@coach joe posted:Mike it took me over two years to get the boxes out of the train room once we moved in.
Wow that's not encouraging, I hope I can get it done a little faster! Lol đ
@coach joe posted:Paul, manifest destiny and westward expansion were halted by the natural barrier that is the Pacific Ocean. Expansion of my little empire also has barriers of the manmade type, walls.
âWalls??? We donât need no stinkinâ walls!!! DIG WE MUSTâ.
- Anonymous Con Edison Sidewalk Superintendent, June 1974
@Apples55 posted:âWalls??? We donât need no stinkinâ walls!!! DIG WE MUSTâ.
- Anonymous Con Edison Sidewalk Superintendent, June 1974
Alfonso I didn't reconise you
@mike g. posted:Wow that's not encouraging, I hope I can get it done a little faster! Lol đ
Five days
@coach joe posted:Paul, manifest destiny and westward expansion were halted by the natural barrier that is the Pacific Ocean. Expansion of my little empire also has barriers of the manmade type, walls.
Mike thanks for the suggestion but most of those cars are in boxes in the garage right next to most of the rolling stock.
Donnie, thanks for the offer.
So model the Coast Starlight. San Francisco to San Diego
Hey Paul, I'm hearing voices again and they don't sound anything like you. They ain't saying anything about expansion of the road but they are singing about the expansion of the roster!
@mike g. posted:Wow that's not encouraging, I hope I can get it done a little faster! Lol đ
Hopefully you find a home with enough storage that all the train boxes don't have to go the Train Room when you move in. Here it's no basement, no sheds, not much attic, only the garage. I had to figure out the logistics and make it happen. All the other unpacking and setting up house (Honey Dos) and regular day to day also contributed to the delay.
@Guttersnipe posted:Alfonso I didn't reconise you
Yeah⌠sorry⌠The Man doesnât let me wear my sombrero at work 
@coach joe posted:Hopefully you find a home with enough storage that all the train boxes don't have to go the Train Room when you move in. Here it's no basement, no sheds, not much attic, only the garage. I had to figure out the logistics and make it happen. All the other unpacking and setting up house (Honey Dos) and regular day to day also contributed to the delay.
Joe, I understand! The CEO and I have an agreement, she gets room for a garden and I get a basement for a train room!
@coach joe posted:Hey Paul, I'm hearing voices again and they don't sound anything like you. They ain't saying anything about expansion of the road but they are singing about the expansion of the roster!
Well, Joe, Iâve been working on disguising my voices!!!
And, I can relate - while the last two years have been very complicated and Iâve not really done any work on the layout, I have done some significant roster expansion (like I need more trains said no one ever).
And since you are in roster expansion mode, might I suggest a nice set of Lionel aluminum passenger cars to go with your Dreyfuss??? They issued a nice set back in 2002 - 15â long and runs on O-31 curves. You can still pick them up on the secondary market occasionally (6-15326) 
@coach joe posted:So my latest addition is my first brass locomotive. A Weaver Dreyfuss Hudson. As I only have a 4x8 I don't know how much run time this minimum 42" radius beauty will actually get.
Don't run it until you go through it. I ran my Williams Dreyfuss, the motor came loose and had to eventually replace the reverse board as a result. See my notes on a similar Dreyfuss in why you should always check a new engine.
@Apples55 posted:Well, Joe, Iâve been working on disguising my voices!!!
And, I can relate - while the last two years have been very complicated and Iâve not really done any work on the layout, I have done some significant roster expansion (like I need more trains said no one ever).
And since you are in roster expansion mode, might I suggest a nice set of Lionel aluminum passenger cars to go with your Dreyfuss??? They issued a nice set back in 2002 - 15â long and runs on O-31 curves. You can still pick them up on the secondary market occasionally (6-15326)
Yet it do get to be a problem when you have more engines that track
@mike g. posted:Joe, I understand! The CEO and I have an agreement, she gets room for a garden and I get a basement for a train room!
I prefer my boxes in the train room, that is under the layout where they belong instead of me crawling around under there. Beside it is (five letter word describing a female dog0 to go out to shed during the rain to get my Sante Fe P.A.s
Funny how we all are experiencing delayed gratification these days when ordering new trains. I put an order in to @Berwyns Toys and Trains quite a while ago for custom run MTH Pup trailers and added a couple of cabeese along the way. They recently came in.
For those of you familiar with the Chicago area, Jay's Potato Chips and Marshall Fields were/are Chicago staples. Could not resist getting them. Forgot to take a photo of the Great Western caboose - later. Jay's âCan't stop eating 'emâ --- Now to figure out how to model their Chicago potato chip factory.
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Very cool delayed gratification Jeff! Ever get tired of the BN caboose let me know! Lol đ
@mike g. Mike, Berwyn's still have them in inventory. I am not letting my only BN caboose go. I was startled to see how few BN rolling stock pieces I have. The CEO will cut my budget if I buy more new stuff.
@Apples55 posted:Yeah⌠sorry⌠The Man doesnât let me wear my sombrero at work
Yeah they are like that, they are
@ScoutingDad posted:@mike g. Mike, Berwyn's still have them in inventory. I am not letting my only BN caboose go. I was startled to see how few BN rolling stock pieces I have. The CEO will cut my budget if I buy more new stuff.
that is why Air brushes and paint were invented
@ScoutingDad posted:@mike g. Mike, Berwyn's still have them in inventory. I am not letting my only BN caboose go. I was startled to see how few BN rolling stock pieces I have. The CEO will cut my budget if I buy more new stuff.
Lol I totally understand! I have been selling things just to have a new train room budget for when we get a new house! The CEO already it's not coming out of monefrom the sale of the house! Lol đ
The NYC office sent me an MPC era Pennsy streamliner set last year, but I didn't have appropos motive power for the same until I sold a bunch of stuff at the train show and picked up a K-Line tuscan GG-1:
Also picked up a prewar crane car and complementary gondola...
Mitch
