How many train Cars do you have?

[7h9h_]

i need to count 1st!
i will count in the morning

[Anonymous]

iam just geting back into HO so ill say 0-10

[Anonymous]

85473832638839384784949.0007

[soumodeler]

26: 6 boxcars from Kadee, 14 coal hoppers, 1 pulpwood, 1 flatcar, 2 covered hoppers, 2 Athearn boxcars, several Southern boxcars, Southern caboose.



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[Anonymous]

I just started building a layout and have purchased a few small lots of cheap cars off of eBay so I can practice detailing. 4 passenger coaches, 4 cattle cars, a tanker, a flat bed, 2 reefers, a hopper, a drop frame articulated flat, and a box car.

Last week I got an air brush, this weekend I hope to get the fittings to hook it up.

[AntonioFP45]

I've actually reduced the size of my freight and passenger car fleet which was over 50.

I retired the Tycos and Bachmann cars and use them to test my airbrush just before I do a paint job on a loco or car. I also sold or traded off all of my Athearn passenger cars.

Future purchases:
Freight cars will be MDC and Bowser freight cars.
Passenger cars will be Walthers.

[orsonroy]

I've been reducing the size of my fleet for the past couple of years. Out went virtually all of the Athearn and Roundhouse cars, to be replaced on about a 3-1 ratio with higher quality cars in both plastic and resin. Including cabooses and passenger cars (and kits to be built), I've "only" got about 400 cars!

[ksax73]

Thank god, now I don't feel as bad as my parents try to make me feel. I have between 71 and 80 cars and my parents say I have too many trains yet the leading poll shows that those with 100+ cars.

At least I know I still have good reason to continue to build my roster, lol.

[twhite]

WAY too many to count--I can't pass the Accurail or Red Caboose or Intermountain shelves in the hobby shop without telling myself that I can't live without THAT particular car! I'm a sucker for refrigerator cars--can't even begin to tell you how many I have, and that's just the PFE's, not counting the ART's and WFEX's, to say nothing of the Burlingtons, NP's, URTX--get my point? And would someone please tell me WHY I need 44 coal-hoppers for a trans Sierra Nevada mainline in California during WWII? I mean, the state doesn't even PRODUCE coal, for cryin' out loud!! Oops, gotta go, I just heard that Accurail got some new USRA wood-side hoppers---
Tom[:P][:P][:P]

[IRONROOSTER]

I am well past 100 across three scales. I already exceed the number I can use on the layout, but I keep buying them anyway, 6 in the last month. Why? well there were these O&W hoppers with 4 unique numbers and I don't have any O&W, then there was this vinegar car kit, then there was the V&O refreigerator car kit (NMRA S scale). I think I need to change my hobby to car collecting, forget the layout, and build display shelves.
Enjoy
Paul

[Anonymous]

Over 700, including around 50 cabooses and around 225 coal hoppers, half with Wilson Harrell loads and half empties. All rolling stock with P2K metal wheels.

[Adelie]

I'm sick enough to keep mine on a spreadsheet, mostly so when I am searching on ebay or rummaging through the MTL, Inter Mountain and Atlas racks at the LHS I know what I have already.

The roster is 145 and growing. Mostly box cars and reefers, some flats, piggybacks, a slew of ore cars a handful of gondolas and various tank cars. Oh, and the MTL skeleton cars with logs fit in. 145 does not include the cabeese.

[ksax73]

Oh yeah, I forgot to add that all thought I selected 71 to 80 cars that consist of all passenger cars. I have yet to start buying freight equipment so that number could double when I do.

[Anonymous]

I have a few more than 100 cars. Funny i dont have a caboose............

[AggroJones]

Something on the order of 300.

[Anonymous]

45 Athearn/Bev Bel Boxcars
12 Walthers Ore cars
15 Coal Hoppers Athearn (3 sets of 5)
12 additional hoppers in different states of usage.
14 tank of different types
14 Reefers of different types but mainly Accurail
4 Milk reefers
5 Express reefers
4 Cabooses (Cabeese)
At least 20 cars in different states of repair, scrap, unbuilt etc.

I really ought to get organized someday.

[rexhea]

Still growing, but this is what I have. I wish I had triple the number.

About 80 freight
30 coal hoppers
19 Passenger

REX

[Anonymous]

Good question. I don't actually know - most of them are currently in boxes under a desk in the attic. Will be going through them and working out what I have when the train room gets its long-awaited reorganisation (hopefully soon!).

[steveblackledge]

NOT ENOUGH[:-,][:-,][:-,]

[ClinchValleySD40]

Approaching 1,000. Over half are coal hoppers.

[Anonymous]

about 300+... mostly intermodal cars and auto racks...

[SPRR Pres CEO]

Here's a formula for determining the number of freight cars one needs.

N is the number needed
X is the current number owned.

N=X+1

My latest count of refrigerator cars (iced only no mechanicals) exceeds 125

[camarokid]

I voted 100 plus. There are some still in the box, brand new, never been run. Maybe some day. Ain't it great!!
Archie

[jacon12]

Seven! Pitiful huh.!..... I oughta be taken out and flogged. But, I just started this month..[^]
Jacon

[BillLading]

A little over 150 revenue freight cars. Covered hoppers that are used for 'unit grain trains', as well as box, tank. open hoppers, reefers etc. Plus quite a few centerbeam and bulkhead flats as my layout location represents a western regional bridge route with good number of customers who are part of the wood products industry, (or what's left of it).

[Anonymous]

I bought a train/rmc store that was going out of business. I picked up over 8000 MDC and Athearn freight cars plus lots if IHC passenger cars. Now I will figure out what to keep, re-wheel, new couplers, and get rid of the rest at a swap meet, hopefully. I paid about $1.50 each way back when....

[johncolley]

to twhite, Man, you got to convert those hoppers to sugar beet cars, quick, like maybe next winter? Only other choices are sand for glass plant or maybe wood chips? Enjoy! Actually, waaaayyy back there was coal mining north of Livermore! How about that?

[ericsp]

QUOTE: Originally posted by johncolley

to twhite, Man, you got to convert those hoppers to sugar beet cars, quick, like maybe next winter? Only other choices are sand for glass plant or maybe wood chips? Enjoy! Actually, waaaayyy back there was coal mining north of Livermore! How about that?

There also used to be coal mines by Coalinga, CA. It got its name from Coaling Station A. Although I am pretty sure that there was no mining by WWII.

I have just started to take an inventory of my cars. Here is what I have so far (most of my fleet).
77 Boxcars
16 Mechanical Reefers, 2 Cryogenic Reefers
27 Covered Hoppers
8 Open top Hoppers
49 Tankcars
7 Gondolas
33 Flatcars (includes autocarriers, container cars, center-beams, etc.)
9 Cabooses
12 Cars assigned to MOW
13 Passenger cars
Most of my cars are Athearn, MDC, and Walthers. I also have some Athearn RTR, Athearn Genesis, LBF/E&C Car Shops, Eel River Models, Atlas, Accurail (once I model an ethanol plant that will increse), and A-Line.

I have been in model railroading almost 19 years now.

[twhite]

John--already have sugar-beet cars, but thanks for the information--completely forgot about that old coal operation near Livermore. As I remember, WP had a spur to the mine, way back then. Whew! I'm saved. Now I can go get those Accurail hoppers I was drooling about when my LHS put them on sale without any guilt at all!!
Tom [:P][:P]

[TurboOne]

WOW, and I thought 78 cars was a lot.

Larry almost 1,000 : Holy Moly Batman. Nice layout pics on your website. What size is your layout.

Perry, the winner so far, 8,000. Did you open a new hobby shop, or just keep the inventory. Do you have pics of your layout ?

Tom White, awesome story, your are always fun to read. Take care buddy.

Most of mine are inexpensive, but I like them. Billboard boxcars, with logos I remember of products, not trains. Starkist tuna, popsicle, chiquita bananas, champion spark plugs, tootsie roll,

still looking for a hersheys chocolate car.

Take care all

Tim