If you could have one thing??

[JeremyB]

Hi Guys

If you could have one thing for your model railroad right now what would it be?

Jeremy

[CBQ_Guy]

A much larger area for the layout including a crew lounge and bath room. My 24 by 38 foot basement ain't makin' it . . . boo hoo!

[Anonymous]

A basement to build a layout in. I get a corner in the forth bedroom{sewing,computer room}. Hope to get one of the other bedrooms when the kids move out{someday that's not happening}.

[FThunder11]

DCC.

[orsonroy]

DEFINITELY a bigger layout room! I've got a 225' mainline squeezed into a 12x24 room, and the three levels are really too shadowboxed for my liking. Now, if I can have a twenty scale mile mainline on a single deck....

[Anonymous]

Money to be able to continue building!

[CP5415]

More space

Gordon

[AggroJones]

I wi***o be able to use my entire 10' x 11' room for railroading.

[Anonymous]

a hundred acres of land to run some 7 1/2 scale ridable trains instead of just watching them go round and round again no matter the shape of your layout it is still just one big odd shaped loop true with any layout but with this you really get into it as you got to get off to toss that switch or uncouple those cars etc. if i had this i would be estatic

Regards

Larry

[Dough]

Loram rail grinder, ribbon rail train, complete tie gang, oh wait you said one didn't you...

[brothaslide]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tylers dad

Money to be able to continue building!

Dido!!!!

[Anonymous]

I was just going to ask the same question.....I guess most of us agree that more space would be ideal.

[Anonymous]

A basement. Minimum width: 60'. I could then run longer passenger consists. One day....

[Anonymous]

A Trix Big Boy. Or maybe a real one? (hmm, I could start an organisation, and..............)

[Anonymous]

A bigger basement![:D]
Like maybe the one under the Playboy mansion![:p]
Talk about modeling in mountainous terrain!!!!!![swg][swg][swg][swg][swg]

[Anonymous]

two weeks of uninterupted special time to focus on the layout. No disruptions, Nada. Oh and someone to keep me focused and get coffee. Two weeks would allow me time to lay 30 more feet of track, wire and sort out what I got and ballast all remaining track. Two weeks of no MiL telling me that I'm wasting time with toys[soapbox][|(][banghead]

[Roadtrp]

Experience and skill.

[Anonymous]

Norm Abram's New Yankee Workshop.

Oh, and Norm Abrams as a dedicated servant.

And, one more thing... a wife! Preferably one who knows how to solder...

[Hawks05]

just to get a layout. my dad still hasn't gone to get the supplies to build the bench work. hopefully he'll get around to it. we've both been busy and it doesn't help that the lumber yard closes at 5 weeknights and thats what time he gets home. and its closed on weekends.

1) bench work / layout
2) money to buy stuff
3) tons of locomotives
4) tons of rolling stock
5) more money and lots of space

[Anonymous]

HEY How about a Roco fully operating "Wreck Train" Only about $350.00 Canadian. A word about my layout. I have 14x 26 ft, Three layers of track (Two working) One under construction. I have Digitrax controls and I'm looking forward to retiring so I can spend more time on the Railroad.

Best Regards to you all.

HLM

[Roadtrp]

Hawk,

Any chance there is a Home Depot somewhere around where you guys live? Even if it is 50 miles away or so I think it might be worth it. They are open till 9:00 or 10:00 every night and are open weekends. It might be something that would work for you.

Try to be easy on your Dad. I know how a guy can come home from work pretty exhausted and not feel like doing much. At the same time, I know what it is like to have a son who is now 27 years old and wish like hell that I had spent more time with him when he was young. Sometimes us Dads are working so darned hard we lose sight of what is important.

[joecool1212]

A shiny new SD90 or maybe an AC6000 to tool around in or even lease out. Joe

[Anonymous]

Small milling machine and a set of Baldwin as builts from 1909.

Randy

[Anonymous]

How about a simple R-232 interface and software that incorporates everything, DCC, Signaling, Detection, Switch Operation, Routing and has a nice data base to track your model train inventory. All you would need to do is run the wires to a terminal.

[lyctus]

$pacexperiencetimeDCC. Is that one thing ?

[PistolPete]

The winning power ball number the this weekend. Then I could have a room built, buy the trains and equipment, retire, and spend my extra time building a layout and running trains.
or DCC for my planned layout.