@gunrunnerjohn posted:You obviously missed the movie "The Money Pit". So, with that oversight, you get to live it in real time!
Actually, I have seen that movie a couple of times, and I thought about it shortly after my first parts purchase. Since then, I have modified my approach to include ONLY PW CONVENTIONAL TRAINS when I buy from the auction sites. And I am very conservative in parts purchases, reusing old parts I have collected, scrounged, etc. I also ask myself before I buy a "Repair or Parts" engine, what a working engine of the same type would cost. That has cut down my purchases to near nothing!!!
George