Re: What's On Your Workbench 1/2023

Posted by Mike Trent on Jan 07, 2024; 11:02pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/What-s-On-Your-Workbench-1-2023-tp19344p19345.html

I'm working on an extension North of the depot at Dickey. Ties are glued down, and I'm ready to start gluing ballast, etc. I intend to get my layout complete as my plan was to be ready for the Convention Layout tour. I've made good progress in my recovery from an adventure with my health last summer, as most of you know. Lesson to be learned? Get stuff done while you can, because you just never know!!

I've also always kept a roster of equipment, both Motive power and rolling stock. Dates acquired and from where, modifications, dates completed, etc. When my computer went down a couple years ago, I found that I had last backed up my roster in early 2016. All my more recent stuff was lost. So I've been restoring and updating all that stuff into my new 2024 Roster. I replaced my phone in June, and was not able to capture years of photos out of my old one. Now, it appears that my entire gallery in my old phone is gone. Crap! So, this weekend I have turned to the search function in the archives of this site by putting in my name and whatever I had posted here that might help with information to add to my roster. Fortunately, I had posted photos and dates of various projects in recent times (post 2016) that have made it possible to get caught up. Since my first entry into C&S On3 was in January, 1980 (my #74). Virtually nothing I had bought or built during the first 10 years had not been sold over the years.  Since then, a lot of it has been reacquired or replaced or added to, so it makes pretty interesting reading over the last 43 years. Now, I'm  glad I have restored all of that, and I encourage you to do the same while you can. Eventually, someone will need to sift through all of the stuff in your collection. Even if it's you. And back up your pictures too!

So, not everything is workbench related, but still important.