markpiercetwhite No, the classification yard is planned for the future--tops on my 'to do' list as soon as I can move a bunch of stuff from the other wall of the garage. The yard at Deer Creek is mainly for locomotive change-over from valley to mountain power. What little switching is done there is done by my 2-8-0's. However, once the big yard is installed, I'll be in the market for some of those clever little Rio Grande or SP 0-6-0's. I kind of miss not having a couple, but right now I wouldn't have a lot of work for them, LOL! Tom, I've three steam switchers: two Hallmark's SP (T&NO) C-24 Consolidations (used as switchers by the prototype with footboards and ladders on front) and a Challenger SP 0-6-0 with "sausage" tender (imported with several tender variations). The C-24 sells at a reasonable price ($300?) on the used market. The Challenger model is much pricier ($1000?), and those versions with blue or green boilers (used in passenger yards) demand a premium ($1200?). Mark
twhite No, the classification yard is planned for the future--tops on my 'to do' list as soon as I can move a bunch of stuff from the other wall of the garage. The yard at Deer Creek is mainly for locomotive change-over from valley to mountain power. What little switching is done there is done by my 2-8-0's. However, once the big yard is installed, I'll be in the market for some of those clever little Rio Grande or SP 0-6-0's. I kind of miss not having a couple, but right now I wouldn't have a lot of work for them, LOL!
No, the classification yard is planned for the future--tops on my 'to do' list as soon as I can move a bunch of stuff from the other wall of the garage. The yard at Deer Creek is mainly for locomotive change-over from valley to mountain power. What little switching is done there is done by my 2-8-0's. However, once the big yard is installed, I'll be in the market for some of those clever little Rio Grande or SP 0-6-0's. I kind of miss not having a couple, but right now I wouldn't have a lot of work for them, LOL!
Tom,
I've three steam switchers: two Hallmark's SP (T&NO) C-24 Consolidations (used as switchers by the prototype with footboards and ladders on front) and a Challenger SP 0-6-0 with "sausage" tender (imported with several tender variations). The C-24 sells at a reasonable price ($300?) on the used market. The Challenger model is much pricier ($1000?), and those versions with blue or green boilers (used in passenger yards) demand a premium ($1200?).
Mark
At those prices, I'd have my roster fully fledged out with every loco I want. GOOD LORD! Of course, it's brass.....
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
ICRR1964 dragenrider photos to share! Most of my engines are Athearn chassis and shells with can motors, NWSL wheels, Ernst slow speed gearing, and LokSound decoders. Even the Spectrum 44 & 70 tonners have been tinkered with to improve performance. As you can see, some of these are still in the shop and waiting for decals and stripes. Bachmann did me a favor in releasing those little tykes with the black & yellow paint job! Thats a nice looking fleet with the paint.
dragenrider photos to share! Most of my engines are Athearn chassis and shells with can motors, NWSL wheels, Ernst slow speed gearing, and LokSound decoders. Even the Spectrum 44 & 70 tonners have been tinkered with to improve performance. As you can see, some of these are still in the shop and waiting for decals and stripes. Bachmann did me a favor in releasing those little tykes with the black & yellow paint job!
photos to share!
Most of my engines are Athearn chassis and shells with can motors, NWSL wheels, Ernst slow speed gearing, and LokSound decoders. Even the Spectrum 44 & 70 tonners have been tinkered with to improve performance.
As you can see, some of these are still in the shop and waiting for decals and stripes. Bachmann did me a favor in releasing those little tykes with the black & yellow paint job!
Thats a nice looking fleet with the paint.
The logo should include something like--" Route of the Yellowjackets" for some reason---
I'm going into the mode of trying to figure out what colours the lokes on my roster are going to be----I like what i see in your set up!!!
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
markpierce twhite These are always fun. Mine are 90% brass and I run them all. What? No switchers? Shouldn't you have an 0-6-0 or two, or an early cab-end diesel/electric like an NW2, HH-660, or whatever? But come to think of it, I have no memory of a classification yard on your layout. Mark
twhite These are always fun. Mine are 90% brass and I run them all.
These are always fun. Mine are 90% brass and I run them all.
What? No switchers? Shouldn't you have an 0-6-0 or two, or an early cab-end diesel/electric like an NW2, HH-660, or whatever? But come to think of it, I have no memory of a classification yard on your layout.
Mark:
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
dragenriderphotos to share! Most of my engines are Athearn chassis and shells with can motors, NWSL wheels, Ernst slow speed gearing, and LokSound decoders. Even the Spectrum 44 & 70 tonners have been tinkered with to improve performance. As you can see, some of these are still in the shop and waiting for decals and stripes. Bachmann did me a favor in releasing those little tykes with the black & yellow paint job!
tradupj Locomotive roster and DCC addresses. Road name Model Number Address Make BN GP-40 3508 8 Atlas BN SD60 8302 83 Proto 2000 BN SD60M 9206 92 Proto 2000 BN SD60M 9255 9255 Proto 2000 BN SD60M 9242 42 Proto 2000 BN SD60M 9276 76 Proto 2000 BN SD40-2 7914 14 Broadway Limited - Sound BNSF ex. BN SD60M 9223 9223 Proto 2000 BNSF SD40-2 6399 3 Broadway Limited - Sound BNSF SD40-2 6332 32 Broadway Limited - Sound BNSF AC4400CW 5624 24 Kato BNSF AC4400CW 5615 56 Kato BNSF SD70MAC 9853 85 Kato BNSF SD60M 9249 49 Proto 2000 BNSF SD60M 9290 90 Proto 2000 BNSF - Santa Fe GP30 2470 70 Proto 2000 - Sound Santa Fe GP38 3515 15 Atlas Santa Fe - Warbonnet C44-9W Dash 9 653 5 Kato Santa Fe - Warbonnet C44-9W Dash 9 650 50 Kato Sante Fe - Warbonnet C44-9W Dash 9 669 69 Kato Santa Fe - Warbonnet C44-9W Dash 9 600 60 Kato Union Pacific C44-9W Dash 9 9702 97 Kato Union Pacific C44-9W Dash 9 9701 1 Kato Union Pacific SD60M 6293 93 Proto 2000 Union Pacific SD60M 6226 26 Proto 2000 CNW Operation Lifesaver C44-9W Dash 9 8659 59 Kato CNW Operation Lifesaver SD60 8029 29 Proto 2000 Soo Line SD40-2 787 87 Broadway Limited - Sound Soo Line SD60 6026 26 Proto 2000 Soo Line SD60 6006 6 Proto 2000
I have engine envy
You need to buy a few more Atlas though. Atlas Gold to be exact.
12 D&H Atlas RS36's
10 D&H Atlas U33-C's
12 D&H Atlas U30-C's
12 D&H Athearn GP38-2's
3 D&H Athearn SD45's ( on pre order )
2 D&H Atlas GP39-2's ( on pre order )
2 D&H Atlas RS-3's
2 D&H Atlas RS-3m's Custom
1 D&H Atlas C424
5 D&H Atlas RS11's 3 of them custom low nose
2 D&H Proto RS11's
2 D&H Proto RS-2's
10 D&H Atlas U23B's
4 D&H Atlas C420's
25 Conrail Atlas & Athearn GP38-2's
20 Conrail Athearn SD40-2's
4 Conrail Athearn SD40's
17 Conrail Atlas U23B's
6 Conrail Atlas U36C's
2 Conrail Atlas C30-7's
2 Conrail Athearn SD38's
15 Conrail Athearn GP40-2's
12 Conrail Atlas GP40's
10 Conrail Athearn GP9's
1 Conrail Atlas GP7
2 Conrail Stewart U25B's
1 Conrail Atlas C424
4 Conrail Athearn sd60's
4 Conrail Athearn SD50's
2 Conrail Atlas RS11's
1 Conrail Atlas C420
4 Conrail Atlas C40-8W's
6 Conrail Atlas C40-8's
8 Conrail Atlas B40-8's
2 LMS Atlas C40-8W's
6 NS Athearn C40-9W's
5 NS Atlas GP38-2's
2 NS Athearn GP60's
2 NS Kato C40-9w's
1 SF Atlas B40-8
4 SF Atlas GP38-2's
2 SF Atlas SD26's
1 SF Athearn GP50
2 SPSF Athearn SD40's
2 Central Vermont Atlas RS11's
1 DW&P Atlas RS11
1 GT Atlas GP7
1 Susquehanna Athearn SD40-T2
4 Susquehanna Atlas B40-8
1 Susquehanna Atlas C420 HH
3 Susquehanna Athearn SD45 (on pre order)
1 MMA Atlas B40-8
1 LMX Atlas B40-8
1 FURX Athearn SD40-2
1 EMD Lease Athearn Sd40-2
2 EMD Demo Athearn SD60's
2 CEFX Athearn AC4400's
2 CEFX Kato AC4400's
1 NYC Atlas RS11
1 Pennsylvania Atlas C425
4 CP Athearn AC4400's
18 CP Athearn SD40-2's
4 CP Athearn SD40-2s Snoot
5 CP Kato Sd40's
17 CP Athearn GP38-2's
12 CP Athearn GP40-2's
2 CP Atlas GP38-2's
2 CP Atlas C424's
2 CP Athearn F7's
2 CP Athearn GP35's
2 CN Athearn GP35's
2 CN Kato Sd40's
2 CN Athearn C44-9W's
3 CN Athearn SD40-2's
8 CN Athearn GP40-2;s
2 CN Athearn GP38-2's
8 CSX Athearn GP40-2's
2 CSX Atlas GP38-2's
2 CSX Atlas B40-8's
2 CSX Athearn GP38-2's
2 WC Athearn GP38-2's
2 BNSF Athearn GP39-2's
2 BNSF Atlas GP38-2's
2 BNSF Kato C44-9W's
1 BNSF Athearn AC4400
2 Penn Central Atlas U33-C's
1 Penn Central Athearn GP38-2's
3 Chessie Athearn GP40-2's
3 Chessie Atlas U30-C
2 NS Broadway C30-7's
3 NW Atlas U30-c's
1 NW Atlas C30-7
3 EL Athearn SD45's
4 EL Atlas rs-3's
2 EL Athearn GP35's
2 EL Kato GP35's
2 EL Atlas C424's
1 Erie Athearn RS-3
2 Erie Proto FA's
1 Vermont Athearn GP38-2
2 Guilford Atlas SD26's
2 Guilford Atlas U23B's
1 Guilford Athearn GP38-s
1 MEC Atlas GP38
2 MEC Atlas RS11'S
1 Guilford Atlas U30C (Detroit Edison patch)
2 P&W Atlas U23B's
2 P&W Athearn GP38-2's
1 P&W Atlas B23-7
1 P&W Intermountain U18B (on pre order)
1 Finger Lakes Atlas B23-7
1 UP Atlas GP38-2
Including my Brother's and my Dad's locomotives.
Roadname: Model Make
WM RS-3 Roundhouse kit
WM FA-2 P2K
NS GP-38-2 Atlas Trainman
UP 4-8-4 Bachmann (Needs Remotering, it runs like a greased banna peel)
EL SD-45-2 Arthren
Southern GP-9
I have seen this type of thread pop up many times in the last several years. Each time, I wished that I had pictures to post of my fleet of customized engines. Well, this time I went to the basement and took some photos to share!
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
collectthem Can we see pics of these please?
Can we see pics of these please?
collectthem:
If your post was directed to me and my brass steam roster, you can click on the websites below my signature, a lot of them are there.
Still playing the count-em game I see.
Well here goes:
2 SD24
1 SD39
21 GP38
4 GP38-2
2 CF7
2 GP7
4 GP30
11 GP35
1 GP40
3 GP20 INACTIVE
2 GP40X
8 GP60
3 SD26u
6 SD40
28 SD40-2
11 SD45
10 SD45-2
15 U23B
12 B23-7
6 B40-8
3 C30-7
3 U36C
4 FP45
1 F45
All Santa Fe plus
30 additional units for BN, ON and other assorted roads for pool service.
And no, I don't run them all at the same time.
Packer I might be the only BN modeler who doesn't have any SD40-2s, C30-7s, or Gp38-2s.
I might be the only BN modeler who doesn't have any SD40-2s, C30-7s, or Gp38-2s.
Thats said Packer I have a few of them Athearn BB in for conver to DCC.
4x8 are fun too!!! RussellRail
I run all of these on my 11x8 layout. I don't need anymore
Hummmmm, lets see,
Athearn
4 Dash 9's UP
2 AC-4400's UP
2 SD-40-2's UP
2 SD-45's UP
4 GP-50's UP
4 GP-38-2's UP
2 SW-1500's UP
2 SW-7's UP
6 Dash 9's BNSF
4 SD-75's BN
2 SD-40-2's BN
2 SD-40-2's BNSF
2 GP-50's BN
1 GP-40 BN
2 GP-38-2 BNSF
4 GP-38-2 BN
2 SW-1500 BN
1 SW-1500 BNSF
1 SW-1000 BN
2 Dash 9 RR (Russell Rail)
1 AC-4400 RR
1 SD-40-2 RR
2 GP-38-2 RR
2 SW-1500 RR
2 SW-7 RR
1 SW-1000 RR
Con Cor
2 SD-35 CB
Mantua
2 SD-45 SP
Wathers
2 Dash 8 RR
1 Dash 8 BNSF
Riva's
4-8-8-4 Big Boy UP 4012
4-6-6-4 Challanger UP 3985
4-6-6-4 Challanger UP Overland 3997
2 4-8-4 Northern's UP & NP
2-8-8-2 N&W
Proto 2000
PA-1 A&B Units SF
Bachmann
4-8-4 SP Daylighter
2-8-0 Penn's
0-8-0 UP
IHC
2 2-8-2 mike's UP & CP
Spectrum
J Class 4-8-4 N&W
55 ton Shay CLL
4-6-2 Pacific
I think that the size of it
aloco JDVass 2 Proto 1000 RS-2's Canadian National I've never seen a Proto 1000 RS-2 in CN. Did you paint them in CN colours? CP had RS-2s, but CN never did.
JDVass 2 Proto 1000 RS-2's Canadian National
I've never seen a Proto 1000 RS-2 in CN. Did you paint them in CN colours?
CP had RS-2s, but CN never did.
That was an error. The RS-2's are Canadian Pacific, not Canadian National.
Well here it is so far:
1- Kato Rs-1 undecorater(was gm&o)
1- Atlas Rs-1 undecorated
2- athearn sw-7
1- bachmann 70 ton
1- ahm plymoth switcher
1- rivarossi berkshire steam
1- Ihc 2-6-0 mother hubbard
1- revell hudson
1- revell big boy
1- athearn motorized and decodered and lighted snowplow
1- ahm rs-2 turned into snow plow
1- ahm rs-2 turned into shop critter
2- atlas rs-1 shells and cabs no frame or trucks. Used for scrap scene.
And that sums up the roster. Always cruisen ebay for stuff.
Oh yeah a rivarossi heisler. All are now dcc chiped and ready for the road that does not exist.
Mike
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
It just so happens that I've been updating my inventory for an up comming train show.
The first 4 are waiting to be re-painted for WC. One of the 1503's is waiting for a re-number.
All BN unless noted, and pictures are omitted for the dail-up users.
Athearn BB Sw1500s, 318 and 307 P2K GP9s, 1964 and 1956P2K Gp30s, 2216, 2236, and 2250 Athearn RTR Gp35 2507 Atlas/Kato C425 4258 (x3) P2K SD9s, 6226 and 6232 Atlas SD24 6240, 6244 and CB&Q 502 (haven't patched it yet) P2K SD45s, 6497 and 6489Athearn Genesis F45 6635 P2K U28Bs, 5453 and 5451 Atlas U30C 5313Atlas U33Cs, 5733 and 5761 Atlas UP U30C 2009Atlas UP SD24 403P2K NYC SW9 8946Green = Sound equipped
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
I'm betting I'll take the prize for smallest roster right now, since I'm just getting back into the hobby after a long absence, and all my old stuff was donated to a local club years ago. Right now, my roster stands at two:
(1) Proto 2000 E-6A, undecorated (destined to become Seaboard Coast Line No. 509)
(2) Athearn U33B No. 1733 (destined to become SCL U36B original No. 1776 -- this is the "bumblebee" scheme 1776, which operated for about 8 months in late 1970-early 1971 before being renumbered to make room on the roster for the red, white and blue 1776, which was built in 1971).
I'm in the process of acquiring detail parts for superdetailing these locomotives. I'll post before, during and after pictures when the projects are completed.
Also on order, and due in June, is a third loco:
(3) Broadway Limited Imports Blueline E-7A, undecorated. This will likely be the only locomotive I buy new. The rest will come from eBay, Yahoo's HO Yardsale and train shows and swap meets.
Finally, I have six Athearn U33B shells which I recently purchased on eBay for the princely sum of $12 (including shipping). Some of these may be cut up for kitbashing projects, but I plan to buy underframes, power trucks, cabs and A-line Athearn repowering kits for at least three of them to add to my SCL U36B roster.
Ultimately, I'm shooting for two to four passenger locomotives and 10-16 freight locomotives, all from SCL's roster circa late 1970.
Bill
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
1 Lifelike P2K U-30B DCC Sound
1 Bachmann Spectrum 4-6-2- K4 Pacific DCC Sound
1 Bachmann F40PH DCC
1 Bachmann GP-38-2 DCC
1 Lifelike P1K F3A DCC
1 Lifelike P1K F3B DCC
1 Bachmann GP-50 DCC
1 Lifelike P1K R-17 Subway set DCC
And for the Grandchildren...
1 Bachmann Hogwarts Express DCC
1 Bachmann Thomas the Tank Engine DCC
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Running on my layout --not all at once
2-Bachman 2-8-0
1-Bachman 2-6-2
1-Bachman 4-6-0
1-Bachman modern 4-4-0
1-Bachman 4-8-2
1-Blueline 2-8-2
2-Rivarossi 4-4-0
1 Proto GP20
All are decorated for ME&O
Run with
12 ME&O coal cars --16 Reading coal cars under ME&O lease --3 ME&O box cars-5 ME&O gondolas --7 Old Time Bill Board Reefers --7-30/40s Billboard reefers -- 11 ME&O Overland passengers cars --5 ME&O Overton passenger cars
I have another 35 Steamers Diesels in prototype colors which I don't run in display cases in my Mud Room
51% share holder in the ME&O ( Wife owns the other 49% )
ME&O
D&RGW:
(2) 2-8-0 1-LMB/1-KEY
(2) 2-8-2 KEY
(2) 2-10-2 1-PFM/1-PSC
(1) 2-6-6-0 PFM
(2) 2-6-6-2 1-AKANE/1-SPECTRUM
(4) 2-8-8-2 2-PFM/1-OMI/1-Proto 2000
(3) 2-8-8-4 AKANE (Missabe re-numbers)
(1) 4-6-0 PFM
(1) 4-6-2 PFM
(6) 4-8-2 3-NJB/3-KEY
(3) 4-8-4 KEY
(3) 4-6-6-4 2-WESTSIDE/1-GENESIS
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
(1) 2-8-0 SUNSET
(2) 2-8-2 1-OMI/1-BALBOA
(1) 2-8-4 BALBOA
(1) 2-8-8-4 AKANE
(1) 2-10-2 WESTSIDE
(3) 4-8-2 1-KEY/1-MAX GREY/1-WESTSIDE
(2) 4-8-4 WESTSIDE
(5) 4-8-8-2 1-SUNSET/2 AKANE/1 MAX GRAY/1 BLI
COLORADO AND SOUTHERN (loaners)
(1) 2-8-2 LMB
(2) 2-10-2 KEY
ATSF (loaners)
(2) 2-8-0 1 SUNSET/1 PFM
(1) 2-8-2 MFGR. UNKNOWN
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO (loaner)
(1) 4-8-2 SPECTRUM
(1) 2-6-6-6 RIVAROSSI
GREAT NORTHERN (runthroughs)
(1) 2-8-2 PFM
(1) 2-10-2 KEY
(1) 4-8-2 IHC
(1) 4-8-4 PFM
I've put my dual-mode DC/DCC steamers back in their boxes except for the BLI SP AC-5.
JDVassWhat have you got in your roster?
That is a Frequently asked (and frequently answered) question.
Thread from 2007 with 166 answers: http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/10254.aspx
Thread from November 2008 with 78 replies: http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/142253/1583513.aspx
What I answered last time: http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/142253/1583513.aspx#1583513
Grin, Stein
Right now I don't have a whole lot of locomotives, but then again I'm living in an apartment and don't actually have any permenant track to run them on.
I've got:
2 Genesis SD70MACs, BNSF
1 Atlas C424, MNNR (needs to be lettered)
1 Athearn SD40-2, DME (needs to be lettered)
1 RPP SD9043, undecorated
1 trackmobile, demo paint scheme
1 MDC shay, no reporting marks
The SD70MACs and the trackmobile are the only ones that came prepainted, and they're also the only finished locomotives I have. I should probably fix that.
I've also got a switcher scratchbuilding project that I'm working on, but that's got a while to go before it can actually run.