Posing A Question About THe Hobby

[MountainMan]

BAH! It's all crap! MR is a sellout! If you can't take the time to build it yourself, you're a collector, not a modeller! If you can't even build an Athearn shake-the-box kit, or lay flextrack, you shouldn't call yourself a model railroader - you're just a wannabe!

Real model railroaders build their own benchwork.
Real model railroaders lay their own track.
Real model railroaders don't use sectional track - especially the girly stuff with the built-in roadbed.
Really real model railroaders handlay their track.
Real model railroaders don't buy pre-weathered RTR rolling stock.
Real model railroaders never build a kit exactly to the instructions.
Real model railroaders know MR sold out to the advertisers years ago, and drove the real model railroading magazines under.

There. I said it. So take that all you RTR EZ-track ready-built/custom-built snaptogether model railroading wannabes!

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Real model railroaders have little bitty choo-choos on their sheets and pillow cases.
Real model railroaders don't own any clothing without a real railroad logo, especially not underwear.
Real model railroaders only eat food that is transported on real trains.
Real model railroaders don't own cellphones - they use whistle signals instead.
Real model railroaders don't go to hobby shops - they mine and refine their own materials like real men.
Real model railroaders make their own benchwork from real trees. Store-bought lumber is for wimps.
Real model railroaders generate their own electricity. Using wall outlets is for sissies.
Real model railroaders never eat quiche because they can't recreate it in scale.
Real model railroaders don't use soldering irons - they get hot under the collar instead.
Real model railroaders hand lay real track using real spikes. The little stuff is for kids.
Real model railroaders don't use track plans. The train goes where it is told.
Real model railroaders never "weather" anything - they leave it outside until it looks right.
Real model railroaders know that there is only ONE scale - 1:1. Everything else is just toys.
Real model railroaders break up rock with sledge hammers to make their own ballast.
Real model railroaders never read instructions - real men don't need to read anything.
Real model railroaders know that "kitbashing" is how real men make things fit together no matter what.
Real model railroaders know that a "delicate adjustment" tool is a five pound sledge hammer.
Real model railroaders never force anything - they just hit it harder.
Real model railroaders know that if it breaks, it wasn't made right in the first place.
Real model railroaders don't use fake coal - they crush real coal with their teeth.
Real model railroaders never use that sissified fake grass - they pull out their own hair and use that.
Real model railroaders doesn't go to church - they pray alongside the tracks.
Real model railroaders tattoo their layout name and trackplan on their chests.
Real model railroaders never buy cemetery plots. They get buried on abandoned right-of-ways instead.
Real model railroaders never read hobby magazines. They already know everything.
Real model railroaders don't need pin-pictures - they strip down a piece of rolling stock and drool on the bare chassis.
Real model railroaders don't have sex, because careless collisions can damage delicate equipment.
Real model railroaders don't have sex; they just stop at the service pit and get their ashes hauled.
Real model railroaders don't belong to clubs - clubs are for girls.
Real model railroaders never post photos of their work. If they built it, it's good enough.
Real model railroaders only watch railroad shows on television. They only watch the news if the train crash is big.
Real model railroaders never go to the movies. There aren't any trains in the movies.
Real model railroaders only travel by train. If no train goes there, what's the point?
Real model railroaders never fly. God invented trains first, and they don't trust anything that doesn't run on tracks.
Real model railroaders don't eat - they just shovel in enough fuel to make it to next stop.
Real model railroaders never sleep - they "lay over".
Real model railroaders don't care if anybody else knows what a real model railroader is, because either you are or you aren't, and the ones who aren't don't matter.

Gee...I feel better too! tooges: