1) finish the initial track plan for my new layout (still trying to figure out a good shape for it)

2) build part of the new layout

3) assemble a handful of Roundhouse N scale rollingstock kits

4) assemble 15-20 structure kits

5) add 2 or 3 additional electric circuits in the garage for the layout

Not entirely in the order that they will/should get done but close.  The most important one being the track plan followed very closely by getting started!

Mike

1. Get all track working reliably

2. Scenery - created more of it, be it structures, grass, fields, whatever.

3. Figure out how to operate the railroad

3a. Hold an op session before the end of the year

My New Years Resolution

Breath in, Breath out, and repeat over and over and over to avoid the big wood box for another year.

Dan

I might build a roadcase to take with me as I travel with the Air Force.  I'll be stationed eventually, which means semi-permanent digs.  Once I'm there, it would be nice to be able to do work without getting too much out.

What I need to do now is develop a simple case that contains room for my toolcase, my glue case, perhaps a soldering iron, my plastic stock, my wood stock, and perhaps a project or two.

That means my paint kits will also need a wood box too, something study that can travel!!  But there are so many jars!!!

And the biggest change I have to make is one that leads towards finding the Right woman...eeks, I know haha.  I'm just going to let that one happen as it happens!

Yes, tidy up underneath the layout. Been given / bought various tools over the years and whenever I want one I cannot find it, knowing that its somewhere under the layout but never know where!! I've got all sorts of gadgets to make life easier but end up cursing doing it the hard way.....

Brian

I'm not going to be specific because that leads to failures ;-)....but I am going to try to do better at one thing:

Limit my open major projects on the railroad to only 3 at a time!

You see, I am the King of "Short attention span"....I start one thing, get 3/4 finished, become bored, more on to something else....  For proof of this, as a teenager I had over 30 model cars (1/25th scale) sort of finished, but not one finished!

You'd think as an adult I would have grown out of this, but NO....IT'S GOTTEN WORSE!  Maybe this year will be different.

Rick

I gave up on them about 40 years ago. Why? Well there is an old saying that reads: Man proposes and God disposes. We make plans and say to our selves that we can meet them. We do sometimes manage to do that. But man times we don't make it for various reasons.

I had planned to have an operating model railroad layour by the end of 2008. Obviously I am now one year behind schedule. It's a fact that can't be denied. It wasn't for lack of time because I am a procrastinator. Its not for lack of information either since I have alot. It is for lack of money because somehow household and family requirements seem to eat up whatever surplus I can lay my hands on since I am semiretired. Sure, it would be nice to win the big prize in the lotery but it hasn't happened no atter how much I'd like to believe that I have the same chance as everyone else (I do buy one ticket once or twice a week) but some folks just seem to win at least something every week.

I do manage to get something done each week even though it looks like nothing has been done. Over the last few weeks I've been working at acquiring buildings that will eventually go on the layout. I've even been working on a block that will feature stores named for family members. Maybe I'll get to take some photos to post here later.

Irv

I'm with you, Irv.  I don't make resolutions.  I do periodically get an update on the honey-do list, but that's OK.

And like you, Irv, I had every intention of have running trains this year, but life got in the way.  I have settled on a year, region, and a reason-for-being for my proto-freelanced railroad, and am building structures, accumulating and upgrading rolling stock, building switches, and pondering a cheap way to build credible-looking operating block signals.  So, for the New Year:  continue what I've been doing.

And visit the MRH forums frequently, and support the businesses that advertise and support MRH, because I so much enjoy what this site is becoming, both in resources to me, the modeler, and in the positive repartee that is present.  The MRH site must have had a blessing pronounced over it.

The MRH site must have had a blessing pronounced over it.

Actually, if you are a believer in prayer, the MRH venture was birthed in prayer and some of my "inner circle" of close model railroading friends who are believers also pray for MRH regularly. If you don't believe in prayer, then let's just say it's a mighty interesting coincidence that MRH is "blessed".

You also might think I've been smelling too many diosol fumes, but I had a person who hardly knew me walk up to me at church today tell me - "I get the strangest feeling you're supposed to do something with trains and a magazine, and if you do you're going to be blessed ... does that mean anything to you?"

A few people at church know I like model trains, but almost no one knows anything about MRH. This guy certainly didn't have the first inkling about MRH ...

Yeh, must be the diosol fumes - that's it. Except I can't figure out how this guy who's not a modeler would be getting too many diosol fumes ... (wink and grin)