10-24-2013, 09:39 AM
My wife and I are doing some cleaning, sorting, redecorating in our house. I've been sorting through my British 00 and North American HO trains (rolling stock) in our basement, and I can't believe how much stuff I have!
I've just spent about 1.5 hours re-organizing much of my rolling stock and it hardly looks like I've touched things! Last night, I counted up the number of my locos and -- depending on how you count them (I don't really want to include a couple very basic, toy-like ones that my son bought) -- I have about 32-34 locos. I consider these locos to be reasonably good models that are suitable to run on a scale layout.
I only have two small layouts -- a 4x6' tail-chaser and a 15" wide by 6' long switching layout. Both of these are covered with locos and rolling stock.
I've just bought a model train wall cabinet that should hold 14 Pacific steam locos plus a few smaller ones, especially tank engines. This should free up a lot of space as well as give folks a chance to "admire" my more detailed models.
So I need to take a break now, do some real work, and then get back to this re-organzing later. I suspect many folks can relate to this but I'd be interested in finding out if I'm "worse" or not as bad as some!
Cheers, Rob
I've just spent about 1.5 hours re-organizing much of my rolling stock and it hardly looks like I've touched things! Last night, I counted up the number of my locos and -- depending on how you count them (I don't really want to include a couple very basic, toy-like ones that my son bought) -- I have about 32-34 locos. I consider these locos to be reasonably good models that are suitable to run on a scale layout.
I only have two small layouts -- a 4x6' tail-chaser and a 15" wide by 6' long switching layout. Both of these are covered with locos and rolling stock.
I've just bought a model train wall cabinet that should hold 14 Pacific steam locos plus a few smaller ones, especially tank engines. This should free up a lot of space as well as give folks a chance to "admire" my more detailed models.
So I need to take a break now, do some real work, and then get back to this re-organzing later. I suspect many folks can relate to this but I'd be interested in finding out if I'm "worse" or not as bad as some!
Cheers, Rob
Rob
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