For about four weeks I have had a boxcar roof on my workbench. It is fully assembled with a nice roofwalk and seperate corner grabs, and it is painted in a nice glavanized finish.
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The problem is, I cannot find the boxcar that goes with it!
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This has been eating at me for about a month.
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What is eating at you right now?
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-Kevin
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Not being able to build a layout because the basement isn’t finished yet and it’s a big job. That’s what is eating at me for about a half a year now.
As my British wife says, just “soldier on”.
I am working on a Lonestar flatbed trailer; it came with a donation to Boothaby Railway Village. First time with this brand. A well made kit in a class simlar in difficulty to Jordan kits. A lot of fine detail parts, easily broken. I had to change what I had planned a couple of times because parts broke. [8o|]
Also, I have not been able to find a suitable tractor for it. Walthers has discontinued Alloy Forms and CMW does not have any undecorated tractor truclks in the catalog now. Guess I will have to order somethng from Sylvan Scale. More delays…
On one of my sidings I have a frieght house, I don’t like that frieght house. Unfortunately I just can’t justify doing something different with it right now so it sits, a bland, shoddy, plastic reminder that I should have gone with a different kit.
I have been digging through all my storage containers, and still-in-box kits, because I KNOW I have two Walthers 74’ TOFC’s, the kits in the white a stripped narrow box.
I’m coming to the stark realization, I might have sold them along with some Conrail semi trailers. [:|]
Another thing is decals! I’m trying to get some spine cars finished, and I have 5 yet to be decaled. I struggle with decals! Once I get started, I’m good, it’s just getting started…I keep doing other things!
It’s just so stressfull being a model railroader!, why would anyone do this? [(-D] [swg]
Mike.
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I don’t need to drive…it’s within walking distance.
I’ve had this Korber roundhouse for perhaps 40 years, but started building it about four years ago…
It’s not high on my list of things to do, but a few days ago, I decided to re-visit that stalled project.
While it’s going well-enough, I’m also going through Evergreen strip styrene at an alarming rate (over $130.00 worth last week). I hope that the additional stuff that I ordered at that time comes in soon, or the project will soon stall again.
My plan (perhaps more a hope than a plan) is that it will have a one-piece removeable roof. While the structure will be at eye-level on the upper level of the layout, I don’t plan to add much in the way of interior detail and will definitely not add lighting, but I do want the interior to be readily accessible.
Here’s where construction is at, as of about 5 minutes ago…
While the cost is manageable, the time which this project is consuming is driving me crazy…I’m generally a slow worker anyways, but this one seems especially slow.
Wayne
Keep it up Wayne, I’ll stick with my decals, you stick with your roundhouse! [(-D]
And I only hope that this does NOT turn into another philosophical “whats wrong with this hobby” thread!
I’m sure that’s NOT what the OP had in mind when he started it. It always seem to come from the same places.
Hey, but I did get started on my decals, and I did find one of the missing TOFC’s, so life is great!
Mike.
My painted and decaled Athearn 50’ reefer shell has been sitting on my file cabinet for months. I went looking for the other parts to put it all together and I can find the box, the weight, frame, bolster, trucks, couplers and brake detail, but there is a big cylinder (air?) that sits under the door that is MIA
Yes. … Technology drives me crazy… .nuff said.
Change it to almost 5 years. Oh and first I have to “unfinish” the basement, and I’m right there.
–Randy
When researching Burlington Northern almost half the stuff is BNSF. BNSF wasn’t formed in the late 1980s.
I’m planning on getting just books on the BN skipping the internet, altogether on the subject.
We can have this…
this…
and this…
but we can’t have this…
WHY???
Five years? No thankyou. Thankfully wife is a hard worker and is helping to push progress along. She got distracted last couple weeks re-tiling the new shower floor which the contractor botched. She is pretty handy. I am going through a lot of mud on the corner areas which there are a lot of, what with those four boxed in ceiling beams.
The only thing bothering me at the moment is not having the correct silver to paint side frames for my UP 1943! The original trucks were binding, so I ordered a new pair and they only had black, so now my 1943 looks very Unprototypical, but it will have to wait.
Well, I love technology i.e. LEDs, cube speakers, wi-fi connected throttles.
BUT when it decides to go wonky it can cause an Excedrin Moment [banghead]
Presently, I have a Broadway Limited Heavy Pacific that I recently bought from their Refurb Outlet. Now, I’m well aware of the QC problems that many of their Paragon3 decoders have had. I’ve had to deal with a few of those already.
SO, this Pacific. Excellent running locomotive. I’m planning to add an Elesco FWH and make it into an ERIE K5. I test ran it on address 3 with no issues.
Then, I programmed the decoder address to the road number 2925 and made a few other minor changes to sound levels, momentum and such, using JMRI and a Sprogg II.
Then I place the engine on the layout and call up 2925 and nothing happens. [%-)]. I tried address 3 also but no-go.
So, back to the programming track and JMRI. Using the “Identify” button I get “Address 1610 found, no such roster entry”. Huh?
Now, I enter the CVs for 2925 individually: 17=203, 18=109, 29=34. Read them back and all is good.
Back to the layout, no go! Enter 1610 into the throttle and the engine runs, but backward and in 14 step mode.
A real head scratcher! If I program any other address, 2924 or 2926 or simply 25 everything works fine.
Why does this happen? I haven’t contacted BLI just yet. I could renumber the locomotive… but again, WHY?
Just one of those goofy, frustrating “digital glitches”? I can live with the engine programmed as “25”. Down the road, I’ll probably switch to an ESU decoder, anyway.
Cheers! Ed
What’s it read back for CV29, a value that would be 14 steps, reverse, or is it reading the 34 you actually set it to? Sounds like it’s missing or flipping some bits.
–Randy
What do you mean unfinish it? Do you have to rip out drywall?
We are making good progress. The frustration is it’s a bit like “a watched pot never boils” - the pot does boil but sometimes perception is it takes a lot longer than we would like and we get impatient.
Aug - Oct 2018: Electrical, plumbing and pre-rough inspection stuff was completed while other working was being done on the house and taking precident.
Nov: Permit to finish acquired.
Early Dec: started drywalling:
Early Jan: most walls drywalled:
Those beams and vents boxed in on the ceiling (seen in 2nd photo) are all drywalled now as well and all metal corners installed - some of them mudded.
Instead of drywalling ceiling, installing suspended (drop) ceiling to keep access to wiring and plumbing easier. Plan to install 2x2 troffer lights.
This drives me crazy, one of the brass manufactureres even went as far as to make one of these in N scale but no one has ever done a Reading T-1. I would pay good money for that just to have a Ramble on my layout.
I’ll write down the exact details and post it in a separate thread instead of tying up this one, Randy. In the next day or so I’ll get to it.
Thanks, Ed