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Posted by cmrproducts on Sunday, March 8, 2015 3:35 PM

One can NEVER have too much!

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Posted by russ_q4b on Sunday, March 8, 2015 8:14 PM

When you sell or give away stuff to make room for new stuff.

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Posted by FRRYKid on Monday, March 9, 2015 1:16 AM

I have a few that I think fit:

1) When you have more paintbrushes in your dishdrain (brush end up of course) then you have silverware (I don't use an airbrush)

1a) When you purchase glass cleaner to clean your paintbrushes rather than your windows.

1b) When your fingers are the same color as what you have been painting that particular day.

2) When you decide your can kitbash a car easier than you can assemble a kit for the same general purpose.

3) When you start looking for unusual items and people think that it for your model railroad.

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Posted by Southgate on Monday, March 9, 2015 2:39 AM

Every freight car I own including the unbuilt kits will fit on the layout when finished. So will the locomotives if I cram them, or devide up between steam some days and diesels others. I have a couple little structure kits, almost never buy those.

HO vehicles though, they'll have to take turns.

Then there's my other hobby. 1/25 truck and car kits. I should have no trouble building the ones I have if I build at my current rate, provided I live to about 180.

Oh well.

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Posted by Medina1128 on Monday, March 9, 2015 3:42 AM

I ran into the same problem when I ran across a program called RRTrains, by Gregory Braun. Not only does it keep track of what you have, you can list upgrades, couplers, wheels, etc. It also has a function so that you can assign pictures to all of your equipment.

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Posted by joe323 on Monday, March 9, 2015 10:07 AM

When I decide to donate stuff to the semi annual church garbage Err I mean Rummage sale (One mans trash is another mans treasure)

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Posted by jecorbett on Monday, March 9, 2015 12:56 PM

Southgate

Every freight car I own including the unbuilt kits will fit on the layout when finished. So will the locomotives if I cram them, or devide up between steam some days and diesels others. I have a couple little structure kits, almost never buy those.

HO vehicles though, they'll have to take turns.

Then there's my other hobby. 1/25 truck and car kits. I should have no trouble building the ones I have if I build at my current rate, provided I live to about 180.

Oh well.

 

That brings up another point which I neglected to mention in my first response. I just began operations and quickly discovered my layout is already at capacity for the number of cars it can comfortably handle during a session. Between the industries, the classification yard, and the staging yards, adding any more rolling stock is going to create a logjam which will make it difficult to keep things moving. I still have about 25 unbuilt freight cars, mostly Accurail which I would buy one or two of when I stopped in the hobby shop for something else. What that means of course is I am going to have to come up with a system for swapping these cars on and off the layout and storing them where they can easily be accessed. One of my staging yards is in the open where I can fiddle cars on and off and there is also a dummy interchange track which holds about six 40 footers where I can swap cars in and out. I'm through adding rolling stock to the layout..........for now.  

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Posted by yougottawanta on Monday, March 9, 2015 1:26 PM

John D Rockfellar in the "20s" was a billionaire making him still the richest man ever. He was asked by a reporter when he would have enough money. His reply was classic and can be applied to this post. When he "got just a little bit more"

 

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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Monday, March 9, 2015 1:43 PM

yougottawanta

John D Rockfellar in the "20s" was a billionaire making him still the richest man ever. He was asked by a reporter when he would have enough money. His reply was classic and can be applied to this post. When he "got just a little bit more"

 

 

Yes, there is always just one more that's needed to finish the locomotive roster.

Oh! and one more freight car for the fleet.

And one more building for the waterfront.

And one more ....

Laugh Laugh Laugh Laugh

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Posted by Dusty Solo on Monday, March 9, 2015 6:51 PM

Some years back I raised several Excel spread sheets and cataloged all the models & kits I had on hand. My avowed intention at the time was to make a religion out of diligently up dating this catalog as new items were bought & existing ones were sold.

Of course the road to, you know where, is paved with good intentions & predictably no up dating ever took place.

I've a fair idea what I have - I model a Southeastern Fallen Flag so numerically my engine roster is typically small in number. It's  easy to remember. Building kits are the same with my layout area being small I need but a few. Passenger cars, well, not so many there either. But when it comes to freight cars - I just have no clue at all. Then there all the other things like decals & brass & plastic detail parts - plastic bins full of this stuff along with road vehicle kits that has become a hobby in itself. So it's  really in the area of freight cars and road vehicles that I need to be watchful.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 9:39 AM

I gave up on cataloguing. I just look at them and think.....yep...I'm a gear hound!!!!

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Posted by cmrproducts on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 10:36 AM

Dusty Solo

Some years back I raised several Excel spread sheets and cataloged all the models & kits I had on hand. My avowed intention at the time was to make a religion out of diligently up dating this catalog as new items were bought & existing ones were sold.

Of course the road to, you know where, is paved with good intentions & predictably no up dating ever took place.

I've a fair idea what I have - I model a Southeastern Fallen Flag so numerically my engine roster is typically small in number. It's  easy to remember. Building kits are the same with my layout area being small I need but a few. Passenger cars, well, not so many there either. But when it comes to freight cars - I just have no clue at all. Then there all the other things like decals & brass & plastic detail parts - plastic bins full of this stuff along with road vehicle kits that has become a hobby in itself. So it's  really in the area of freight cars and road vehicles that I need to be watchful.

Dusty

I had to use the Spreadsheet to keep track of my car roster as having over 1200 cars - I was duplicating way too many cars when at the train shows.

I also use the spreadsheet for Maintenance purposes.

When I add a new car - it gets Kadees & Metal Wheels - so I mark the date this car was put on the layout.

Then when my OPs Crew encounters a problem car - they pull the car off the layout and fill out a Bad Order Card.

After the session - I take these cars and cards - look for the problem (which is easy as the B/O card indicates what they found - I have a number of check boxes to mark - making the filling out the card quick and easy) and fix the problems.

I then enter the problem in the spreadsheet and IF this car keeps having similar problems and I can't seem to fix them - it is sold off to someone with lesser expectations.

The same goes for my Engine Roster - Includes which DCC Decoder it has - Sound or not and Maintenance schedule!

YES! it takes some time but NOT doing so - the fleet begins to NOT run well and the Operators won't be back if the cars constantly derail or fall apart!

Your choice! ;-)

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Posted by jecorbett on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 3:55 PM

cmrproducts
When I add a new car - it gets Kadees & Metal Wheels - so I mark the date this car was put on the layout.

Then when my OPs Crew encounters a problem car - they pull the car off the layout and fill out a Bad Order Card.

Sound advice. I don't put any new equipment on the layout until it has been equipped with KD 148s, metal wheels, has been properly weighted, the coupler height and the wheel gauge checked. When I first started running trains on my layout as opposed to operations, I wasn't quite so finnicky with the equipment and as a result, there is still some substandard equipment on the layout. I operate solo and when there is a derailment and it isn't operator error such as forgetting to allign a turnout properly, I stop the session and take the problem car to the workbench and give it the same treatment I now give to all new equipment. I used to just make a note of the problem with the idea of fixing it later but later never seemed to come around. By forcing myself to address the problem immediately, I get rid of the problem child and eventually the whole fleet should be up to specs.  

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Posted by Bayfield Transfer Railway on Thursday, March 12, 2015 8:44 PM

I let my inventory get out of date.

When we moved, I piled all my rolling stock in one place.  GREAT GOOGILY MOOGILY!

I thought I had 400 or 500 cars.  I had over 1300.

 

 

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Posted by Motley on Thursday, March 12, 2015 8:55 PM

This is a great thread. Geeez when I think about it I don't have anything close to some people here. So my excuse is I'm trying to catch up to you all. LOL

The other day a friend was with me in my car. We pulled into my garage. And he says "what in the hell are are those boxes for?". In the garage I store all my locomotive/car boxes. In case I need to sell anything. I explained to him I don't have room in my basement, so here ya go. He just laughed and said "your nuts!".

 

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Posted by bing&kathy on Friday, March 13, 2015 2:11 PM

Had a fellow MRer ask me "How many engines  do you have?"

Answer "I don't know."

"How many cars?"

Again "I don't know."

All I know is every time the big box stores put storage totes on sale I buy more to put my I don't knows into.

How many totes "I don't know."

Almost enough to just build my layput on top of them, no need for benchwork. When I get the layout done I'm going to have a sale on those totes, unless I get that...........I need/want.

God's Best & Happy Rails to You!

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Posted by UPinCT on Friday, March 13, 2015 3:25 PM

Motley

This is a great thread. Geeez when I think about it I don't have anything close to some people here. So my excuse is I'm trying to catch up to you all. LOL

 

 

I just aspire to have as much as Michael has

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