Roster of HO Diesels (141):
Rio Grande (96)
Athearn Genesis (11):
-F9ABB set #5771, 5762, 5763 (single stripe)
-F9AB set #5774, 5773 (single stripe)
-F9m #5531 (single stripe)
-F3ABBA set #5541, 5542, 5543, 5544 (single stripe)-F7A #5764 (single stripe) phase II
Stewart Hobbies (14):
-F9ABB (single stripe)
-F9A (undec)
-2 F7AB sets phase I (4-stripe)
-3 F7AB sets phase II (4-stripe)
Atlas (18):
-6 GP40-2 (large herald) from #3094-3128 series, 2 with sound
-6 GP40’s (small herald) from #3051-3080 series
-3 GP40’s (large herald) from #3081-3085 series
-2 GP40’s (large herald) from ex-Conrail series
-1 RS3 yellow stripes (yellow box)
Proto 2000 (16)
-1 F7 ABBA set (single stripe) with sound
-2 SD7’s (yellow stripe)-2 SD9’s (orange switcher scheme)
-4 GP30 phase I (3 small herald, 1 large herald)
-3 GP30 phase II (3 small herald)
-1 PA (4-stripe)
KATO (6):
-3 SD45’s (large herald)
-2 GP35’s
-1 NW2 #100
Athearn (30):
-2 GP40-2’s #3099, #3104 blue box
-2 GP40-2’s #3116, #3120 RTR
-3 SD50 #5501, 5506, 5507 RTR-6 SD45 ( 3 small herald, 3 large) RTR
-14 SD40T-2 RTR 5 1st run, 4 2nd run, 3 3rd run, 2 4th run
-1 SD40T-2’s blue box un-powered
-2 SW1000 RTR #141 and #144
Walthers (1):
-1 Fairbanks Morse H10-44
Amtrak (6)
-3 F40PH’s (phase III paint) Walthers
-3 F40PH’s (phase III paint) KATO
Southern Pacific (10)
-5 SD40T-2 Athearn RTR, one is a snoot-3 SD45T-2 Athearn RTR SP, SSW & Kodachrome
-1 C44-9W KATO (for sale)
-1 SD45 KATO
Union Pacific (3)
2- SD45’s KATO (Kaiser unit coal train)
1-SD40-2 KATO
Burlington Northern (2)
-1 SD40-2 KATO
Utah RR (3)
-3 RS4’s Atlas
CB&Q (6)
-1 GP30 phase I Proto 2000
-3 GP30’s phase II Proto 2000
-2 GP35’s KATO
Western Pacific CZ power (4)
-3 F3ABB passenger Stewart
-1 FP7A Genesis
Here is a shot of Rio Grande's F9m #5531 which was rebuilt from a wrecked F3A. This loco is pretty faithful to the phase details on the prototype which was reskinned with available F9 bodies around 1953 when the rebuild was performed by EMD. Rio Grande had a similar F7 rebuilt like this also, #5571
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Removed duplicate which was caused by lag. The admins should allow us to delete our own duplicates like other forums do.
Kato N scale JNR D51 498 Mikado:
Kato Eiden Electric Railway Series 900 EMU "Kirara":
More to come in the future!
Here's Port Able Railway SW1200 #39
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Mike Kieran
Port Able Railway
I just do what the majority of the voices in my head vote on.
Wow, Mr. R Grande, that is a nice collection of locos!
I thought I had a guilty pleasureable awful lot with 113 or so.
Did you purchase these all retail? I was only able to collect as many as I have because I lurked around EBay and picked up new old stock or good condition used, and turned them all to DCC. I think I have only a dozen or so new with DCC from online stores.
What is your total? You show the number 125 at the top but the group totals are much higher.
Well done!
And Mr. Kieran, my second loco ever was my Great Northern SW1200....and still my favourite switcher
Thanks Cisco. My Next Project is to weather the SW1200 and to add DCC/Sound & weathering to a Kato Southern NW2
Cisco Kid,
Holy smokes, I have more than I thought. Just did a fast mental tally and miscounted. Looks like its more. Most of my loco's are stock still, and need decoders and someday modify the noses to have proper signal lights and plows. Only the newer RTR Athearn SD40T-2's and SD45's have the correct plow and signal light out of the box (save some are supposed thave Mars vs Pyle gyra light but its real hard to tell without a magnifier). The Atlas GP40-2's have the nose light but the plows are incorrect. Only decoder equipped loco's I have are the sound equipped and the Atlas silver series GP40's. I have been trying to collect decoders to install but have a long way to go.
Most of the loco's above were purchased around the time they were first on the market from one of afew mail order places I have used over the past 15 years including Tom's Trains of Connecticuit, MB Kleins, a few of them on Ebay and a few at train shows. I've generally paid about 30% off of MSRP or less. One of the Genesis F3AB sets I snagged for $130 off Ebay. Another Genesis F3AB set I got at a train show for about $150. My Stewart F's are some of the oldest loco's I have and my Athearn RTR SD's are among the newest.
Scary to realize what we have invested in this stuff when we stop to think about it.
I'll try to run down what's in the roundhouse now..
Brass:
CPR 2816, H1b Hudson: modernized w/tsunami heavy steam, ditch lights, front secondary whistle, oil tender, aux. tender
CPR 5934, T1c Selkirk: tsunami heavy steam, with plow
CPR 2910, F1a Jubilee: tsunami light steam
CPR 3000, F2a Jubilee: tsunami light steam
CPR 1278, G5 Pacific: in the backshop
CPR 3001, K1a Northern: tsunami heavy steam
CPR D10g: in the backshop
CPR doodlebug: in the backshop
CPR FP9a: in the backshop
CPR 8200, GP30: tsunami 567
CPR 8904, H24-66 hammerhead: tsunami FM
CPR 4000/4400, 4002/4402, ALco Fa1, FB1: tsunami 244 V12
CPR C-liners: in the backshop
Plastic:
CPR 4000/4400, 4002/4402: P2K out of service, tsunami 244 V12
CPR C-Liner, P2K, out of service
CPR E8 #1801, out of service, fried decoder
Various P2K and Spectrum switchers: all awesome runners
CPR 8905, H24-66 Trainmaster, Atlas Gold. Awesome runner, but the QSI sounds like a worn out tugboat. Need to change to tsunami ASAP.
NYC Niagara by Broadway, nice runner, sound is hideous.
Several spectrum Consolidations and one Genesis Mikado getting the Athabasca Shops cab, runningboard, and tender treatment
In the backshop being erected: 3 Point One Models GMD1 modernized, Athearn power, will have appropriate sound.
Also a few cool 'foreign' power units. Milwaukee DL109 and Erie Builts, and Milwaukee F units. All there to haul Walthers passenger cars around that just showed up one day...
CN F-units (Intermountain) to haul an attempted Super Continental train. (Rapido plastic, Wathers domes, Shoreham skyview car modified with fixed steps are per prototype.. The Intermounitain F-units (ABB) won't barely pull that 12 car train. Very poor adhesion.
WAAAY too many projects, and not even close to enough time to finish them all.
My railroad in a nutshell, I guess.. no rhyme, no reason
Van Hobbies H1b, K1a, T1c, D10g, F1a, F2a, G5a. Division Point: H24-66 Hammerhead, Alco covered wagons A-B-B-A, C-Liner A-B-B-A, EMD FP7A A-B-B.
H1b modified to replicate modern day 2816. All with Tsunamis.
Here we go...
In Use:
SW1500 No. 318 BN Athearn (bought from atlas)
RIP Shop:
GE 70 Ton No. 5101 SP Bachmann DCC Equip. Needs decoder replacement
4-4-0 No. 875 B&O Roundhouse W/ sound. Decoder fried and is curently at the LHS awaiting pick-up.
In need of assignment to different district:
Reading T1 class 4-8-4 No. 2111 PCM W/ sound.
E7 AB set A unit No. 1017 FEC Proto 1k.
Both used to be able to (barley) make my sharpest curve (18"), until I added retaining walls(). Unfortunatley, there is not really anywhere else to go on a 32 sf steel mill...
Everything is HO and DCC. I have not included my super old analog locos that no longer run (on either system!).
Here Goes , By Manufacture.
080 Proto 2000 Heritage
060 Proto 2000 Heritage
SD7 Proto 2000 (2)
E7 Proto 2000
ALCO S1 Proto 2000
GP18 Proto 2000 (2)
GP7 Proto 2000
GP9 Proto 2000
GP30 Proto 2000
GP20 Proto 2000
sw9/1200 Proto 2000
4-6-0 Spectrum Master RR Series
USRA 2-6-6-2 Articulated Spectrum Master RR Series
Baldwin 2-8-0 Spectrum Master RR Series
FM H16-44 Spectrum Master RR Series
T1 4-8-4 Precision Craft
Mikado w/Vander tender Mantua
4-6-2 Light Pacific Mantua
2-8-2 Heavy Mikado Mantua
4-4-2 Atlantic w/tender Mantua
2-6-6-2 Articulated Mantua Classics
8-40cw Bachman Spectrum
4-4-0 Modern American Bachman Spectrum
2-10-0 Russian Decapod Bachman Spectrum
2-10-2 Santa Fe IHC Premier Gold Series
S-4 Atlas
SD35 Atlas (2)
GP38 Atlas (2)
SD24 Atlas
F7A Supower Atlas
ALCO RS-11 Atlas Classic
4-8-4 Niagara Broadway Limited
4-6-4 Niagara Broadway Limited
4-6-2 K4 Paragon Niagara Broadway Limited
2-10-4 Niagara Broadway Limited
4-8-2 M1e Niagara Broadway Limited
F7B Niagara Broadway Limited
EMD SD40-2 Niagara Broadway Limited, Blue Line
EMD E8A SRR Niagara Broadway Limited
Dash 9 c44-9w MRC/Athearn
GP 35 Athearn
GP 60 Athearn
SW7 DMY Athearn
SD 40-2 Snoot DMY Athearn
SD 40-2 Snoot Power Athearn
F7B Dummy Athearn
SDP40 Dummy Athearn
GE Dash 8 40b Walthers Train Line
ALCO FB-1 Walthers Trainman (2)
RSC 2 Life like Proto 1000
Big Boy Trix
Big Boy Brass , unkown Manufacture
FTA, EMD Stewart Hobbies
ALCO RS-3 Round House
6D-24 Cab t644 Con Cor
EMD E-7A Con Cor (2)
EMD MP-15 Con Cor
FT B Bachman
B-23-7 Bachman Plus
EMD F7B (4) Bachman Plus
4-6-2 Pacific Rivarossi
0-8-0 Rivarossi
It's not that I have a lot of locomotives. It's just that I have changed scales so often I have a very diverse selection of locomotives.
N Scale: Milwaukee Road EMD E-8/9
Rock Island GE U-30C
BNSF Dash 8 40-B
S Scale: C&NW Baldwin S-12
C&NW 4-6-2 Pacific
Reading 4-4-2 Atlantic
On30 scale: Colorado & Southern 2-6-0 Mogul (x2)
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Just for fun, since ya'll were nice enough to share your loco rosters with me, here is the link for the locomotive roster for my N&F RR: http://nfrailroad.com/page10.html
Nothing came to the railroad "Ready-To-Run"... diesels are scratchbuilt, steamers are restored antiques.
Thanks Everybody!
- James
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I'm trying to figure out how to post pictures here, and I hope this works.. An I phone picture isn't great, but I'm just experimenting..
Here goes nothing...
CP guy in TX ?action=view¤t=2816B.jpg I'm trying to figure out how to post pictures here, and I hope this works.. An I phone picture isn't great, but I'm just experimenting.. Here goes nothing...
Not sure if you have it figured out, but in case not, maybe you need a tip: Excuse me if I write the obvious and your know this already:
1. Join an online photo server like Photobucket...or Flikr.......free to register and use.
2. Upload your photo
3. Click on the "Direct Link" tab under your desired photo (at Photobucket anyway) and the correct link data is automatically copied to your computer clipboard. It would resemble this line.... http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/fuelstand.jpg
4. Go to your message on this forum and place your cursor in your message where you want the image to appear. Then click on the little film icon at the top.
5. A popup template will appear over your message. Past the copied data from your clipboard into the box provided and hit "insert"
Hope this helps.
If you want to add something or doctor up the photo, use a photo editor like Adobe Photoshop or Windows Paint or anything like that and save the result as a jpeg and upload that jpeg to the online image host.
(One cannot insert images stored on his/her computer unless he/she is hosting a web site on the computer and can provide the image link similar to the one shown.)
Here goes:
Athearn
2- C44-9W Canadian National
1- P42 Via Rail
Atlas
1- Dash 8 CN/IC
2- GP40-2W Canadian National
Atlas Trainman
2- GP38-2 CN/GTW
Genesis
1- SD70ACe BNSF
1- SD75I Canadian National
1- SD70 Illinois Central
Intermountain
2- ES44AC Canadian Pacific
2- ES44AC BNSF
Kato
1- AC4400CW Canadian Pacific
1- AC4400CW CEFX
1- SD45 Wisconsin Central
MTH
1- SD70ACe DRGW/UP
1-SD70ACe BNSF iso-cab
3-SD70M-2 Canadian National
Tower 55
1- ES44AC GE Demo
1- ES44DC BNSF
Walthers
1- F40PH Via Rail
ON ORDER
2- SD70M-2 Canadian National
4- ES44DC Canadian National
2-SD40-2W Canadian National
Hopefully I'll have pics to post soon,
John
Can't believe this came back to the top of the list so soon, but amazingly enough I do have a new locomotive to add to the list. At the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeler's Society conference last week I won the door prize provided by a local hobby store (An Affair with Trains, Phoenix, AZ). It is a BLI 4-8-4 Santa Fe #3755.