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If you could do it all over again. . .

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Posted by dbaker48 on Saturday, March 3, 2007 10:26 AM

Wouldn't have done too much different,  Priorities change as lifes responsibilities dictate.  The only thing is wish I would have gotton the MTH 4000 xfmr instead of the new ZW.  (Rather insignificant, huh?)

Its been a terrific and fun learning experience!!! 

Don

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Posted by mitchelr on Saturday, March 3, 2007 10:00 AM

I wish when we were house shopping 20 years ago I would have insisted on a house with a full basementBanged Head [banghead].

Mitch 

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 3, 2007 9:38 AM

I would probably not have packed away my trainset when I was entering my teenage years and therefore caused an over 25 year hiatus of owning and operating a train set. 

Jerry

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If you could do it all over again. . .
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 3, 2007 9:15 AM

Most of us have or have had established layouts. Invariably, there is a lot of twenty-twenty hindsight vision in this hobby--I should have put the yard here instead of there or I wish I had not bought that engine. . . . So, if you could do it all over again, knowing what you know now, what would you do differently?

I wish that thirty years ago, my first train set under the tree was O scale instead of N. While I enjoyed my subsequent twenty plus years in 1:160 prototypical modeling, I was really only a toy train guy displaced in a scale world not of my own.

Looking at your modeling and layout, if you could do it all over again what would you do? I am very interested in what O scalers would do differently.

Alex   

 

 

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