My name's Jon and I'm a Model Railroader..................
I feel for you Ken
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This might be a good time to cull. Look over all your "stuff", Ken, and separate the honest-to-goodness keepers from the items you could live without, and then sell the latter on ebay to finance a few (that is a key word) a few....occasional key purchases that satisfy your desire as you become more knowledgeable about your destination in the hobby.
Just a thought.
I'm gonna be the little kid in The Emperor's New Clothes. 'Cuda Dude, you've got too many engines.
I know it's tempting, but what are you going to do with all of them? How big will your layout be? Even if you're running 4 trains at a time, and tripling-up the engines, that's only a dozen.
Are you running DCC? That's a fortune in decoders sitting on sidings, or more likely in boxes.
I've got 9 working engines, and one old Dockside I plan to get running someday. I may get the Hustler to work, too, but that's only 11 total. 3 are steamers, and my plan is to dual-era the layout so steam or diesels will be there, but never at the same time.
Hmmm, maybe I ought to think about getting another steamer or two. Whadda you think, Ken?
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As long as you are having fun who cares how much you spend. We spend in spurts. I used to say,"When you have the time, you don't have the money. When you have the money, you don't have the time." If you can meet in the middle, things should work out.
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Ken,
You just need to ask yourself, Are you having FUN? If the answer is YES then you are doing alright.
I looked over your post and pondered to myself as to what I have. Honestly, I'm not sure how many Locos I have. I have my favorites and they get run quite often. Rolling stock? Who knows! Just picked up 5 more Athearn BB Kits last night for less than $23 bucks for the whole bag and they'll be built up and running by the end of the month. My guess, 100+ assorted pieces of rolling stock.
Am "I" having FUN? You can count on it!
Chris
Wow. Now I don't feel so guilty about my 25 locos and 125 pieces of rolling stock...
Tracklayer
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Just keep telling yourself "I can quit any time I want!" (just not today)
Your growth has been a little quick but, oh well. If your power and water are still on and your old lady's not screaming for a divorce, who cares? Besides, if you've got a Mopar like that AND money for trains your doing a lot better than me.
Quote: "I hope too slow down but at this point the I don't think so! So many engines and so little time. Like to hear your folks story, just to make sure I am still a little bit right."
Sorry Ken, you're just as crazy as the rest of us!
Jay
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I've been in the hobby for only a couple of years and have acquired 10.. well... 11.. counting the one to be delivered tomorrow.. locomotives. You make me not feel so guilty!
Thanks!
JaRRell
I got my first cheap Life Like train set with snap track 54 weeks ago. 1 engine and 10 cars with apx 4 X 8 foot of track. When I started I had no clue on what to buy or what quality what I was buying!
A friend from a slot car site started helping me, his name here is Ranchero. He does not post much but he is here. Hi Dave!
He started filling my head with names like Peaco, Athearn, Atlas, MRC and BLI. Then I found this great site and one of the best LHS (k-10 trains) in the US. Folks here like Crandel and T-stage and others help me with the growing pains. Plus I learned how to make cheap junk cars run like the higher cost. One of the biggest help came from a person here that sort of told me I was nuts and wasting my money fixing up the junks rolling stock! Tell me I cannot do, I will prove you are wrong.
What brought this subect to mind is as of today I have 54 engines, that is one a week? Plus I have 202 rolling stock (3.7 per week), 300 trees (little short there but more are coming) and around 300 feet of track with more coming.
I hope too slow down but at this point the I don't think so! So many engines and so little time.
Like to hear your folks story, just to make sure I am still a little bit right.
Cuda Ken
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