How many engines and cars do you have?

[Anonymous]

157 locomotives and about 400 freight cars. more than enough but I love them all.

[PennsyHoosier]

Lots and lots...

[hdtvnut]

We sure love to have a chance to list our stuff, no?

75 steam engines; 20 with sound, 38 brass
42 diesels, seven with sound
2 electric
430 freight cars, about 60% with KD's and metal wheels, and climbing
116 passenger cars, incl. two sets brass; CZ 11-car set

Hal

[Anonymous]

22 engines, and somewhere around 60 cars :-)

[fwright]

I'm with Chinatown. More than I need or could possibly ever use despite the CINC Home's best efforts. Problem is that I have too much trouble deciding what to get rid of.

Fred W
where it's always 1900 if foggy coastal Oregon

[Anonymous]

If you can count them, you don't have enough.

[Tom Curtin]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 4884bigboy

21 Locomotives: 5 steam, 16 diesels, 45 freight cars, 8 passenger cars and 10 cabooses. And no real layout to run them on.........sigh........

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If I may ask, how do you do those broadside pictures of equipment on your posts? I see various posters are doing that

[Anonymous]

3 Electric 40 ton to Little Joe
4 steam 2-8-0 and 2-8-2
2 Desiel

50 + cars and climbing. Real easy to get a high rolling stock to engine ration when the only engines for your RR are in brass and too expensive to consider.

[0-6-0]

25 engines 9 steam 16 desiel 80+misc cars

[bnnrailroad]

Tom Curtain,

I have a Kodak Easy Share digital camera. I took the picure, uploaded it to my PC, posted it to my webpage and linked it in my signature.

Basically, that how the broadside of the Boeville & Newtown PA-1 ends up down in my signature.

[GAPPLEG]

More than enough, and not enough. [(-D]

[CNJ831]

At least 100 locomotives...God knows how much rolling stock! But that's been collected over pretty much a lifetime.

CNJ831

[BigBlueConrail]

I have 8 active engines. 4 with sound. Also I have mabe 30 cars of which 6 are passenger.

[Anonymous]

Probably about 140 locomotives (a number of gauges - N, OO, HO, 009, OOn3, 0-16.5, On30) but I am also thining out my collection, so probably be reduced down to about 100.

Rolling Stock - not sure - but way too much, especially seeing as I do not have a layout. And I have not even taken into account all the unfinished kits! Will probably thin a lot of the older items out and purchase some newer locos & rolling stock, a PCM GS-4 and rake of SP daylight cars is a definate must!

Regards,

Stephen.

[CMSTPP]

20 good running locomotives such as Atlas and Kato. 10 to 15 locomotives that don't even run or don't even bother with, such as old Athearn.
80 or so railcars running on my layout.
Working on a heavy weight passenger train. 5 or 6 passenger cars at the moment.
James

[Anonymous]

I just joined this site today; l have about 300 HO cars (freight and passenger), 80 dummy engines, 4-5 powered engines that l bought from a guy in Florida in 1982. Only once was a small layout set up, but l am retired now and thinking about moving back to central Florida and making a layout with some of this 'stuff'.

l have a question: if l buy a place with an outside storage room (say 8' by 10') would the Florida humidity corrode/damage the tracks and engines, etc ? l figure an 8 by 10 level area with a 3' by 4' cutout should hold a nice size layout, but l hate to build it if the un-airconditioned space would ruin it.

l do have something strange in my trains - a complete, boxed French made Amtrac train, by Josef or somebody. l have been to 2-3 train shows and never saw anything like it there.

WTNW
Memphis

[fwright]

WTNW

My recommendation would be to build the outside storage room into something as close to habitable space as you can. If it is just a dirt floor, outbuilding you are going to have insects, varmints, dust, dirt, dampness, heat, and very occasionally cold. In short, you are not going to want to spend time there even if the trains didn't suffer. If you use wood for the benchwork, it will swell and shrink with changing humidity. Anything steel is likely to rust, and everything will get dirty and dusty.

The more pleasant the layout space is for you, and the cleaner it stays without significant effort from you, the more you are going to use your trains.

Recommendations:

- floor. Must have a concrete floor with padded floor on top. Bare concrete needs to be sealed for dust.

- structure. All joints, such as walls to foundation must be sealed. Drainage around foundation, including gutters and downspouts, must be adequate to prevent flooding during torrential downpours (common in Florida). Extended roof overhang and/or gutters highly recommended. Window frames must be sealed and screens installed. Roof and foundation vents must be screened.

- interior. Must have separate ceiling besides roof. Some insulation in walls and above ceiling required, more is better. Walls should have dry wall or similar. Air conditioning (window unit is fine) is strongly recommended for comfort and humidity control; dehumidifier is a minimum.

Again, both you and your model trains do much better in a comfortable environment. Ask those who have layouts in unfinished garages in Texas and Arizona. It's much easier to improve habitability before the layout goes in rather than after.

model railroading should be fun
Fred W

[Anonymous]

Well Thanks FredW; actually it will be on the carport slab under the carport roof, with a good breeze thru the breezeway. Will check out the dehumidifier for sure and a small fan to circulate air..
WTNW

[rrgrassi]

16 locos, all powered, 14 passenger cars, 100 freight cars, steam, transition and modern era. Locomotives mix of steam, 1st & 2nd gen diesel, and modern day diesel. Now if I only had a place to run them...

[Anonymous]

Way to many, but not enough. Realistically, about seventy engines, two hundred, freight cars and close to one hundred passenger cars.

[Walter Clot]

I have about 50 locos, 250-300 freight cars and about 30 passenger cars.

[Anonymous]

14 Locomotives here.

[james saunders]

10 Locos and 35 Freight cars + one Caboose

-James-

[dxr8007nz]

HO Scale 2x GP38-2 , 1x GP40-2 , GP60, GP50 , FP45 and around 10 or 15 freight , 3 passenger

N Scale 1x GP38-2 , GP50 , GP7 and 10 freight , 1 cabooses

[dxr8007nz]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Jeffrey Bever

157 locomotives and about 400 freight cars. more than enough but I love them all.

wow look cool

[Anonymous]

O scale : 3 - locos 7 -cars

HO scale : 8 - locos 35 cars

[Anonymous]

Well on my vast layout of 3.5' x5' I have 6 engines, 2 w sound. about 25 freight cars. 2 passenger cars.

[Anonymous]

As of now, 145 locomotives, over 950 freight cars, 105 cabooses, 39 passenger cars. More than I need less than I want.[:D]

[rayw46]

It seems that most model railroaders, at least the ones who responded, have a disportionate number of locomotives to rolling stock. But hey, locomotives have a personality and they're more fun.

[icmr]

Now I have 5 engines and over 80 cars.



Victor

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