An O Gauge Nightmare……

Isn’t it funny about dreams! 😃  I may have changed clothes and gone out to the car right then. 😊

I have not had any railroad nightmares that made me think twice or even thrice. I do know it my twenties, I would think about five or six times before buying rolling stock. This often led to me taking forever to decide what to grab and buy. I think that it is possible, that I may have bought the same thing twice on two separate occasions. I think I have gotten better over the years, but I always think a bit before buying unless I know for sure I don't have it already.

I am curious as to what the car of your nightmares looks like! Post a picture so we can analyze your dream…lol

Tom

I had a new TMCC steamer that was driving me nuts for days. It was an intermittent problem I just couldn’t come up with a reason as to why it would just come to stop. Fiddling with it always got it running again. Went to bed and woke up at 2AM. It came to me in my sleep and I knew exactly what was wrong. Got dressed and went down to the basement gathered some material and it was fixed. I separated the tender so many times from the engine for other issues the light bulb must of went off in my head while sleeping. It was a brass model that used the tender shell as the antenna. But the pin for the drawbar was mated to the shell not the chassis. So it 2 needed to be insulated. When hooked to the engine it now at times would ground out the antenna. I used a piece of styrene to mate the 2. Ran the engine minus sound for about a half hour to test my repair so I wouldn’t wake anyone. Stopped the engine in it’s usual spot to take it off the layout. Looked down and between the ties sitting in the ballast was a plastic insulator that must have fallen out when I first purchased the engine. A drop of glue has held it in place for about 20 years now.

How about this?:

Just imagine if you had dreamed that you had purchased a PRR 2-Rail boxcar? 

@Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

I have not had any railroad nightmares that made me think twice or even thrice. I do know it my twenties, I would think about five or six times before buying rolling stock. This often led to me taking forever to decide what to grab and buy. I think that it is possible, that I may have bought the same thing twice on two separate occasions. I think I have gotten better over the years, but I always think a bit before buying unless I know for sure I don't have it already.

Will do……..it will be a few days……post York, I met my wife and kids (one in Philly; one in DC; and, one in NYC) in Philly to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. Now,  I’m in Tarrytown, NY……detoured here because my sister is in the hospital (and, doing much better)…….leaving for Central VA tomorrow…..

Peter

@Putnam Division posted:

...snip...  (and went off in my current Cabin Fever pile). ...snip...

Peter

Just what is your cabin fever pile? Vacation work projects?

We used to pull the coil wire on our Ford rental truck when I was on tour. I went to sleep in a cheap motel in Boston and woke to the sound of the truck motor cranking. I ran out to find the steering column was totally yanked out and the idiots couldn't figure out why the truck wouldn't start. They must have ran away.

I was sleeping about 30 feet away and never heard all the work going on. All the band's gear was untouched.

Not that you were going to lose your car. Just that I lose sleep when stuff's left in cars! I try and sleep with one eye open.

I'm trying to go to sleep soon tonight. I test ran a new engine and now I'm curious about the sound of the horn. I'm thinking of tearing into the engine but it's late.

I won't sleep. Another nightmare is awaiting.....

My nightmare would be the opposite. That I bought a 3 rail Atlas car by accident.  

Now that's funny!

-Greg

@Putnam Division posted:

That night (Thursday to Friday) I went to sleep and about 2 AM, I dreamed that in my excitement to find a Tuscan 40’ car, I may have bought a car made for two rail with Kaydee couplers.

Peter

My nightmare would be going to bed/sleep at 2 AM.  Way beyond by bedtime!  NH Joe