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Post by chipset35 on Nov 17, 2020 14:12:14 GMT
A couple of years ago when I started to build this layout (I still am), there was an area that was supposed to be Pennsylvania Station. Unfortunately, ending up in a position where I could never afford to buy the TrainWorx model of this building, caused me to abandon that plan. Thus, most of the tracks, spurs, and sidings were removed from the "dark" bottom level, with only the reverse loop remaining. It was much to my surprise 3 years later, when I was looking for my Pennsy passenger cars and could not find them. I finally decided to peer into the dark tunnel portal leading to what was once supposed to be Penn Station. What I found was the expected reverse loop, but what I did not expect to find was 2 sidings! As I peered into the darkness, my eyes adjusted, and there to my relief were the long lost missing Pennsy passenger cars sitting in the deeper darkness on the outside siding. Here is a photo I took of this discovery, see below!
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Post by Yellowstone Special on Nov 17, 2020 15:41:16 GMT
So, you had forgotten that they’d been sitting there all this time? 🤔 Hmm, sounds like an urban legend to me. 😂😂😂
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Post by JDaddy on Nov 17, 2020 16:13:34 GMT
Yep, happened to me. I had a set of cars derail and string line and fall over in a tunnel. 3 years later I was running some wire through that area and low and behold I found a 50' GN box car sitting there. Bonus!
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Post by chipset35 on Nov 17, 2020 16:43:58 GMT
So, you had forgotten that they’d been sitting there all this time? 🤔 Hmm, sounds like an urban legend to me. 😂😂😂 I also found an MTH AIU in another corner's bottom level! It must have fallen during construction.
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Post by chipset35 on Nov 17, 2020 16:47:37 GMT
Yep, happened to me. I had a set of cars derail and string line and fall over in a tunnel. 3 years later I was running some wire through that area and low and behold I found a 50' GN box car sitting there. Bonus! Too funny! The only other kind of incident like these has nothing to do with trains but is funny none the less. I had a closet in my computer room at my previous house in Texas. Any and all computer related "stuff" I was not using at the moment ended up in there. After the first 7 years, I needed to clean that "crammed" closet out and dreaded doing so because as I would go in and out of it for those years, stuff would fall, get dropped, or placed on the ground for lack of shelf space. Well, when I finally cleaned it out, it was amazing how the newest technology items were at the top layer and as you went down the technology got older! LOL!
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Post by JDaddy on Nov 17, 2020 17:24:08 GMT
It was a good looking car too. I thought I sold it on Ebay...  |
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Post by ptc on Nov 17, 2020 17:48:56 GMT
Your may have lucked out, Vince with the Penn Station. The Trainworx is only a facade and big bucks for that. I had one on order when they were first introduced and when I found it was not a complete station, I said NO! I asked when would the balance of the station follow and they could not give an answer. Several years later, it is just a facade.
Next.
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Post by Yellowstone Special on Nov 17, 2020 19:01:00 GMT
I guess it's difficult for me to comprehend losing or forgetting anything on a layout, even in a tunnel. As a small operator my layout is only 88 sq. ft., a 2-train operation, with a 4 ft. long tunnel and only 6 engines, 11 passenger cars, and 19 freight cars. So I guess I have everything memorized in the small inventory.
I find it amusing when those of you with larger layouts and humongous inventories can lose something inside a tunnel and forget about it. 😁
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Post by david1 on Nov 17, 2020 19:10:09 GMT
Hey I have lost tools and even a circular saw that got buried in the scenery until the layout was torn down. So yes it does happen.
Dave
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Post by Yellowstone Special on Nov 17, 2020 22:28:45 GMT
Really Dave, a circular saw!? It must have been buried under a large mountain range, or something. 😳
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Post by Adam on Nov 17, 2020 22:31:29 GMT
I've on occasion lost my sanity while working on the layout, but I tend to find it again in short order. Does that count?
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Post by Yellowstone Special on Nov 17, 2020 22:36:22 GMT
I suppose so, Adam. Glad that you found it again, though. 😉
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Post by david1 on Nov 17, 2020 22:42:50 GMT
Really Dave, a circular saw!? It must have been buried under a large mountain range, or something. 😳 The layout was 26x14, I thought I lent it out to somebody when I needed next, it was not a small item as it was old and heavy but yes I did leave it in a mountain sitting on a cross beam and when I found it many years later it was very dusty but still worked. Dave
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Post by JDaddy on Nov 18, 2020 0:55:15 GMT
What's even more amusing is I went to a train show and turned down a great deal on an identical box car and said no I have that one but darned if I can find it...
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Post by chipset35 on Nov 19, 2020 12:59:19 GMT
Your may have lucked out, Vince with the Penn Station. The Trainworx is only a facade and big bucks for that. I had one on order when they were first introduced and when I found it was not a complete station, I said NO! I asked when would the balance of the station follow and they could not give an answer. Several years later, it is just a facade. Next. Geez.....if it sounds too good to be true it probably isn't. I wonder how many were sold and how many returned?
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