I have a bunch of stuff I should be doing on my MR. Additionally, I have other projects I could be working onnot train related, but I just don't have the energy. I attribute this to 2 things 1: My garage, where the layout is is packed with stuff and awkward. This makes it hard to want to stay down there, but it's the only space I have. In particular scenery creation is a chore. 2: I've got no car and engine storage. Oh, I have nooks and crannies, but no good space to put things just to get them off the tracks so I can work on said Scenery. I just don't want to go out today and fix that problem. There's plenty of stuff to do without fixing it. I just don't have the energy. sigh, this is why nothing gets done around here. They need to make a train related energy drink. Also, I need a television for the garage.
I know the feeling. I weathered my track and sort of got bogged down on the layout. That was a couple months ago. I find that cleaning and putting everything away from the layout is a big motivator for me. Today I took everything off the layout and will vacum up dust, mine is in a tiny basement, then see if I can actually get some trains running again. It has to be atleast four months since I actually ran a train.
Yeah, what Geeky said, a good general cleanup will help. I have found that my layout often becomes a "holdall" stuff get stacked on top of the rails and all over the place. I got sick of this and built some standing shelves that fit underneath the layout. Then at last I have a place to put things that I want to have in the train room but not on the layout. Other than that I find the motivation comes and goes. As for general junk in your garage ,maybe hold a garage sale?
Yeah,me too..But I HAVE to clean/straighten up as layout is from liv room thru dining & kitch , in an Apt.!!I pass layout ALL DAY LONG to go to fridge or cook..How I envy you guys with garages and basements.You can get away from it when you like.I CAN'T!!..But,just get out there and clean it..My problem is motivating to run bus wires,pour ballast,staple(don't care for foam)screening for plaster....I have a road on open grid with a few buildings and jumper wires to power gapped spurs...So tired of lookin' at plywood...Ugh!.. I also have this constant taffy-pull to either take it all down and redo it with a better track plan,OR even go back to N to have a larger RR...I do prefer HO and all its glory..But the temptation of longer runs and sidings..These thoughts constantly haunt me and fatigue me and I can't ever make the plunge one way or the other...Anyone else goin' thru this taffy pull out there? Mark
Da Boyz will pick youse up! :angry: How about a fast slap up sidea da head anda da ears! Wood dat get chew moitivated? Mabey sum stompin' ona da toes? Couple a black eyes, bent nose, and caulliflower ear? Me an' da boys will stop by and git chew up off yer dead axe anna ona da feets! Quit gaukin' at the nekid neighbors and git ta woike!
YOHO here is your answer Do like we do at the club layout. The first Thursday of each month is set aside as train running night. You can do any project all month long, but get out of my way on the first Thursday cause I am running trains:shade:
THANK GOD FOR WATASH ! ! ! ! And thank geography for whatever miles of buffer zone keeps him one or more states away so he's only hurling words! Whew! Hey, Watash? Once I get started on a layout eventually, if I get stuck do you make house calls?
Thanks Mike, If we can't laugh at ourselves when we get the Blahs, it just drags on until it finally gets us all depressed. I got tired of nothing but plywood too, so I got some acrylic paint and painted it to sorta look like dirt with patches of grass and gray gravel. At least it didn't look like a construction site anymore. I have one layout running now, another I have wanted all my life partly under construction, and am up to my ear lobes in engines and cars with all the supplies on hand to finish the job. My health soured making it difficult to continue working now. Depressed? The way I try to look at this is; I am better off than anyone in Iraq. At least I am somewhat alive, and I am not yet being shot at, and my layout is not a bomb target yet. I gotta keep a stiff upper or it falls down over my chin. Its hard to drink my coffee that way.
Hey Yo Ho, When I lived in an upstairs appartment, I had the same problem with space. It was fun to start and build a sort of table and lay track, but then it got discouraging. Because of the dusty winds of west Texas, there was no way I dared leave an engine out on the track while I went to work. Your problem was my problem. I either had to walk around the car to get to any storage shelves, or back the car out and close rhe door. Every time I did that, it was necessary to use the feather duster and a vacuum to clean dust off the track enough to run. I did keep all boxes to store the rolling stock in, so it stayed pretty clean. Long story short: Used 1x4's and made a hanging "ladder" looking set of shelves I could slip the boxes in over-head easy to reach but high enough to make some scenery. I didn't have to move the car the whole week end to run trains. I took this shelf with me when I moved. (I had 'C' clamped it to the floor joists above, so was no "damage", see?)
Watash, Ah's born in Dallas. Ah's raised up in San Antonio. Ah's descended from enough generations of Texans it goes back afore Texas was a State or even a Republic (none of 'em rich or famous, of course). And Ah gotta say that there's a mighty fine stretch limo ya got. Anybody see youse pullin' up out front onna back 'o dat limo don't get motivated, then nuthin'll do the trick. Giddyup, Dobbin!
I actually have some space under the layout, but It's currently filled with random junk. I need a garage sale is what I need. My wife told me yesterday that she's commited to getting the garage better organzied this fall. So something may happen. She's good at keeping me motivated and working on stuff as well. The flip side is of course that when I come home from work, I don't want to go back to work which is what cleaning up would be. I just need to take a day off to do the work.
but that doesn't specify who will be doing the actual work she obviously has the whip hand in your house ...
On "gittin motivated" My first time here gents... But I know the feeling. My pike is situated in its own trainroom but my house won't grow anymore and a few "catch alls" have leaked in. I saw something the other day that kind of motivated me to go in there... A quote where this guy said, "forget the staircase and just focus on the bottom step"... Well, I tried that and it worked. I knew I wasn't to get that whole room squared away but darn if I didn't throw out a plastic bag full of unnecessary junk! Plus I have a session coming up and it's got to be presentable... Larry777 Seattle and Northwestern Route of the Cascade
Hey,Wat,now ya sound like me.!!.You tawkin a me!??Um waukin here!Um waukin here!! Foist I need a cup a cawfee at toidy toid and toid!! MaukinLA Eh!!fugettaboudit!! :sun:
Right now I have been trying to work on this computer, and nashing my tooth, so it will again deliver the instant notices when someone posts. I should get a notice for the next guy that posts here. We'll see. I am subscribed to this thread.
Hey,that's the first iron horse 0-2-2-0 mallet!!Nice domes,flanges,pilot,tender..Fueled by hay and oats!!
It's very easy to get these features of vBulletin (our forum software) into a funky state. On this board and another (on a totally different subject) I have problems getting it to realize that I've already read the most recent post. As a tech nerd, I've grown to accept that computers, for various valid and various not so valid reasons simply will never just Work. The way we expect our appliances to. Anyway, I'm so unmotivated that today, instead of writing a post about paintschemes here, I went to the movies. I'm to unmotivated to even post about working on my railroad. My apathy knows no bounds. :embarassed:
