Reverse Running commentar
N
ot everyone in the
hobby is into real-
istic operations; in
fact the majority of model
railroaders are
not
into
serious ops.
For the people who don’t
get serious operation, when
I tell them about our Ops
Live videos, they say things
like, “now why would I
want to get a video to watch someone else run trains?”
If you’ve been in the hobby for more than a few months,
you’ve probably discovered how boring just running trains
round-and-round can get. You need something more.
At this point, a modeler can go two ways:
You can be a builder / collector and go build or get something
new to run, so you can railfan it. This is how you get your kicks
when you’re running trains – otherwise it’s back to building
something new to run.
You can decide there’s got to be more to running trains and
see what all this realistic operation flap is about.
For me, operating is the reason I do the hobby. All this other
stuff – building benchwork, track laying, wiring, kitbashing locos
and rolling stock, scenery, structures and so on – it’s all so I can
run trains realistically, as in operate them like the real thing.
Reverse Running: Stepping outside the box with a contrary view
by Joe Fugate
How absurd: watching someone else run trains
MRH-Nov 2014
