WATT is thisd Locomotive ewe speak of???
LION has no stinkin Locomotives!
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On mine it's eight. Four protolanced schemes (One industrial, one terminal and two railroad) and four prototype (one Class 1 and three of its parent roads). As a result the layout is very colorful.
I have a CNR roster set in 1955 that is mostly steam. I do have one CPR Hudson I bought as it is an iconic canadian loco and I just liked the look of it. I guess I liked it a lot as it is brass and by far the most expensive engine I have.
CN Charlie
Amtrak
Metrolink
BNSF (Early)
Santa Fe
Cotton Belt
Missouri Pacific Lines
Missouri-Kansas-Texas-Lines
My fictual industrial layout is based on the modern era here in New Jersey, so i mainly run Class 1 NS & CSX diesel engines, but in recent years the re-issue of the North East Fallen Flag Heritage Fleet alllows for flexibility. I have Erie and LV yard switchers servicing the steel mill section on the layout. Within the Intermodel Port section i have an SD45 Santa Fe used as a yard switcher, only becuse i saw this same engine in use at a South Jersey oil refinery shunting unit train tank cars at the facilities terminal. Working as an industrial real esate broker and having acces to secured rail yards allows me to see engines close-up originating from all over the US & Canada, in particlaur the Oak Island Yard and within Ports Newark & Elizabeth. Recenlty i saw a Erie Lackawanna painted Heritage Fleet Engine, and i can attest that when these massive double headed Class 1 Engines are moving only 20 feet away the ground really does shake under your feet.
Bayway Terminal NJ
Fer starters, way too many lokeys on my roster; 69 and here are my roadnames:
Primary 1- Wishram, Oregon and Western
Primary 2 - GN aka God's RR
Logging - Oregon Central
Others: NP, CNW, CB&Q, Chessie (courtesy of Brakie), ATSF, WP, SP, UP.
Don; Prez, CEO or whatever of the Wishram, Oregon and Western RR
I only have three locos and they're all N&W.
For a free lance short line that can use leased power, the actual name on the side of the loco is not as relevant as most situations. I'm interested in the type of loco more than the roadname.
UP, BNSF, NS, CSX, SP, CNW, GATX, Genessee & Wyoming, Wisconsin and Southern, BAR, Morristown & Erie.
Many are candidates for a small patch-out and relettering with home road name. That might reduce the number of different roadnames.
- Douglas
I have 55 locomotives, not counting "B" units or trailing 'A" units. Ten road names, primarily New Yourk Central, but SF, UP, Amtrak and Penssy are well represented.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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I've never had any roads other than the Santa Fe and a few Illinois Central - all locos whose prototypes existed before 1960.
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
Just one roadname on my locomotive roster.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
I have plans to paint two road switchers for the DAWDLE AND DELAY.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I am pretty freelancing but like BNSF and UP. So I have probably 40% BNSF family (BN, SF, ATSF, etc), 30% UP, 10% Amtrak, the rest (20%) are CSX, PRR, NYC, etc... Should have more than 20 roadnames...
Most of my locos fit the lineage of the railroads I ran trains on.
New Haven - New York Central - Pennsylvania (couple of each)
Penn Central -- decent number of 'em.
Conrail -- decent number, also.
I also have a small collection of Milwaukee diesels (I just liked their paint scheme of orange and black).
Also one Bessemer & Lake Erie SD7 -- because it resembles the Milwaukee paint (and I got it cheap!).
One Amtrak ACS64 that was a gift (no passenger cars, I can haul my old wooden express reefers and milk cars with it).
Just bought a Proto1000 RS2 (New Haven) off "the bay" a couple of hours ago. The first engine cab I was ever in was either a NH RS2 or RS3 back around 1956-57 in Georgetown, Connecticut (I was about 7 years old). So I thought that would be a nice one to have for that memory...
My roster is almost entirely Canadian Pacific in the maroon and grey scheme. I think I have about 20 CP locos. I also have a Grand Trunk 4-6-0 plus Hogwarts Express as well as a dozen or so of as yet unlettered critters.
I have a couple of other locomotives with various liveries but they won't be run until they are repainted in CP colours.
Eventually I hope to have a few diesel locomotives with the Algoma Eastern Railroad livery, but they will all be fakes because the AER was bought out in 1934 by CP (I think I have that right).
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
More than 90% Santa Fe. In addition, several locos representing other railroads you could find in West Texas, like the Rock Island and the Texas & Pacific.
Besides that, there are two which I just had to have because they are so unique. First, ConCor's Burlington Zephyr; I pretend that it is on an excursion to Texas (as an extra with white class lights). Second, the Ampolex model of GM&O's Ingalls 4-S; well, the Gulf of Mexico (the G in GM&O) is Texas' coast.
I'm modeling Scranton, PA in 1970 - so....
About 35 1st and 2nd generation Erie Lackawanna.
A pair of Delaware & Hudson C628s for the interchange runs
A couple of CNJ SD35s and SD40s for the pooled power runs down to E Port
A Morristown & Erie RS-1 (I worked there in the 70s)
A couple Lehigh Valley for the interchange on the Bloomberg Branch.
And a few other roads that I picked ip at shows but with the intent to repaint them all for the roads above.
Approximately 140 powered units (locos, self propelled passenger equipment) only the following roadnames.
ATLANTIC CENTRAL
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO
BALTIMORE AND OHIO
WESTERN MARYLAND
BALTIMORE AND ANNAPOLIS (only one, the prototype only had one, from 1950 to 1986)
Sheldon
I had to look at my spreadsheet to see how many different roadnames I have. The count was 36 different roads, which I could not believe if it wasn't for seeing this thread. The engine is well...a lot of them!
Neal
3 Norfolk Southern - an ES44AC, an SD40-2, and an SD70ACe in Savannah & Atlanta colors
2 Buffalo & Pittsburgh - 2 SD45s
2 Amtrak - 2 P42s
4 Allegheny Valley - 2 GP40-2s, 2 SD40-3s (all four awaiting paint & decals)
1 B&O - 1 P-1a
I don't currently have a layout, while there are house renos underway. Based on the size of what I will build and how I plan to run it, I'm approaching the maximum number of locomotives I need. I'd like one more NS unit, so that I can have two NS trains opposing each other. Maybe another P42 so that I can choose to run the Pennsylvanian (Amfleets) instead of the Capitol Limited (Superliners). I'd consider adding a pair of Bessemer & Lake Erie to round out the "modern Pittsburgh" flavor. A little voice that I have been fighting off is the idea of alternate universing that the PRR did electrify to Pittsburgh...just to justify buying an AEM-7 or ACS-64.
The B&O locomotive is for the modular club, so it is a total wildcard.
7 Amtrak
1 Santa Fe
1 Burlington Northern
2 Chessie System
1 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
1 Chesapeake & Ohio
2 Conrail
1 Norfolk Southern
2 Norfolk & Western
1 Penn Central
3 Pennsylvania
1 Seaboard System
1 Cotton Belt/SSW
2 Union Pacific
Kevin
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Its a short list but (exluding toy trains such as Lego and what not and just focusing on scale models):HO ScaleTwo ATSF locomotives (a GP40-2 and a FT unit from a Bachmann starter set)One SP locomotive (Bachmann GS-4)One WP locomotive (second hand Athearn dummy unit)One Amtrak SW1200 (BLI)Three Union Pacific locomotives (One SW1500, one SD40N both Athearn, one 2-8-0 that will someday be converted to a Tooele Valley engine when I get back on that project from Bachmann)OO9:One Talyllyn Railway locomotive (Bachmann Skarloey kitbash)My next plans are to bolster my OO9 roster with the purchase of two KATO-Peco George England locomotives from the Ffestiniog Railway, Prince and Princess. The challenge with them like the Skarloey-Talyllyn conversion will be fitting DCC decoders into their shells. I am mostly ignoring buying new HO stuff for now.
I recently stripped down my model railroad needs because I had purchased too much stuff and just had more than I will realistically ever need, and went back to basics, which for me is Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe (in more recent years known as just Santa Fe, prior to merger with BN). I have a simple folded dogbone single track railroad, about 80 linear feet in actual length of mainline.
I have four engines, all Santa Fe blue and yellow "warbonnet" paint scheme:
2 BLI Paragon 4 GP-20's (representing a few 1977 rebuild-in-kind units that retained the large front window)
1 Walthers/Proto GP-30u (as modeled by Walthers correctly represents a Santa Fe rebuild-in-kind unit from the early 80's).
1 Atlas B40-8
Current pre-orders are for two Atlas U28CG's, one red/silver warbonnet and one blue/yellow warbonnet.
If they ever make an upgraded U36C, I might need 2 or 3 of those. If ScaleTrains ever does the rivet counter SD40-2 with short or standard length nose, I would need 2 or 3 of those.
Other motive power and unnecessary rolling stock is currently being sold off.
John
Ablebakercharlie John-NYBW I wonder if that is the Bowser RS-3 It is indeed a Bowser. I hope you'll consider having an LV on your layout! charles
John-NYBW I wonder if that is the Bowser RS-3
It is indeed a Bowser.
I hope you'll consider having an LV on your layout!
charles
I won't rule it out. The LV was one of the railroads I considered before opting to freelance. It's an interesting operation and runs roughly parallel south to my imaginary layout. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to add an LV transfer run to the schedule. One of the reasons I decided against an LV layout is the lack of available models, at least in my neck of the woods.
I have quite a few road names but try for SP. I( have a lot of NYC too due to train world over buying them.
John-NYBWI wonder if that is the Bowser RS-3
Bowser is doing a second run and looking for pre-orders
I wish Howard Zane would weigh in. Maybe he doesnt know how many locos he has but his theory is that they are leased motive power.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Ablebakercharlie Interestingly enough what compelled me also to post this thread was I went on your blog beforehand to see what your roster was. As you well know it described in detail what the engines are but not the road names (unless I missed it). I'm glad you told us what they are so I don't have to wonder anymore! charles
Interestingly enough what compelled me also to post this thread was I went on your blog beforehand to see what your roster was. As you well know it described in detail what the engines are but not the road names (unless I missed it). I'm glad you told us what they are so I don't have to wonder anymore!
I bought a lot of Microscale SP decals over the years until I acquired my Alps MD1000 printer. I now have a life time supply of SP decals.I lied. Actually I forgot my five Shays.They tow log cars to and from the mountains as well as a coach consist.The tender and coach decals courtesy of my Alps printer. Mel My Model Railroad http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/ Bakersfield, California
I came up with 19 just in my head, without going downstairs and counting. My freelance railroad runs from the Twin Cities to Duluth/Superior, then one branch goes to the Iron Range and the other up Lake Superior's north shore to Thunder Bay Ont. Most of the engines are from railroads that serve or served the Twin Cities; CN/CP are Canadian, and the rest were in Duluth/Superior and/or the Range.
I have six locomotives:
Four modern day -- two UP and two BNSF
Two UP E8 -- A & B
York1 John
RR_MelOld Weirdo RR_Mel is a SP Nut, a bit over 70 locomotives all Southern Pacific and a layout only big enough to operate a single train at a time