N Scale Trains on Facebook

[Ike the BN Freak]

Oh my god yes. The "here's a big pile of crap that I paid $200 for", "good haul" threads.

Heaven forbid you ever tell them that they over paid for junk...half the members will come down on you for calling white box bachmann junk. And the other half who know better have gotten tired of trying to explain its junk.  Plus the daily, which DCC system is best, or which knuckle couplers are best. Or my personal favorite, I'm too lazy to look at MTLs page, which couplers fit XXXX?

[Ed Kapuscinski]

This is part of some fetish, right?

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[DKS]

This is part of some fetish, right?

Brings to mind a certain very old Craig's List post...

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=33087.msg378131#msg378131

 

[Jbub]

This is part of some fetish, right?

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Nice shot there! LoL

[wazzou]

I don't do any of the FBing.   
I cannot even begin to imagine what the signal to noise ratio is. 

[mmagliaro]

Oh my god yes. The "here's a big pile of crap that I paid $200 for", "good haul" threads.

I'll also say this though. It pained me how fast I realized my demo stuff was running during my open house. Video is NOT kind to train speeds.

Over the years, I have conditioned myself to enjoy trains running REALLY slow (instead of being impatient that they just don't seem to be "moving along fast enough").  Starting in the 1990s, I began gearing everything down for top speeds of around 50 mph and I thought that was "slow".   Now, I shoot for more like 25 mph.  The reality is that even proper scale speeds look too fast on a model railroad because our model railroads are horribly small and compressed compared to the real world.  The train just whizzes through too much of its surroundings too darn fast, even if it's only going 40 mph.  It's okay on a huge layout or an NTrak set-up at a train show, but on your average bedroom-sized layout, speeds of 20 mph look a heck of a lot better.

And now... back to our regularly scheduled forum thread...

[diezmon]

I'm in a couple of FB n scale groups, but I mostly un-followed.   The weathering group is ok, but the other.. spaghetti bowls full of 300 scale mph running, i don't look at as much. 

[diezmon]

Also, the N Scale Scratch Built group is pretty decent.   

[peteski]

This is part of some fetish, right?

German BR18s, really?

That's funny. Between the various Minitrix and Arnold rapido releases I think I have 5 or 6 of them. I even have a smoker. There is just something about that loco. Can't quite put my fingers on it . . . some strange attractions.   

[Philip H]

I'm in that one, and binge read once a week or so.

The PRR one has been really educational for me - and allows me to hold coherent conversations face to face with some members here.

The N Scale Custom Modelers group is way more prototype oriented.

[dougnelson]

Yes, we are merciless.  Yes there is a lot of crap on the FB groups.  Sometimes I post there to show what is possible and I usually get "awesome" comments.  Its missionary work trying to raise the bar.

[diezmon]

The N Scale Custom Modelers group is way more prototype oriented.

I've been pending in that one for a couple weeks.. they can't decide about me. 

[Cameron_Talley]

If you're into T-Trak, the T-Trak group is pretty great.

[packers#1]

If it was the nscale.org facebook page, I actually started that one way back when for that forum and handed it off to a couple of the users on that forum when I went to college. It's grown pretty dang huge since then, but has about the level of detail like what you experienced. I just use Facebook for Libertarian memes and tagging my girlfriend in videos of puppies doing stupid stuff  I'll leave the model trains for TRW 

[bnsfdash8]

I'm a member there the seeing the, but seeing the same kind of posts asked multiple times a day gets annoying.

I help moderate the N Scale Custom Modelers and the Norfolk Southern Model Railroading groups and we try to keep those to actual modeling.