07-20-2011, 08:01 AM
shaygetz Wrote:Primarily social, both on the net and once a week at a local eatery with other modelers.
As far as clubs...solo...it's been 4 and a half years since THE MOMENT at the local club when two well heeled members expressed their opinion that I needed to get a real job so that I could buy real trains and not run "that toy junk on our layout". Yes...it still hurts that much...I thought I left that male bovine effluvium back in junior high school.
Unfortunately that is one of the things that really give clubs a bad rep. To my knowledge, we haven't had that problem in the modular club I belong to even to the extent that we just quietly correct the wiring problems that seem to be constantly introduced on one member's modules. He is the only person I've met in model railroading that should not be allowed to touch any electric wire EVER.