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Okay, am I nuts or just plain crazy?

General Discussion
#1

I am enjoying this new found hobby, but it seems I have too many irons in the fire.
-replace a final drive gear in a Connie.
-mount front couplers on 2 Annies
-mount rear coupler on one Annie.
-shorten the length between engine and tender on 2 Annies.
-Build at least 3 bridges to complete my ‘Winter build’.
-Finish adding the details to the cars that I built almost a year ago.
-I started cutting out the wood today for a batch of skeleton log cars.

And i still don’t have a operating RR!
Am I NUTS! or just like the rest of you?

#2

Naw,
Just obsessed. :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

I have a bunch of projects, too.
In no hurry to get anything finished…:slight_smile:

#3

If you’re nuts, I probably am too.
My list of projects I’ve already started dwarfs your list.
I’d like to think I’m in a hurry to get the projects done.
But that’s probably delusional thinking :smiley:
Ralph

#4

Hey Randy, that sounds pretty normal to me.
Not to worry it will get better as you get older; that is there will still be the same number of projects, just less worrying about them. :lol: :lol:

#5

Randy,
you are not nuts, it took me three years at my current residence to get my railroad up and running and I have been wanting to build a railroad since I got my first LGB set in 1984. I like you also have a long list of winter projects.

Nico

#6

nah, bout normal I’d reckon. It’ll get ahead of you for sure!

I invested countless dollars (Stock, RC Control, track), built 3 different rr’s in the yard…then lost the house…Now I’ve got most of it in boxes, including tons of 322 track sitting in my way-and I’m very doubtful it’ll ever be used again…sad, indeed!

#7

Cale,
Good to have you pop in after a long absence :wink:
Give me a call or shoot me an e-mail.
Ralph

#8

quote: “Am I NUTS! or just like the rest of you?” YES! :wink: :slight_smile:

If you weren’t nuts you wouldn’t be normal (for here)!

I think one of the biggest sources of enjoyment in this hobby, aside from the folks, is the planning and construction parts of it. Life can be pretty dull without our dreams and seeing those dreams come to fruition at least in part can be very satisfying. Take heart Randy, you’re not alone in this bastion of padded cells.

#9

Considering that one of your projects is directly related to track laying on the right of way you’ve already aquired, you already have a RR. You have some track laid, so you CAN run trains. As Doc Tom has done use your trains to aid in the building of your empire. All of us are crazy just challenging the elements for our enjoyment of this hobby.
Keep plugging away at the bucket list while you add to it and maybe , just maybe , your bucket will be empty when you are. :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :wink:

#10

Lets see I bought my first train set in Nov had trains running outside on a layout by April. The following year did my second expansion. Now I have only been in the hobby for 4 years. I would ssay your nuts Randy but im also not normal. Wait I work for the state thats why I have so much time LOL. Just get some track down so you can run trains then take it from their. Dont let bridges get in the way, support the track with wood and rock until you get he trestles ect… built.
Im also one of those anal people. When I have something on my mind I dont rest until its done.

#11

Not crazy!
I have so many things to finish and do.

Alec.

#12

Randy… Congrats!!! Rooster is wearing off on you… hehehe :slight_smile:

#13

Randy McDonald said:
I am enjoying this new found hobby, but it seems I have too many irons in the fire. -replace a final drive gear in a Connie. -mount front couplers on 2 Annies -mount rear coupler on one Annie. -shorten the length between engine and tender on 2 Annies. -Build at least 3 bridges to complete my ‘Winter build’. -Finish adding the details to the cars that I built almost a year ago. -I started cutting out the wood today for a batch of skeleton log cars. And i still don’t have a operating RR! Am I NUTS! or just like the rest of you?

Randy Yup your a nut job…

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#14

Randy,

I am not sure about being nuts, but it seems to me that we are among a very large clan of ADHD’s, flitting from one project to another. I have been in the hobby about as long a Shawn, have not track on the ground (enough for a 235 foot loop), more projects (train related) started than you do, and none of them totally complete. I think it just comes with the turf. :slight_smile:

Bob C.

#15

Arent we all nuts???

I’m like Shawn though. I dont like a lot of unfinished projects. I like to get started on one project and keep at it until its done. i started building my small layout (160’) in March and am mostly dont except the buildings.

However, I still have a list of projects to start.
- Wood trestle (Thats my winter project)
- Buildings
- More railcars
- Modify my 2-truck shay to a local prototype

So yeah I’ve got ideas, I just havent started them because I know I would stress over them not being done. So, I start one at a time.

#16

Gee Randy…its taken me 15 years to get a semi operating railroad…

#17

You’re in our great hobby Randy, whatever your state of mind ;), and that’s the important thing. I built my RR in two and a half months (retires and plenty of time to do things lol). I then set out to buy locos and rolling stock. I enjoyed running trains so much I didn’t really think very much about structures and line side items. Now, after some six years or so I got round to building structures and some stock bashing. I did put a working front coupler on one of my two Annies: the other one is yet to do. The great thing about garden railroading is that there is always something do do - not including honey do’s.

#18

You have to be a little crazed and or obsessed with the hobby, no your not crazy, and no it never gets done, always something to do, which I guess makes it interesting. If you really want to more crazy try putting on a live show on the internet from your backyard, or old geezers house in Kalifornia, then you get crazy, and then once you have mastered it and go away for a bit and come back things are changed AGAIN, and you start re learning all over again. Hah LOL Great hobby since I was 5 years old!! Thats why I’m the Crazy Train Guy, and in my 2nd or 3rd childhood, according to my family and wifey. Yikes!! Hah LOL Regal

#19

Okay, I feel better now. :slight_smile: Guess SWMBO is right! She thinks we are all a little of the wall.
Did not expect to have this many replies to the thread, but I guess we are just a bunch of old pharts playing with toy trains. (And maybe too many Ales were drank last night). :wink:

#20

Randy,

The hobby is the adventure of building and operating a large scale railroad, not the completion of said project. I’ve been a model railroader all my life, 63 years now, and have many times been told I was just not right playing with model trains or that “I had too many irons in the fire”. My family does support my hobby and this internet community, plus large scale trains as helped my affliction flourish and grow. Around 1996, these current endeavors started growing and since then I have found many new friends and had better support of my addiction than any other time in my life. I hope and expect to complete the railroad the day before my obituary appears in the local paper.