I'm up here in Springfield, MA, at the Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show. Seems that the flea market rivals Dayton in size & there's LOTS and LOTS of the "good stuff" for sale. Gotten all the missing pieces for the layout(s) I"m planning. There's the main one that's the ultimate objective, but I'm starting with a small, simple one for practice. N Scale.
Very short notice, but it's a two day affair so there's still time to make it tomorrow if you're local to it.
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I never found trains or model railroads particularly interesting. But, nonetheless it sounds like fun. Enjoy.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
I would love to have enough space to put a decent tinplate layout together. Used to be into HO scale then discovered radio-electronics in high school and haven't built anything train-wise since.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Pretty much what happened with me. Trains til radio then...Originally Posted by N8YX
Wait for retirement!
Had one started in the 80's & it was looking very good but other things came up. This time, tho'! The stuff has advanced. The amount of detail on those tiny n-scale cars and locomotives is impressive! And the "new" foam construction techniques make it neat and tidy for an apartment layout.
If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.
I played around with N scale stuff for a while and found that because of it's small size, it's really bothered by any sort of dirt or oxidation on the tracks and wheels. Then, I joined the Portola (California) railroad museum and started playing with P scale (Prototype—i.e., real) trains. I kind of lost interest in model railroading after that.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Is that railroad museum down the road from Reuben H. Fleet in Balboa Park still there?
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Not a museum, but there is a little ride-on train thing. The nearest actual railroad museum that I know of is out in Campo, along the old San Diego & Arizona RoW.
Last edited by NQ6U; 01-29-2012 at 05:44 PM.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Lets see... Portola? Balboa Park? Is there more than one Balboa Park? There a Model Railroad museum in Balboa Park in San Diego that's great. That what you're talking about?
And who is Reuben H. Fleet? The guy who invented the enema?
Last edited by W1GUH; 01-29-2012 at 07:03 PM.
If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.
dupe.
Last edited by NQ6U; 01-29-2012 at 08:17 PM.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Oh, yeah, the model railroad museum, I forgot about that. Yes, it's still there in Balboa Park in the building across the promenade from the one with the nekkid wimmins with their boobies hangin' out. I love that building.
Early aviation pioneer, founder of Consolidated Aircraft and a big-time right-wing asshole who was on the wrong side of history during San Diego's Free Speech Movement in 1912. More info on Fleet here.And who is Reuben H. Fleet? The guy who invented the enema?
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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