08-08-2010, 07:34 PM
Charlie ...
As you (and anyyone else who has been paying attention) may know, I have developed plans to build a layout in one half of my rather large "Great Room." As you have apparently undergone an estrangement from your railroad stuff similar to my own, I can sympathize with your situation of having to endure a mess first to find out what you have and where it is. Most of my railroad "paraphenalia" has been packed in boxes and in storage since we moved to Florida in 1993! I had no clue what or where! i used to say I had "about 25 boxes" of railroad. Most of the rest of what I owned had been in storage since my divorce in 1997.
When I moved into this place, I had all the boxes from my move stacked in rows with an aisle in between to ease the unpacking process. The railroad boxes got stacked up along the back wall, so as to be unpacked last ... all 58 of them! Well, I finally got throught the 200+ other boxes, purging as I went. I have now unpacked almost all of the LS&W RR boxes and the stuff is all over the place where I intend to build the railroad. Building benchwork is "on hold" until after the "Challenge." But in the meantime, I have not had anyone other than my daughter inside this house, due to "The Mess." It just plain embarrasing to be discovered to be living amonst such "clutter!"
But, Charlie, if it'll make you feel any better ... if it will help you realize that you are not alone in your dilema ... I am swallowing REALLY hard now ... and posting the following photo of what I will have to figure how to deal with before I can really begin building my layout.
Look! I know it's a mess! I'm not happy about it! But I couldn't remember what I had or where any of it was in fifty-eight boxes! Not even many of my tools! (When the packing took place, I had taken a new job and had gone on ahead, and my daughter's mother packed my stuff, much of it at the direction of my daughter, who as a first grader, and knew what most of it was because she "played in the basement with her trains with Dad and his trains.")
If you only knew the physical gyrations I had to go through to take all those Corrugated Mock-up photos for the Challenge ...
![[Image: BigRedX.png]](http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af349/wwmarsland/Miscellaneous%20Images/BigRedX.png)
Disgusting, I know! But when the Challenge is over ...
As you (and anyyone else who has been paying attention) may know, I have developed plans to build a layout in one half of my rather large "Great Room." As you have apparently undergone an estrangement from your railroad stuff similar to my own, I can sympathize with your situation of having to endure a mess first to find out what you have and where it is. Most of my railroad "paraphenalia" has been packed in boxes and in storage since we moved to Florida in 1993! I had no clue what or where! i used to say I had "about 25 boxes" of railroad. Most of the rest of what I owned had been in storage since my divorce in 1997.
When I moved into this place, I had all the boxes from my move stacked in rows with an aisle in between to ease the unpacking process. The railroad boxes got stacked up along the back wall, so as to be unpacked last ... all 58 of them! Well, I finally got throught the 200+ other boxes, purging as I went. I have now unpacked almost all of the LS&W RR boxes and the stuff is all over the place where I intend to build the railroad. Building benchwork is "on hold" until after the "Challenge." But in the meantime, I have not had anyone other than my daughter inside this house, due to "The Mess." It just plain embarrasing to be discovered to be living amonst such "clutter!"
But, Charlie, if it'll make you feel any better ... if it will help you realize that you are not alone in your dilema ... I am swallowing REALLY hard now ... and posting the following photo of what I will have to figure how to deal with before I can really begin building my layout.
Look! I know it's a mess! I'm not happy about it! But I couldn't remember what I had or where any of it was in fifty-eight boxes! Not even many of my tools! (When the packing took place, I had taken a new job and had gone on ahead, and my daughter's mother packed my stuff, much of it at the direction of my daughter, who as a first grader, and knew what most of it was because she "played in the basement with her trains with Dad and his trains.")
If you only knew the physical gyrations I had to go through to take all those Corrugated Mock-up photos for the Challenge ...
Disgusting, I know! But when the Challenge is over ...
EDIT: Posting that image was a mistake ... ... If YOU had unpacked ALL of YOUR model railroad stuff in one room of your house, it would look no different,
but I believe the photo was misunderstood and so I have removed it!!
but I believe the photo was misunderstood and so I have removed it!!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln