while you were digging around your trains in storage that, when you look at it, you can’t remember for the life of you ever having that unit?
Today i found a Reading GP30 painted in Green and yellow with a little guy inside, that until now, didn’t know i had
i once found a tree i didn’t know i had. but thats nothing to compare with your adventure
Cleaning out an HO layout from a boxcar we found aLionel ZW control that still
worked. Needed cleaning.
My problem is just the opposite – an inability to find something that I am almost certain I had. Either that or I have been dreaming about swap meet acquisitions …
Dave Nelson
Maybe you need to see a doctor. I wouldn’t think this would be normal.
The stuff I packed for the move 5 years ago last June is still sort of in the attic here. So, every now and then I go up to see if I can find something I “know” I have that is now needed. I come across other things that I had forgotten about. So far, no locos that I really didn’t know I had. Buildings, people, vehicles, decals, passenger car interiors, cows!!! Each trip is a kind of adventure.
Don’t think I need medical attention for this. A list? Come on, this hobby is meant to be fun [:0]
There’s a bit of difference between finding a cow or a decal and a locomotive unless your so rich and have so many locos they become like cows. I stand by the doctor comment.
In one way or another I have been in this hobby in HO since about 1962 (do the math) and yes it is possible to forget that you own a locomotive believe me. Just by way of example I knew I had a metal Mantua Pacific that I had tried to modify but gave up on and left in pieces. While checking some boxes not long ago one seemed heavier than it should be and I was surprised to see I also had a pristine Mantua Pacific – something I must have picked up for a song (maybe $5?) at some swap meet and forgot all about when I changed eras and prototypes. So I think it can happen without brain damage – or at least without more than the level of brain damage that is normal in the hobby
Dave Nelson
When I was in high school in the early 60s, my sisters boyfriend gave me his lionel HO set, The Texas Special. I ran it for a couple years and then sold my stuff and put his stuff in a box to return when I decided trains aren’t cool. I got on with my life and bought a home in Virginia and started a layout with my son. When I mentioned it to my mother, she told me she still had the box of trains I had left behind years ago. What a surprise to find the 1950s vintage Lionel set, still in pristine operating condition and only needing new rubber bands in the locomotive. Now I’m considering adding DCC to it.
Or, of course flea, if my locos are so cheap that a good decal or cow would cost about the same. And, some of the junk I’ve accumulated at “bargain” sales would qualify! Maybe I should see the doctor about the bargain mania? [:)]
Once I had put my trains in storage for about ten years. There were a lot of things that I forgotten about when the boxes were open. There was a lot of “I don’t remember that/ this and where did that come from.” [:)]
I’ve found weights from old Athearn cars, and fishing sinkers that I also use for weighing down cars.
Take care[:)]
Russell
turns out the engine i found was brand new, and never used. The couplers and fences had not even been attached. Unfortunately, it has a different kind of couplers, and nothing else i have has that kind.
about four years ago my dad got a giant box of nickel silver kato unitrak and a lifelike n scale GP20 from a friend for free He put themin the attic and i havent found it since My mom might have thrown it away!
while you were digging around your trains in storage that, when you look at it, you can’t remember for the life of you ever having that unit?
Today i found a Reading GP30 painted in Green and yellow with a little guy inside, that until now, didn’t know i had
i once found a tree i didn’t know i had. but thats nothing to compare with your adventure
Cleaning out an HO layout from a boxcar we found aLionel ZW control that still
worked. Needed cleaning.
My problem is just the opposite – an inability to find something that I am almost certain I had. Either that or I have been dreaming about swap meet acquisitions …
Dave Nelson
Maybe you need to see a doctor. I wouldn’t think this would be normal.
The stuff I packed for the move 5 years ago last June is still sort of in the attic here. So, every now and then I go up to see if I can find something I “know” I have that is now needed. I come across other things that I had forgotten about. So far, no locos that I really didn’t know I had. Buildings, people, vehicles, decals, passenger car interiors, cows!!! Each trip is a kind of adventure.
Don’t think I need medical attention for this. A list? Come on, this hobby is meant to be fun [:0]