Model RR layout

WOW!! INCREDIBLE!! So much to see and so few superlatives...

Normally the NYC next to the Alps next to the Grand Canyon type layout leaves me cold, but this is Spectacular Execution. From the road traffic to the camera flashes in the stadium, from the ski lift to the hot air balloons and rail traffic everywhere!

Thanks for sharing!!

They have a YouTube Channel!!

Wow!! L@@K!!!! RARE? . . . unfortunately not

What ARE you on about?

Perhaps your ISP also filtered out the Spam concerto pimping (probably - I didn't open their link) the Miniatur Wonderland in Germany. Just more spam. With E-Bay punctuation.

Well now, at least we now know how reliable your opinions are. Perhaps a quick check would help with your facts...............

Fact: Miniature Vunderland is a for-profit tourist attraction in Hamburg Germany. (See attached price schedule.)

Fact: As do many other businesses, Vunderland advertises regularly in a number of places in order to attract more business, and just like other seedy tourist attractions (Disneyland, Europe, etcetera) they no doubt employ a PR department to see that their name is kept in the forefront of potential customer's thought-processes just as much as possible. (See the big spread in Model Railroader a while back.)

Fact: References to Miniature Vunderland's website have appeared here at RMR on a regular basis ever since I began watching the group several years ago. This makes it seem as if the person or persons who keep doing this are in fact spamming the Newsgroup hoping to stir up a little more future business for Miniature Vunderland.

So if Steve suspects that your post is just more of the same, and that you are in fact a flack for the nice folks at Miniature Vunderland, it's easy enough to understand why.

Them's the facts.

~Pete

Ah, apparently it did.

Fact: Miniature Vunderland is a for-profit tourist attraction in Hamburg Germany. (See attached price schedule.)

Fact: As do many other businesses, Vunderland advertises regularly in a number of places in order to attract more business, and just like other seedy tourist attractions (Disneyland, Europe, etcetera) they no doubt employ a PR department to see that their name is kept in the forefront of potential customer's thought-processes just as much as possible. (See the big spread in Model Railroader a while back.)

Fact: References to Miniature Vunderland's website have appeared here at RMR on a regular basis ever since I began watching the group several years ago. This makes it seem as if the person or persons who keep doing this are in fact spamming the Newsgroup hoping to stir up a little more future business for Miniature Vunderland.

So if Steve suspects that your post is just more of the same, and that you are in fact a flack for the nice folks at Miniature Vunderland, it's easy enough to understand why.

Them's the facts.

~Pete

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I'd not seen it before and was Astonished. Imagine Working there!

So, does that mean it's not a model railroad?

-- Ray

You mean you don't know?

I'm just checking to see if you do. You've done a lot of complaining so far about a model railroad that happens to charge an admission.

How do you feel about the San Diego Model Railroad Museum? There have been lots of posts here about them but they also charge a cover. Why not slam them, too? You make no sense sometimes, Pete.

Reminds me of a couple of friends in Oceanside who were members of a motorcycle club. The members complained at meetings month after month that there wasn't a custom shop in Oceanside. Poor members had to either go to San Diego or Los Angeles for their custom stuff. Lo and behold, that member and his wife invested a few hundred thousand in a shop and opened the first custom cycle shop in town. What did they get for their reward? Complaints from club members who suddenly started claiming they were only members of the club to increase their profits. How moronic is that? Well, pretty close to your complaints.

It's a model railroad,for heaven's sake. Just let them post here now and again without your vitriolic replies and slams. Grow up.

-- Ray

Damm, I didn't know I was going to create such a problem by showing a site that had some model railroad stuff that a friend had sent to me. At least there was one person who enjoyed it also.

On 5/24/2009 7:48 PM Ray Haddad spake thus:

The SDMRM doesn't appear to propagate spam like the other railroad under discussion does. Anyone but a lame card-trick "magician" would get that.

There's no complaints about it when a third party posts information though. The original poster was a third party. Grow up.

Is that supposed to bother me somehow? You need more work on your delivery. Did someone smash your toy trains today, David? Poor baby. How precious it is to see you whining and grasping like you do.

-- Ray

Enjoy it. The only thing different about you is that you're considered fresh meat. Don't fret the loudest here. They've got nothing else but false bravado, mate. Trust me on that one.

They're all wind and just as smelly.

-- Ray

WHAT SPAM?? One poster pointed out a YouTube video. I watched it, enjoyed it and noted that they have a YouTube Channel - meaning a Lot More videos. *I* don't work for them and I doubt the OP does either. The rest of you buggers have got your knickers in such a twist over it you'll all be singing soprano ...

It's been that way for more than the 15 years I've been hanging around here. A few like to crab and grouse so loudly that they feel as if they own the place. Look at the whining over some advertising for tools. Modelers don't need tools. Right? They just gnaw at their models to make them work right.

Basically, the louder they scream, the less they have to contribute. Just watch for yourself and see. The next two idiots to scream at me hardly contribute anything except to scream at someone else now and again. I'll bet you 5 cents their trains are smashed against the basement walls if an ant manages to cross the tracks.

-- Ray

No, Ray, you're just playing asshole net-nanny again. As is your regular wont.

Ray, as Lewis Carrol noted, words have actual meanings; and "complain" doesn't mean "pointing out facts", no matter how much you'd prefer it to be otherwise. In fact, I made no value judgents on Miniature Wonderland *at all* other than a joking reference to "seedy tourist attractions" -and I included both Disneyland and Europe as other examples of "seedy", which should have clued even the *dimmest* bulb into the fact that it was a humorous over- exaggeration.

I didn't "slam" anyone except you (see above), and that quite deservedly, nor did I say there was anything wrong with a model railroad museum charging for admission.

That's because you only see what you *want* to see and fail to read the actual words that appear in front of you on your screen. (And in case you were wondering, the proper word for that id "delusional".)

Ray, it pains me to say it, but you're an idiot.

There were no "complaints", and your entire post is based on your own straw-man reasoning: something at which you regularly excel.

Yeah, maybe some day I can become a real grown-up like you: someone who buys a lifetime supply of teapots just so you'll never run shy when you want to throw a tempest......er, tantrum.