For the first time in a very long time I'm up before 10am on a Saturday. I've even started on the Johnson A boiler and am about to have a fosick through the brass dump to see if I can do a footplate and cab sheeting.
Another (pleasurable) task I've been going through is to go through my Railfan Collection compliling a very rough content system. I finally completed the set a month ago (thanks to Ann and Floyd of the Railway Enthusiasts Society) and sat down to go through them. I'm not blessed with my brothers "photograpic" memory and a hunt for a picture I know I've seen degenerates into a desperate search through a variety of books and the inevitable sidetracks which just makes the whole process either longer or grinding to a halt. I refuset to touch a spreadsheet system as I'm a much more analog kind of guy and so I came up with....Post-its.
Stuck on the cover with articles of interest written on and space to add more notes as required. Also colour coded by month of issue. The whole process has been pleasurable in that I've reaquainted myself with the 25 year collection of articles and photos and am reminded just what an amazine resource it actually is.
I have noticed that there are 2 missing so will have to go back into "der room" for a hunt. they rare probably buried under a pile of The Linesider.
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Ive cut out everything I want and discarded the rest.
Useful contents are now catalogued according to what they are, in plastic folder pages, in some folders, once again catalogued by type.
Tip #1 dont buy cheap Warehouse folders :-)
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