Hello everyone. Hope you all had a nice Christmas. I was out running trains earlier this evening and started looking over my rolling stock collection just to see what the majority of makers were and as it turned out about 40% of them are Microtrain, 40% are Atlas and the rest are Con-Cor, Life Like, Model Power and a few other odd brands here and there. I find that I run the Microtrain and Atlas the most as far as freight goes but most of my passenger cars are Con-Cor. What's so dumb on my part is that I keep buying "lower end" cars but never use them...
Tracklayer
Let's see then..
I would say 50% is Athearn Blue Box ,40% is Athearn/Bev-Bel* while MDC makes up 8% and Atlas and Walthers makes up the last 2%.
My N Scale cars was 60% Atlas,35% MT and FVM and MDC made up the last 5%.
*Every one of my Bev-Bel/Athearn cars are IPD short line boxcars.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
I would say that 50% of my roster is MTL, 20% Atlas, 10% Kato, 10% Roundhouse, and the last 10% a mix between Walthers, Life Like, Bachmann and Tomix.
Modeling the Bellefonte Central Railroad
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My roster consists of 90% Red Caboose with the rest made up of Intermountain, Tichy, and a couple of others. There are also a few Athearn and MDC cars. All were kits that I built.
Chuck - Modeling in HO scale and anything narrow gauge
Not only mine, but I'd say the majority of members of our club have around 80% Athearn and MDC rolling stock.
I never really checked My Roster as to quanities by manufacturer !
I purchase cars that will fit my era 1975/85ish but try to keep in the general are up to that era.
So I just cruse the ads and purchase what is on sale as having over 1200 cars - there isn't much I need anymore!
I usually repalce lesser detailed cars with the newer offerings the MFG make!
So I have just about every MFG represented on my current layout !
BOB H - Clarion, PA
Most of my cars (65%) are Accurail. 33% are Athearn/MDC/Roundhouse, and the other 2% are other brands.
My Layout Photos- http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/ajwarshal/library/
20% MDC/Roundhouse, 20% resin kits, 5% wood kits, 15% scratchbuilt, 10% Bachmann, 30% kitbashed/semi-scratch MDC/Roundhouse/Bachmann/Life Like.
25% are stock paint schemes, 75% are painted and lettered with Westerfiled and Art Griffin decals.
The 3 completed cars in the front and the 2 under construction cars in the back all started life as Varney/Life Like twin hoppers like the RDG 80324 in the back.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
The majority would be Accurail: ~40%. After that would be (in no particular order): Intermountain, Branchline, Proto 1000/2000, Red Caboose, Atlas, Athearn, Bowser, MTH, Exactrail, Fox Valley, BLI, Gloor Craft, Waterlevel Route, and OMI.
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
tstage The majority would be Accurail: ~40%. After that would be (in no particular order): Intermountain, Branchline, Proto 1000/2000, Red Caboose, Atlas, Athearn, Bowser, MTH, Exactrail, Fox Valley, BLI, Gloor Craft, Waterlevel Route, and OMI. Tom
I think I am typical of anyone who has been in HO for a while. Started out with mostly Athearn and MDC and then graduated to Accurail, Walthers, and Bowser. From there I progressed to P2K and then R/C and Branchline since I am in no hurry now what with the layout being heavily populated and all.
Diesel motive power, for years, has been and remains mostly Atlas and Kato.
Be happy in your work,
Charlie
The majority of my rolling stock end up split between Bowser and P2K as a few hundred hoppers for those B&O and Chessie coal drags tend to overpower the rest of the roster in numbers alone. The remaining freight are Athearn RTR, Atlas, Walther's, MDC Roundhouse and Intermountain. Most of my BB stock has been sold off or retired (replaced w/ newer more detailed pieces).
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Never ever thought of it in those terms before, guess I was just to busy to worry about it.
Its an entire smattering of almost every make, Athearn BB & Genesis, Atlas, Bachmann, BevBel, Bowser, Branchline, ConCor, Kadee, Proto 2000, Quality Craft, Rapido, Rivarossi, Tyco, Walthers and possibly a few others unnamed.
My biggest single has to be Walthers, but that is only because of my insane amount of Trinity cement hoppers (over 40) and a few 6 packs of Quad hoppers for coal. But pecentages?? Your asking me??
Karl
NCE über alles!
ON my 1950s roster, more than 50% are Athearn BB, followed by Roundhouse, Mantua, Branchline, Walthers, Bowser, and a few others
My 1980s roster also starts with Athearn BB, followed by Roundhouse, Walthers, club cars by the Eastern Maine Model RR club (Athearn, Con-Cor, Branchline,E&C and MDC), and a few others
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Like many of the responders, I have a majority of Athearn cars, mixed in with plenty of Model Power, Intermountain and Atlas as well. As I tend to acquire rolling stock from swap meets, my inventory reflects what is available there, as opposed to NIB offering advertised on MR or MRH.
My budget is geared to economical purchases, and many of the NIB offerings show up soon enough at the swap meets, so I win there as well!
Cedarwoodron
I keep an inventory of my stuff in a LibreOffice Base database, so even though I've never done it before, it was easy to pull out the stats:
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Total Motive Power
Looking at Steve's list above, I'll be able to add True Line Trains to my inventory list when they release their NYC 19000-series wood cabooses in HO next year.
I've got an Excel spreadsheet, but the manufacturer column isn't filled in for at least a quarter of the cars.
But, I can still make an extimate for my HO railroad. I've got lots of Athearn, Walthers, Accurail and only 1 Atlas, along with a smattering of Intermountain, Bowser and Tichy. There are a lot of old Tyco and Crown cars that I've had since I was a kid, which I've upgraded with Kadees and metal wheels, and trucks where necessary.
I've also got a handful of Milwaukee box cars from Ribside Cars, the company that has a small ad in the back pages of MR every month. Thanks to a conscious effort to acquire Milwaukee rolling stock, that's the single largest road in my inventory. Box cars are the predominant car type, particularly if you lump the ice-bunker reefers in with them. It would appear that my favorite color is "oxide."
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Here is my inventory to date.
Don't tell my girlfriend
Guy
Modeling CNR in the 50's
This is just a SWAG, but mine would be something like this:
Hoppers - 90% BLI, three Bachmann Silver, one something-or-other, probably Walthers.
Pax cars - about 12 Walthers (heavyweights and smooth-side Budds), four Bachmann Spectrum, 3 Rapido.
Assorted box cars, three tank cars, several cabooses, and I would say 80% Walthers Mainline or Atlas.
Very early (much too early), I tried a Proto 2000 single dome tank car kit. What a mistake that was.
-Crandell
Well, I would say Athearn is the clear winner on my layout, but lots of brands, many from decades ago are well represented. With nearly 1000 freight cars, I have never finished any kind of formal inventory but here is a list of brands:
Athearn - kits, BB, yellow box, metal kits, newer RTR
MDC/Roundhouse - mostly all kits, a few new RTR
Silver Streak - wood/metal kits
F&C resin kits
Bowser
Accurail
Walthers - just a few - mostly older 80's/90's stuff
Bachmann - just few - mostly their new piggy back flat
Atlas - just a few
Kadee - 4 or 5 at most
Varney - a fair number of the metal body, plactic floor kits from the late 50's/early 60's.
Proto2000 - mostly kits a few RTR
Branchline - kits, a few passenger cars
Intermountain - a few kits
ConCor - 72' passenger cars - moderately reworked
Tichy
Train Minature
BevBel
This list includes lots of stuff that is built, and a sizeable stock of kits yet to be built.
I know I have missed a few, but his covers most of it.
Sheldon
Like Sheldon, I have a pretty fair representation of older Athearn and Varney metal cars, plus Silver Streak wood and Ulrich metal and pre-Walthers Train Miniature cars. Since I don't really buy by 'brand', but by type and road name of car, it's hard to tell what the majority of my cars would be. I know that within the past ten years or so I've been buying Accurail and Red Caboose/Intermountain fairly heavily, as they tend to fit my layout's 'time frame'. I do have the usual number of Athearn BB and MDC kits. Most of my passenger fleet is from Walthers and MDC save for my "Daylight" equpment, which is from MTH.
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!
BlueBox
Titchy Trains
Walthers/Proto200
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
I have about 50% Showcase from S Helper Service. Also have have Pacific Rail Service, Ambroid, Lehigh Valley Models, Funaro & Carmelengo, Ye Olde Huff n Puff, American Models, Mainline Models, Kinsman, S Scale America, and probably some others.
Enjoy
Paul
Gads! Why did you ask? I knew I had way too many, now I am sure of it. If all the kits were assembled and placed end to end the line would go around the layout room over 3 1/2 times. GADS!!!!! (Only 2 1/4 of the originally planned room, but that layout plan had a penninsula, so less than 1 3/4 times around the edges of the planned benchwork. SIGH! Still too many though.) There are 20 different manufacturers including unknown (mostly Tyco and old Bachmann and Life-Like, I suspect.) Locos mostly Atlas and IHC. As mentioned above, some of the cars in the inventory are old cheapies which will never be used in regular service. The most prevelent were Athearn 16.6%, Bev-Bel (various makes) 14.8%, MDC 12.6%, Proto 1000 & 2000 11.7%.
Just think, I could have been working on the layout room instead of figuring this out. Well, it was interesting to know anyhow.
Thanks for asking.
Have fun,
Richard
Really should try to get rid of some of them, as the smaller layout room will never hold all of them. There are probably some I could sell and use the income to fix up the room and new layout base. (Dreamer, you never sell stuff.)
Accurail - 20%
Athearn BB - 10%
Athearn RTR - 15%
Atlas - 5%
Atlas TM - 10%
MDC - 10%
P2K - 10%
Walthers - 10%
Other (Bachmann, Bowswer, Fox Valley, Spring Mills Depot, ...) - 10%
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
I was actually surprised to find out that most of my freight rolling stock is Proto-2000. I had thought for certain it would have been Athearn BB.
For Passenger rolling stock Walther's wins by a long shot, with Branchline a distant second, and BLI coming in third with three CA Zephyr sets and the Daylight.
I haven't counted them recently but I'd say most of my rolling stock is Athearn or Athearn Gensis, followed by Intermountain, then Walthers, Atlas, MDC, Concor, Accurail and others.
The below numbers are for HO diesels:
Athearn (57)Atlas (21)Proto 2000 (21)Stewart Hobbies (17)Athearn Genesis (14)KATO (7)Walthers (4)
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Westerfield 75%
F and C 5%
Bethlehem Car Works 5%
Quality Craft 5%
Others 10%