Hey, I'm from Carson! Kinda miss Nevada.

Sadly I know those sounds are true! I visited Reno for 2 weeks in July a few years back, met a few furs there too, but yeah, every night I was sleeping in a travel RV thing, and all I could hear were such sounds, even on the road to and from there it was like that. XD Hope you have a good time or whatnot down there. :3

my favorite sounds i'd rather listen to then what humans seem to find entertaining. i don't belong in cities but live here to not have to spend on a car what i then can on my other hobbies. not that i have that much after expenses anyway. i'm not good at knowing names from faces so i don't know if i've seen you around. i'm over in sparks (east side of reno), at base's, where a bunch of other furs live in a house he's buying. i usually remain in my cave and only poke my nose out when i hear unfamiliar voices.

i like mountains and trees better, but even high desert is better then the banana belt (central valley) over in cali.

What's neat about Reno, is that when you look in one direction, you see the Great Basin, and on another direction, you'll see the Sierras.

i grew up in the sierras, and part of the reason i came up here was i really never did like the valley all that much and i had kind of gotten stuck down there because anymore you almost have to have a car to live anyplace between about auburn or grass valley and here. when i was growing up in colfax there were like three trains and 8 bus schedules each way every day that stopped there. (even greyhound doesn't stop there any more, even out on the off ramp by the freeway) also of course cali's gotten way expensive.

i think the one thing i don't like about reno-sparks is no train store and no computer store as such. there was an old guy selling tinplate on 4th street, but now he's gotten too old to keep the store open even the couple of days he had been on week ends. and anyway he just had 3rail O and some G. ten twenty years ago, there were three good model train stores in the area. for electronics i don't know if they every had anything like fry's up here. may have had allied, which was the big e- parts place before computers came along. closet thing is best buy, which ain't all that close. we do have a trader joe's for groceries, down toward but not in the big mall. and lots of dollar tree and 99.999 cent stores, big lots, and so on.

No, he didn't get too old, he passed away. It was really sad because he was a rare and dwindling breed that wasnt just in-business, but passionate with a range of levels that could connect to children and adults. His wife took over for two years but her heart just wasn't in it. He was never in it for the money. They may have shifted over to mail order for a while.

Yeah, I remember the other two LTS's. My Dad and I have always done O Gauge, and Reno Rails was the most Charming one. I've heard there's a cool all-gauge store in Yuba City?

well best train store for scale stuff that's closest that i know of is roseville hobbies. that's a big full service for model rail hobbies. i used to live in roseville. that's where i was living in the valley. yuba city isn't really any closer to me unless i could teleport. there are buses and trains i can ride to get to roseville and back, but that's quite an expensive expedition any more just to go to one or two stores. so i resign myself to ordering on line. walthers and some of the others.

i grew up with HO and occasionally tinplate-O. but narrow gauge more fits with my kind of furry/fantasy world, which is also mostly a world we could actually be living in. i did a lot of N-scale for a while, with a mix of japanese and u.s. prototypes. then i decided to actually do narrow gauge and converted some of my N stuff to HOn30. though never got around to building an actual HOn30 layout.

then On30 started becoming availabe commercially, and for me that's a size that's just right, using HO track and mechanisms, which are more reliably smoother running then N gauge ones, with what for me is the herky scale of 14" to the foot. big enough for even my fat fingers to do a lot of scratch building. which is what i chose to build my present layout in, now that i seem to have a bit of space in which to have started actually building it.

so its scale 1/48th detailing parts, and HO trucks, couplers, loco innerds, On30 track, which is gauged to HO scale that interest me now. i've pretty much got the architectural doors and windows and textured wall sheets and things like that, and structural steel shapes in abs from plastistruct. the acodimon at the 99.999 cents store are a little over scale, but help emphasis the small proportions of narrow gauge.

also of course my own 3d printer, which i hope to have one going again, to make scale furrys and parts specific to my designs which don't exist commercially.

also the guy who ran the store my have passed away a couple of years ago, which would have been a few months before i cam up here, but there were a couple of other older guys keeping it open on weekends up until about a couple of months ago. looks like they're now trying to sell off remaining inventory but they haven't really lowered prices that much to do so. like you said they may intend to stay in bussiness on line, but eventually get rid of the brick and mortor store front entirely.

but what i was talking about, there was an actual model train store down toward but not in meadow wood. might have been in that mall on moana that's just a flat cement wasteland now. oh i know there was one where that big convention center thing is now. and anyway there was also one on north loop of mccaran, which may have been the predicessor of heroes which has gone completely to rp game mini's and then there was a third one on prater here in sparks. this was all in the 70s, 80s, and well into the 90s.

i would have thought with so many older people coming up here to retire bacause housing has gotten relative inexpensive, there'd be more of market then there seems to be, for the model railroading hobby.

and at the other end of the age spectrum, with young and working age people both, having grown up with computers now, and taking having one for granted as part of their everyday life, a populated area this size, there'd be more and better computer places then there are too.

Sounds like my kinda place. Especially the sounds of distant frieght trains^^ I'm fortunate to have that here but need to be outside to enjoy it. Place points the wrong way & is insanely well-insulated from outdoor noise it seems

I've always wanted to go to Nevada. Get an RV and go cruising the country... *Sigh* it sucks to be poor.. ever been to Pahrump?

*waves from sparks*

Reno :<

It sounds peaceful. I take that kind of peace for granted, my back yard borders on Pike National Forest in Colorado... Noisiest thing here usually are the starlings and yawping foxes at night. :)

Reno, eh? What brings you up? If you drove, then you probably passed right through my (figurative) backyard to get there.

Half my family has been here for 25 years. I usually drive the eastern side of the state.

Yeeeah, I bet that is far more scenic than taking the 99... I've never been to Reno myself, but I may soon as I have a friend lobbying me to go to BLFC next year.

I have only one piece of advice for you: Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns.

sounds like a good time

I'm not that far out of town, but I do like being out in the country. Now if the pests would stay out of the house...

Welcome back, Foxer.

"Once I banged a fox in Reno, just to hear him squeal"

Sorry I couldn't miss this x3

Fur good or visits? Because no offence to people living in California... but fuck that man, other side of the coin to FOX news if you as me. Still nice to visit.

What?

That state is crazy... or did you not live in California? If not I am just dumb.

To bad you're in Reno. You missed out on the early morning earthquake here in California!

Welcome back! Would you like to meet up and catch up? I don't know how long you're staying.