Iz nutz - really!

[bob turner]

Yeah, Linda wants me to do all that while I am still warmer than 72 degrees. I have a different plan.

But the problem is - the collection is unreasonably large, as in this is actually a problem, both mentally and square footage-wise. And I still look at potential additions - like a Hiawatha consist, or another MC-6! If only there were a pill!

[Carey Williams]

148 steamers and no Hiawatha ? ....

MC-6 ...you are looking for a Greyhound bus or a cab forward ?

have they made the "just say no " pill ?


there is always room for one more .....like an after dinner mint ..,.it's just wafer thin ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRpt4a6H99c

[2railjon]

Sorry, I have all The Hiawatha sets. None left for you Bob!

[E7]

Yeah, Linda wants me to do all that while I am still warmer than 72 degrees. I have a different plan.

But the problem is - the collection is unreasonably large, as in this is actually a problem, both mentally and square footage-wise. And I still look at potential additions - like a Hiawatha consist, or another MC-6! If only there were a pill!

Use Economics. Apply the concept of marginal utility value, where the usefulness of additional numbers of an item keeps diminishing as numbers of that item increase.

Keep the nicest one or two examples of each type and get rid of the rest of them....or we might have to call you obsessive compulsive.

Maybe start with the ones you never run.

[bob turner]

I hardly ever run any of them. I like them all. Even the lowliest dog-eared box car gives me pleasure.

You know what is really neat? I have arrived at the point where I can either build or buy a model of anything I want!
I am really not worried about my sanity - anybody who collects trains in this volume is a bit weird.

Today I told the Greek "Heading to the airport to fly two Cubs." She said "why?"

Now that's what I want to know - "why?" Come on, Carey, find those pills!

[E7]

I hardly ever run any of them. I like them all. Even the lowliest dog-eared box car gives me pleasure. You know what is really neat? I have arrived at the point where I can either build or buy a model of anything I want!

Go after one of Henry Bultmann's C&LS Train Masters in black widow. That will keep you busy and they are light years ahead of those plastic ones.

[bob turner]

If I were to get a Bultmann, it would have to be the4-10-2. But I already have three of that wheel arrangement. Wanna see ‘em again?

[bob turner]

I think I should add, by way of backing up my desire to hang on to each and every little morsel I have collected:

Many folks have contributed to my collection, several from this fine group. Sarge gave me some really neat stock cars. Jay gave me a really nice Shasta Water car from the Simonton collection. Maroon is always sending me fragments. Carey just sent a beautiful box car for my cast aluminum collection. Hopefully I didn't leave anyone out?

Jim Seacrest lives on around here with some fine models he sent as gifts. I have an ice car from the Ed Miller collection, and another from the John Young collection. My old buddy Frank Thomson is responsible for a number of models around here, including a pair of Lobaugh 4-4-0s, a Berkshire, and a Greenbrier. Bud Cantlay, who knew Chet Tayloe and Minton Cronkhite, is well represented here. Si Simonton would occasionally stuff my hands with Scale Craft rejects, which generally are superb models. A caboose right in front of me came from Billy Davis. I have models from Hal Sharkey and Harold Peters. I have a Challenger from Peter Cozens, who died too young. Drivers and a tender from Vince Robinson. Display cases and drivers from Greg Bergman. It goes on - I am keeping them all. All of them! Picture Scrooge McDuck, only with box cars.

Now when is that appointment? Are there pills? I am going to seriously depress the prices of stone age models when I croak and somebody hits eBay with all this stuff.

[PRR Man]

what I like most Bob, is that you enjoy all your stuff.

[J. S. Bach]

If I were to get a Bultmann, it would have to be the4-10-2. But I already have three of that wheel arrangement. Wanna see ‘em again?

Yes, please.

[bob turner]

I forgot two important folks:

Fred Jacobs, of Meriden Ct sent me unsolicited a stack of Lobaugh and Scale Craft stuff about 30 years ago - I think he liked my OSN articles. In the box were some Alexander box cabs that I believe belonged to Watty House back in the day.

And Henry Pearce - what a lovable old guy! He would "spin me up" drivers when I needed them, and even cast some FTs special order. Henry had enough of the Lost Wax Mike parts that I was able to build one. Henry was always going to produce the definitive kit locomotive - he spent most of his time making fixtures. He could whump out a fully riveted cab for the 0-8-0 in one blow. Boom! Henry's locomotives are special enough that the road name on one is "Pearce Tool Co."

[bob turner]

And ok - 4-10-2s coming up.

[E7]

And Henry Pearce - what a lovable old guy! He would "spin me up" drivers when I needed them, and even cast some FTs special order. Henry had enough of the Lost Wax Mike parts that I was able to build one. Henry was always going to produce the definitive kit locomotive - he spent most of his time making fixtures. He could whump out a fully riveted cab for the 0-8-0 in one blow. Boom! Henry's locomotives are special enough that the road name on one is "Pearce Tool Co."

Was a great article on Henry in OSN 48/ft.

[bob turner]

Here, again, are my 4-10-2s. All are 17/64 scale, two have operating center main rod, and all are powered and ran smoothly last time I checked, which was a very long time ago.

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[rex desilets]

You do nice work, Mr. Turner!