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You might want to mute the garbage they call music in this video:



This one's also good:

lol trains and techno music.. odd.

I like trains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


oh yeah, so i saw the movie unstoppable, with Denzel Washington. It's the dumbest movie I've seen in a long time. If you have to see it, take your sense of humor with you. Make sure its enough to last the whole movie and feel free to yell at the characters, as no one in the audience will care.

Watching the trains, though, was lots of fun. You get to watch the train switch tracks up close. There's a cool part where the train slowly has to make a turn and you get to see the wheels pressing against the side of the rails as the tons of metal push forward. I mean, it's just a regular turn at a slow slow speed, but I sat there wondering how it was not falling off the track. The whole movie could have been just those non-special effect shots of trains doing regular stuff and I would have had a blast. Everything else was retarded.

I still have my HO scale train set in a box somewhere... Actually two sets, and a dozen or so kit cars that I put together. Hopefully I get to a point in my life where I can return to them.

My trains are all gone

when I was a Kid, My dad had a ton of HO that My Grandfather gave him back in the 40's and 50's. My mom threw them all away after the divorce in 1973
I probably could have retired off them by now

My dad built me a 8x4ft plywood table for my HO scale. I loved it. Then when my parents split, my grandfather took a hammer to the table to split it apart without removing the tracks first. The table was bnuilt to be able to be taken apart in half. That ruined my entire table. never bought another since.

Why would anyone do that? That's an incredibly dick move.

Isaac wrote:I like trains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


oh yeah, so i saw the movie unstoppable, with Denzel Washington. It's the dumbest movie I've seen in a long time. If you have to see it, take your sense of humor with you. Make sure its enough to last the whole movie and feel free to yell at the characters, as no one in the audience will care.

Watching the trains, though, was lots of fun. You get to watch the train switch tracks up close. There's a cool part where the train slowly has to make a turn and you get to see the wheels pressing against the side of the rails as the tons of metal push forward. I mean, it's just a regular turn at a slow slow speed, but I sat there wondering how it was not falling off the track. The whole movie could have been just those non-special effect shots of trains doing regular stuff and I would have had a blast. Everything else was retarded.

Rent the movie Runaway Train. Much better.

Runaway Train

Oh that was a good Movie TC

CDN_Merlin wrote:My dad built me a 8x4ft plywood table for my HO scale. I loved it. Then when my parents split, my grandfather took a hammer to the table to split it apart without removing the tracks first. The table was bnuilt to be able to be taken apart in half. That ruined my entire table. never bought another since.

null0010 wrote:Why would anyone do that? That's an incredibly dick move.

Divorce is a nasty move. No matter how much the parents may need to seperate, the children always, ALWAYS lose. Especially when the parents lose control of their emotions.

Heretic wrote:Oh that was a good Movie TC

Definitely. Jon Voight was particularly good and the train action was excellent.

Come to think of it... I dug out one of my power packs recently to hook up a case fan to. This way it was multi-speed without needing to be plugged into the motherboard.

i don't get it.

to: toy train freaks
pls justify your existence to me?
-roid

roid wrote:i don't get it.

to: toy train freaks
pls justify your existence to me?
-roid

flying cars and rocketpacks are cool.
and perhaps tabletop wargames.
i like steam & stirling engines.
but what's with all these toy trains.

take my hand and show me the wonders of your strange choochoo worldddddd

COME THEN, YOUNG LAD! HOP IN MY POOCHOO TRAIN AND SING ALONG!!!!!

As a side notion, I like steam locomotives. I may not have a train set and I don't think they're weird for people to play with, but I occasionally run MS Train Simulator (when I can get it to work) and drive the steam locomotives as a challenge. They're a lot of work to manage and control. Diesels just don't have that magic as a living, breathing machine.

roid wrote:i don't get it.

to: toy train freaks
pls justify your existence to me?
-roid

i suspect asperger's

null0010 wrote:

roid wrote:i don't get it.

to: toy train freaks
pls justify your existence to me?
-roid

i suspect asperger's

I suspect space vampires and things that start with the letter W

Isaac wrote:

null0010 wrote:

roid wrote:i don't get it.

to: toy train freaks
pls justify your existence to me?
-roid

i suspect asperger's

I suspect space vampires and things that start with the letter W

null0010 wrote:

Isaac wrote:

null0010 wrote:

roid wrote:i don't get it.

to: toy train freaks
pls justify your existence to me?
-roid

i suspect asperger's

I suspect space vampires and things that start with the letter W

#@%$ twilight...

Team Edward forever! He's so dreamy.

tunnelcat wrote:As a side notion, I like steam locomotives. I may not have a train set and I don't think they're weird for people to play with, but I occasionally run MS Train Simulator (when I can get it to work) and drive the steam locomotives as a challenge. They're a lot of work to manage and control. Diesels just don't have that magic as a living, breathing machine.

TC then you might be interested in this. it's just outside Mololla at a place called shady dell. it's free. but it's only open a few months a year. we take all the grand kis there about once a year. they have a Picnic ground, so you can make an afternoon of it.

CUDA wrote:

tunnelcat wrote:As a side notion, I like steam locomotives. I may not have a train set and I don't think they're weird for people to play with, but I occasionally run MS Train Simulator (when I can get it to work) and drive the steam locomotives as a challenge. They're a lot of work to manage and control. Diesels just don't have that magic as a living, breathing machine.

TC then you might be interested in this. it's just outside Mololla at a place called shady dell. it's free. but it's only open a few months a year. we take all the grand kis there about once a year. they have a Picnic ground, so you can make an afternoon of it.

That's so cool! I wonder how long it takes to build one from scrap metal. They have a welding class at my school I should take, which teaches arc welding.

Freaking awesome stuff! Did you see all the little parts it had!?!??!

Isaac wrote:Freaking awesome stuff! Did you see all the little parts it had!?!??!

Ya I've stood within 5 feet of it

null0010 wrote:

roid wrote:i don't get it.

to: toy train freaks
pls justify your existence to me?
-roid

i suspect asperger's

hmm, i'm never going to look at the minecart tracks in Minecraft in the same way again.

roid wrote:

null0010 wrote:

roid wrote:i don't get it.

to: toy train freaks
pls justify your existence to me?
-roid

i suspect asperger's

hmm, i'm never going to look at the minecart tracks in Minecraft in the same way again.

Before or after you've shot a pig into space? Or was it a cow?

CUDA wrote:TC then you might be interested in this. it's just outside Mololla at a place called shady dell. it's free. but it's only open a few months a year. we take all the grand kis there about once a year. they have a Picnic ground, so you can make an afternoon of it.

Yeah, that looks cool, especially in small scale. Little steam locos always look the best when someone goes to the trouble to actually replicate and machine all the small moving parts. I've got a good friend in Mololla. Next time I visit, I might just check it out.

When I was a kid, I rode a steam train on the old Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway out of Cottage Grove. They were giving excursion rides for turists back then, just before they sold the line. I've been fond of steam engines ever since, they're just fascinating to watch in motion. This was the very same line that the movie 'Emperor of the North' was filmed on too.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon,_Pa ... rn_Railway

I also remember this steam engine that sat in Oaks Park on static display years ago. Thankfully it was finally restored to running condition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Pacific_4449

I just thought of another good train movie. It's an oldie set during the end of WWII starring Burt Lancaster called 'The Train'. More excellent steam locomotive action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Train