Who Needs a MRR Anymore, When:

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The wife keeps trying to convince me to move. If we do then I'll have to, but until then I'm holding off.
 
PowrCab said:
I'm citing a condition I and a number of others are experiencing; the feeling of being stuffed, full bellied and balloted due to all of the thousands of RR videos we have seen and heard, to a point where we're so satiated now that even owning our own trains is almost unnecessary; that, since the watching/viewing of trains is say, 86% of the ritual (if you will) of craving all things railroading (what it comes down to), why not just, well......watch videos and skip the cost-part of owning them anymore..!
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Nope, I cannot identify. I generally don't watch videos.
 


If your not having fun do something else!!! I have a small 14x5 roundy round track plan. Included alot of siding's. I run diesels like gp40's, 38's etc. I'm now 78 and still having fun. Build nice scenery, think big but build small.

We all can't have what some others can, so build to the space you have. My layout looks bigger than it really is.
I had a large layout when I had a house but after some life changes I am now in a over 65 apartment with limited space but I'm still playing with my trains and I will till the lord calls me home.
 
I for one, like watching people run their trains on the layouts that they built. I watch reviews, repairs, or whatever and in the end, if there is a running session, then I go back for more. If they show the construction of layout, I watch that as well. I view the videos as inspirational and for ideas. I'm not in your shoes or level of experience with layouts as I have yet to build one, but am slowly ramping up to do so.

As for too much, I've given up beer...
 
I'm not in your shoes either, and I really question whether you are being totally truthful, or this thread is just some kind of act to see how long it will perpetuate. Watching videos as 86% of craving "all things railroading"? Give me a break.
 
I assure you it's not a hoax..In fact today I was searching how to change the YouTube home page to start anew, with no train videos at all..I am just b u r n e d to the gills simply seeing 17 of the 22 (whatever) video thumbnails of trains of one size/kind/age or another; just the home page !! It's like someone is holding my mouth wide open and shoving as much peanut butter as they can, down my throat !!! Soon as YT learns what you love they barrage you, plaster you with as much of it they can !! When you had only the library, before the net, you saw only the spine on the RR books and the title where you had to even bend your head a bit as the words were mostly sideways..and then sometimes you'd find the latest MR on the mag rack, grab it and peruse it to death knowing another month will have to go by until the next issue.. Now we gotz trains 25 hrs a day, 8 days a week, 32 days a month and.......right, 366 days a year, just in media, aside from your own, other's, and clubs and remaining hobby shops you might visit.....
AND it seems like EVERYONE'S getting into the act now !! I had NO IDEA there were SO MANY MRRS out there; this line, that line, this sub, that sub, home layouts now the size of what used to be a club layout, requiring a crew instead of just little old you....Ugh...I'm just spent..And believe me, no one has loved trains as much as me since I can remember, beginning circa 1953 on L.I. and later in NYC..with my love of the subways..
Enough for now..I rest my Casey Jones...
 
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PowrCab said:
I assure you it's not a hoax..In fact today I was searching how to change the YouTube home page to start anew, with no train videos at all..I am just b u r n e d to the gills simply seeing 17 of the 22 (whatever) video thumbnails of trains of one size/kind/age or another; just the home page !! It's like someone is holding my mouth wide open and shoving as much peanut butter as they can, down my throat !!! Soon as YT learns what you love they barrage you, plaster you with as much of it they can !! When you had only the library, before the net, you saw only the spine on the RR books and the title where you had to even bend your head a bit as the words were mostly sideways..and then sometimes you'd find the latest MR on the mag rack, grab it and peruse it to death knowing another month will have to go by until the next issue.. Now we gotz trains 25 hrs a day, 8 days a week, 32 days a month and.......right, 366 days a year, just in media, aside from your own, other's, and clubs and remaining hobby shops you might visit.....
AND it seems like EVERYONE'S getting into the act now !! I had NO IDEA there were SO MANY MRRS out there; this line, that line, this sub, that sub, home layouts now the size of what used to be a club layout, requiring a crew instead of just little old you....Ugh...I'm just spent..And believe me, no one has love trains as much as me since I can remember, beginning circa 1953 om L.I. and later in NYC..with my love of the subways..
Enough for now..I rest my Casey Jones 10 wheeler..
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You can clear your viewing history from Youtube using their settings, and you can also set Youtube to not remember your viewing history. It's all contained in their settings.
 
As for utube feeds, I don't let them choose for me. I bookmark the ones that I like, such as described above, and if I need to find something specific, then I search for it and might find a good channel to add to my bookmarks.

I just bought one of Kato's mini-diorama kits and will now go search for content on building terrain. Or maybe i won't.
 


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