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[quote user="Murray"]I'm new here and hope this is the right place to post this. If not, appologies.[/quote] Close enough, if it isnt, the moderators can move it to the proper section. [quote user="Murray"]there don't seem to be a lot of companies producing NYC rolling stock and engines.[/quote] Need to know what scale you are planning on working in.  Pick up a copy of the most recent Walthers reference book.  That will give you (somewhat) of an idea of what is available.  Many brick and mortar shops (where they still exist) have a decent amount of new old stock from previous runs.  3 rail O MTH and Lionel have made just about everything except a J2 Hudson (the MTH one is a J1 they painted green and said "close enough") and a J3 Hudson (without streamlining, the Dreyfus hudson (the one in tstage's photo) is a J3).  For 4.0 accurate there have been many importers of NYC steam.  Brasstrains.com has an archive online of almost all locomotives that have been produced.  Some were good, others not so much.  Some are still available.  Brass not recommended for someone who is starting back into the hobby.  N, HO, and O. Athearn has made NYC GP7 or 9 in HO.   AMB makes a laser cut caboose (HO scale).  BLI has made many types of NYC steam over the past 10 years or so.  Bachmann has made a 4-6-2 that is passible for a NYC locomotive, some detailing could improve it.  Contrary to their advertisement in their 2017 catalog, this locomotive did not receive a NMRA conformance warrant (Bachmann uses all wires black as color coding, which is understandble because the harness runsbetween loco and tender, and color wires dont look very good). Bachmann also made a USRA 2-8-2 in NYC.  Its not too bad, and detail can be added as desired. Trix makes what I have been told is an excellent Mikado. Athearn Genesis made a 2-8-2 (some had gear issues, all have pulling power issues).  There are numerous threads on this forum about improving this locomotive.  I have 3 or 4 of these.  They can still be found used at train shows and hobby shops that deal in collections/used trains.  Disassembly instructions can be had directly from Athearn or are posted in this forum.  The running gear on this locomotive was made by a brass manufacturer (Samhongsa i believe).  It is a beautiful piece of engineering, each axle is individually sprung, some adjustments are required to lead and trailing truck screw tightness to prevent lifting locomotive off of drivers. Accurail makes good, moderately detailed, relatively low cost rolling stock kits that can be customized to match photographs if you choose.  They make NYCS cars from 1910s-1960s eras.
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