19 A units and only 3 B units.
Huh.
I need to buy more B's.
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
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Going from Memory Here:
2- FP7A's PRR DGLE
2- FL9A's - New Haven As Delivered
2- F7A's 1-F7B - Wabash Blue Birds
1- F7A&B PRR DGLE
2- F7A's 1- F7B NYC
1- F3A 1- F3B NYC
Numerous F7A's & B's Undecorated Some will be N&W (Ex-Wabash) and PRR.
Rick Jesionowski
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(Updated) It's a pretty common virus I think. I love the EMD F-units. I currently have 13.
One Santa Fe FT. (War bonnet)
One US Army F2A. (Olive drab)
One Pennsylvania F3A.
One SP F7A.
One UP F7A/B set.
One Santa Fe F7A/B set.(War bonnet)
One Santa Fe F7A. (Blue and yellow, recently re-motored and rebuilt)
One Santa Fe F9A. (War bonnet, recently re-motored and rebuilt)
One Alaska RR F9B.
One Amtrak F40PH. (Phase III paint)
One Santa Fe FP45. (Blue)
Hmmm....not as many as I thought really, at least not up and running....
Great Northern F7 A-B-A set. These are Athearn bluebox shells painted and detailed by Duane Buck. Currently one A unit has an Athearn Genesis chassis and is drawbar connected to the dummy B unit, and the other A unit has a traditional bluebox powered chassis.
For my free-lanced "St.Paul Route" I have two A-B sets of FTs (one passenger, one freight) from Stewart/Bowser, and an F2 that is a Highliner shell on a Stewart/Bowser chassis. The F2 often runs A-B-A with one of the FT sets (which are both drawbar connected to each other.)
However I also have decorated / detailed shells for New York Central (Athearn BB F7 A-B), Minneapolis & St.Louis (Athearn BB F7 A-A) and EMD 103 demonstrator (Stewart FT A-B) that I'm working on adding powered chassis to - converting to DCC, adding sound, perhaps re-motoring etc.
Mine are a little more modern:
1 F40PH Amtrak1 F40PH Metrolink1 FP45 Amtrak2 F45 Santa Fe2 F59PHI Metrolink
9 total
also 2 F7B units that were converted to power rotary snow plows.
Here are the 3 Metrolink units
MKT F7 ABA As delivered
MKT F3 ABA As delivered
MKT FP7 A F7B As delvered
MKT Whitman Green F7 AB Set corrected for 1972
Missouri Pacific FT AB Set, as delivered.
Missouri Pacific F7A for above, as delivered.
Texas & Pacific F7 AB set in passenger scheme.
Santa Fe F3 ABA set in 1950's Warbonnet
Santa Fe F7 ABA in freight blue.
Santa Fe F9 AB freight blue
Santa Fe F7 ABBA in freight blue with early seventies detail.
Santa Fe F7 AB Yellow Bonnet.
Cotton Belt FP7 A
FW&D-C&S F7 ABA set, as delivered.
SP-T&NO FP7 F7B set in Gray.
Rock Island FP7 in as delivered.
Rock Island F7A in billboard
34, but my layout is central TX based where all roads F's were heavily used and in many cases, (Santa Fe) went to die.
I would still like to get Santa Fe bluebonnets. Deramus red Katy F's and a Chicago Great Western maroon or red B unit to run with them and some SP Sunset Limited cars to run with those SP Gray units.
SB.
14, LV, RDG PRR & WM. Do Pa lines in the 50's
I have a Santa Fe F3 ABA consist pulling a string of about 40 'billboard' freight cars. Kato N scale. Silver Warbonnet. The prototypical model railroad.
I model the modern era (1975 - present), but I like the look of that particular train so I take it out for a few laps now and then.
Robert
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I like early NYC diesel freight so I limit myself to FT-F3s:
They are also from a variety of a manufacturers; mostly Stewart. I'll probably downsize the number of F3s at some point. Two A-B sets is plenty for me.
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
DRGW
F9ABBBA set
F7A x 6
F7B x5
F3ABBA
F9m (wreck rebuilt F3A)
WP
F3ABB
23 in all I think.
My focus is around 1979/1980 so go figure. Only F units on Rio Grande by then was F9ABB set pulling the Rio Grande Zephyr.
Here is the wreck rebuilt F
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Dear All,
I will not ask which one is the best because it is a personal issue, just home many. I have 10, 7 A units and 3 B units. I am trying to stick to a single rail company and to limit myself to the F3 and F7 only, but I still keep hunting for more. Am I a rare exception who should seek a cure for this? It is interesting to see how many of you are infected with the same virus