How Many Projects...Are Waiting?

Oh how well I know..LOL I have enough to keep me busy for at least two years.

God Bless,

Pappy

TCA TTOS

My last project was assembleing a storage rack in my shopp to hold the boxes of projects that are in the top 10% of all projects; rest are on shelving and racks in a godd sized closet.  I'm stocked up with proejcts for the rest fo my life a good bit beyond,  I may have to stop buying stuff......... 

I know it had gotten a little ridiculous when I found this bracket and I was pondering what I had bought it for..and then had a Aha! moment..I've been looking for that!

I've got two large 20gal plastic bins behind the layout full of projects. I've got a std. ga #42 in pieces in a shoebox needing attention that I just open, look in and sigh.

Too much benchwork and trackwork going on before I can turn proper attention to the 'derelict' pile.

...and I thought I was the only one with too many projects backed up and lying around...

Actually only one. And its on hold until I can paint a new building with rattle cans.

I did a couple of these paint projects in the house and we had to evacuate!

Hundreds, and I like it that way, hundreds done too.

I have written down all my projects on index cards. When I get the time to work on one, I select a card to see which one it will be. It prevents me from getting bored with any particular project. The Mrs. just shakes her head and laughs at me.  

Hi all,

  I'm waiting for a Lionel 385e with tender, I got off ebay this past weekend,

I was told it runs but needs a little cleaning. I also Have to repaint two

American Flyer tinplate cars I got, someone painted the roof's the wrong red

so repaint I go!

Tin

After more than a year I'm still building and gathering enough to build a layout.  I have a 4' x 10' platform that I'm not satisfied with and have no place for.  Need a decent transformer.  Lots of track that needs cleaning and a couple of electric switches that need work.  Quite a few buildings that need attention.  Only one figure so far...a dog.

Lots to do, but I need to figure out the platform first so I can at least lay a loop of track..

I'm not going into details, but 30 would be about right. Should see me out of this world.

Since I enjoy tinkering, I acquire projects as I find them, and do the work when the mood strikes me. I have one item that has been waiting to be re-assembled for around thirty years. I think it is a 259E waiting for the wheels to be mounted.

Well the one that comes to mind in the area of tinplate: All those NOS JAD parts, was going to assemble them. Have both the Hiawatha and the M10,000 stuff gut I dont see ever getting around to it. As a matter of fact I think I'll put it all up for sale.

Lost count long ago and keep coming up with new ones every week. Keeps me sane and happy.

All the best,

Miketg

You will, you will!  I recommend retirement to anyone who'll stop and listen.  As for my projects - just one.  It is waiting for parts.

Finished

Lionel 736 in T&P colors, someone had already started the project and it was not possible or at least too much work to take it back to origianl as they had plated the steamchest and attached it permanently to the boiler.

Still awaiting

Bassett Lowke 0-6-0, ready to repainted and awaiting transfers

Hornby Nord,  going to have to send the clockwork motor out to be repaired and purchase transfers

Marx 999, close to being finished

All of them, it's the height of ski season!

Tim

Not counting the layout?  I have three structures to finish...the first was begun about two years ago when I drove some of the DT&I in Ohio and found out there had been a large and somewhat unusual grain elevator in  Jeffersonville that burned down about twice, the last time in the 1950's.  There were front photos from the fire and prior, from the historical society, and the back faced the station, which means everybody in WWII who sent a son off to war from there probably took a picture

with that building's back in the background, but none can be found. So the half

finished building languishes.  Another huge, looming elevator on the DT&I is in the

background at Jackson Center, Ohio behind a common photo of the boomer station, which has been moved around quite a bit. No other photo of that elevator can be found, either. Another project, a Skelly bulk oil plant awaits industrial

fencing and details for the tank car unloader, so that is almost done...the third

just had the drawing done....and should be soon begun, it provides a loading

location for shipments to an already completed complex (gotta have those trains GO somewhere).

This, of course, are the ones on which something IS happening...there are

dozens awaiting.......and waiting......and waiting...

Too many!

Trains,

263E

260E

(2) 249E's

262

262E

261E

(2)258's

257

158

252

402

1835E

10

390E

203

(2)264E's

(3)259E's

2245

636W

(2) 616 sets

AF 1681 Hudson

AF City of Denver

AF 806 4-8-4

AF 570 Hudson

AF 531 Hudson

And on and on

One Bathroom,

Hardwood floor upstairs

fix the board in the Hitachi 55" Plasma

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