I did not buy a second SMD caboose, though I thought about it alot. I had no idea they would appreciate in price that fast, nor did I know when they would run out of stock.
Howard Zane, Ken Patterson, Dan Glasure and Al Kalmbach seem to have done OK combining a hobby and a business.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
BigDaddyHoward Zane, Ken Patterson, Dan Glasure and Al Kalmbach seem to have done OK combining a hobby and a business.
I know there are plenty of similar examples, but I won't be one of them. I simply cannot combine business and pleasure.
After I became a professional engine builder my work on my Camaro 1/4 miler come to a complete stop and I have not been back to a drag strip since.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190 BigDaddy Howard Zane, Ken Patterson, Dan Glasure and Al Kalmbach seem to have done OK combining a hobby and a business. I know there are plenty of similar examples, but I won't be one of them. I simply cannot combine business and pleasure. After I became a professional engine builder my work on my Camaro 1/4 miler come to a complete stop and I have not been back to a drag strip since. -Kevin
BigDaddy Howard Zane, Ken Patterson, Dan Glasure and Al Kalmbach seem to have done OK combining a hobby and a business.
I understand how you feel Kevin.
I think I could do something like run a small direct sales manufacturing company in the hobby and not let that effect my hobby time/activity.
But I could never get back into the retail side in store, or get involved in "speculative" marketing, or train show vending. That would drive me out of the hobby for sure.
Sheldon
The Stratton and Gillette runs too tight a ship to repaint engines? Wow! Around here we think it's posh if His Nibs gives us a bucket of Kmart paint and a roller! We have to scratch out the old road name and write "BTR" with a crayon!
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Michael Mornard
Bringing the North Woods to South Dakota!
He's running a Class A railroad in 1954, the big guys like that certainly didn't slap a coat of paint over an old scheme and go with it, not like a modern railroad picking up someone's cast-offs to build a roster. Black patches with new reporting marks stenciled on were not a thing for the major railroads in the 50's.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Just yesterday I was looking at old photos of B&O equipment taken in the 50's. It was easy enought to find some dirty locomotives, it was impossible to find a rusty one..........
And surely no painted over schemes showing thru.
Sometimes I run "specials" using demonstrator paint schemes or other special situation events:
EMD_Demo2 by Edmund, on Flickr
UP_4141_SD70sm by Edmund, on Flickr
IMG_5491_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
Rapido is planning to do the American Freedom Train scheme (could cars soon follow?) If I weren't already buying a pair of Nickel Plate and New York Central PAs I might have opted for one of the AFT ones and have an excuse for running it on just about any railroad.
Cheers, Ed
rrinker He's running a Class A railroad in 1954, the big guys like that certainly didn't slap a coat of paint over an old scheme and go with it, not like a modern railroad picking up someone's cast-offs to build a roster. Black patches with new reporting marks stenciled on were not a thing for the major railroads in the 50's. --Randy