How many engines and cars do you have?

[0atman]

One of the down falls of working in a hobby shop.

HO...
167 Diesels
65 Steam
2900+ freight cars
140+ Passenger

And only 150' of track so far.

I'm selling off the N scale and yet I'm still married.

[Nieuweboer]

Too many engines and just about the right numer of cars. My problem and probably that of many fellow hobbiests that are advanced in years is that I have quite a number of old Athearn, some first generation Atlas and even the odd IHC locomotives that are quite inferior to modern Atlas, Kato, P2K locomotives but that I'm sentimentally attached
to and therefore still keep in active duty. I know I should either try to sell them or put them to rest in their boxes, but well they're part of my MR past and deserve some respect.

[ezielinski]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ezielinski

I have 20 locomotives and around 150 mixed freight cars.

Just went to a train show today, you can add 8 more pieces of mixed-freight rolling stock. Someone help me - it's an addiction!

[PennsyHoosier]

I have lots of engines and rolling stock--including LOTS of passenger equipment (can't seem to stop buying more!).

[SpaceMouse]

I have more than I need and still have many kits to build. Now does that mean I won't buy any more?.........

[cwclark]

29 locomotives and 208 pieces of rolling stock

[Anonymous]

I have 27 loco's 309 cars of 5 road names and 1 custom.













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[Anonymous]

hmmm...
I have 7 locomotives and about 10 freight cars. :)

[ezielinski]

I have 20 locomotives and around 150 mixed freight cars.

[icmr]

Now I have 5 engines and over 80 cars.



Victor

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[rayw46]

It seems that most model railroaders, at least the ones who responded, have a disportionate number of locomotives to rolling stock. But hey, locomotives have a personality and they're more fun.

[Anonymous]

As of now, 145 locomotives, over 950 freight cars, 105 cabooses, 39 passenger cars. More than I need less than I want.[:D]

[Anonymous]

Well on my vast layout of 3.5' x5' I have 6 engines, 2 w sound. about 25 freight cars. 2 passenger cars.

[Anonymous]

O scale : 3 - locos 7 -cars

HO scale : 8 - locos 35 cars

[dxr8007nz]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Jeffrey Bever

157 locomotives and about 400 freight cars. more than enough but I love them all.

wow look cool

[dxr8007nz]

HO Scale 2x GP38-2 , 1x GP40-2 , GP60, GP50 , FP45 and around 10 or 15 freight , 3 passenger

N Scale 1x GP38-2 , GP50 , GP7 and 10 freight , 1 cabooses

[james saunders]

10 Locos and 35 Freight cars + one Caboose

-James-

[Anonymous]

14 Locomotives here.

[Walter Clot]

I have about 50 locos, 250-300 freight cars and about 30 passenger cars.

[Anonymous]

Way to many, but not enough. Realistically, about seventy engines, two hundred, freight cars and close to one hundred passenger cars.

[rrgrassi]

16 locos, all powered, 14 passenger cars, 100 freight cars, steam, transition and modern era. Locomotives mix of steam, 1st & 2nd gen diesel, and modern day diesel. Now if I only had a place to run them...

[Anonymous]

Well Thanks FredW; actually it will be on the carport slab under the carport roof, with a good breeze thru the breezeway. Will check out the dehumidifier for sure and a small fan to circulate air..
WTNW

[fwright]

WTNW

My recommendation would be to build the outside storage room into something as close to habitable space as you can. If it is just a dirt floor, outbuilding you are going to have insects, varmints, dust, dirt, dampness, heat, and very occasionally cold. In short, you are not going to want to spend time there even if the trains didn't suffer. If you use wood for the benchwork, it will swell and shrink with changing humidity. Anything steel is likely to rust, and everything will get dirty and dusty.

The more pleasant the layout space is for you, and the cleaner it stays without significant effort from you, the more you are going to use your trains.

Recommendations:

- floor. Must have a concrete floor with padded floor on top. Bare concrete needs to be sealed for dust.

- structure. All joints, such as walls to foundation must be sealed. Drainage around foundation, including gutters and downspouts, must be adequate to prevent flooding during torrential downpours (common in Florida). Extended roof overhang and/or gutters highly recommended. Window frames must be sealed and screens installed. Roof and foundation vents must be screened.

- interior. Must have separate ceiling besides roof. Some insulation in walls and above ceiling required, more is better. Walls should have dry wall or similar. Air conditioning (window unit is fine) is strongly recommended for comfort and humidity control; dehumidifier is a minimum.

Again, both you and your model trains do much better in a comfortable environment. Ask those who have layouts in unfinished garages in Texas and Arizona. It's much easier to improve habitability before the layout goes in rather than after.

model railroading should be fun
Fred W

[Anonymous]

I just joined this site today; l have about 300 HO cars (freight and passenger), 80 dummy engines, 4-5 powered engines that l bought from a guy in Florida in 1982. Only once was a small layout set up, but l am retired now and thinking about moving back to central Florida and making a layout with some of this 'stuff'.

l have a question: if l buy a place with an outside storage room (say 8' by 10') would the Florida humidity corrode/damage the tracks and engines, etc ? l figure an 8 by 10 level area with a 3' by 4' cutout should hold a nice size layout, but l hate to build it if the un-airconditioned space would ruin it.

l do have something strange in my trains - a complete, boxed French made Amtrac train, by Josef or somebody. l have been to 2-3 train shows and never saw anything like it there.

WTNW
Memphis

[CMSTPP]

20 good running locomotives such as Atlas and Kato. 10 to 15 locomotives that don't even run or don't even bother with, such as old Athearn.
80 or so railcars running on my layout.
Working on a heavy weight passenger train. 5 or 6 passenger cars at the moment.
James

[Anonymous]

Probably about 140 locomotives (a number of gauges - N, OO, HO, 009, OOn3, 0-16.5, On30) but I am also thining out my collection, so probably be reduced down to about 100.

Rolling Stock - not sure - but way too much, especially seeing as I do not have a layout. And I have not even taken into account all the unfinished kits! Will probably thin a lot of the older items out and purchase some newer locos & rolling stock, a PCM GS-4 and rake of SP daylight cars is a definate must!

Regards,

Stephen.

[BigBlueConrail]

I have 8 active engines. 4 with sound. Also I have mabe 30 cars of which 6 are passenger.

[CNJ831]

At least 100 locomotives...God knows how much rolling stock! But that's been collected over pretty much a lifetime.

CNJ831

[GAPPLEG]

More than enough, and not enough. [(-D]