"No rivet counter here. I run trains every day and enjoy."
There is a myth in this hobby (and others, I imagine) that we "rivet counters", even a casual and apostate one like me, don't "enjoy" ourselves. That somehow running equipment in "Whee!!!" mode, and ignoring egregious errors, is the only proper thing to do. Somehow we are not "happy".
Feh. Seeing stupid blue locomotives with rolling eyeballs running cheek-by-jowl with 1:48 Berkshires blasting along at 150 mph - that makes me unhappy. The very Counting of the Rivets and such is enjoyable to us. Toys? Not so much, or in limited doses (like my modest Lionel PW #221 "Dreyfuss" collection).
However - now that I've gotten the "harrumph" out of the way - nowhere else in this hobby do I see the little twist of humor that I see in 3RO. A good thing. We just need to control ourselves lest we look like clowns, and nobody likes clowns. Creepy. Me - I like Hi-Rail with the odd Post War bone showing. With the proper rivet count, of course.
