March 16, 2004
Model trains your thing?
They aren't mine, but this looks pretty neat for a certain sort of monkey.
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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.
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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?
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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...
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Frogs: Heh. Nice one.
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This program needs some of these accessories (scroll down).
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dng: Suddenly, I want to build model train sets. So I can have monorails running through fleshpot cityscapes and similar cornucopia of fornication.