I could use a few Southern Pacific 6-12-12-4 Cab forwards, never seen one? They were an elusive beast indeed[8D].
Dave
Like I always do, with a Remington Pump[}:)]
Bruce[:)]
This is true! a couple of months ago I sold a Lionel box (with 4 automobiles) in Ebay for over $250 bucks! The box wasn’t all that great either!
My inner has some hang up on SP engines (and UP a little). I don’t model SP but I grew up watching them on Cajon Pass and I just feel guilty not having them. I have a new Athearn SP SD45 that I can’t patch to MRL because I love it so much. It’s like I owe it to my childhood. Well, it’s a good thing I’m only 32 and wasn’t around when steam engines ruled. I’d be broke…Oh, wait, I already am.
My inner collector was beaten to death after a brief foray into garden railroading. Nightly scans of ebay, hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars dropped on expensive track and engines, and one delightful spring of running trains.
Then the weeds came.
Good Lord! I gained a lot of respect for the guys who maintain the real railroads! The adventure was abandoned after three consecutive July 4th parties where people asked “Why don’t the trains run?” The G scale stuff began clogging up one end of the garage, and hopes of returning it to service dimmed with each passing month. Finally, up it came, into boxes, and off to willing purchasers in far off places. I lost a ton of money, but it was a fun experiment while it lasted.
I took what little proceeds I got, and handed them over to the inner operations VP on the operating WM layout, and got back to the important business of actually running trains.
Lee
You confirm what I’ve suspected: Garden railroaders are best off to be gardeners first and railroaders second.
The practical (?) alternative is to build in a ‘garden’ which doesn’t grow anything but gravel unless the green thing is deliberately given a steady ration of (expensive) city water…
Which pretty well describes my Mojave Desert back yard, which my wife has taken over. I don’t have the heart to tell her that the rather meager harvest she achieves could be purchased at the supermarket for less than the price of the water she uses…
I also have a couple of boxes of G-?? equipment which my sister acquired at garage sales. I seriously doubt that it will ever be used, but I don’t have the heart to break hers by selling it…
So, why don’t I put an outdoor layout in the 80% of the yard my wife doesn’t use? Well, yesterday the outdoor thermometer hit 112 F, and the sun will blister unprotected skin in less time than it would take me to sort out the odds and sods of trackwork in that box. That’s the price I pay for never having to use a snow shovel.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - indoors)
The Uintah RR was a shortline in northern Utah.
I collect Roundhouse “old timey” cars. Passenger, freight, whatever. As long as it’s got an interesting name or lots of fancy crap on it, it’ll go home with me. My favorite is the overton coach painted up for the Union Pacific Railroad Photographer.
As collections go, it’s relatively painless. The cars are fun pieces, and I’ve never paid over 10 bucks for any of them. Now all I need is an old timey loco to pull them…
Dave:
OMYGAW, why didn’t you PM me? I just sold mine on EBAy for $19.95. It was the one (#4295) that Baldwin built for the Friant Branch between Fresno and Friant Dam. Only reason I got rid of it was that it wasn’t a ‘flat-face’ like I originally wanted.
Oh darn–I would much rather that YOU’D gotten it! [sigh]
Tom [:P]
Don’t tell me how to engage it… Please! Tell me how to DISENGAGE it!
[banghead]
My inner collector has got a big red board: money!
Wolfgang