BigE
Active Member
It DID occur to me y'all might think I'm pullin yer chain. Emphatic NO on that! You guys are DOING it and I RESPECT that, I'm not gonna blow smoke at cha. Yea, I'm lucky in that I'm getting a SWEET jump/kick on supplies, that don't mean a thing! I still gotta DO it!
Easy Brother! No one (least not me) figure you was blowin smoke. They just want to see what everyone else has going on. It's great to watch someone else's progress! I went through the same thing at first with these guys but had no camera to send pics at the time. Ordering a camera was in my 2nd big batch order of stuff.
I wouldn't be surprised if you don't get some private messages with stuff these guys may have laying around and happy to help out a new guy to the hobby. It happened to me and I wasn't really all that new to the hobby - just been decades ago. That Santa Fe GP-38 loco in one of my PB pics came from Terry and was fully DCC and sound loaded. It's the best running dog in my fleet.
What really got me wound up is when I got that "big box of stuff the size of 2 baby coffins" in early Dec. My neighbor had a little circle track setup around his Christmas tree and had me bring over the engines to see if they still worked at all. Amazingly almost all of them did!!! That's when I made the commitment to have a fully operational loop by Christmas day. Ok, I missed that target by one day.
I knew that was a seriously aggressive goal to meet but like the saying goes "if you don't aim for something you'll shoot at anything".
Day after Christmas I was running a train! A long time friend in NC sent me and old DC power pack just to get me running.
All that stuff they sent to me was mostly stuff I left behind to my baby brother [half] when I went to live my Dad. By then I was all N scale anyway. A lot of the stuff that showed up I remembered very well.
That "big box" showed up within a few days of getting my Mom's little inheritance money. I figured Mom would want me to use it for something I want to do. I needed some clothes and took care of that. Train on after that! I called my brother and sister [halves] and even my step-dad to be sure they didn't have a problem with it. They all loved the thought and agreed - my step-dad even started crying when I talked to him about it. Suppose this is more a labor of love and remembrance - then again, I got my first train at age 5, so it's always been with me.
Now I'm bored. Maybe go for another flight later. I don't know.
E.