Be honest.
Have you curtailed your train purchasing for a while?
I mean everything that has to do with the hobby.
I took a look at my stuff today, and said I’m happy with what I own now.
I recently bought an Accucraft passenger car on e-vil bay, and now I’m done for a while.
So, my answer is yes.
What’s yours?
I’m done buying. Not just done buying “in the hobby”…done buying everything but food and fuel. Not because I’m happy, because I’m beyond broke. Selling stuff I’d rather keep comes next.
Mine are ALWAYS curtailed.
I did buy the show car at MWLSTS and got a few signatures.
John,
No… We have not stopped buying because we are in the real Mid-West ( South West Kansas ) & the things are not as tight here as else where… Gas prices are coming back down, under $3 a gallon… But we are retired ( tired ) so we have slowed down overall…
We have spent the last two weekends at train events. Two weeks ago at Marty’s and last week at the MWLSTS.
I bought some custom built cars from Bubba at Marty’s and bought wheels for those cars at Springfield. I also bought a Ram light ssytem at MWLSTS. I did sell some old magazines at Marty’s.
Far less revenue changed hands than in the past. Fun factor was extremely high at both events.
Since I’ve been concentrating on completing the RR and build my structures from scratch as well I can’t say there’s been any change. I’ll still purchase the needed raw materials for benchwork and structures as well as windows, figures, light fixtures, etc., but these by themselves won’t be in a quantity likely to break the bank.
The only equipment purchase I’m considering in the near term is maybe a couple of the new Aristo C-16’s. I want to see one in person first though and see how everyone likes the belt drive in them. If I buy the C-16’s that would mean R/C, Phoenix Sound and batteries as well of course.
Can’t say that I’ve curtailed it as I haven’t bought any cars or locos in a few years. I am contemplating a B’mann K, but waiting till the bugs are out.
I’ve been concentrating on buildings for the last couple of months to finish up the yard area. I have most of the supplies (track & trimplank for roadbed) for my expansion plans, I just need to get the pond in first. Still haven’t decided where it’s going yet…
one weekend at Marty’s, and one weekend at the MWLSTS… My check book & credit cards can tell ya, nothing has been curtailed on the railroad…
But, it was a grea time at both places…
Training last weekend at MWLSTS. Running this weekend. Training next weekend at the Rosemont Horizon, or whatever it’s called these days.
I’m content with what I own at this point. I am waiting for Aristo’s standard gauge 2-8-0, probably will get 2 of them. I don’t have any more room for more cars, though. The ones that I want aren’t made, yet, so I may have to scratch build them.
I definitely need more track, but not this year…
I would like to say “yes”. But as you know, that “I got to have car or loco shows up” and then you buy it. Then you swear off buying anything again. But you know you won’t. You’ll buy and then buy again. You’ll keep buying until you are really broke. Then you’ll sell your blood to get that next piece of railroad equipment. You end up on some street corner holding a piece of card board that says “will work for model railroad equipment.” Your family tries to help. You resist, you insist that have no problem. It’s the governments fault. If they didn’t allow the manufactures to outsource their product, then maybe you couldn’t have afforded them and wouldn’t have bought so much. Maybe then you wouldn’t have become addicted. But you are. Your wife and family abandoned you. Then one day someone notices that your mail has been piling up and then they realise that nobody has seen you for a couple of weeks. They look inside you house only to find you dead under a pile of railroad stuff, still in the boxes, without metal wheels or K-Dee couplers. Your addiction has now completely consumed you.
I had to cut back on my RR spending almost from the moment I started it. We’ve had a string of large, unplanned expenses that started in January 2006 right after I began work on the layout. Car repairs, plumbing problems, medical, etc. It’s been that way ever since. I’m hoping next year will be better.
In the meantime, I’ve postponed a lot of the stuff I wanted to buy.
Curtailed, yes, by a lot. Totally stopped? No.
Mine has been pretty much curtailed for the past year or so. Not due to my financial situation, but due to the lack of new items on the market I’m interested in. All of the money I’ve spent lately has been for maintenance (paint, ties) or parts to fix broken stuff.
Cheers,
Matt Hutson
M.P. 293 on the Rio Grande’s Baldwin Branch
Tony Goatz said:X, You are right, as usual. I can't stop! I tried for a day or so, and succumbed to the drug again. I need re-hab as soon as possible. I could be down to my last dime, and still buy something for the RR.
I would like to say "yes". But as you know, that "I got to have car or loco shows up" and then you buy it. Then you swear off buying anything again. But you know you won't. They look inside you house only to find you dead under a pile of railroad stuff, still in the boxes, without metal wheels or K-Dee couplers. Your addiction has now completely consumed you.
jb
John Bouck said:Tony Goatz said:X, You are right, as usual. I can't stop! I tried for a day or so, and succumbed to the drug again. I need re-hab as soon as possible. I could be down to my last dime, and still buy something for the RR.
I would like to say "yes". But as you know, that "I got to have car or loco shows up" and then you buy it. Then you swear off buying anything again. But you know you won't. They look inside you house only to find you dead under a pile of railroad stuff, still in the boxes, without metal wheels or K-Dee couplers. Your addiction has now completely consumed you.jb
Down 90 %
Still buying paint, detail parts, styrene and wood supplies, magazines, stuff like that, but as for major purchases I had been on hold for a while now, I just have so many projects already on the stove, I have to finish them, and really change my emphisis away from the workbench and towards the layout.
Yes; any “New” items on the market recently, are of no interest to me, so my addiction is slowly being weaned.
…however, there is the fact that Winter is setting in to follow this great Fall weather, and just returning to indoor shop projects, does make a person look in different directions, within the hobby.
Buying stuff lately has not been of any interest to me, but I might bite on an RPO from B’mann, if they were to ever put one out in their BIG HAULER pasenger car line. So with that statement, you can see that I haven’t a hope in heck of handing out any cash in the near or long term…!!!
I’ll probably visit the big train show in Syracuse at the end of October, but really only to meet friends and make contacts. There sure won’t be anything there for me to buy, except maybe the odd little tool from the “Tool Man”.
I just ordered a bunch of scale lumber for winter building projects.
I swear on my grand-kids that that’s the last…
And I looked all over my shop for a metric nut driver.
I just ordered a set of Wiha’s.
I swear on my grand-kids that that’s the last…
Damn, that Proxxon table saw looks good…
Hey, this ain’t really train stuff such as locos and cars!