vanishing cars! Question included!

[cheese3]

I was thinking about my Rollingstock and I found my invintory list and then I realised i am missing a hopper car and gondola. Here is my question...actually two questions... Is my layout built on like a burmuda triangle type of thing? or Is there a car gremlin like the ones that steal socks from the wash?

[Anonymous]

you havent had any aliens around lately have you?[swg]

[Anonymous]

how about the curse of D&RGW 107[}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)]

[cjcrescent]

Have you taken the cars to a club show or to someone elses house? I've had, over the years, several cars disappear from our club's layout. This has generally been during public shows. Other folks in the club have had the same thing happen to them as well.

[Anonymous]

BMTRAINS what's that curse about? Could you tell us the story? I've never heard it and can't find any reference to it on the net. I love ghost/haunted/cursed railroad stories! Thanks!

[loathar]

Did you check inside your mountains or in your pets favorite hiding places? Maybe poochy or kitty is working on a layout you don't know about![^]

[howmus]

Your cars will magically return just as soon as you go to the LHS and buy the same car again. Make sure it is the same road and # or they will not show up for a long time. These things happen all the time at my house. If I am missing a tool and spend a week trying to find it, all I have to do is go buy a replacement and the tool will always appear in plain sight as soon as I get home. It is Fetridge's Law. Fetridge's Law states that nothing good will happen until it is no longer a good thing when it happens. This is the same law that causes a stop light to turn green at the same exact moment your vehicle has stopped. The rattle in you car's engine will always dissappear as soon as you reach the repair shop and the leaky faucet will always stop leaking when the plumber arrives. The corillary to this law (Smith's Corillary I believe) is the one that makes cars derail on your layout as soon as guests arrive. Of course as soon as they leave you will not be able to duplicate the derailment in order to fix it..... etc. [:D]

[Anonymous]

I'll explain tommorow

[dgwinup]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BMTRAINS

I'll explain tommorow

NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW!

(Come on, everybody! Pound your fists on the table! Rake your cups against your bars! We want to know NOW!)

(All together) NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW!

Darrell, noisily quiet...for now

(Ain't I the little devil? [}:)] )

[Tracklayer]

Either you've misplaced them, someone in your household is trying to drive you nuts or a thief has visited you... Hope you find them.

Tracklayer

[twhite]

Do you have a cat? If so, there's your answer. Check under your bed, in the closet, or anywhere else the furry little critter likes to hang out. Chances are you'll find the cars there. I found two cabeese hidden behind one of the floor speakers on my stereo system. And when I bawled out my Maine Coon named Spooky, she just looked at me as if to say, "And your POINT?"
Tom [:D]

[GRAMRR]

Wow! I thought that only happened at my house. There is a tank car, crane, and steel coil car missing from my boxes of carefully stored rolling stock. Over the last few years we've also come up missing a guitar (how can you lose a guitar?) and my daughter is missing some fancy prom-type dresses. It has driven us crazy. Maybe we have a female, guitar-playing poulterguis (forgive the spelling - spook?) who is building her own layout?

[Anonymous]

I was doing the final cleanup of my garage [train room] yesterday, and behind a stack of leftover lumber, I found a suitcase full of work clothes (incl. steel-toed boots) that had been missing since I moved into my current house 5 years ago. Better late than never I guess...

[pike-62]

if you find them and there is a light brown sock with them, thats mine.

Dan Pikulski
www.DansResinCasting.com

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by danpik
if you find them and there is a light brown sock with them, thats mine.

So that's where it came from! I'll gladly send it back - as long as you pay the shipping costs![:o)]

[dknelson]

A friend of mine "daylighted" a long tunnel that had been a feature of his layout for something like 20 years. And yes he found a car or two that he had forgotten entirely about.
Dave Nelson

[DrummingTrainfan]

I couldn't find an Athearn Amtrak ph5 AMD 103 anywhere. I looked through every single shelf that houses my models. Then I found it amongst some of my dad's locos, so make sure you check EVERYWHERE even if it would make sense why it'd be there. [:D][:I][oops][D)][D)]

[Anonymous]

There was an episode on Twightlight Zone about the Men of Time, you see they are always busy buidling the next second of time, they have to always place things in the exact place so that you don't know they are there, now sometimes they mess up and will forget to place your car keys, glasses etc in that same spot as before. If they realize the mistake, they may place them in the spot a few seconds/builds later, or just be lazy and put them in a new spot in plain sight. I am going to venture a guess and say that they have your train items and are busy running their own layout, since Andrew you do such great work, they felt obliged to keep it. Not sure if an offering like cookies and milk, similar to what you would do for Santa Claus will work, but it's worth a try.

Let us know the out come...

[dave9999]

I posted this picture awhile back when I first purchased my Spectrum
Mountain. Take a look in the tunnel. I had looked for along time my
missing passenger car. The camera's flash found it. You can stand
right in front of this tunnel and not see it, but as soon as I looked at
this photo.... There it was. Good luck, Dave

[emdgp92]

I've caught my cat taking things from my train room. He's particularly fond of a blue HO scale Jaguar E-type for some reason. Even after I bought him one of his own, he still insists on stealing mine :p

[Anonymous]

Adam

You don't have a ferret do you? The cat comment made me remember my daughters ferrets, they would always take stuff and hide it. I think they have some klepto genes in their system...

[Anonymous]

Check area 51, the bottom of the cat's litter box!
Will

[Anonymous]

When I was a kid there was a gentlemen lived overlooking Wimbledon tennis courts (the posh place) had 2 1/4" gauge live steam garden layout which ran several different circles through rockeries and borders. Mid garden two lines crossed at 90 degrees but not as part of an 8. The crossing was in a tunnel. Access was under a manhole cover with a big shrub tub on it. Good track laying / size /weight meant that little work needed to be done to keep everything working well. the tub plants burdgeoned. Trains could run one side or other several times without going the other route.
One session every train that came out of the one route being run had the last truck of the last car off the rails. No-one could understand it. Eventually someone climbed among the plants and looked in after a train. When the last car past a cat's paw shot out of the other tunnel and biffed it off the track.
In those days it was safe for the gent to have cut holes in his fence so that passers by could stop and watch the trains... he did this after he spotted some looking through knot holes.

[Anonymous]

Its a long story so here is someones other version There is yet another because someone inscribed the Names of the victims The engineer went while scrolling through the names and the engine drailed as well as changing the # to 100 didn't save her and after being to the shop after a wrerck her original # was given back

http://gorp.away.com/gorp/publishers/pruett/phantom3.htm

http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/super.Html
At the bottom of the page is the good story

[Anonymous]

Now if only I could track down that Trix Big Boy!

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Doh! I haven't even bought it yet! I guess it's just wishful thinking that it would just appear!

[Anonymous]

I've had N scale locos disappear for months at a time (lost a little Minitrix 0-6-0 for so long I thought it had disappeared at the last show I took it to - it turned up a couple of months later and I still have it). If you see a couple of Nokia cellphone car chargers do say - we bought three (one per car) but haven't seen any of them in several months!

The renumbering is interesting - it's happened over here two. The same Class 91 electric loco was involved in two fatal accidents (in which the loco was undamaged) - after the second one it was renumbered.

[TrainFreak409]

Well Adam, like I told you when we were talking on AIM about this...

I THINK UNION PACIFIC TOOK THEIR PROPERTY BACK! <Did you forget to pay the licensing fees?[:D]>

[cheese3]

good news guys i have found the hopper but not the gondola. I am not to conserned about the gon. because it is UP and doesn't go well with my road, but the hopper is D&H so everything is ok now. I found the hopper behind my big stack of boxes collecting dust.

[Anonymous]

The Men of Time, too embarrased to put it back where you had originally left it. Those lazy #@!$#@'s Write your congressmen. This misplaced stuff has to stop...[:)]

[CP5415]

Hey Dave, I found your GO car, it's here in Oshawa down by the GO Station!!!

Gordon