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Addict?

General Discussion
#1

Guys I think, possibly, maybe, I just might, possibly, have an addiction. Last week I bought another HO Mantua Pacific at auction. This week I bought some stainless Aristo track, some split jaw clamps, and one of them goofy LGB passenger cars. Before that it was a BLI HO Mikado, before that it was a pair of Pemco HO GG1s, and a pair of Delton long coaches, and before that its… Oh and I forgot about the old time HO Roundhouse boxcars, and somewhere in that mix was entire HO Hiawatha train, and an HO Mantua Mikado, to go with my Mantua Pacifics of course. And there was also the HO Bachmann spectrum 4-4-0 and 4-6-0 and…

But its not all my fault. The stuff I have been buying is at give away pricing. Even with shipping. So they keep enticing me to purchase more stuff. Its their fault. Right?

Actually I am finally living my childhood dream to have a full roster of trains. So its not an addiction, its a childhood fantasy. Right? I mean, I don’t have a problem here, do I?

Naw. I’m ok. I’m ok. Its just me having a little fun. Thanks for letting me sort this out.

Now when the heck did I buy that Mehano HO Mountain? And where did that HO E7 come from? And when did I buy…

#2

“Goofy” LGB passenger cars? You aren’t talking about the #3080/3081/33800/33810 U.S version are you? I love my green LGB Colorado & Southern lighted passenger cars with Gary Raymond metal wheels and Kadee’s and G-scale figures sitting in the seats, David! The silver roof tops may not be authentic looking, but…I still really like these babies, 'specially running in the dark!

#3

Nope, I am talking about the 2 axle European jobbies in the starter sets. It says its #3015. You see I have a kit-bash project in mind, and I wanted one more, so I should have enough fodder for the bash. I just need to quit Butt Modeling and actually get back into the shop and start working on stuff again. But, I haven’t been totally lazy, the past 2 Sundays, I have been helping the club president rebuild 2 HO corner modules.

Oops, I just won another auction, for a pair of Aristo stainless wide radius switches.

#4

Boy, I through I had Trains problems… Mantua Pacific and there Mikado later models has the new can motor and lower gearing… I have a couple of the them and are sweet running power. So now I don’t feel so bad… You got it worse than i have. Oh…Oops just picked up a USA 50 box car… lol.

#5

Ya’ll make it sound like we have a toy train affliction. Is this is a bad thing?

Noel your railroad is a living breathing reality, nothing wrong with the heard multiplying IMO…

Michael

#6

it is soo simple: we are just plain crazy.

and we have women, who must be saints. (mine just says: your yet unborne grandchilds will be happy…)

but on a more serious note: i noticed, that always, when i have too much lead in the bottom to get any modeling done, those are the times, when i buy most of the stuff, i don’t need…

#7

David,

Therapy is down the hall.

This is the For-ever Young room.

It’s good that you are finally able to admit it, that’s the first Step in recovery and to help you out what do you want for the Delton long coaches, I don’t have those (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)

John

#8

I have more trains than, better trains than ever…wish I had something I could run it on.

#9

John Caughey said:

David,

Therapy is down the hall.

This is the For-ever Young room.

It’s good that you are finally able to admit it, that’s the first Step in recovery and to help you out what do you want for the Delton long coaches, I don’t have those (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)

John

John, I bought the 2 green Delton coaches to go with the Yellow Delton combine that I have. That was another auction purchase. So now I have a nice 3 car set of Delton cars, they just need repainted so they match. The 3 cars together cost me less then $100. When Heartland was making them, they cost more then $100 a car.

Vic, I keep saying that I need to start selling off the stuff I don’t use. But for some reason I just don’t get around to it.

Noel, the new Mantua Classics are also DCC ready, so I can drop a decoder in them and run them on the club’s set up. But I can’t run them on the NMRA modular set up. Their track work is too sloppy. I even have a set of Tyco cars, with them horn hook couplers, that I run at shows. Folks of my generation like that train. It reminds them of their Tyco trains they had when they were kids.

#10

David Maynard said:

Oops, I just won another auction, for a pair of Aristo stainless wide radius switches.

Oooo, Did the railroad just acquire more purchasing ability with the local acreage? This can mean only one thing… expansion! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#11

Randy, the office of land management, A.K.A. Mom, probably won’t allow much expansion. But then again, she didn’t complain when the railroad ended up bigger then she thought.

#12

Trains are addictive. I have been battling my addiction for years now and lately I have had a mad urge to either buy something an spend the money in my paypal that is burning up, or to build something. I keep looking at my Stainz and I get an itch that tells me I should remove the cab and put a passenger body on with a single axle on the back that it would make a cool little steam powered railbus.

So far I’m fighting the urges.

#13

Trains Anonymous. . . now I can go to a T&A meeting and my wife won’t get mad she might even encourage it.

#14

David Maynard said:

John Caughey said:

David,

Therapy is down the hall.

This is the For-ever Young room.

It’s good that you are finally able to admit it, that’s the first Step in recovery and to help you out what do you want for the Delton long coaches, I don’t have those (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)

John

John, I bought the 2 green Delton coaches to go with the Yellow Delton combine that I have. That was another auction purchase. So now I have a nice 3 car set of Delton cars, they just need repainted so they match. The 3 cars together cost me less then $100. When Heartland was making them, they cost more then $100 a car.

Vic, I keep saying that I need to start selling off the stuff I don’t use. But for some reason I just don’t get around to it.

Noel, the new Mantua Classics are also DCC ready, so I can drop a decoder in them and run them on the club’s set up. But I can’t run them on the NMRA modular set up. Their track work is too sloppy. I even have a set of Tyco cars, with them horn hook couplers, that I run at shows. Folks of my generation like that train. It reminds them of their Tyco trains they had when they were kids.

After spending years acquiring, kitbashing, storing then - selling off huge chunks of my collection for space, only to find now that due to closures and bankruptcies I can’t recreate or re-acquire alot of the things I would like have BACK, today my attitude is very much… fuck it! I ain’t selling off any more, I’m keeping it even if I have to store it in the damn crawlspace! Because I know supply isn’t going to get noticeably better for quite a while still.

I’m in a very frustrating place currently, I have all the track and components necessary to finish not only the Indoor layout but also to completely build the Outdoor layout as well, what I DON’T have is time, and I am cursed with a garage full of clutter that I cannot be rid off without creating significant domestic strife. Its one of the reasons I went ahead and began to outdoor layout process, its in a location my wife cannot argue “that’s for something else” becuase its right next door to one neighbors trash cans and another annoying little dogs. Now that the weather is moving out of Hells Furnace into Slightly Tolerable I can get the outdoor projects moving along once again, seriously this nasty damn summer heat has refused to go away till just now.

#15

Here’s a remedy for compulsive, dedicated, and purposeful purchases of model railroading products: GO for the real ones!

That’s 1:1 scale in our language. Yes, you can shift to a no-cost use of your modeling skills to the big ones – the real thing – join a restoration group that “plays” with both models and the reality.

Live in the LA area? Fullerton Train Museum has a need for any train fanatic who has modeling skills to join with the rest of us modelers in the restoration of a 1940s caboose, two other cabeese, plus the detailing of two fully intact 1940s UP passenger lounge/cafe cars. Fullerton Train Museum is at the Fullerton Amtrak station, east end, and is open first and third Saturdays 9:00 AM. Join us at those times for our regular family tours and see what your interests are. Bring your family on a tour. We work in the mornings.

P.S. we do need skills in diesel engine installation on a handcar.

Wendell

#16

Hi, my name’s Lou and I’m a Trainaholic.

#17

Lou is a good example of addiction – and a candidate for making 1:1 an additional part of his hobby.

We have 'em in therapy daily at the Fullerton station – having lunch, watching trains, recording loco numbers, and proclaiming destinations. The station café faces the mainlines and is a view of over 120 trains daily. Still, the urge, the drive, the compulsion for more rail pounding excitement is there.

So we are recruiting (yes, I’m on the Museum board) those same train-a-holics, rail addicts, and other hobbiests who want a touch of the “real” thing to season their modeling interests by volunteering and working in the 1:1 rail environment. Try it out.

#18

My name is Sparky Joe and I am a ferroequinologist! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-undecided.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

#19

Joe Zullo said:

My name is Sparky Joe and I am a ferroequinologist! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-undecided.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

That one got me good, Joe. I had to search my Jesuit-trained Latin memory banks to figure it out. Iron + Horse…and I still didn’t get it right away. Ha.

#20

Gee whiz fellers!

I think all y’all are making mountains (and not from Sculpt-a-mold!) out of a minor enjoyment. I am distressed by some priorities stated here!

I know for sure that my 1960 HO Mantua General is safely out in the shed! While behind me on the shelf is my 1969 US Navy imported Tenshodo S2 Ho 4-8-4. Over on another shelf is my 1972 Maerklin Z Amtrak train, behind it are my On3 critters from the 80s, bought custom On3 cars in 03 and a new K27 to pull 'em and above that a small On3 diorama and beside that an Nn3 train made from a Z loco and kit gon… 2.5 G locos … stop breathe in … outside a couple more G trains…

After my youth, it’s kinda nice to know where my money went.

Autos and kids come and go, but trains are for ever!

John