Can you ever be too old?

[TW]Fox · 17 Dec 2006 at 22:05

AcidHell2 said:
Iu saw one of them the other day. Lol he was taking a pic of this old feight train, carrying petrol for the Murco depot. I had to laugh...

Photography is not train spotting. Train spotting is a worthless, pointless waste of time that gives anyone else with even a passing interest in the rail network a bad name. Morons with anoraks.

Photography though, in its various forms, is pretty cool.

He'd probably have found that rusting hulk of car on your drive about as funny as you found his photography

Tony Williams · 17 Dec 2006 at 22:07

Depends on the train set. Is it a Thommas-the-tank-engine-kinda-thing or a model?

Think that answers it.

Welshy · 17 Dec 2006 at 22:47

AcidHell2 said:
Iu saw one of them the other day. Lol he was taking a pic of this old feight train, carrying petrol for the Murco depot. I had to laugh...

Steam trains i can just about understand, pictures of modern crappy trains WTF

As Fox has said, that doesnt sound like a trainspotter to me. They're the ones who take down the carriage numbers, for some weird reason :confused:

Could anyone actually tell me why the hell they do this?

Glaucus · 17 Dec 2006 at 22:50

[TW]Fox said:
Photography though, in its various forms, is pretty cool.

Def train spotting, not photography, point and click disposable camera.

[TW]Fox said:
He'd probably have found that rusting hulk of car on your drive about as funny as you found his photography

Even my friends laugh at that

yermum · 17 Dec 2006 at 23:28

Just finished wrapping No. 2 son's birthday present. He's 10 tomorrow and will be getting, as wished for some time ago, the Hornby Eurostar with track, track mat etc. etc.

Next week he will be getting a station building, a junction box and some signals. These will be a real surprise as he won't be expecting anything else so soon.

We're also getting the loft boarded in the next couple of weeks so he can have a permanent setup.

Merry Xmas all.

Kol · 17 Dec 2006 at 23:34

yermum said:
Just finished wrapping No. 2 son's birthday present. He's 10 tomorrow and will be getting, as wished for some time ago, the Hornby Eurostar with track, track mat etc. etc.

Next week he will be getting a station building, a junction box and some signals. These will be a real surprise as he won't be expecting anything else so soon.

We're also getting the loft boarded in the next couple of weeks so he can have a permanent setup.

Merry Xmas all.

You're a cool Dad

yhack · 17 Dec 2006 at 23:36

I think I'm too old at 15.

marl · 18 Dec 2006 at 00:16

Yewen · 18 Dec 2006 at 00:20

Just put mine down yesterday again, used to have it on a board but I had to blue tac it to my laminate flooring.

Great fun for a short while.

Chunky · 18 Dec 2006 at 00:42

I feel too old for one, though I never really liked them anyway.

player · 18 Dec 2006 at 00:47

your never too old.

ps, if I clean the tracks will it go faster?

Mickey_D · 18 Dec 2006 at 00:48

Mikol said:
You're a cool Dad

I agree!

yermum · 18 Dec 2006 at 10:07

Well, he opened his present this morning and the look on his face was priceless (as they say in the adverts). Of course there was no time to set it up before school, so I guess this will be the only day this year that he will be first out.

By the way guys....... cool Dad? The clue's in the name.

basmic · 18 Dec 2006 at 10:25

I seriously want to see some pictures of trainsets. :cool:

I believe the reason trainspotters jot down numbers of passing trains is so they know which location each train has been spotted. Something to do with rare trains.

I have never trainspotted, but in my younger years I loved waiting for the diesel Intercity trains to deafen me.

I've been humming and harring about starting up my own trainset. But, due to space limitations in the house, I don't think it'll be a good idea...yet.

Mickey_D · 18 Dec 2006 at 10:28

yermum said:
By the way guys....... cool Dad? The clue's in the name.

Oooops. Sorry. Yer a cool mum, then!!

Mickey_D · 18 Dec 2006 at 10:32

basmic said:
I've been humming and harring about starting up my own trainset. But, due to space limitations in the house, I don't think it'll be a good idea...yet.

I've been humming and harring about setting up my own train set as well. But it won't be inside the house. Not enough room for a live steam 1/4 scale ride-on locomotive and 6 cars with caboose.....

Might start out with a 12bhp V-twin Briggs & Stratton for power first, then work my way up to live steam. Would be a lot easier, especially considering I already have a riding lawnmower's rear transaxle, frame, and mounting hardware to start out with. Just a matter of fashioning the steel wheels, the track and bed, and fabricating the engine enclosure. Then making the cars.

Hardest point is convincing the wife of the time required.....

(and not using the "railroad ties" as firewood!!)

Kol · 18 Dec 2006 at 10:36

yermum said:
Well, he opened his present this morning and the look on his face was priceless (as they say in the adverts). Of course there was no time to set it up before school, so I guess this will be the only day this year that he will be first out.

By the way guys....... cool Dad? The clue's in the name.

Haha, fantastic! I know how I felt, just imagine him thinking about it all day now. So close to the end of term too!