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You know you have too much track when

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#21

YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TOO MUCH TRACK WHEN…

You lease, a BNSF MOW crew for a weekend.

#22

…you’re fit to be tied.

#23

You know you have “Enough” track, when you have no grass left to cut…!!

#24

You never have to much track!
Sean

#25

You know you have too much track when…

the driver knocks on your door and wants to know where to dump the 40 yards of crusher fines you ordered for your expansion.

#26

40 yards?? Gee, I bought 3 years two years ago and still have half of it in storage. I wish they’d get more that in stock!

#27

I must be illiterate, that’s 3 yards, two years ago and more track in stock! Sorry.

#28

Hehe! If you’re illiterate you’ll still be two points ahead of most of us around here. :wink:

#29

You know you have too much track when…

…you try to find your yard on Google’s satellite view, and there’s too much glare from the shiny rails.

…you need three different scale clocks, one for each time zone.

…you finally stop buying track, and the manufacturer has to announce massive layoffs.

#30

LMAO good ones Ray!!!

#31

By the time I get done with my broom car and pulling the tiny weeds that grow between the ties, I have to do it again
1 hour later… (True story).
There’s something to be said for “short lines”. :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

#32

John Bouck said:
By the time I get done with my broom car and pulling the tiny weeds that grow between the ties, I have to do it again 1 hour later… (True story). There’s something to be said for “short lines”. :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

JB, Here’s a proto for a very relaxed line … a shortline here in the valley.

(http:///F-PIX/Kekuli07_sc.jpg)

That’s the line between Vernon and Kelowna (owned be CN), used by the Kelowna Pacific Railway . I have no idea how often they pull the “tiny weeds” :slight_smile: :smiley: :lol:

#33

When your passenger train finally comes back around through the station and your little passengers now have kids.

#34

You have too much track when you read all of the comments in this thread and then don’t respond.

#35
Wendell Hanks said:
You have too much track when you read all of the comments in this thread and then don't respond.
I don't have too much track; I have too little time.
#36

You know you have too much track when:

You hook up your new DCC system, and you cause brownouts in your neighborhood.

You energize your signal system for the first time, and the local airport calls to complain you are confusing the inbound pilots.

#37
Victor Smith said:
When your passenger train finally comes back around through the station and your little passengers now have kids.
Now that is a good one!
#38

Good ones Jason.

A few more I thought of this weekend.
“You know you have too much track when…”

your significant other says “I didn’t know the train went over there to?”

You send your favorite engine and consist out and it eventually comes back with different cars that it picked up at the interchange and the roadnames on the boxcars are from a forum members RR 3 states away !!!

#39

Todd theres an old joke reportedly started on the Ghan in Australia, which before they rebuilt it, was considered due to the terrible track conditions the slowest regular service train in the world!
The Ghan finally arrived in Alice Springs , as the passengers are disembarking, with great difficulty the Porter helps a very very pregnant woman down off the platform, he remarks “Madame you shouldnt have made this trip in your condition” she retorts, “My dear sir, when I began this trip I wasn’t IN this condition”

#40

You know you have too much track when…

…you run your new train around the layout, and by the time it gets back, it’s fully weathered.