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thx712517 Dec 16, 2016

  1. thx712517

    thx712517 TrainBoard Member

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    Sounding out an idea here. I've bounced around in scales a few times in the past but I think I've dialed in where I'm going. I've tried N to G and have picked HO. Got a nice loco, weathered freight cars, a few buildings, and I've got a decent little switching layout with ideas on making it a little more complex in the future.

    So do I sell off my N scale stuff? It's not too much. A bunch of Kato track, a Kato turn table, one locomotive, three freight cars. Wife thinks I should hang onto it in case I change my mind in the future. Selling it probably won't get me much, since only the turn table still has its box. She has a point - I could always give it to our (currently unborn) child if s/he gets into the hobby.

    I've got three starter sets of LGB, all from when I was a kid. They live in the attic right now. They're all pretty busted up. Lots of detail parts smashed off. Sell 'em off too? Try and cobble together a working locomotive from the parts?
     
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  2. BarstowRick

    BarstowRick TrainBoard Supporter

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    Who hasn't gone through the torment of deciding to get rid of something in hopes of getting something better down the road. Pay off bills. New toys for the kids. Trip to Disneyland. Vacation in Colorado while riding all the trains. Yep, who hasn't looked at what we have and wondered.

    Best of luck.
     
  3. Calzephyr

    Calzephyr TrainBoard Supporter

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    Hmmm... your switching layout would have almost 4 times as much space in N scale. LGB has to go... you might find some 'tinkerers' who would fix the items which are broken. HO has a larger following and you might get more selling them than N scale items.

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  4. thx712517

    thx712517 TrainBoard Member

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    While it's true that my same layout in N would be much smaller (or a bigger track plan in the same physical footprint) I had fits trying to get along with N scale. Just couldn't do it. Now if it was a choice between N or nothing at all, yeah I'd go N scale. I may do the turn table on its own, and then sell the track as a bundle, and the switches as another bundle. I'm probably crazy, but I've been reading a lot about minimalism and simplicity and what have you, and also reading about Native American poverty, and thinking I can sell off unused stuff and put half of that toward charity.
     
    Last edited: Dec 16, 2016

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