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You seriously consider tearing out the bathtub/shower and replacing it with extra deep shelving to hold some of the overflow of trains you have stored in all of the other rooms in the house.

Hadn't thought of that...and what with all the Hollywood celebs giving up bathing we'd be right there on the bleeding edge. ("You stunk in that movie." "My performance?" "No - you.")

In order to calm your wife, you purchase the house next door for use as a STORAGE CENTER for surplus trains and their boxes; so that your house can be filled with trains running on your multi-room layout.

Mike Mottler    LCCA 12394

Rob Gronkowski of the NE Patriots did a similar thing when he played for them. He bought the house next door to his and turned it into a full scale personal gym and training facility.

Yes, you could see the old SP shops lettered for Harrah driving around . I believe on his death every thing was liquidated by Holiday Inn. A lot of things ended up in the National Auto Museum in Reno, mostly from people donating or selling back. I may be confused on a few things between Reno and Sac.

Corrections welcome

stay safe, John

By the time I read all the responses, I forgot the question.  The short answer is, 'who would ever ask that question'!

However, it brings up a discussion my wife and I were having the other night.  When is there too much shelving?  I have something over 2900 linear feet of shelving filled with MTH, Weaver and Williams.  It is primarily engines and passenger sets.    The exception is the last couple of hundred feet which I have begun filling with pre 2000 K-Line sets.  Not sure I can get to a mile unless I put the freight cars up.

You know you have too many trains when you wake up one morning, look around a dnsee that there are trains on the walls, trains on the layout, trians on the table, trains on the floor, trains in all the closets, trains in the garage, and you sit down and with a tear in one eye, you quietly say to yourself " I have too many trains." So sadly you go to the OGR forum to tell people you are going to start thinning out your collection, you accidentally see that someone has this locomotive for sale for an unbelievably great price and you e-mail him to find out if it has sold yet. . .

You guys are missing the point here.

  1. If your trains won't fit on your layout, you don't have too many trains. You have insufficient layout. Enlarge it to accommodate the trains.
  2. If you don't have room to expand your layout, your layout isn't too big. You have insufficient house. Enlarge it to accommodate the layout expansion.
  3. See #1 and repeat if necessary.

But in keeping with the theme, you know you have too many trains when...

  • Your equipment roster makes BNSF, CSX, Norfolk-Southern and Union Pacific look like minor league players.
  • The Class 1 railroads consult YOU about equipment assignments.
Last edited by AGHRMatt

#1-When you buy something and start to go through your trains and find out you already have it.

#2- Similarly, when you go through your trains and see things you forgot that you had.

I learned that when we packed up to move into our new house when I pulled tubs and foot lockers out from under the old layout looking for empty boxes. Only to learn the tubs and foot lockers were filled with full boxes I did not know I had. Or when you are packing and inventorying and find two and three of the same piece.

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