My steamer fleet is small
4-4-0
2-6-2
4-6-6-4
4-6-2
and a brass 2-10-10-2
Althought I model the late 1990s, I got a couple of steamers that I can use as excursion power and such...
...Alright I got em because I thought they were absolutely beautiful and wanted some steam to play with haha.
My Roster:
Bachman Spectrum 4-8-2 USRA Heavy Mountain (undec)
Marklin Trix 2-8-2 USRA Light Mikado (NYC)
Both run great but the Marklin blows me away with it's smoothness, detail and pulling power.
Cheers!
~METRO
Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale
I model the Boston & Maine.
Here is my Steam Roster......
0-6-0 (2) P2K Custom decaled for B&M
0-8-0 (1) P2K Custom decaled for B&M
2-6-0 (2) PFM Brass B-15
2-8-0 (2) Bachmann Spectrum
2-8-0 (1) Sunset Brass K-8
2-8-0 (1) Sunset Brass K-8a
4-6-2 (1) Sunset Brass USRA Light Pacific
2-8-4 (1) Westside Models Brass Berk
2-10-2 (1) IHC Premier
4-8-2 (2) Olympic Brass Heavy Mountain R1d
My steamer roster is small, as well:
NYC
Erie
All my steamers are top-notch runners - especially the 0-8-0 and the 2-8-2 Trix. I'm also looking forward to increasing my NYC roster by adding a BLI 4-8-2 Mohawk at a future date.
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Chuck, being sort of new I never heard of a 2-10-10-2? Could you post a PIC of it?
Steamers that cause the lest problems are Bachmann GS-4's 4-8-4, no sound and DC only. One is a Daylight and other is a War Baby.
Best puller is my Class J 611 4-8-4 BLI with QSI sound.
Engine I like the best is a M1a 4-8-2 BLI with QSI.
Then there is the Hudson 4-6-4 BLI with QSI, it has issues. Sometime's it stick to the rails fine other times it derails if I look at it.
Next is my Monon Heavy Mike 2-8-2 #578 BLI with QSI. With small tender sound is a little weak and cannot pull like the other BLI's but I like Monon so it gets track time.
Finaly My Big Boy 4-8-8-4 #4009, should be my favorite and see's a lot of track time but it has many faults. It is a Genesis with a MRC decoder, decoder has not died yet but has quricks. Sound turns it self off, changes whistles at will. But what I hate the most is the tender strings (tips) on a 18" turn with a modest load. I am talking 9 easy rolling rolling stock! I am sure the Class J will pull it around the bench.
Got my first steamer DEC 7th 2006, first BLI DEC 15th 2006.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
I have a few steamers allso
#1-mantuia 2-6-6-2 W/tender (favorite)Have added a few extrias to it.
#2- Two round house shays Bulit from kits and updated with extria power pickups an can motors W/fly wheels.They run slow and good like the real ones.
#3-one rivarossi 4-8-8-2 big boy good engine.
#4-mantuia 2-8-2 the well detailed one a good runner
#5-I can't remember the name but vary genaric W/old sound trax sound systeam its ok.
#6-an bachman 2-8-2 N-scale runs great.
#7 last but not least-0-4-0 switcher mixed parts good detail and runs great.
JIM
1 PCM Big Boy (4023)
1 Athearn Challenger (3964)
I know, big collection!! I also plan to buy athearn's FEF when they come out(Please be gray/white, not gray/yellow)
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
What the heck...
NYNH&H:
I-4f 4-6-2 NJ/Custom Brass (custom painted by Pen & Paint, Inc., DCC installed by me)I-5 4-6-4 NJ/Custom Brass (custom painted by Pen & Paint, Inc., DCC installed by me)K-1d 2-6-0 New England Rail Service (custom painted by me)L-1a 2-10-2 NJ/Custom Brass (custom painted by Pen & Paint, Inc., DCC installed by me)R-1 4-8-2 Bachmann Spectrum (factory paint, DCC installed by me)R-3a 4-8-2 NJ/Custom Brass (custom painted by previous unknown owner, DCC installed by me)Y-3 0-8-0 W&R Imports (factory paint, DCC installed by me)Y-3 0-8-0 Life-Like Proto 2000 (factory paint)
Paul A. Cutler III************Weather Or No Go New Haven************
Roundhouse RTR 4-4-0 It only knows how to take off and run at 30 mph with 5 pax cars. It does not switch well and sometimes trips on a switch frog. It's a keeper but I wont be buying any more of that crappy MRC stuff.
BLI
2-8-2 first run Heavy Mike Onery critter going through it's third annual oil/lube/filter. It is facing a left side rod or gear tower bind that is giving it a waddle.
2-10-4 J1 Class PRR A queen who cannot abide 24" radius track. It needs to be fed 32" to run well. The thing looms over the coaling tower making it look puny. I actually had to ditch that old AHM tower because the frigging tender is BIGGER than it. Ditto for the Duplex.
PRR Duplex 4-4-4-4 T1 Woe onto the Track that has a flaw in it. Either that or I need new glasses. Maybe that is what the problem is. The roundhouse I own cannot contain this rammer who only wants to take 100 cars to 120+ mph. None of that 20 mph stuff. I have to weigh it down with 12 Heavyweight pullmans and a hatful of head end cars to beat it down to a compliant engine.
Sadly it sits in a box waiting for the day I take it to the club. The home Im in is just too small for this engine. But I LOVE it! LOL.
Reading PCM T1 4-8-4 Workhorse. Reliable and a favorite. Maybe two will be good now that prices have come down.
QSI Proto 2-10-2 heavy Smooth operator. None of my engines in the past or in the future will ever start moving on one "Click" of my DT400 throttle.
QSI Proto Y3 2-8-8-2 Light on pulling, good for helper service which really is too bad for such a nice engine. But it's good manners allow it to be a keeper.
BLI M1a 4-8-2 Wheels run off, pulls like a draft horse uphill. It aint happy going downhill. Figure that one out.
I had a bunch of others but they got resold on Ebay to good homes. I know I forgot an engine or two somewhere in the stack of boxes.
I have about 3 more steamers planned plus two desiel orders pending for the next 24 months. Some of which I have waited on since they were announced TWO FREAKING YEARS AGO.
I have a few... All NYC except for one
Mantua:
Bachmann 4-8-4
Athearn 2-8-2
Mehano 2-6-0
-Dan
Builder of Bowser steam! Railimages Site
Hoo boy; where to start? I think I'll list them by model type, rather than by type AND road name (most of the stuff is either NKP, IC, P&E or undec anyway!)
Bachmann Spectrum 2-8-0 x4
Bachmann Spectrum 0-6-0T x1
Bachmann Spectrum USRA heavy 4-8-2 x2
Bachmann Spectrum USRA light 2-10-2 x1
Bachmann Spectrum 2-10-0 x1
Bowser H-10 2-8-0 x1
Bowser USRA heavy 2-10-2 x2
Bowser USRA light 2-8-2 x1
Bowser K-11 4-6-2 x1
Athearn USRA light 2-8-2 x8
BLI USRA light 2-8-2 x3
BLI USRA heavy 2-8-2 x2
P2K USRA 0-6-0 x2
P2K USRA 0-8-0 x4
P2K 2-8-4 x7
Mantua 2-8-2 x8
Mantua 4-6-2 x4
Mantua 0-8-0 x1
Mantua 4-6-0 x1
MDC 0-6-0 x2
MDC 2-8-0 x2
MDC 4-6-0 x1
MDC 2-6-0 x1
MDC 4-4-2 x1
IHC 2-8-0 x2
IHC 4-8-2 x1
Brass USRA light 2-8-2 x3
Brass H-5 2-8-2 x2
Brass B-11 0-6-0 x1
Brass K-1 4-6-4 x1
That's "only" 71 engines. I think I missed a couple someplace...
Oh; I own five diesels (44 tonner, PA-1, RS-1, F3x2)
Ray Breyer
Modeling the NKP's Peoria Division, circa 1943
cudaken wrote:I never heard of a 2-10-10-2? Could you post a PIC of it?
Here is a photo from Wikapedia:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8d/ATSF_3000.jpg/300px-ATSF_3000.jpg
They were such poor performers Santa Fe wouldn't have anything to do with an articulated unit from then on. Notice there are no Santa Fe Yellowstones, Challengers, or Big Boys.
unionpacificchuck wrote:My steamer fleet is small....2-10-10-2
cudaken wrote: Chuck, being sort of new I never heard of a 2-10-10-2? Could you post a PIC of it?
Here is a photo of a brass 2-10-10-2 from Ebay:
I have this feeling that unionpacificnut, unionpacificchuck (from this forum)
and HOplasserem80c , slowturtle from (Bachmann forum) are all the same guy.
Anyone else think so?
Is he on any other forums?
My fleet mainly consists of my Dads
AHM 4-4-0 Virginia & Truckee Reno
Rivarossi 0-4-0 w/tender Baltimore & Ohio
Mantua 0-6-0 w/tender undec
Roundhouse 0-6-0 w/tender Southern Pacific
IHC 4-6-2 Canadian Pacific
IHC 2-10-2 CN
Brought to you by the letters C.P.R. as well as D&H!
K1a - all the way
Not as big as I'd like it to be but it's growing.....
HO scale:
P2K Heritage Pere Marquette 2-8-4 Berkshire #1236 (soon to have Tsunami sound)
Rivarossi/Walthers Union Pacific FEF-3 #844
Spectrum Light 4-8-2 Union Pacific #7007
Spectrum 2-8-0 Union Pacific #721
Bachmann Southern Pacific GS4 Daylight #4449
Bachmann Union Pacific FEF-1 #808 (in pieces)
Bachmann Pennsylvania 2-10-4 (non operating)
My are all SRR or my shortline, Alabama Central.
Bachmann 4-6-0 (SRR)
Bachmann 2-8-0 (SRR)
Akane 2-10-2 (SRR)
Key 2-10-2 (SRR)
PFM 4-6-0 (SRR)
PFM 4-6-2 (SRR)
PFM 2-8-2 (2 SRR)
OI 2-8-8-2 (AC)
Akane 2-6-6-6 (AC)
Westside 0-6-0 (AC)
MDC 4-6-0 (2, AC)
Bowser 4-6-2 (AC)
Bowser 2-8-2 (SRR)
OMI 2-8-0 (SRR)
There are probably a few others that I forgot as some are getting rebuilt or haven't been built yet. The list is of the ones track ready.
Carey
Keep it between the Rails
Alabama Central Homepage
Nara member #128
NMRA &SER Life member
msowsun wrote: Here is a photo of a brass 2-10-10-2 from Ebay:I have this feeling that unionpacificnut, unionpacificchuck (from this forum)and HOplasserem80c , slowturtle from (Bachmann forum) are all the same guy.Anyone else think so?Is he on any other forums?
PRR J1 2-10-4 (BLI)
PRR K4s 4-6-2 (BLI)
PRR T1 4-4-4-4 (BLI)
NYC J1d 4-6-4 (BLI)
NYC S1b 4-8-4 (BLI)
NYC (OMG, I don't know!) 2-8-2 (Trix)
Undec USRA 0-6-0 (P2K)
WP&Y RR 2-8-2 (IHC)
UP 4-6-6-4 (Lionel)
I'm about 95% steam, mostly Rio Grande and Southern Pacific. Mostly brass. Too many to list without hogging space, but the wheel arrangements run the gamut from 2-8-0's clear up to 4-8-8-2 and 2-8-8-4's. I'd say the biggest number of a particular wheel arrangement I have are 4-8-2's--6 in Rio Grande and 5 in SP.
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!
Hoople wrote: msowsun wrote: Here is a photo of a brass 2-10-10-2 from Ebay:I have this feeling that unionpacificnut, unionpacificchuck (from this forum)and HOplasserem80c , slowturtle from (Bachmann forum) are all the same guy.Anyone else think so?Is he on any other forums?Not sure about slowturtle, but the other three are the same guy. I know this because he PM me about them.
Yep, unionpacifichuck is the same guy as our good ole friend unionpacificnut.
My stable is reduced quite a bit from what it once was.
N&W plus 5 Aux. tenders.
VGN plus 3 Aux. Tenders
Mantua 2-8-2
Bach 0-6-0
Bach 4-4-0
Tyco 0-8-0
I model semi modern