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How many locos and cars do you have

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 3, 2005 5:32 PM
I have enough I think, except.....I would like to find a poultry car and a wagon top B&O caboose or boxcar in HO.
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Posted by PistolPete on Monday, January 3, 2005 5:21 PM
2 steam currently not in use
13 diseal
100 cars
8 cabooses
5 MOW
5 passenger
about 10 kits not assembled
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Posted by jimrice4449 on Monday, January 3, 2005 4:51 PM
One of the reasons I got this computer was so that I would have a means ready to hand to be able to answer this kind of question. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to enter my engines into the file but off the top of my head I would guess about 2 or 3 dozen ranging from combination eng/baggage cars on my Pioneer and 1935 Twin Zephyrs through 4 unit frt diesels and a Big Boy . One of these days I'll get them listed. Soon. Really.
The cars I;ve got listed (all neatly by prototype for psgr and by car type for frt.) I have 204 psgr cars, about 60/40 plastic/brass, mostly assembled into specific trains. Given the exhorbitant price brass now goes for and the superb quality of Branchline's Pullmans and Walthers' light wieghts I suspect all future psgr aquisitions will be plastic. I have 515 frt cars including cabooses. These numbers are for cars actually built and on the RR. I've got a bunch of kits in both psgr and frt that I'll adding to the RR. Soon. Really.
You probably wonder where I put them all. My RR is almost all terminal/yard operation on two levels (psgr on top frt on the lower) and operation is out and back. My lower level frt "main line" is a 38' loop with a couple of staging tracks running off of it. Talk about the tail wagging the dog
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Posted by mustanggt on Monday, January 3, 2005 4:40 PM
25 HO engines
3 N scale engines
40-45 HO freight cars
20-30 N scale freight cars
10 HO passenger cars
1 HO boeing LRV trolley
4 HO NY subway cars
1 4 car acela train
Several toy HO lfelike, tyco, crap, How do I get rid of them?[;)]
1Lego engine, 5 lego cars
C280 rollin'
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Posted by orsonroy on Monday, January 3, 2005 4:26 PM
75 steam engines
12 diesels
20 or so passenger cars
70 cabooses
15 MOW
700+ freight cars

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Monday, January 3, 2005 4:12 PM
Hogwarts Express
4-8-4

2 passenger
9 Frieght

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 3, 2005 4:12 PM
15 locomotives which includes 3 steam 4-6-2s
106 freight cars
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 3, 2005 3:58 PM
50 Diesel Engines
8 Steam Engines
150 Freight Cars
50 Passenger Cars

I use to have 60 Diesels, 20 Steam, 325 freight cars & 35 passenger cars. Have sold off quite a few in the past 2 years.
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Posted by Supermicha on Monday, January 3, 2005 3:56 PM
40+ engines, 20+ passanger cars and 5 freight cars...
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Posted by tstage on Monday, January 3, 2005 3:41 PM
1 2-8-2 Mikado (NYC)
1 ALCO S1 switcher (NYC)

9 hoppers (1 covered)
6 box cars
3 tankers
2 gondolas
2 reefers
2 cabeese
1 stock car
1 gondola/flat car
1 25-ton crane

I don't really want a very big roster. More you have; more you have to maintain.

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Posted by twhite on Monday, January 3, 2005 3:24 PM
Well, let's just say I've been an active model railroader since Athearn and MDC freight car kits were metal, and there were companies around like Ulrich, Varney and Silver Streak. As to locomotives, I bought my first brass loco in 1960 (still have it). I've got about 35 brass locos, 8 or 9 BLI's, some Rivarossi's, a couple of Genesis, and some older MDC, all steamers, of course. As to freight cars--I've lost count (mostly reefers), but I have enough passenger equipment to run the Shasta Daylight, the Cascade, a made-up Rio Grande streamliner called the Prospector (not the original overnight one), the Royal Gorge and now I'm working on the Exposition Flyer. Let's put it this way, my next project is an 8 track holding yard on the other side of the garage, and that will probably only take care of my reefers! 'Nough said.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 3, 2005 3:15 PM
Too Many! [;)]

I have 15 to 20 engines in HO, 4 in N. As for freight cars, I have about 15 in N, and about 30 to 45 in HO.
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How many locos and cars do you have
Posted by JeremyB on Monday, January 3, 2005 3:00 PM
Hey guys

I know this has been posted a thousand times before but since there are some new members over the holidays I was wondering how many locos do you have in your collection. For me I only have 12 locos and 112 freight cars. I only have a 4X8 layout too.

Interested to hear your thoughts

Jeremy

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