crazy because I want one of these!
Count me in.
