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carsntrains posted:
Mark Boyce posted:
mike g. posted:

Matt, I have seen several rural airefields with just grass runways but  I will think about it for a little before I go to town cutting. I might keep one side for a helipad!

Mark, I am sorry to hear that your selling off some of your rolling stock! Also the employment situation doesn't sound very good. But I sure am happy for you that you were able to secure the Shay#6! Looks like a nice engine and will look great on your future layout! Best of luck and keep positive! Thanks for the link of the train tunnel!

Mike, I am an operator, not a collector.    I had two good years before the cutback to part time where I had a buyout, pension, and full time employment, so I guess I went a bit wild!    I was never in a situation like those two years before where I had some extra money every week.  I had more engines and rolling stock than I needed for a layout the size of the one I have planned.  Everything has gone to good homes, and that makes me happy!    

You're welcome on the link.  We lived about 20 miles from Cumberland in the early '90s in Keyser, West Virginia.  The Western Maryland and B&O both ran through there at one time.  Of course with the Chessie System merger and later CSX, a lot of track became redundant.

Mark I am a builder, operator, and collector.   Maybe not in that order.   Right now I'm a thinker..  Trying to figure out where in the world I'm going to put the Vetter sash and door company and two heavy trucks from Menard's!  

Glad you can deal with letting things go.   I dont do very well with that. 

Jim

Jim, I let go of about a dozen HO steam engines and a bunch of freight cars to help pay tuition.  I didn't put any of that money into O gauge trains.  Maybe since I have been in O gauge only since 2012 it is a bit easier. 

Yes I'm a thinker too, but I mostly get smoke instead of ideas!  Some of what I sold I thought, Why did I buy that!  Other items were harder to deal with, but once done there were no regrets!

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