Been done in HO, in a basement- Stephen & Cinthia Priest's HO scale Santa Fe layout. Seen the same thing done in O on club layouts, not in warehouses Danged nice-looking detail in that pic, regardless of scale:thumbs_up: :thumbs_up:
Yup. He said he paid a buck and a half for the thing, but then he couldn't remember which convenience store he got it at! Incidentally, I recently got a little 'tea light' that's actually a yellow-white LED inside a flame shaped plastic thingie with a flicker circuit and a battery for, IIRC, $1.50. I'm going to put it inside a machine shop,
...when your watching a hockey game and you see the score for the Montreal Canadiens, and notice that the abbreviation for the team is MTL!!
..you're sitting in a bathroom stall and mentally designing a track plan to fit the available space, including a small yard and several industries!
... you call up the Post Office and complain that the videotape-sized Priority Mail boxes are no longer available - and even if the larger boxes are free and the same mail price, can't imagine what you would put in a box that big!
You see a small computer desk in a store and mentaly try to sqeeze a layout where the printer goes. Yes, I really did this. Then again most of us have done what we posted here. I wonder what that says about us. Oh, wait, thread title Steve, read the thread title.
You know you're an N scaler when... Your 2-year old bumps the layout and every car tips over... 0.005" makes a difference! 6 feet is all the staging you'll ever need. You're soldering a replacement bulb into a signal (already mounted on the layout) and you literally vaporize the wire. Ooops! Invested in a much-lower wattage iron after that one... You can tell the brand of track a fellow N scaler uses instantly no matter how painted, ballasted, and weathered it is. You model PRR and there aren't 4 different brands of non-brass K4 4-6-2s, half with sound and DCC, for you to choose from. You hide re-railers in your grade crossings so you have a place to put cars on the track without wasting 3-5 minutes each! You haven't used your largest paint brushes since you switched from HO.
When you fling a detail part acrosst the room and just by the sound know what it hit, where it hit...yet you still cant find it... Then about a week after that you step into the train-room and that searing pain in the ball of your foot, the cursing and ventilating subsides you find said detail part firmly implanted. Then followed by a hour or two of soreness. I don't know which is more worth it...the pain in finding it or having to wait to the following Saturday to replace the part.
You know you're an N Scaler when you purposely buy pants with big baggy pockets so it is easy to sneak in your latest expensive locomotive purchase in the house undetected by your wife or better half.
You have to be rushed to the hospital, because you visited your buddys HO narrowguage layout, and see how he has butcherd a dozen rare Nscale engines that you have been hunting for, just for the parts. mg:
You have dozens of small wooden two pump filling stations kits to choose from but no AM PM Mini Mart. 2/3 of the automobiles on your layout are 1/144th scale Racing Champions. 1/2 of the structure kit manufactures start with a blaze of glory then 10+ years later are still offering the same tired old kits. By the time you can decide if the new steam locomotive is worth buying it is already e-bay fodder. Detailing a small scene costs more than your new Kato California Zephyr passenger car set. Your tiny little diesel yard switcher pulls more than the last steam mallet you bought. With all of the above, you still think N-Scale is better than HO!!!
When you're at the grocery store, you buy chicken in the Family Pack because you need the longer tray for a long piece of foam
Unit Train on Keyboard You are sorting some cars and you realize you have assembled a unit train on your keyboard. You realize your favorite cars are smaller than a business card and your mind starts thinking there is an opportunity here.
When you can suck up an entire 40' ISO container, skeleton trailer and tractor in a millisecond in a vacuum cleaner hose while cleaning the layout. And then can't find it in the vacuum cleaner bag without cutting the bag open and searching. ahh. aaaahhhh aahhhhhhhh. CHOOOOOOO!!!!!
