March 16, 2004
Model trains your thing? They aren't mine, but this looks pretty neat for a certain sort of monkey.
Well, when I was about 8, I was given a Lionel train --I was for a while exceedingly fond of cramming the coal carriers and boxcars full of marbles and then crashing the whole show on the curves -- this created an exciting racket and grand mess, since the playroom floor was bare hardwood. But otherwise it seemed a monotonous toy, and was wasted on me and my siblings.
However, my dad and his friends used to play with it from time to time.
Hmm, watching model trains go round in circles isn't terribly exciting. Watching animated 3-D model trains on a simulated track sounds...less so. I always thought it would be cool to have a full-on model train set, though. There's a model shop in Tahoe that has scale models of various rail systems (short sections thereof, obviously) that always impressed me.
As I previewed this, my son's Thomas the Tank Engine CD came on. Coincidence?
darn. this post is about small trains. i thought for a moment, upon reading the title, that it would be about supermodels, offering to train someone's "thing" to perform better.
see now i feel dirty, but i swear that's how i interpreted it...
Frogs: Heh. Nice one.
This program needs some of these accessories (scroll down).
dng: Suddenly, I want to build model train sets. So I can have monorails running through fleshpot cityscapes and similar cornucopia of fornication.
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