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I was invited to an op session in Michigan some years ago ...talk about mrrers continuing to buy stuff ........there was an obvious " plethora " of locos . When I asked the guy how many , he said " Teejay , I stopped counting at 600 !"  .......me , I'm quite happy with 590 fewer ( and I don't have to worry about counting  )
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Well with train stuff, you can have old train stuff. You can have new train stuff. You can have new old train stuff. You can have old new train stuff. Even your old train stuff can be old trains, or newer trains you had for wile. Your new trains can be new trains you just got or very old trains you just got. Old trains you had a long time when brought out for the first time in years become like new trains. This train stuff designation can be baffling unless you stay on top of what your new train stuff and old train stuff is. That's if you really know what your new train stuff and old train stuff really is. Have I cleared it up for you. I hope so.
Goodbye for now .
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toptrain Wrote:Well with train stuff, you can have old train stuff. You can have new train stuff. You can have new old train stuff. You can have old new train stuff. Even your old train stuff can be old trains, or newer trains you had for wile. Your new trains can be new trains you just got or very old trains you just got. Old trains you had a long time when brought out for the first time in years become like new trains. This train stuff designation can be baffling unless you stay on top of what your new train stuff and old train stuff is. That's if you really know what your new train stuff and old train stuff really is. Have I cleared it up for you. I hope so.
Goodbye for now .
toptrain
v-287 George would be very. very proud of you. You put it so well. We get new stuff every day, and as our memories fail we get new stuff every day. As our memories fail we get new stuff every day.
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Brakie Wrote:and of those boxcars 208 are IPD short line boxcars. Larry: you better get those IPDs back to their owner; they'll be costing you money!
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Organisation is GOOD, Neat and tidy is GOOD, Bear is Neat , Tidy and Organised at w**k, but not in layout area. 
What makes it worse is every time I decide that its time to get Organised I start and then get side tracked by finding Things ( materials and /or magazine articles) that I have put away for my "get round to it" projects. So consequently things may, at the very best, get rearranged , but never organised. 
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Did someone say to organize? LOL ya right. I have one room upstairs where I do the structure building and the the wife also tends to dump stuff in there. Then I have the old laundry room downstairs that I use to do the candlemaking and structure building and now is also being occupied by most of the RR stuff and an old vespa I've been working on then theres the RR layout room. So doesn't look like I'll be organizing anytime soon, I choose to close the doors 
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It's all very simple if you just follow this one rule:
Stuff is junk you keep. Junk is stuff you toss.
Say it with me now...
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Hi, I've just joined the forum, been into American Railroading for just a couple of months.
So far I have accumulated - 2x RDC, 2x switchers, 3x road switchers, a caboose, a 60ft flat car, a 57ft Amtrak box car, 2x 50ft box cars, 2x 40ft HiCubes, 2x hoppers, 2x covered hoppers, & 2x 35ft tank cars.
So I'm glad to see I'm just a 'normal' railroad modeller in the making. 
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Someday I really should count the number of "built", and "still in kit form" rolling stock I have in the basement.
I should also get a prescription for "heart medicine", before I expose myself to the "shock-of-finding-out"!
I still have, an Athearn Metal Line kit,( Packaged by G.F. Menzies Co.,Silverton Oregon ) awaiting assembly
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Sumpter250 Wrote:Someday I really should count the number of "built", and "still in kit form" rolling stock I have in the basement.
I should also get a prescription for "heart medicine", before I expose myself to the "shock-of-finding-out"!
I still have, an Athearn Metal Line kit,( Packaged by G.F. Menzies Co.,Silverton Oregon ) awaiting assembly
Hum... time sure flies fast! Sometimes, I think we are like squirrel: making lots of provision for winter and forgetting where we hide them!
Last weekend, I found out I had dozen of new X-acto blades hidden at the bottom of my toolbox, including fancy ones... I discovered them while trying to make room for newly bought X-acto blades!!!
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sailormatlac Wrote:Sometimes, I think we are like squirrel: making lots of provision for winter and forgetting where we hide them!
Last weekend, I found out I had dozen of new X-acto blades hidden at the bottom of my toolbox... I discovered them while trying to make room for newly bought X-acto blades!!! Matt
The big difference is.........Squirrels don't forget !!
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switcher1 Wrote:Hi, I've just joined the forum, been into American Railroading for just a couple of months.
So far I have accumulated - 2x RDC, 2x switchers, 3x road switchers, a caboose, a 60ft flat car, a 57ft Amtrak box car, 2x 50ft box cars, 2x 40ft HiCubes, 2x hoppers, 2x covered hoppers, & 2x 35ft tank cars.
So I'm glad to see I'm just a 'normal' railroad modeller in the making.
Are you saying you have been in this for a couple of months and all you have is 2- RDCs, 2- switchers, 3- road switchers, one caboose, a sixty ft. flat car, a fifty seven ft. Amtrak box car, 2- fifty ft box cars, 2- forty ft HiCubes, 2-hoppers, 2- covered hoppers, and 2- thirty five ft tank cars.
It looks to me like you need to step up the pace a little. Maybe a couple SD40s. 
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Now you are talking. That should get him up to speed. One thing we all need to remember is YOU NEVER HAVE ENOUGH TRAINS! That is obvious though from what has been said here.
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