Lately, except for a fuel pump I had to have replaced, I've been my own mechanic. Only difference is I don't charge myself 90 bucks an hour for labor . I do the work for beer
I have a problem in that I build themed trains, and I just KEEP on doing that!!! (Yes, This is HO) It started with ten Athearn Brown Box xcars in ATSF paint...I thought ten was enough...But I needed something to haul them around with, so I got a coupl emehano Steamers. Four years later, the mehano are sold, yet the roundhouses are all FULL!!! I decided I wanted a passenger train...of hevyweights...I got Five SanteFe and decided five was enough of the ugly Pullmann green...I really Do no tlike that green! I also got hooked on the MDC 34' overton cars, now those are nice...I might have 10-15 waitingto be put into one train...I want them painted in a nice hunter green.... And here is the WORST Part...a couple weeks ago, I descovered the Overland paint schemes from Athearn, both UP and SP...Now those are SHARP!...I may just have to sell off the SantFe and get a full set of those!!! I started my Ice reefer train when I went to a trainshow and fournice reefers built and some with Kadees for 3 bucks each...I SHOULD have let myself be a little MORE then greedy that day!!! I started a fire train inadvertantly when I bought two red OT tank cars... I have WAY too many Rotary Snowplows! I need to get my scratchbuioldign going again, for some reason i keep getting distracted by projects everywere I turn!
I don't even want to count mine. I tried to count engines once and gave up when it came to all the unfinished projects. Do you count it as two engines when you are kit bashing them to make one? I could probably build 15 engines out of stuff from my junk box. My passenger car project drawer is twice as bad. Opperating freight cars would problably be more than 500. How do you count the bag of trucks that were removed to update to MT trucks? 20 trucks = one car?
45 locos, 389 cars. The kicker is 135 are covered hoppers for grain service. I am sucker for covered hoppers, and tank cars. I will have the mother of all grain elevators that will hold about 70 cars at the elevator. the elevator in n scale will be about 4 feet long maybe even longer, adios fer now wyatt
Sounds like you've got enough to model the elevator complexes in Saginaw, TX. Those are huge facilities by most standards.
Hee hee hee.........wish I could, but outside of changing all the fluids, spark plugs, etc., my experience with rice-burners is limited. That, and my fee would increase to a large bowl of red beans & rice, boudin, and a Pat O'Malley's Hurricane, after which I wouldn't care much about sick cars (sick railfans, yes, but not sick cars)
...my fee would increase to a large bowl of red beans & rice, boudin, and a Pat O'Malley's Hurricane...</font>[/QUOTE]Uh, just how many of those Pat O'BRIEN Hurricanes have you had today...?
Best I can muster right now is 25 covered hoppers that aren't for plastics, cement, fertilizer, or are Airslides. Sounds like I need more hoppers! Now see what ya gone & done???????
N - 2 locomotives & 17 cars HO - 9 locomotives & 27 cars? I really do need some more N scale locomotives and cars.
right now i have 7 engines, 2 more on order, 89 covered hoppers, 20 some boxcars, and some misc. gons, flats, etc. now i need about another 4 engines, about 30 more boxcars, 30 covered hoppers, and 30 intermodal cars of various types, then i should be happy for a while. of course, it'll never fit on my home layout, but that's what club layouts are for!
Speaking of having a weakness for certain types of cars/engines/etc... Thread - whats your favorite train piece
Last count, let's see: 97 locos, 407 cars, 10 loco's on order, 20 coal hoppers and 4 box cars on order, NO LAYOUT hope the wife doesn't see this ConrailPete Conrail lives on in the UK
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." I have to wonder where I fit in at times.... Mark in Utah
There is a book, "Touched by Fire" by Kay Jamieson that argues that there is a strong correlation between genius and mental illness (I'm bipolar = manic depressive )... I tell you, I'm one hell of a smart as... guy!, a smart guy!
I have one of those types in my house- my wife. I also have a som who has moderate depression, another son who's ADHD, and I myself am a member of the Zoloft Nation. I can relate all too well. I can also joke about it, because it helps me deal with it. Just goes to show, you don't have to be off plumb to like our family, but it does help! Way I see it, the only person I have to please in this hobby is me. If I stop having any sort of fun, I'll get out of it.
My 3x7’ N scale East Texas District of the Santa Vaca & Santa Fe has 3 staging tracks, capacity about 9 cars each = 27 cars; 6 industry spurs = 22 cars; one general purpose setout-pickup track, 10 cars, plus logging reload and mill dump track used only by logging cars. My layout does NOT have any yard as such. All trains except the logger run through from staging to staging. Grand total capacity 59 cars. My layout represents a line that had one regular through freight daily each direction, a daily doodlebug that made a round trip, passing through twice daily, a local peddler east one day and west alternates, an extra ore train and rice extras in rice shipping season. I have room for only 3 trains plus the logger. That is 6, 7 or more trains daily. Plainly I do not have enough staging for my traffic, and I have to switch cars on and off the layout from time to time to run the trains I want to run. My freight car fleet stands at 301 cars, many not yet in service, unbuilt kits, cars to be kitbashed etc. I am interested in acquiring some “special” prototypes for the present layout and for future possible layouts. I don’t need to be buying more cars in general for my present layout. See my layout, kitbashed freight cars and future trackplans at http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kennethanthony
