I have a particularly unusual roster of engines in my collection and most are custom painted. it includes a GP9 in the Wallamite pacific paint scheme, a blue comet 4-6-2 locomotive, lionels polar express, AWVR 777 and 1206 both custom painted by me, an umarked 4-8-2 light locomotive, an original marx 4-6-4 hudson set (mint condition), a rivarossi berkshire, several F3 A units, a 2-8-2 mikado, a bachmann 0-6-0, half of a U36-B, an a yellow dockside switcher.
The only thing in there I don't know what is, is the AWVR 777.
When I started I had a Varney 0-4-0, an AHM 4-4-0 (Reno), a Marx 4 wheel industrial switcher in Western Pacific colors, and a Marx F3 in Rock Island. So what you have isn't really all that unusual. In all the years I've been doing this I've not been able to choose one road, or one era, or even one scale!?!!!
GN24 I have a particularly unusual roster of engines in my collection and most are custom painted. it includes a GP9 in the Wallamite pacific paint scheme, a blue comet 4-6-2 locomotive, lionels polar express, AWVR 777 and 1206 both custom painted by me, an umarked 4-8-2 light locomotive, an original marx 4-6-4 hudson set (mint condition), a rivarossi berkshire, several F3 A units, a 2-8-2 mikado, a bachmann 0-6-0, half of a U36-B, an a yellow dockside switcher.
Simon
I'd like to see this "half of a U36-B". Photo, perhaps?
I recently cleaned out most of my locos and replaced several. Mine is now a more mundane roster, but a mix of both dcc/sound and plain dc units, and we like the flashy paint schemes. I run both dc/dcc (dpdt toggle switch to easily change between). This does not include any of my son's UP engines (sorry I can't seem to single space this below):
Athearn Genesis GP38-2 Illinois Terminal #2002 bright green/yellow/silver
Bowser SD40-2 Huron and Eastern (Marquette) #3390 orange/yellow/black (2 units of this number, one with sound and one without)
Bowser SD40-2 St Lawrence and Hudson (ex-CP) #5690 red/black
Bowser SD40-2 FURX Leasing #3052 green/silver
Pre-ordered, due to arrive soon:
MTH DM&IR 2-8-8-4 w Worthington fwh
Bowser SD40-2 HESR #3391 plain dc
2 Bowser CP SD40-2's.
John
Yes, what is "half" of a U36B? Shell? mechanism? or magic saw trick gone wrong?
GN24I have a particularly unusual roster of engines in my collection and most are custom painted.
Ah... my locomotive rosters of days gone by... I have had so many.
I started out in N scale in 1982, and then my roster was made up of whatever ran well.
I remember an RSD-15, PA-1, DL-109, and a couple Bachmann diesels.
Then Kato entered the N scale market, and I started building a real roster.
For my first three (well, 2.5) HO scale layouts, I pretty much just ran an Athearn SW-7, Life-Like Proto-2000 GP-9, and a Tenshodo 0-8-0. I had other locomotives, but those three did 90% of the work. During these years, raising my girls superceded any locomotive purchases.
Now I have collected only my second "real" roster in almost 40 years of model railroading.
Enjoy your unusual mix, and have fun!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I've got a bit of everything diesel myself: an F7A, an F7B (snowplow power), 2 GP9s, two GP18s, 7 GP20, 3 GP30, 2 GP35, an SW1, 3 SW7s, an SW1000 with Flexicoil trucks and a snowplow, an SW1200, an SD40-2 that has electrical gremlins I haven't completely figured out, 2 SD45, and last, but not least, 2 S4. Those all have varied schemes to match. Some are prototype, a lot are protolanced. About the only color families that aren't represented with the engines are purple, gold and gray.
If I decide to get ambious, I could add an SD24 and take care of the gray and add full red to the mix. (I have a pink engine on the roster.)
Been wittling down my collection, working on Proto 2000 0-6-0's and 0-8-0's now. Going all DCC except for test engines for trackwork. Got 2 Bachmann S4's with sound, two 2-6-0's with sound, 4-6-0 and 2-8-0 with sound , two Atlas HH660, 7 Proto steam, one Proto S1. Got a bunch more but these mentioned all run well and pass the bat out of hell test and the snail test. Have a couple stuarts but one has a nasty growl even if it runs great and the other, a VO660 dose not past the super fast test at one point off the main. Got a bunch of smaller engines but all don't run as well as wanted.
Southgate 2 I'd like to see this "half of a U36-B". Photo, perhaps?
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
My locomotive roster developed from my childhood.
Us Kids called them Green Machines. BN storming down the tracks at 60 miles an hour if not 70.
The lines were flawless and perfectly straight through Saint Louis Park with the City of Minneapolis dead center in view. We watched the IDS Center constructed, steel beam, stick by stick. Rising higher into the sky everyday.
It was the steel boom continuing after 1970 with all the long ore drags of taconite pellet freight cars stoming down the three lines comming from Duluth. Two full coming in and one empty going out or vice-versa. Never a dull moment, those lines were busy all the time. And us Kids were down there alot, watching.
Here's what those three lines coming through looks like now.
One line and a double bicycle path. I guess the bicycle paths are one-way each but don't travel as fast. Fascinates me how the bicycle paths are thicker than the Line coming through.
I did enjoy seeing an occasional Great Northern coming through "Back In The Day" too. That was the prize out of the railroad box
My locomotive roster consists of all the railroads that formed the merger of Burlington Northern in 1970. And all the Steamers from each of those Roads too.
My roster isn't complete yet, nor will it ever will be, but I am working on it
TF
alfadawg01Wouldn't that be a U18A?
Good one.
I would have to agree that was a good one.
I have three U36B Bicentennial Spirit of 76's U36A, U36B, and U36C.
But I don't have any of those U18A's yet.
I have a varied locomotive roster which encompasses a wide range of eras. Since someone once said a picture is worth a thousand words, here goes:
There are a couple of steamers, a NYC Hudson and Mikado on the layout at the moment.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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yeah i was trying to cut off the nose for a custom locomotive build