In the post about favorite postwar items, OGAGE mentioned he had about 13 3659/3559 log cars.
I have 7 of the 6025 single dome black tank cars, 7 of the 6457 SP type cabooses and 14 of the short NYC box cars. I do have other rolling stock but these are the ones in “excess”.
I think these older and shorter cars look good in multiples in a consist when behind a 2037 or 2026 size engine. The smaller cars make the layout look bigger.
Anyway, am I weird for having so many of one type? Anybody else have a similar passion?
Not weird at all! I think most folks tend to have favorites among different kind of cars. I love cabooses of all types and tend to have an overabundance compared to other types of cars. Like you, I favor the smaller cars for the same reasons you gave.
It’s not odd, it looks really nice to have a complete train of black dome tank cars and a lot of the same cabooses look terrific on a siding near a big switchyard. In reality the railwaý’s also don’t have only one domecar or one caboose… It would be an odd sight when 2 trains needed the same caboose…
Yep, i also have 13 or 14 2454 size boxcars, a bunch of 2555 tankcars and 8 224E’s, I’m sick alright. A couple of years ago I wanted adiecast 2224w tender and focused on them, next thing you know i have 7 or 8 of themw ith engines and cars to boot. Some are excellent and some were basket cases. I can’t seem to help myself, what should I do!!! Let me get out of here and go waste some money on my other hobby passion, old 911’s… hehehehe
I can’t think of the car number right off hand, but I have three Sunoco tanks cars, two double domed and one triple domed and plan to get more of the same for a longer train of the same thing. Something comforting, perhaps soothing about the same cars in a line to me and probably appeals to my over active sense of order. Certainly not weird to want the same in a train!!
I’ve got 14 Sunoco tank cars, 15 NYC gondolas, and 20 Lehigh Valley hopper cars. I do consider myself odd. Except for the girl’s-train hopper, at least they were cheap.
Fear not! Just when you thought you had the most of one single type of car, you’ll discover someone who has more! Your not weird in my book. The more the merrier!
Happy trains!
Rich, I think you’re more ‘normal’ than you realize. [:)]
My collection is PRR by Lionel, 1946 to the present. As such I have all the GG1s, four variations of the 2028, several similar but different Turbines and K5s, Scout type boxcars and a myriad of PRR cabooses, among others.
Similar but different PRR passenger cars are a whole new ballgame.
Enjoy!
It used to be that Lionel Lines exceeded the PRR in Lionel roadname quantity and diversity - but now I think PRR is the clear winner.
Not wierd. Got 25 hoppers cars full of coal. Right now, 15 behind NS diesels trying to look like James Reilly’s black diamond frieght. 10 CN covered hopper cars. Lots fo rolling stock [box cars, TTX trailer train with trailers, husky stacks] that I can not get it all on the bedroom floor. Now I need to get tank cars. Got only 4.
Youve got the right idea, you can never have enough of those classic postwar freight cars. My favorite are the single and double dome tank cars which look great in a consist.
And remember the long wait on Granby Street at Wards Corner for the extra long Virginian coal trains headed towards Lamberts Point? If you had to go to the restroom it seemed like forever [:D]
My Father in Law used to say it would be terrible to be caught there and having a heart attack. Turns out at a later date he was having a heart attack and had to wait. [:(]
It seems quite a few of us are odd. Just can’t get enough of those postwar cars. Of course, no one here has posted that they have 20 of anything that isn’t quite common. (read: cheap) They’re a quick, easy, and cheap way to make a unit train, be it hoppers, tanks, or gondolas. Here’s my duplicates list:
I have a dozen or so 6462 gondolas. (and 6062, 6162). I run these quite a bit, as gondola trains are very common this close to the steel mills.
I’ve also got a thing for the short cattle cars (operating and not), but that’s a fairly new one for me, I have three operating and two not.
I really like the 6014 boxcars too, but I don’t think I have any duplicates. I have around 10 of them though. This makes for a fun train to run with a 2016, 2018, 2026, or 2037 pulling them, with an SP caboose bringing up the rear.
I’d imagine anyone who runs postwar Lionel has more SP type cabeese than they possibly could use, myself being no exception. At the modular club I belonged to, I once ran a steam engine (and tender) pulling a string of 7 6257, 6357, 6457, and a 6017. Fellow members thought it was odd, but the audience seemed to like it.
The rest of pw stuff is pretty much “unique” on my layout. By that I mean only one or two examples per car.