What happen to your Layout when you're Gone: Part II

[dave9999]

QUOTE: Originally posted by lyctus

OK, here's a serious reply to one interpretation of this thread. The local Model Rail club offers a service to (usually) the widow of a modeller who has been called to the Great Roundhouse in that they will collect all the model rail gear and organise a club auction. Proceeds are forwarded to the widow. For members, I think there is either a small or maybe no charge, For non-members, a nominal charge (10% of proceeds).
This ensures that in general, the best return is acheived for your stuff. For Sale notices in the local paper bring all sorts of problems, not least of which is shady characters with "rip-off" in mind, house breakers doing a bit of pre-project surveying and how does the family really know what your stuff is worth ?
Hint: Use a spread sheet to record the models you own,date purchased, and (be honest on this one now) the price paid. Print it and keep it in a place the family can find it. This will at least give them some idea of what they should ask/expect for your stuff.
You can then nominate a hobby shop that deals in 2nd hand and your people will be able to negotiate a fair price.
Alternatively, just arrange to ship the stuff to me. I will respect it and I will name one strip on my wall display in your honour for every $US5,000 estimated value received.

Geof,
The subject of this topic is what happens to your layout when you are gone. Gone, as in "leave the room", not gone as in " leave this world". Dave

[Anonymous]

I have to come clean on this issue,of what happens on your layout when you are not home. This is one of the biggest cover ups ever, and the main players in this cover-up work for the very company that over sees this forum. First what was the real reason Associate Editor Jeff Wilson left MR ?? Rick Johnson was moved up the ladder along with Andy S.
Simple it happened during a run of mill layout shot oneday in the middle of a nice Spring day, Jeff Wilson caught on flim a real live Grey, thats a space alien to those of you who do keep with UFOs. Just by change Jeff caught one of these little guys? running one of my F units,turns out they had a huge base (will to them it was huge)under the frame work of my layout. They used the trains to move their there food. Yes their food it turns out they live on ground form,and plaster.
All the time the US CIA,FBI, Etc. knew they these aliens where living under layouts all over the world. When the CIA found out about the picture Jeff had taken and then by mistake, all others at MR let get out on the cover of the July 1999 issue,heads started to roll.
Now its time for all involed in this cover-up to come clean, Art Bell would love to have all of you from Kalmbach on his radio show Coast to Coast AM. Come on Rick Johnson and Andy Sperandeo, let all model railroads know what really going on, on their layouts when they are not homeeee!!(now I again will go back into hiding) swdave

[Anonymous]

Dave, What a story! LOL I thought I was back in the '60's and Outer Limits was on the tube. I see some very funny and sad posts on this topic. Amazing, how wide the spectrum is.

[AggroJones]

"The subject of this topic is what happens to your layout when you are gone. Gone, as in "leave the room", not gone as in " leave this world". Dave"


Well, I didn't know that.

When I leave the room and turn out the light, tiny spiders gather in my trees and foliage to lay eggs on my layout. Also lint and dust from the air settle on it. I have to vaccum the layout every 1 1/2 or so. And I pick the spider eggs off with tweezers. [;)]

[Anonymous]

Hey AG Jones, sounds like you have a might of a mite problem there.[:D]

I was just looking for a good imaginative story, nothing more.[;)]

Take care of them little 8legged suckers![:)][:)]

[Anonymous]

Guess I better end my story eh?

When I turned and looked, I saw what was to become one of my worst nightmares, and a blessing in disguise. Durring my night of revelrie and train fun, I had decided to help out the little lady and do some laundry. I had just finished washing a load of clothes, (hers), and of course none of it could be put in the dryer.

I have a very nice belt driven exhaust fan installed in a window next to the layout and close to that is a pole for hanging hangers on. While I was completeing the task of hanging the laundry I neglected to notice that I had hung my wifes favorite LBD as she calls it, Little Black Dress as I call it, on the pole next to the exhaust fan.

Apparently, when I left the layout that night, I turned on the fan (gawdauful howl I heard as it started, belt slip I guess), walked up the stairs, (wind blowing and dress moving in wind causing shadows I saw), as I lay in my easy chair fan finally devours dress (train wreck I heard), wife in basement the next morning shrieking at sight of LBD chewed to shreds by fan.

Needless to say I will not hear the end of the LBD problem for a while, but on the bright side, I have been informed that my assistance doing laundry is no longer required, darn[;)]

[dave9999]

John,
You like to keep us in suspense. Great story, only was it worth it? I mean, you may never have to do laundry again, BUT you will never hear the end of it. I think I would rather do a load every now and again. Just wait until your shopping with your wife. I bet the LBD comes back to haunt you.$$$$ Dave

[Anonymous]

Dave, True, so true.[}:)]

Gotta have some fun now and then. Bet I won't see another like it on this board.[:)][:)][8D][}:)][}:)][;)]

BTW, was the suspense really there?[;)]

[dave9999]

QUOTE: Originally posted by norboy



BTW, was the suspense really there?[;)]

John,
Like a Hitchcock movie. [8D] Dave

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dave9999

Oh my god! They killed Kenny! You bast%$ds! Dave

I only could wi***hat I had as many lives as that little ..................Well anyways I'm still here yet.

[dave9999]

This is what happens to your layout when your gone....

[vsmith]

What happens when I leave my layout?

The Dust Fairies come out and sprinkle the entire layout while the Cobweb Sprites weave little dangling treads of web everywhere, next the Clutter Gnomes arrive and dang it if they dont pull out every single tool, scraps , materials, and anything else thet can get their hands on and leave it everywhere on my layout. I know this because they leave tiny footprints in the dust.

[AggroJones]

Crikey Dave! Is that your snake? My alcoholic father is utterly terrified of snakes. He freaks out when he even sees harmless ones on TV! [:0][:0][:0]

[dave9999]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

Crikey Dave! Is that your snake? My alcoholic father is utterly terrified of snakes. He freaks out when he even sees harmless ones on TV! [:0][:0][:0]

Yeah, That's Montgomery Python. Monty for short. He's actually very gentle and friendly, although he can give people a fright. Dave

[Anonymous]

I don't have my layout set up right now at our new house, since there is no space. But at our old house, the cat liked to sleep on it under the basement window in the sun. That meant broken telephone poles, and 'cat-hair-scenery'. Also, a couple of times I would come downstairs to find the "little people" 'helping' me work on my model railroad, or in other words, breaking something. The one time after I shut everything down after use, I failed to turn off my power-pack, which powered the switches on my layout. For some reason one of the switches had power in it and burn all the plastic surrounding it, as well as the motor. Fortunately I came back down (for some reason) and turned it off before it started a fire.