In the last post I talked about revising my goals and set out on a revised plan for the year. Well a few short days later I am having to re-evaluate these goals again. I wont get into the gory details as I feel I would be talking out of school, other than to state that change is inevitable when there is a change in leadership, and this is most assuredly true in the world of model railroad clubs.
So the long and short of it is all the goals I had involving the club, are on hold until the dust settles. I am in no way implying that I am metaphorically taking my ball and going home as I do enjoy the company of many of the members, I am just re-evaluating my situation and allowing the dust to settle before I make anymore goals or decisions involving the club.
One of the things that is leading to this re-evaluation is that the club voted to start construction of a permanent layout and depending on the route the club decides to go on trackwork I could be very busy over the next year as I am one of three guys that are advocating handlaying our turnouts. If we go that route my share would be atleast 15 #6 turnouts as well as anything else we might need. So on the bright side I will get to improve my turnout building skills but I might not have time for anything else.
This decision also means that the modular layout, which is usually stored in an operational state where the new layout is being built, has been put in storage and whether it sees the light of day again is unclear at this time. A side effect of this is that until we get the track operational on the new layout that there is no where for me to run trains and test out any modifications and upgrades I make to any locomotives or rolling stock. While I could still continue with the wheel and coupler upgrades I am currently also considering a reweigh as well. So until I decide on how I want to go about that and how to streamline the process so that the cars get shopped, re-weighted, and weathered and then stored in a box designed for storage in one shot, this process is on hold too.
Also I have hit a major snag on the YPG Lines and am having to visit the operational scheme a lot earlier than I intended. The main reason for this is staging yard capacity and if if a staging yard of appropriate size will not fit then I will have to redesign the layout to accomodate one. So until that is sorted out updates might be fewer and farther between.
That said I will still strive to update the blog atleast once a month and I am not above including some of the club layout construction in future blog posts. Hopefully by the end of next month I will have the issues with the YPG lines sorted out and be able to complete the planning of phase 2. But didn't I say that last month and the month before that. I just have to remember that this is a journey and sometimes even the priority trains have to go in the hole.
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