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Whats on your motive roster?

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Posted by Supermicha on Sunday, April 4, 2004 1:53 PM
Athearn:
F7 Columbia Southern
F7 New Jersey Transit
GP40 New Jersey Transit
GP40 Columbia Southern
3 x SD40T-2 Southern Pacific
AMD-103 Amtrak Acela
AMD-103 CDOT New Haven
SW1200 New Jersey Transit

Atlas:
ALP44 New Jersey Transit
2 x AEM-7 Amtrak
U36C Souhthern Pacific
U34CH New Jersey Transit

Bachmann:
F7A&B Union Pacific
F40PH Amtrak
2 x E60CP Amtrak
E33 New Haven
Acela
Metroliner
SD 45 Columbia Southern

IHC:
GG1 Pennsy

Kato:
SD 40 Southern Pacific

Life Like:
E8 Union Pacific
E8 New Jersey Transit
SD-7 Union Pacific
SD 60 Union Pacific
F40PH Amtrak
F7 Columbia Southern

Rivarossi:
E8 New Jersey Transit

Walthers:
F40PH Amtrak

Micha
Michael Kreiser www.modelrailroadworks.de
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 4, 2004 10:49 PM
still working on the layout but so far for motive power I have a
BNSF dash-9
CN dash-9
2 SOO LINE GP38's
1 CP GP38
1 SOO AND ATSF GP35
3 CN and CP sd40-2s
1 CP sw1200 and acouple of F7a's
1 A and B set of C-LINERS WITH THE CANADIAN PACIFIC MAROON AND GREY PAINT SCHEME Hoping to get 3 ac4400 in CP colors 4 sd40-2's in CP flags and beaver logo and 1 or 2 SD90Mac's and UP SD70M and a Soo sd60 in candy apple red
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 4, 2004 11:30 PM
All SP power here...

3 LL P2K SD9's in grey/ scarlet-- modified to SD9E's
1 LL P2K SD9 in Kodachrome-- modified to an SD9E
1 LL P2k GP9 in grey/scarlet-- modified to a GP9E
1 Atlas GP40 in grey/scarlet lettered for Cotton Belt-- Modified to a GP40M-2.
2 OMI SD40T-2 in grey/scarlet w/ speed lettering and 1 w/ roman
1 OMI GP40X in grey/scarlet
2 OM GP60 in grey/scarlet
1 OMI AC4400 in grey/scarlet
1 LL P2K GP60 in grey/scarlet
1 LL P2K SD45 in grey/scarlet-- modified to SD45R
Eventually all will be DCC equipped with working light packages.
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Posted by jfugate on Monday, April 5, 2004 11:35 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by mario_puzo

All SP power here...

...
1 LL P2K SD9 in Kodachrome-- modified to an SD9E
...
Eventually all will be DCC equipped with working light packages.



Yep, all SP power here too. (BTW, where'd you get the kodachrome unit? Did you do a custom paint job?)

Lots of LifeLike P2K SD9Es (modified) and GP9Es (modified). Also have lots of Kato SD45s and SD40s. Have several Atlas GP40s (the new ones) and a few brass tunnel motors (SD45T-2, SD40T-2).

All are DCC equipped and am in the process of installing full SP light packages in all of them. The ones that have been installed are a blast to operate.

Also have diesel Soundtraxx decoders (75LC) installed in a couple of the lashups and what fun! My operating regulars tell me that I need to get sound in all the lashups. It's true. Once you have operated the sound lashup, there seems to be something wrong with the non-sound equipped ones.


Joe Fugate Modeling the 1980s SP Siskiyou Line in southern Oregon

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 5, 2004 6:44 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jfugate

QUOTE: Originally posted by mario_puzo

All SP power here...

...
1 LL P2K SD9 in Kodachrome-- modified to an SD9E
...
Eventually all will be DCC equipped with working light packages.



Yep, all SP power here too. (BTW, where'd you get the kodachrome unit? Did you do a custom paint job?)

Lots of LifeLike P2K SD9Es (modified) and GP9Es (modified). Also have lots of Kato SD45s and SD40s. Have several Atlas GP40s (the new ones) and a few brass tunnel motors (SD45T-2, SD40T-2).

All are DCC equipped and am in the process of installing full SP light packages in all of them. The ones that have been installed are a blast to operate.

Also have diesel Soundtraxx decoders (75LC) installed in a couple of the lashups and what fun! My operating regulars tell me that I need to get sound in all the lashups. It's true. Once you have operated the sound lashup, there seems to be something wrong with the non-sound equipped ones.





I should have specified... I PLAN to do a custom painted kodachrome unit but I have not acomplished the task yet. I am not looking forward to the masking job and all of those colors. But, it represents a important part in SP's history and the splash of color will look good in a sea of grey and scarlet.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 5, 2004 11:43 PM
I'm changing my prototype to D&RGW in Tennessee pass and have sold alot of my
equipment, but here's the N-scale locomotives I still have.

-Seven Kato sd70macs four in BNSF and three custom painted in BN
-Two Atlas B40-8s one BNSF one LMX
-One Atlas GP30 custom painted in Great Northern
-Life like FA1 and FB1 set in SP&S
-Two Kato C44-9Ws one is Santa Fe the other custom painted in BNSF Heritage II
-Two Kato P42 Genesis in Amtrack Phase 3
-Two Life like F40PHs in Amtrack Phase 3
-One Atlas SD7 in Rio Grande
-One Kato F7 in Rio Grande
-Two Atlas RS3s in BN
-Two Atlas GP40s custom painted in WP (not decaled yet)
-One Life like Heritage 2-8-8-2 in Santa Fe (my fave)
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:51 PM
I've been HO railroading all my life (not much to say 'cause I'm only 15) but my roster includes.....

Athearn
-SD-40-2 BN [8D]
I like it and it runs reliably.
-SD-40-2 SF (BLUEBONNET) [8D]
got it from my train club's kiosk at GATS
-SD-9 SP (BLACK WIDOW) [:(]
DUMMY! WHAA!!
-GP-7 BURLINGTON ROUTE [:D]
I LOVE IT and I also got it from a train club guy, and iz detailed
-GP-40ish CN&W
Once a dummy, always a dummy!

BACHMANN (PLUS)
4-8-4 Daylight [;)]
Runs Great, but I've only run It in tests, well I've never run it on a layout before
F-7 Daylight [:D]
WOW! and i thought it would run like the standard old bachmann F-7, boy was I wrong, I suggest you pick one of these up, because it starts running at
10 mph!!!! (scale speed on transformer)

PROTO 2000
GP-7 SF (ZEBRA!) [;)]
I love it, but I swear iz cursed!

Life Like
0-4-0 dockside SF

Model Power
0-4-0 Saddle tank switcher SF [^]
I like it!

Sadly Deceased or retired

Model Power RS-2 SF [;)] (R.I.P)
I call it "smokey", because the communicator has a thick bit of oil in it, which causes it to smoke more than most steamers!!! but it died a year ago when the communicator blew from overheating. [:(]

Life like FP-40PH BN(On it's last breath)
In a spectacular accident, it cereened off a rickety and very, very tall, bridge, onto the wood floor below, kicking the crap out of the whole engine, and shattering the front truck. I managed to jury rig it so it runs, but so poorly, it might be headed to the scrapper.

Bachmann standard F-7 SF warbonnet. (It's days are numbered)
Cheap train set P.O.C. (piece of crap) I got for my first set. it has sentimental value, but now it's a paintjob test bed for my new rail line, The Falcon Pacific Short Line. (it has at least 5 coats of spray paint, dulling out all of the minor detials)

ATHEARN SD-45 SP speed lettering
(hoping to fix it soon![:D])

and finally (sniff) [:(]

MY 4-4-0 American CP (jupiter)
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Posted by AggroJones on Friday, April 16, 2004 12:36 PM
All Athearn units are detailed and some have been repowered. Almost everything weathered.

Athearn UP SD40T-2
Athearn UP C44-9W
Athearn UP SD40-2
Athearn MP U30C
Athearn AMD-103
Athearn DRGW GP40-2
Spectrum CR SD45
Athearn BN GP38-2
Genesis UP SD70M
Proto UP SD60
Proto PRR GP-7
Proto ATSF F3A/B
IHC PRR red GG-1
Spectrum UP DDA40X
IHC USRA 2-8-2A
Spectrum USRA SP 4-8-2B
Spectrum Russian Frisco 2-10-0
Spectrum Harriman 2-8-0
BLI J1e 4-6-4
Proto Y3 2-8-8-2
Bachmann Niagra 4-8-4
Bachmann GS-4 4-8-4
Rivarossi UP 4-6-6-4 (dummified)
Rivarossi UP Grayhound FEF-3 4-8-4
BLI AC-5 4-8-8-2

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