here's my collection of loco's. some are not listed as they are christmas presents. all 6 heritages and uo 8444 in the ace's are for christmas. plus i have 3 kato ns sd70m's plus an atlas ns sd38-2 on the layout. but here are pictures of the ones not on the layout and ready for dcc to be installed. hope you like.
Woohoo!!! I got my Intermountain FP7/F7B set!!! And another FT ATSF set on the way... GAWD I love those cab units :)
thatboy37 here's my collection of loco's. some are not listed as they are christmas presents. all 6 heritages and uo 8444 in the ace's are for christmas. plus i have 3 kato ns sd70m's plus an atlas ns sd38-2 on the layout. but here are pictures of the ones not on the layout and ready for dcc to be installed. hope you like. hope this is what you are looking for on your post.
Absolutely. That is an impressive roster that is very diverse. Well done.
Here is my collection of locomotives and engines. I am hoping see in the future that there will be an NS SD70M-2 and to add it to my roster, I have made several mentions to KATO since they already have the body for it. (SD70AcE)
Couldn't pass this up, even though I hogged a lot of bandwidth. A couple of my ex-Denver and Salt Lake locos, a 2-8-2 and a 2-6-6-0 running in tandem:
One of my 2-10-2's:
And a stubby little 2-8-0:
Now I'll go away for a while.
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!
Hi everyone steam618lover1 here great thread i've taken down my layout cause we're moving into an apartment, but will have a third bedroom for new layout, i have over 55 steam loco's so i'll just give a few on my roster
Riverossoi: Berks 765, 759, 770, 1222, Big Boy-4000, NYC-Hudsons-2-4505, dryfuss-4504
Bachmann:Northerns, SP-4449, NW-J-611, NYC-niagras-6008, 6005, Berk 1225 polar express, made 5 car polar express train from movie(HO).
IHC: Southern-4501, 3645-2-10-2
Athearn: NW-Mike-587
This is just a few of my steam engines on roster, good luck to everyone with your loco's.
Well why not?
Here's my HO C&HV roster.
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Here's my N Scale C&HV Geeps.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
That is a very impressive roster indeed. I am jealous. Plus the diversity is easily seen here in Ohio, at least northern Ohio area. Ive seen all but the RJ Cormans. Yes, ive seen a TFM trailing a KCS behind NS power in Bellevue once.
Jeff,Speaking of R.J.Corman..While these Corman GP7s are foobies(the prototype 9007 and 9010 are GP9s) I still like 'em.
I have 26 steam Locomotives, some scratch built, most kit altered some with Cary boilers, all but the smallest withcan moters. The roster is 6- 4 6 2s, 4- 2 8 2s, 4- 4 6 0s, 3- 4 8 2s, 2- 2 8 0s, 1- 2 6 0, 1- 4 4 0, 2- 0 4 0s and 3- 0 6 0s with one under construction. These date from 1940 to the present and are in every day service on my layout.
Wish I had pictures to show but this roster will have to do for now as I am "in transition" (aren't we all!!)
F-M H24-66 Trainmaster - currently Erie-Lackawanna - DCC & sound
F-M H15-44 - AC&Y - DCC
F-M H16-44 - currently Norfolk & Western - decoder to be added
Alco S-2 - currently Erie - DCC
Alco RS-1 - currently B&O - DCC & sound
Alco USRA Mikado - currently Norfolk & Western - DCC & sound
EMD F3A&B - currently unmarked -decoders to be added
As you can see, I am favoring those locos used by AC&Y and others around Akron, OH about 1950.
Well I had over 30 engines at one point but am now down to:
Atlas mp15- cnw
Atlas Rs-1 undec
Roundhouse rs-3 cnw
athearn sw-7 undec
plastic 2-8-4 and 4-8-8-4 steam engines
Had 5-9 rs-2 by ahm and life like
Had 2-3 gp-18 by ahm and life like
Had 4 athearn gp-7 or gp-9 whatever they were
Had ahm 2-8-4
Had 2 ahm 0-8-0
Had ihc mother hubbard
Had 2 roundhouse rs-3's
Had 2 athearn sw-7 or 9
Had spectrum gp-40 and FT-A
Losing your job sucks but it also cleaned up the old stuff which for me was good to practice on and detail and make run good.
Oh well I can always build up later in life(heck I am only 33 so I have lots of time)
Mike
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
Here's my list. Blue text indicates sound units. The underlined road numbers are links to the pictures.
Engineer Jeff NS Nut Visit my layout at: http://www.thebinks.com/trains/
zgardner18 Here's just my MRL fleet. Not counting my BNSF, BN, SF, UP, SP, and Amtrak (and other passenger fleet) These are just the ones that I have finished too. I still have some in the works for MRL not to mention the idea that I am considering purchasing the next 2 SD40s that Athearn are bringing out nor the SD70Ace possibilities too.
Here's just my MRL fleet. Not counting my BNSF, BN, SF, UP, SP, and Amtrak (and other passenger fleet)
These are just the ones that I have finished too. I still have some in the works for MRL not to mention the idea that I am considering purchasing the next 2 SD40s that Athearn are bringing out nor the SD70Ace possibilities too.
I now have 3 more that I can add to my MRL fleet that are coming in the mail. the 3rd and final Athearn Genesis SD45-2 #306 w/ sound and #701 Atlas SD35 high short hood w/ sound. I got them both on Ebay for around $75 each. And a Susquanna SD45 from Athearn that I will patch #365 of MRL.
Hopefully I'll save some money to still get those two new Athearn SD40s that will be out in MRL. Still I have two BLI SD9s and a P2K SD45 that need to be painted MRL. Oh, and a SDP40 that I am working on kitbashing along with an Athearn SD45 in SP that I am replacing the cab and nose then patching MRL. So lots of work for me still.
--Zak Gardner
My Layout Blog: http://mrl369dude.blogspot.com
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Here are the latest two additions....the Wabash PA1 A and B units and the Erie Lackawanna PA1
I just include these as a lesson in eBay purchasing.
The Wabash, as mentioned in an earlier post, arrived without the front door and headlight lenses.....although the rest of the loco is very lightly used and runs even better than the New in Box (old stock) EL PA1 that came from another seller.
The seller of the Wabash was not very inclined to help find the parts he had left out of the shipment, so I asked for a partial refund from Paypal. The result was a $20 refund which I considered fair and the final price to me was $43 for the A unit and dummy,
I made up the new door and lenses.
Paypal is a good service. This is not the only time they have helped get satisfaction from a careless seller.
Literally down to one engine a Bachmann 2-6-6-2 in On30. That will be a start of a new layout. Maybe a second engine soon but not yet necessary. Life is good, dozens of engines are not necessary anymore.
Well, not much left.
Following the global financial crisis, my road had to dispose of most of its roster. It is now down to a Bowser/Stewart ARR F 7 and an old Marklin E 94 box cab electric. Hopefully there will be more coming in 2010...
Interesting to browse through this thread and get a feel for the various themes we enjoy and places we are in the hobby, kind of an anecdotal cross-section. Lots of modern diesels, some early diesels, some steam. Big collections, small collections, multiple roadnames or not so many. Locos in storage or operating, simple run-some-trains layouts or beautiful realistic model railroads.
I'm mostly an early-EMD cab unit guy, roadnames that appeal to me for sentimental reasons regardless of whether they ever operated near each other, collecting and storing rather than (yet) operating. Really fun to see what some of the rest of you are doing, and inspiring to contemplate for the future.
I keep intending to take and post some photos of my roster on this thread, but I keep getting tempted by just one more on eBay...
Dean
WSOR SD40-2 4009WSOR GP7U 702WSOR GP38 3807WSOR GP38 3808WSOR GP38 3802WSOR MP15AC 1503
UP SD40-2 4238Future WSOR SD40-2 4011Future WSOR GP38 3805Future WSOR GP38 3803
Heres my modest roster. I have an S12 and an SW7 as well though I dont run them because they dont really fit my interests now that I have narrowed down my era (2004-2005 San Francisco Bay Area). I really just use my GP units though the C44-9W does find itself pulling some intermodal cars now and then. Sorry no good pictures.
My roster (sorry, no photos yet):
Chessie System (C&O) B30-7 (Atlas, w/DCC)Western Maryland 2-8-0 Consolidation (Bachmann Spectrum, w/DCC)B&O SW8 (Life-Like)B&O SD7 (Life-Like)B&O Doodlebug (Bachmann Spectrum)C&O E8 (Life-Like)
As you can see, I've got some serious decoder installs to perform. I've also got a few other locos, but they're not part of my layout's fleet; just a few cheap ones I picked up for my collection:
Union Pacific F7 (Life-Like)ATSF MDT Plymouth (Bachmann)
I buy/trade often, but this is what I currently have:
2 - MTH UP 4-12-2's
1 - MTH DRGW Class L-97 4-6-6-4 (Union Pacific warbaby)
1 - Bachmann Spectrum PRR K-4
My sons have:
1 - P2K Soo Line Alco RS-27
5 - Assorted Bachmann Thomas (electric) steamers with moving eyes
1 - ancient Mantua Trolley
Sharp!!!My roster consists of an Atlas RS3 that runs like your proverbial red reared baboon;a LLP2K GP18 that runs kinda sluggish;LLP2K FA1 that runs about the same and an Athearn F7 that barely runs at all!!
Planning on modeling the MP in either East Texas or the Austin area ca.1959.
For now,running my locos around some Bachmann EZ Track with some freight cars and a caboose!!
Here is a link to our club roster.
My favorite power to run is the custom painted Nebraska Central SD45 or the OL&B SW1200 #47.
For 30-some years my locomotive roster consisted of an Athearn PA-1 and S-12, both in Erie Lackawanna paint, a simple but serviceable Tyco 4-6-2, and an elegant B&O "Royal Blue" 4-6-2 that had been my grandfather's. The Royal Blue lived under a clear display cover on a shelf and the others were in a box in the closet, and for decades that was enough.
A few years ago Walthers' very nice Empire Builder set caught my attention, since the Empire Builder had been the highlight of trainwatching days with my grandfather during occasional childhood visits to his Chicago-area home, but the price tag kept me from doing anything other than thinking about it. That was enough until early 2009, when I saw that the Empire Builder sets were going out of production, so a Proto 2000 F7A/B and fourteen of those cars are now in a box in my closet waiting with the older stuff for some future date when they'll get some active use.
That was enough for a few months, until I saw an advertisement for a Proto 2000 E7 in Milwaukee Road's Union Pacific color scheme and realized I'd seen that very locomotive or sister units during other trainwatching days with my grandfather. So I had to have one of them too, with eight nice cars to keep it employed.
That was enough for a few weeks, until I saw an old non-working Varney F3, 1940s vintage, with a few elegantly simple Santa Fe decals still hanging on, going cheap on eBay. Like ten zillion other kids I'd always admired the red and silver Santa Fe Fs, and unlike the big new Walthers sets the F3 didn’t use up about three years' worth of hobby budget, so I figured what the heck, another one can't hurt.
That was enough for a few days, until I saw more and more stuff that each seemed like just one more wouldn't hurt, and the floodgates opened. Four Proto 2000 E8s, four Genesis F9s, two Genesis F7s, a Mantua F7, a couple of unspecified F7 B-unit dummies, two Precision Craft F3s, four Stewart FTs, a Cary Locomotive Works FT, an Athearn PB-1, two more Athearn S-12s, and 150-some cars have since come along, and I still can't resist browsing eBay and model train shows for good buys. I think the big rush is over, but if I run across a nice set of Burlington E8s for Empire Builder duty, or a matching Santa Fe F3 set to turn those Precision Craft F3s into an ABBA lashup, I'm going to have to wrestle with that budget again.
Click on my Sig to see my running engines for the ME&O
51% share holder in the ME&O ( Wife owns the other 49% )
ME&O
I would have to look pretty hard to figure out what the actual number of engines in all gauges are in my roster.
Here is a "family portrait" of the different gauges that we run:
Front row, left to right: HO, TT, N
Second Row: S, Z, O, G
Third Row: L, 8 3/4" (Ride-on type)
If I had to geuss, I would have to say that we have around 100 O gauge engines, 40 S gauge engines, 80 HO Gauge engines, 60 TT scale engines, 30 N gauge engines, 1 Z scale engine, 1 8 3/4" engine, and 3 G gauge locomotives. As L gauge is not set in stone, I would have to say that we have 4-8 assembled L gauge engines at any given time.
So many scales, so many trains, so little time.....
Steam:
One 4-8-2 Heavy Mtn J2 class C&O (George Washington by Bachmann)
Three 2-10-4 T-1 class C&O by BLI/Blueline
Two 2-6-6-2 H-5 class C&O by Bachmann
One 2-8-4 K-4 Class C&O by Proto 2000
Two 2-6-6-6 H-8 Class C&O by RR
One 0-8-0 USRA design (C-16A class) C&O by Proto 2000
Three 0-6-0T by Bachmann (unlettered)
Two B&O 0-4-0T Dockside (Varney and LL)
One 2-8-0 Consoldation (WM Fireball) by Bachmann
One 2-8-2 K-1 class C&O by IHC
One 2-8-8-2 Y3 Class VGN proto 2000
One 3 Truck Shay (Wehrhouser) by Bachmann
Diesel
Three F-7 C&O by Athearn Genesis (A-B-A)
One F-7 C&O Proto 2000 (A Unit)
One E-7A (first gen paint) C&O by BLI
Two E-7A (last gen paint) C&O by Proto 2000
One Baldwin VO-1000 by Stewart Hobbies (Patapsco and Back River)
Two RS-2's C&O Proto 1000
29 Engines Total
I'm extremely grateful to Bachmann for all the C&O stuff they produce! I'm planning on loading up on the H-4s when they come out.
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
Here's my B&O roster [so far]:
I also have a number of CSX locos, but I plan to sell them so I can buy more B&O and WM. There are also 3 Atlas GP40's and an Atlas GP38, not pictured, that haven't yet been painted in their B&O livery.
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)