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How many engines and cars do you have?

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Posted by DSchmitt on Sunday, July 17, 2005 2:13 PM
Many more than I need

N Scale: 120+ locomotives, 1500+ freight cars, 40+ passenger cars

O scale 2 rail: 4 diesel switches, 1 steeplecab electric, 60+ freight cars

On30: 5 steam locos, 40+ cars, 1 trolley

I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.

I don't have a leg to stand on.

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Posted by ATSFCLIFF on Sunday, July 17, 2005 8:51 PM
I have 110 engines and around 290+ freight cars plus 4 sets of passenger cars. Still waiting for the Athearn SD70M's and the Kato F40PH's.

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Posted by ChessieFan13 on Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:29 PM
Wow youse guys have a lot of stuff.............[bow][bow][bow] Our roster contains :
p2k sd50
ll gp38
bachman u boat
gp7 dummy
35 assorted rolling stock
5 caboosi
2 passenger cars
Not realy a whole lot......Im wanting to increase the engine roster with three gp7s and a bunch more hoppers..we like coal round here
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Posted by Texas Zepher on Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:39 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by IRONROOSTER
In Sn2 I have 4 steam loco kits (MDC HOn3 kits to be converted to Sn2), 1 steam loco RTR. I have 5 cars - 4 kits, 1 RTR.

That is an interesting size that I've never heard of anyone modeling before. Any particular reason you choose it? Just a natural extention of a normal S-scale layout or something?
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Posted by Texas Zepher on Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:46 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by twhite
As to passenger cars, I have enough to make up the following trains:
...The Prospector

Which era of the Prospector? My previous dining room was done in Prospector dining car decor. I picked up the reproduction china really cheap. Unfortunately when we moved there was no way to make the dining room look like a train car.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 17, 2005 10:04 PM
132 locomotives, over 800 freight cars, 61 cabooses, and 32 passenger cars.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 17, 2005 10:06 PM
50+ locomotives and 90+ rolling stock. 29 superliner passenger cars, 5 of these concor and the rest kato. By now you should realise that I'm talking N scale, forgive me the HO stuff are also numerous I haven't make an inventory yet.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 17, 2005 10:10 PM
I have ho scale locos
2 sd90/43 macs up
2 gp30's santa fe
2 gp20's santa fe
1 gp60 santa fe
1 c32-8 custom built conrail
1 sd40t-2 custom union pacific
1 sd40 custom kato hlcx
i have 156 freight cars
all are hoppers 32 open hoppers with gravel loads
50 trinity 2-bays covered hoppers
the rest are grain hoppers
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Posted by jimrice4449 on Monday, July 18, 2005 12:17 AM
I'd have to log off & check my files for the exact no. on cars but it's better than 520 frt and better than 220 psgr. All actually in service and on the RR not counting projects in process.
twhite seems to be as much a psgr freak as I am. W/O going out and listing them I've got somewhere in the nieghborhood of 2 dozen psgr trains w/ prototypically correct consists ranging from a 4 car Pioneer Zephyr to a 17 car 1955 GN Empire Builder. I'm kind of heavy on Zephyrs and Hiawathas, 7 Zephyrs and 4 Hiawathas w/ 2 more "in process".
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Posted by orsonroy on Monday, July 18, 2005 8:12 AM
WAAAYYYY too many!

In the keep pile, I've got something like 50 engines and 400 cars.
In the sell pile, I've got another 20-30 engines and 200 cars.

Last year, I sold off almost 50 engines and 400 cars!

But I'm in the process of upgrading my rolling stock and purging/replacing my engines, to create as prototypically correct a roster as I can. With onboard sound biting my wallet hard, a lot of the engines I've got in the keep pile will be going bye-bye.

Ray Breyer

Modeling the NKP's Peoria Division, circa 1943

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Posted by oleirish on Monday, July 18, 2005 9:12 AM
I have three steam and nine diesels
2 shays and one saddle tank switcher
3 EMD NW-2's KATOs
F7A&F7B BB (both powred)
2 GP38's BB
1 sw1500 BB
1SW7cow BB
4 Passanger cars.( these cars have been re-trucked and steel wheels)
26 fright cars most have steel wheels all have kedee's.
8 more cars comming????
It is taken some time to get all fright cars RE-Wheeled,I sure glad I don't have a lot of fright cars "WHEW"

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 18, 2005 10:04 AM
65 diesel locos, mostly plastic, some brass
3 steam locos, 1 brass, 2 plastic
252 freight cars, about half are metal, some brass, some plastic
58 passenger cars, metal, brass, plastic
13 express reefers
8 caboose
Adding to the collection all the time. I keep a roster on the computer so I can keep track. The whole collection models the 50's or earlier and most rolling stock was made in the 40's 50's and 60's.
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Posted by Ibflattop on Monday, July 18, 2005 10:22 AM
Orsonroy, let me at your sales pile!!!!!!!!! :-) Kevin
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Posted by Pruitt on Monday, July 18, 2005 10:24 AM
Not nearly enough, even if you include all the kits still on shelves in my basement!
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Posted by UPFEF on Monday, July 18, 2005 11:54 AM
How many do I have, Way to many.
3 OMI Veranda turbines
2 Key imports bigboys
2 Trix bigboys
4 Rivarossi bigboys
1 Key challenger
2 Lionel Challengers
4 Genesis Challengers
4 Rivarossi Challenger
1 OMI mountain
1 BLI mountain
3 OMI FEF
3 Rivarossi FEF
1 BLI Hudson converted to UP
1 BLI T1
2 Heritage 2-8-8-0
15 Other misc steam
34 Misc Transition Diesels
300 Misc freight
27 OMI Cabeese
20 Custom painted plastic Cabeese
75 passsenger cars
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Posted by TrainFreak409 on Monday, July 18, 2005 12:47 PM
In HO, I think I have about 14 locomotives, and almost 30 cars. And in N scale, I think I have about 9 locomotives, and the same amount of cars.

Not much, I know...

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Posted by cheese3 on Monday, July 18, 2005 2:26 PM
In HO 15 locos and around 20 cars

In N 1loco and 10 cars

In O 5 locos and 15 cars

In G 2 locos and 5 cars

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Posted by ksax73 on Monday, July 18, 2005 7:39 PM
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Posted by AggroJones on Monday, July 18, 2005 7:51 PM
A lot.

"Being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses"

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 18, 2005 8:04 PM
I have a UP 4-6-4 hudson, and a UP Alco FA, 20 freight cars and 3 passenger cars.
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Posted by railroadyoshi on Monday, July 18, 2005 8:45 PM
i have 5 locos
20 freight cars, and 5 passenger cars

the only reason i could afford them at my age is that half of them are used
plus, many of my frieght cars are BB
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Posted by jbaakko on Monday, July 18, 2005 9:12 PM
40 Locomotives, and 100+ cars right now.
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Posted by Texas Zepher on Monday, July 18, 2005 11:42 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by grandpacoyote
1 Engine, 1 dummy and 8 passanger cars.

Wait a minute. I thought the Super Chief set locomotives came with either two powered or two dummy. I know all my sets did. How did you get a set with one of each?
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Posted by sebamat on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 7:23 AM

With 25y modelling, good salary and no obligation until next december I cumulated way too much trains, in several 'collections', but it would be unfair to the teenagers here in the forum to brag on what i have.... I too started with some tracks on the floor and a very cheap engine that barely ran... and I had to painfully (no ice cream!!) spare all the poket money to buy the next car.
IC steam:
4 mountains (2x IHC, 2x Bachmann)
1 Mike PRR (athearn), run bad
3 consolidation (2x IHC, 1x Bachmann to reletter)
2 Mogul IHC
2 Atlantic IHC
1 Mogul Model Power
3 wild west 4-4-0 bachmann
1 0-6-0 NYC bachmann
1 Baldwin 4-6-0 bachmann

ca 60 more or less fitting freight cars, 20 of them coal hoppers
ca 20 passenger (all Bev-bel/athearn or MDC roundhouse)

Beside that I have a nice collection of european trains (mostly swiss, and some french)

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 8:40 AM
For locomotives (all in HO scale):

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific (37 total)

(Note: those are ROAD NUMBERS after the engine type, not numbers of LOCOs !!!)

2-8-0 2008 (Bachmann)
2-8-2 2710 (Athearn Genesis)

BL2: 425 (P2K)

DL107: 623 (P1K)

Doodlebug 9090 (Bachmann)

E6A: 628, 629 (P2K)
E8A: 654 (P2K)

F7A: 109, 115 (Stewart)
F7B: 109 (Stewart)

GP7: 1297 (P2K), 4434, 4446 (Atlas Classic)
GP9: 1313, 1321 (P2K), 4424 (Athearn custom)
GP18: 1346 (P2K)
GP35: 317, 325 (Athearn custom)
GP38-2: 4300 (P2K), 4310 (Athearn), 4379 (P2K)
GP40: 385 (Atlas Master)
GP40-2: 3004 (Athearn custom)

H15-44: 401 (Atlas Master)

RDC-3 9002 (P1K)

RS-1: 747 (Atlas Classic)
RS-3: 473, 497 (Atlas Classic)

S1: 599 (Atlas Classic)

S8: 802 (Stewart)

SD40-2: 4793 (Athearn)

SW9: 778 (P2K)
SW1500: 947 (Athearn)

U25B: 201 (Stewart)
U33B 285 (Athearn custom)
U30C 4594 (Atlas Master)


AMTRAK (3 total)

F40PH 300 (Walthers)
P40 818, 820 (Athearn)


BN/SF (3 total)

GP38 BN 2175 (Atlas Master)
Dash 8-40B SF – BNSF patch 8615 (Atlas Master)
Dash 8-40BW SF (Atlas Master Silver)


I & M Rail Link (4 total)

GP7 101 (Atlas custom)
F45 393 (Athearn custom)
SD40 202, 210 (Kato)


Iowa Interstate (2 total)

GP10 (Kaslo)
GP38 604 (Atlas Master custom)


Union Pacific (1, and that's all folks!)

SD70M 9900 (Athearn Genesis)


TOTAL LOCOS: 51

The only other locos I need (want?) are a couple of QUALITY RI SD40-2 s (which the BLI, Kato and Athearns are NOT), and two Atlas Master IAIS GP38s (when they get a round tuit).

I'm not sure about rolling stock - probably ~ 100.
But like the locos, I have most of what I NEED.
Just some more Atlas corn syrup cars and a few others I WANT .....

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Posted by johncolley on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:17 AM
My 14 car Empire Builder is pulled by a pair of BLI E-7's. and my 65+ car freight is pulled by Stewart FT's-3 powered ABA plus a second B that is dummy but full of sound with 2 woofers and a tweeter. I have on order a BLI NW2 switcher for the west end of the yard and will get another next year when I do the east end. I also have 2 LL GP7's that I will convert to DCC and sound next year. I am doing '47 to '50 Great Northern in the Cascades on Free-mo modules.
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Posted by Berk-fan284 on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:53 AM
Hi my name is Berk-fan284 and I have a problem...Oops this isn't locomotives annonymous- just kidding! Due to ebay and the LHS about 65 locos ( 14 used and abused brass steam engines, 22 plastic and diecast steam engines, the rest are four and six axle diesals) and about 150+ cars (roughly 48 coal cars,7 gondolas,4 flat cars, 7 tank cars, 2-5 unit double stack cars, the rest are 40ft box cars) this is the current estimate because I think it's got to the point that cell division is happening now.
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Posted by icmr on Sunday, July 24, 2005 11:10 PM
Right now I have 1 Athearn Genesis SD70 ILLINOIS CENTRAL #1006,
30 freight cars, and three cabooses. Not alot but I only have an 8'x16' layout.

note all is HO scale
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Posted by loathar on Monday, July 25, 2005 1:14 AM
8 locos (3 steam, 5 deisel) 40 cars, oooops, two 22,000 gallon tankers plunged 5ft. to their deaths today, uhh, 38 cars. (revised estimate[:(])
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 25, 2005 4:49 AM
I honestly don't know.
It's been a while since I counted them all.
I guess it's time to take inventory.

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