I already suggested twice how to do it. You presented what you wanted to do in your first post. Invite those who might be interested to contact you directly and iron out the details with them. It is far easier to come to an agreement or arrangement with like minded individuals. If you get 5 people that contact you directly to agree to a plan, you’ll have your start.
It makes absolutely no sense to debate what you’d like to do with those of us here who apparently are either not interested or have reservations/concerns/objections.
By the way. You’ll attract more bees with sugar and honey. Telling people that they’re paranoid or old-fashioned, or are somehow remotely to blame for some transgression you suffered when you were 11 will get you nowhere.
First thing today, I would like to apologize. We all get our head up our a** sometimes. Maxman thank you for pointing it out. Have to remember were, and who I am talking to sometimes. Once more sorry for being a a**.
CP guy in TX
Any one of those would be fun, let a lone all of them at once! CPR 2839 is that one of the Jubilees? I would want the 5931 if I had to pick one.
If I ever get my layout worked out I have a GS-6 with a N&W auxiliary tender, tool car, power car, crew sleeper. All that fun stuff that’s needed for excursions.
I’ve done this with 1/32 scale slot cars in the past. I’ve got one car that has been to more countries then I have, lol. We would build a car and modify it to see who’s car would run the quickest. Now sending off a 100 dollar slot car with around 100 bucks worth of modifications is a lot different then sending off a model train that could be worth 1000+ dollars. Slot cars for the most part are very durable, trains not so much.
I would not think brass stuff would be sent out… I mean I am vary laid back, and I be paranoid sending that out. haha
I like your idea of getting something basic, and doing modifications. What about the Walthers passenger cars? You can get random ones for less then $30 on ebay… most of them seem to be Amtrak ones right now too so it be easy to repaint. Custom paint, little extra details, fill them with people, lights… heck baggage car cut the doors out fill it with people hanging out.
IDK I like that idea, better then sending one a expensive one…
If it was just one car then it would be kind of cool to see something you own and detailed on someone else’s layout with pics posted. It seems like a lot of work and time involved though.
I don’t know if I call it a lot of work, some time yes. After all at the most I am asking someone to do is play with trains. That don’t seem like work to me [:D]
Look at it this way, say 20 people send you a car. You have to open up 20 boxes, take the pics and then carefully (I hope) repackage everything and then mail it off to the owner. I hosted one of those slot car races I mentioned last year. I had 57 cars sent to me. I spent a lot of time opening boxes, racing, taking pictures and then boxing and mailing them back to the original owners. I put alot of time and effort into hosting that event.
Well only doing 20 (or less) instead of 57 would be cake for you then haha. I dont know I guess I just don’t see taking something out of a box “work”, or putting 20 cars on the track. For slot cars that I could see being alot more work… depending on how many you can run at one time it could be a lot of time taken up.
less then 10min’s to open all the boxes, and put them on the track. One train with maybe one hours of taking photos on the high lights of the layout. If you do a video that might take 2 hours?
So have the train for 3 days, First thing take time and PLAY with it, and have fun that’s the point FUN not work! Find the spots that will look best for photos, and take some photo’s (1hr). The next day if you can shoot a few video’s(2hr max). The third day box them up (20mins?), and down to the post office. So really 3.5hrs of your time I feel I am asking for… maybe a full 4 hours depending how far from the PO you are.
Maybe I am just odd, but I just don’t think I can call that “work”. I call work going out side for 8hr with a jackhammer splitting rocks, and packing them back to the truck (oh yeah fun when its 103 out).
I have participate in a few Car Tours that someone sent their car(s) and I enjoyed hosting them for a few days and sent the package on to the next approved participant . One of these tours had issues with someone not passing the car on with one excuse after another until someone went to that persons hose to get the car and I believe one package got lost somewhere on route (it happens) so there is always some risk. The question is for both sides are you will to take the risk / responsibility to make the tour fun for all?
Heck, I don’t even have a layout yet but still was able to participate and folks enjoyed some of the photos I did. Could I have done the same with an entire consist (likely not but maybe) but certainly enjoyed hosting a car or two for a few days!
The cars I could only run one at a time. I have a computer that is set up to record lap times and it took an average of ten laps. The fastest car was the one that had the lowest average. I gave myself a 1/2 hour with each car just getting used to its handling characteristics, it wouldn’t be fair racing a car your not used to racing. I then did the ten lap race. Work can mean a lot of things, like I said it took up a lot of time and effort and was a lot of work. It was fun but I wouldn’t do it again. Sure doing a excursion train would be a lot simpler to do.