how many of the same model loco do you.....

[AltoonaRailroader]

I try to keep my roster small for now because I don't have room to store loco's I'm not useing. But here's what I have.

 3 Athearn (sp?) GP-9 Conrail 2 powered 1 dummy (My pride and joys)

 1 Athearn  GP-40 Conrail (Need a few more of these or GP38-2)

 1 Model Power GP-7 Penn Central (used to be UP)

 1 Model Power RS-2 Conrail

 1 Model Power C-430 Conrail

 1 AHM RS-11 PRR

 1 Old Athearn Gp-9 Seaboard Coast I think that is soon to be custom Erie Lackawana

 Oh, and a small Model Power Switcher SW7 I think it is. Conrail of course.

 

 

[modelmaker51]

My roster is mostly D&H I have either custom built, super detailed, custom painted, or some or all of the above:

4 Atlas U-30c

4 Atlas U-23b

4 Lima/Rivarossi C-420 (rebuilt)

1 Atlas C-420

2 Hobbytown RS-3 (w/Kato drives)

2 MDC/Roundhouse RS-3 (upgraded drives)

2 Atlas RS-3m (custom built)

3 Atlas RS-11

2 Atlas RS-11 LoNose (custom)

3 TigerValleyModels RS-36 (w/Kato drives)

2 TigerValleyModels C-628 (weight: 32 oz each!) (w/Kato drives & Stewart trucks)

2 Stewart C-628

4 Athearn GP38-2 (upgraded drives)

2 GP39-2 (custom built Athearns)

2 Atlas C-424

4 P2k PA (#17 customized)

4 Kato CP SD40-2 (3 paint schemes)

2 P2K Erie Lacawanna E-8

2 RailPower Susquehanna SD-70

1 Stewart Susquehanna RS-3 (upgraded drive)

1 Susquehanna ALCo C-430 (TigerValleyModels)

 

[dti406]

PRR K4s - 5 (Plus 1-K2 and 1-K5)

PRR L1s - 3

PRR I1s - 3

PRR M1 - 2

PRR J1- 2

PRR H8s - 2 (Plus 1-H6sb & 1-H10s)

B&O E27ca - 2

NKP 0-8-0 - 2

NKP S2/S3 - 3

NKP H6 - 2

C&O H6 - 3

NYC J3a - 2

N&W M1/M2 - 2

PRR RS27 - 2

PRR E8 - 2

PRR BP20 - 2

PRR Centipede - 2

DT&I GP38/-2 - 4

DT&I GP40/-2 - 4

AA GP35 - 2

N&W GP38AC - 2

NKP GP30 - 2

That is all I can remember without looking at my brass/plastic list.

Rick

 

[Anonymous]

I have

3)GP38-2's

2)SD40-2's

5)U-30-C's Plans to get 6 more

and Plans to get 4) C-30-7's

1) RF16 Plans to get more

1) RF16 b

4) GP7

That's my roster I have more than one of the same loco, but it all depends one what you model and how close you keep to a prototype

[carknocker1]

My fleet of 6 F7's  , 3 L&N , 1 CE&I ,1 Southern , 1 NYC

[Dean-58]

As always, it's up to you, sfrailfan, but have you ever heard of the concept used by a lot of us old-timers: staggering numbers to make a class of cars or locos look larger than it really is?  It's so old I don't even remembeer where I heard of it, but it was back in the early '60s.  I used the idea on my old HO Colorado Western, where I bought Kemtron (now PSC) smokebox front number plates and numbered my roster of KTM Porter Moguls in a staggered manner, such as Nos. 22, 25 and 26, 28, etc.

That way, it looks like there are others of the class at work elsewhere on the system--and the neat thing is, you can buy more as you can afford them and fill in the number strings as you go!  If I live to build my complete loco roster for the Mineral Point & Northern (including the Mineral Point RR, which the MP&N bought out during the Panic of 1903) and two or three engines of the Platteville & Calamine, which was a wholly owned subsidiary of the old MPRR, the numbers will be consecutive.  Some prototype roads, like the Virginia & Truckee, did this, removing number plates from engines they scrapped or sold off and placing them on newly acquired engines.  You sometimes see this on roster lists as "First #17" or "Second #5.)

However, I recently decided the old MPRR might've bought more than the three bobber cabooses (cabeese?) I'd planned on--the MP&N bought only two more modern 4-wheel crummies--and I'll show this by having gaps in the numbers of existing hacks.  This makes imminent sense with freight and passenger cars, to show a large, or larger, fleet of any given car type.

(Say, has anyone else had their messages go into Italics without wanting it--or being able to get it back to normal??)

Dean-58

(Dean H. Hammons

  Duluth, MN)

[my05hammer]

My RR has;

Two CF7's

Two SD60's

Four E8/9's

Two GP38's

Six SD35's (I built these using Athearn BB SD9's, IHC shells, and Austrian Atlas handrails)

Four GP30's (I built these with Lionel shells and Athearn BB GP35's)

Two F40PH's

Two F9B's (the only dummies I have)

Three SW7's

One SW1500

Two GP9's

One RS3

Two Hustlers 

I eventually want to add one USRA 2-10-2

 

[NSlover92]

I have the opposite

1 SD7

1 FM H16-44

1 44 Tonner

1 F3A

1 Baldwin Shark (A and B but i will count as one)

1 PRR J1

1 Alco S3

I think thats it, Mike

[Texas Zepher]

was just wondering if a lot of you guys have -I don't know say 12 of the same model loco.

So, it looks like the answer to your question is that only a few of us have more than 12 of the same model locomotive.

[2-8-8-0]

3 Kato heavy 2-8-2s

4 P2k 2-8-8-2s

At the moment this is my "fleet", N scale of course!

[Jimmydieselfan]

I have a lot of the same ones:

  10-AC4400CW's Kato

  10-SD70MAC's Kato, Atlas

  3-SD75I's Athearn

  4-SD40-2's Kato, Atlas

All are either BN, Santa Fe or BNSF.  N Scale of course.

 

[GTX765]

I am going to use this thread to show the woman of the house that I am not going over board on buying engines. For the same model I have as follows:

Proto 2000 E6a Southern Tennessean

Proto 2000 E6a Southern Freighter

I also have two SD7s one UP and the other SOU.

The rest are all alone. All my engines have DCC and sound so maybe thats why I have so few. They are pricy.

 

[CNW 6000]

I've got:
-One MP15DC
-One GP38
-One C42-8
-Two GP50s
-Two SD50-3s
-Six C44-9Ws
-Two AC4400CWs/One AC4400CWe

-Two C425s
-One 2-8-0

 

[strikefour]

N Scale - EMD - CR & NS - in active service

3 SD40-2's - Kato

8 SD60's - Atlas

4 SD60M's - Atlas

3 SD70M's - Kato

6 SD80MAC's - Kato

[emdgp92]

Let's see now...with the retirement of the last of the Bachmann F units, which originally numbered 4...

1 F7A

1 F7B

2 E7A

2 F40PH (For the Amtrak runs)

2 GP7s 

1 RDC

2 Baldwin RF16s (made by dropping Tyco shells onto Bachmann "train set" F unit drives. Couldn't resist these, since Monongahela had a few.)

1 Alco RS3M

As some of you have already noticed, most of my roster consists of 4-axle power. The exceptions are the E units used on my commuter trains. Local freights are run with F units, GPs, or one of each. I'd like a few more Fs and GP7s, but those will have to wait until I get the layout running again. It's been mothballed the past few months as I've been busy with other projects.

[jblackwelljr]

Only dupes I have are my PCM Reading T1's - 2111 & 2113.  Like to have a few more but I will have to re-number them.   

[HEdward]

1 M&StL switcher

1 B&M Mogul(to pull my Danbury RR Museum cars)

1 PC GP-38

2 Amtrak F9s from different manufacturers and in different paint schemes

1 UP F7a and b unit pairing

1 F3 Sante Fe in the blue and yellow freight livery

I plan to replace all the freight locos with DCC equipped, undecorated ones so I can completely freelance my imaginary time and location.

[Anonymous]

I wasn't talking paint schemes.

I don't even have any units in the same scheme.....or even the same railroad!

[tatans]

Is this one of those "bait'' queries where everyone responds with hypothetical, unbelievable responses that most people could not possibly conceive???  Some of the responses are so astronomical, can they be true???    just a question !!!

[Daniel1975]

Having just re-started with this Hobby I can say that my first model was the NH I-5 and I like it so much that I just ordered me another I-5.

I also have pre-ordered 3 of the upcoming NYC Mohawks.

 

[SD60M]

This is my fleet, a good amount is EMD which is what BN's fleet mostly consited of.

EMD:

SD70MAC (2) 

SD70M (1)

SD60 (1)

SD45 (2)

SD40(-2) (3)

SD40T-2 (1)

SD24 (1)

F45 (1)

GP60M (1)

GP50 (1)

GP40-2 (1)

GP38-2 (3)

GP9 (1)

F7 A+B (1)

E7 A (1)

SW8 (1)

GE:

Dash 9 (1)

C30-7 (1)

[Charlie]

I have only 5 locomotive

2 GP40x's (1 ATSF, 1 SP)

1 GP60m (BNSF)

1 GP60B (ATSF)

1 GP50 (ATSF)

Charlie

[shayfan84325]

I have 2 brass Katsumi 20 T shays, the other 9 are all unique (except that they are all brass).  It's fun to double head the 2 Katsumis up my 1.5% grade curved trestle with a string of log cars.

[csxns]

About 50 AC4400CW's    40 Dash 9's   50 8-40CW's  40 8-40C's   50 SD70MAC's  30 SD70M's  that is just the heavy haulers.Have older SD's and a few 4 axel locos.And i forgot have 6 AC6000CW's and 2 Gevo's.  

[Medina1128]

I have duplicates of the following:

GP38-2 (8)

1. Missouri Pacific (numbered differently, of course) - 5
2. Union Pacific (same as above) - 2
3. Missouri-Northern Arkansas (short line RR that actually serves my small town) - 1

Heavy Mikados (2-8-2) -3

1. Frisco Lines (numbered differently)

GP40(3)

1. Union Pacific

[trainfan1221]

Whatever I can get.. I have multiple GP40s, 3 to be exact, and also 3 SD40-2s.  I have several SD50-60 types, varying models.  I used to have several Bachmann -840c locos, but none of them stayed running.  Can't wait for the Atlas one to come out, N scale that is.

[JimRCGMO]

Since my RR is set in 1950's (bridge line between the D&RGW in NW New Mexico, and the ATSF in Holbrook), I have (or will, when I get them all) these steam engines (allegedly the first locos for the line, purchased used):

0-6-0T switcher (for industrial district) (and one non-working one, for the repair track next to the enginehouse)

Shays - at least a two-truck and a three-truck, for the mine run (and maybe the sawmill run, if I build that part - haven't decided yet)

2-6-0 Mogul

2-8-2 Mikado

4-6-2 Pacific - for hauling my heavyweight cars

and my (heavily EMD) diesel roster:

SW-7 (Athearn, to be converted into a pseudo-SW-1200)

2 or 3 SW9/1200's

GE 44 ton switcher (and maybe a GE 70 ton switcher)

F7A (Genesis, supposedly leased from SP/SSW, in black widow colors) (or maybe I'll repaint this for my RR)

5-6 GP7 (1 or 2 ATSF - that my RR connects to, 1 SP (recently purchase and not yet painted by my RR's paint shop - and the rest in my RR's colors)

1 GP9m (D&RGW, other RR mine connects to)

Plus several RDC's (couple or three RDC-1, couple or three RDC-3's, possibly an RDC-2 or RDC-4) - my main passenger run motive power.

Of that list, I don't yet have the three truck Shay, the Mikado, the Pacific, or the GE 70 ton, and I need to paint some of the locos for my RR.

So I don't have a huge roster, and more duplication in the diesels than in the steamers.

 

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

[R. T. POTEET]

I dislike 'one-offs'; there have been very few "one-off" diesels but there were a number of "one-off" steamers and they generally did not tend to survive very long. "One-offs" tended to become "roundhouse queens" and the shop forces rationalized that management's decision not to follow up with additional purchases represented a mark of failure of that particular model and, if the beast was a failure, why should they expend good sweat on keeping it running. I know that there are exceptions, of course, but, please, no "The XYZ's number 8479 was a single locomotive and it lasted for 23 years!"

I equally dislike anachronism and I am currently in the process of rationalizing a diesel locomotive fleet; admittedly I have not exercised a great deal of intelligence in my locomotive purchases. Whether I elect to model "now" or elect to model "the 70's" something is going to have to go on the auction block and new purchases made. My personal favorite diesel is the SD40-2; they may very will fit into a "now" environment but I question whether my fleet of SD35s, SD40s, or U30Cs would. On the same token my SD80MACs/SD90MACs, SD60s, C44-9Ws, and dash 8-40s don't fit into a 1970's theme.

Modeling "now" carries with it it's own special hazard. Sooner or later those SD40-2s are going to become obsolete and become subject to trade-in to be replaced by current models. Eric Brooman was astounded when I visited his layout - a "now" layout if there ever was one - during the 2001 national convention that I would recall a 1970's era photo from RMC of an SD7/9 conversion he had done and he informed me that that particular locomotive was in the process of being removed from his roster because of its age; so also did he recently break his all-EMD tradition and purchase his first GE loke. Allen McClelland made a decision to abandon steam so that he could redate his layout to the era allowing the use of Atlas' new SD24s.

I'm not one who wishes to freeze my modeling to, say, 29 September 1986; I have an acquaintance who wants nothing to do with BNSF and, therefore, models the very last day of Uncle John operations. On the other hand either N-Scale or N-Scale Railroading magazine carried a feature awhile back about an individual who still runs Milwaukee freights through the heart of the Northern Rockies behind a fleet of 1990's era diesels.

Not liking "one-offs" I tend to generally purchase my motive power in multiples of twos and threes. I captured a photograph of two Sufferin' Pacific trains, one stabbed in a siding and being passed by a superior train on the main - poetic license there; I'm not going to swear as to what type of  locomotives were on the point of these two trains but the lead units carried sequential numbers such as 3974 and 3975. I once encountered three sequentially numbered Uncle John SDs on the head-end of a freight going through Flagstaff and you could never model those kind of situations with a "one off" locomotive.

I've noticed that, in some cases, a particular model - say, GP30s and GP35s as an instance - will tend to dominate railroading on a particular stretch of track with enough variation to make things interesting. On the other hand, if I were to go with a 1970's theme it might not be unusual for me to run a solid consist of three GP40-2s meeting a train pulled by, say, a GP30-GP9-U25B-GP40-2 lash-up. To generate a meet of that nature would necessitate a motive power roster of at least four GP40-2s. I would like nothing better than to have a diesel fleet with close to a hundred units but I'm not sure of the rationality of that idea without some kind of hidden storage and that, for the moment, is not in my future plans for my new/next layout.

As an aside, I once encountered a transition era layout with about a 25-stall roundhouse with 20 or more of the bays occupied; because of space limitations this roundhouse was pushed against the wall and only the outermost bays were long enough to accomodate complete locomotives; the center bays were, however, "filled" with tenders giving the impression of a roster that could have been double this individual's roster in reality.   

[Texas Zepher]

I wasn't talking paint schemes. Those PAs are still PAs.  If you want to break them into a subcategory thats fine but they are still PAs.  My GG1s are green, red, silver single striped and five stripes but they are still GG1s.

I wasn't contending that they weren't.  I was just pointing out that it blows the ratio's of rosters on the model vs. real out of the water.