2009 was a bad year for me in terms of my MRR activities. I had to sell nearly all my equipment to make ends meet, leaving me with nothing but dreams that need see at least a partial fulfillment in 2010.
Here they are, in order. I may work on 2 and 3 at the same time as number one happens, depending on available funds. I need a job, although, in reality, that won't happen until summer, since it is physically impossible for someone like me (a student who actually cares about school and is in many honors classes, and also plays sports and music, among other things outside of school) during this time (not to mention that just about no where is hiring, and if they are, they're taking the college kids who can't get real jobs)...
1. Buy new camera, for purposes of railfanning, showing progress on new layout (see below) and taking quality photos of layout upon completion.
2. Tear down current POS layout and start completely over (except for bakery structure and locos and rolling stock), and hopefully have semi-operable by end of year (main line and at least some industries completed).
3. Build up rolling stock roster, until I have enough so as to not embarrass myself and actually have a reason to run and switch trains.
4. Buy locos to fulfill roster that exists in writing and in my mind, but not in reality.
Happy New Year!!!
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Is it just me? Did the decade zoom by faster tahn any other? Wow!
In 2010, I hope to continue expanding the layout which will include my city of Heartland which has been in my plans for the past few years. I intend to include a streetcar line.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Try to figure out the numerical equivalent of 2K10 -- and only then get CR&T's benchwork in place by 2K11.
Conemaugh Road & Traction circa 1956
IRONROOSTER For 2010, stud and drywall the basement, paint the walls, ceiling and floor, and get the first section of bench work up.EnjoyPaul
For 2010, stud and drywall the basement, paint the walls, ceiling and floor, and get the first section of bench work up.
Enjoy
Paul
What IRONROOSTER said. I could mention that pile of structures still in the box, or more decoders in the locomotives, but I think I will be far more motivated to tackle some of those projects once I have a permanent layout to put them on.
Packer 1. Get all of my cars to have Kadees, Metal Wheels, and correct NMRA weight. 2. get decoders for all of my engines. 3. Keep workbench cleaned. 4. get one more GP9
1. Get all of my cars to have Kadees, Metal Wheels, and correct NMRA weight.
2. get decoders for all of my engines.
3. Keep workbench cleaned.
4. get one more GP9
Added one to above, get new job...
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Well for me it started off with a bang or shall I say a hiss from a flat tire on my truck. I was woken to the wonderful words from my other half HEY! your truck has a flat tire you had better get out there and fix it.
Oh what a fun thing to do on a wet soggy day with all the melted snow around to make it all the more enjoyable experience. After hunting down the necessary tools which were borrowed and never put back by my 17 year old (Big Surprise there sports fans) I get the tire off the truck and plug said hole. Only to find another plug only a few inches away? Some little tid bit of information my wife neglected to tell me the last time she borrowed my truck. So I was supposed to go to an operating session out in Pa. at a layout I've been ding to go to for several months now but instead I'll be buying tires for my truck. I hope this is not indicative of the year to come never mind the model railroading aspect of it.
As far as modeling goes just keep moving forward on the layout, work on my weathering and model building skills and build or buy myself a bench top spray booth
Continue with gym 3 days a week, only 12 more pounds to my perfect weight. Then my Dr. will get off my butt about my chorlesteral level. As for the Road, finish Phase 1 "JUDY GAP" by April. Start on Phase 2 The Black Ribbon Coal mine and staging track under the mine. If I get this much finnished by summer I will be way ahead of schedule. Seriously looking to pick up a Reading style brass camelback this year, big money but I want one for my passenger train.
Cudaken Hi
With the economy going global, we are all going to make less until the rest of the world catches up or we drop to their level. That's economics 101.On a lighter note.I have to get me one of those "round tuits" that I've heard so much about. I'm not sure what they are used for but they must be good.
Turn off the TV, cancel the news paper and play trains.
Lee
Hi!
A really good question, one that makes me think! For the most part, I'm a realist (much to the irritation of my 1st wife), and frown upon "blue sky" predictions & observations. Soooo, with that in mind.......
- I look to finish the trackwork and DCC wiring on my under construction HO 11x15 two level layout. I stopped work in late November, and am out of excuses for not working on it.
- Start installing decoders in my Stewart & P2K locos. I've got the decoders, but I'm "sitting" on them.
- Take another realistic look at my loco & car inventory and thin out as makes sense. I do this every year, selling on Ebay at Christmas time, and taking the funds to buy upgraded locos or electronic stuff.
- Lay out all existing (from the previous layout) structures on the pike, and build the major new ones as needed.
- Scenery is a possibility this year, but it won't be touched until trackwork and wiring are thoroughly tested, and I am reasonably sure that I can live with the results (trackplan/structure layout).
- Continue to be active on this Forum - my version of the almost perfect Model Railroader Club!
ENJOY,
Mobilman44
ENJOY !
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
cudaken Find a better job so I can keep the house! My company was a good to work for, paid fairly. 2 years later doing the same thing I made $25,000.00 less than 2007? Cuda Ken
Find a better job so I can keep the house! My company was a good to work for, paid fairly. 2 years later doing the same thing I made $25,000.00 less than 2007?
Cuda Ken
Cry me a river......I'm a self employed carpenter, thanks to the new housing market I made $97,000.00 less in 2009 than I did in 2007. In 2007 I made $136,000.00. In 2009 I made $39,000.00 woopdeedooo. Thats nothing , in 2004 I made $204,000.00. That year I worked every day (10 - 12 hour days) except Sundays, in 2009 I worked maybe 2 days a week if I was lucky. This is a hard adjustment to make. The only good thing is more time for MRR'ing.
N Scale Diesels......I like 'em
I will take a more active roll in the OT&W Model Railroad Club.
I will solve the electrical problems.
I shall "decode" (install a decoder) my Shay.
I shall upgrade my rolling stock.
I will keep a project log for future reference. (See Mid-sized and Manageable Track plans by Iain Rice)
I will continue building scenery.
I will start operations on my Model Railroad.
I want to join an operating group of other Model Railroads.
And Most Important!
I will help my Boy Scout Troop earn the Railroading Merit Badge in association with the OT&W Model Railroad Club. (Chuckles. Why, because we need to rebuild our museum layout, so this is Free Labor!) Happy New Year!
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
TA462 On a personal level I really need to get in better shape and maybe switch to light beer.
I tried that once. I found myself drinking twice as much light beer, because the stuff wasn't very satisfying. Now, I keep a case of Harpoon IPA around. I can open one of those and slowly sip and enjoy it, where I would have 2 or 3 Buds or 4 or 5 Bud Lights.
da_kraut 7. Figure out a solution for the Con-Cor cars from uncoupling themselves all the time without changing the couplers
I'm afraid that the most likely solution is to change the couplers. I've got some Rivarossi coaches that are doing that, and it's time to get rid of the McAccuTrash couplers and replace them with Kadees.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
What you said!!! And I starting with my Athern...got my scale out ...got my bag of Kadees...Huh,wonder what's hot on the MR forum...I'll just take a quick look and get right back to this rivit counting.
2010 will be my narrow gauge year.
Working with a few H0n3 modules, Silver Creek, Fiddletown and Loop.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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Hi,
my MRR projects are:
1. Fine tune the rolling stock
2. Plant trees on the layout
3. Do some more wiring
4. Create a block system c/w with train detection system to enable reliable multi train running in DC
5, Finish the detailing on the layout
6. Resist the temptation to increase the helix to enable above door frame running. (There is a lot of empty unused potential modeling space above the door frames)
7. Figure out a solution for the Con-Cor cars from uncoupling themselves all the time without changing the couplers
Frank
"If you need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm."
I hate Rust
I finished the last major scenery projects about a year ago. 2009 has been largely filling in small gaps and tweaking things. Now, though, I've got the benchwork in for the extension to my layout, so it's time to open up the throttle once again.
Oh, and less beer, and salads instead of that side of fries. Nothing drastic, but I'd like to lose a bit of weight. And I can think more clearly to work on wiring and track laying, too. Besides, the guys on Tuesday night say my goaltending has really improved over the last few weeks.
My main goals are MR related. I am going to finish college and find a better job (so I can afford more MR stuff).
As far as MR goals.
I need to complete a structure kit that has been half built since August. I am going to install ditch lights in some of my locos.
I need to acquire more locos. Oh, wait. Make that need a want.
Will
If all goes well with my new job I start in a couple weeks, I will move from armchair modeling to actualy starting my layout. The road modeled is still up in the air as of yet, so for awhile it will just be a basic around the wall single track mainline with passing siding. Better lighting in that room and repaint/refloor the room from shag carpet to either a tight weave carpet or hardwood. Here is to a better year for all in 2010!!!! Mike and Michele T
LHS mechanic and geniune train and antique garden tractor nut case!
First of all, referring to the coming year as TWO THOUSAND TEN or 2010 is so 20th century. According to the geekspeak of the new millenium, the new year will be 2K10.
My resolutions for 2K10 are as follows:
1. Resist the urge to correct people about trivial matters.
2. Complete the scenery along my south wall, which will connect the scenicked east and west walls and leave only the north wall, where my large urban scene will be, undeveloped. Since MR is a cold weather hobby for me, I think I will have about 3 months to accomplish this.
3. Get a head start on the urban scene before golf season arrives, which puts MR on the back burner for about 6 months.
4. Come fall, complete my large urban passenger station before 2K11.
R. T. POTEET Prognosticate, if you will, a (model railroading) resolution for this upcoming year.
Prognosticate, if you will, a (model railroading) resolution for this upcoming year.
1. Continue working on my layout, and hopefully finish most of the secinery by the begining of 2011.
2. It's Time...(this one needs explaining)
In the past I've mainly focused on my locomotives, and for now that's fine (I don't have alot of room to run rolling stock anyways). But in the future when I build a bigger layout or join a modular club, I am going to have a shortage of good quaility rolling stock. When I was younger I had a habit of going to train shows and buying Bachmann standard line rolling stock for $1 or $2 a car. This worked great, It allowed me to build up a large fleet of cheap, poor running rolling stock. Now I have over 120 cars, most of which are equipped with hook-horn couplers, plastic wheel, and are completely identical (all 20 of my Swift's reefers are #4244, Ect.). After a while I discovered that rolling stock equipped with Kadee couplers and metal wheels work ALOT better.
That said, my biggest MRR resolution for the new year is to give my rolling stock fleet an overhaul. By this I mean replace the cars that aren't worth upgrading (replace the Bachmanns with Walthers, Atlas, Ect.) and upgrade the cars that are worth upgrading (Like my roundhouse high-cubes that alreadly have KD's, but still need metal wheels).
I've had trouble doing this in the past because I spend the money on locomotives instead. But this year I Really want/need to do this!!!
Good luck in completeing your resolutions and HAPPY NEW YEAR,
Jamie
Cape Vincent Southern Railroad
HO scale Horseshoe Curve in 5’x10’
My YouTube
twhite3: Stop buying locomotives (yah, RIGHT! )
Oh yeah sure---remind me of a couple of comments I made about not buying any more locomotoves. Of course after I said these things what did I do? Buy about 6 more
Mine now---get Ansun Yard finished
Get some modelling done----he says this while doing up another elevator while at the 'pooter
Generally do what one is going to do----once they get a round tuit
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
R. T. POTEETPrognosticate, if you will, a (model railroading) resolution for this upcoming year.
I resolve to spend less time on the trains.com website and use that time for working on my trains.
I figure I've spent over 10,000 hours here. No wonder nothing else is getting done. Sorry folks If I follow through perhaps you will have to do without my sage advice.
RedGrey62 Okay I have a couple. First and foremost, spend more time modeling and less time watching TV and being on the computer. I have plenty of projects without having my layout yet Ricky
Okay
I have a couple. First and foremost, spend more time modeling and less time watching TV and being on the computer. I have plenty of projects without having my layout yet
Ricky
Yup, I know the feeling !!!
Dennis
1: FINALLY finish the Buttes!
2: Work on some unfinished scenery around the Deer Creek viaduct.
3: Stop buying locomotives (yah, RIGHT! )
4: Stop talking about that big yard on the other side of the garage and actually start putting it in!
5: Keep planting the Tahoe National Forest.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Second, as soon as the layout room is finsihed off, get busy on the layout!