I personally only own one of each type rolling stock that I have, with the exception of tank cars, open coal and gravel hoppers because I like to run a train of nothing but tank cars, open coal or gravel hoppers once in a while like those I see come through from time to time.
In the real world (and possibly with some modelers), there are sometimes many of the same type car in a train, but because my layout is only just so big, I normally let one type car represent many. I do however usually use two or sometimes three locos to pull a train when modeling in the diesel era.
I have 6 wood chip hoppers, a dozen or more coal hoppers, 4 or 5 Railbox boxcars and various and assorted Southern box cars. I try to make sure they all have different numbers though.
I guess it depends. Trains in southern Ontario in the transition era and prior would have had a lot of mixed trains. Everything including passenger cars, baggage, boxcars, reefers, etc. so I will get more than one of everything including a variety of road names. I like the mixed bag.
I would guess that a good 1/3 are Box Cars/Reefer Cars/Stock Cars Another 1/3 are Hopper/Covered Hopper/Coal Gon types. and the remainging 1/3 at just about everything else.
But I am planning a very large layout. And by my calculations I am going to need to double my freight car fleet in order to operate my layout with any effectiveness.
I own about 90 Yellow “RAILBOX” boxcars. I love the look of them. Now they are by different makers, Athearn Genesis, Branchline, Athearn (Blue Box), Intermountain, Atlas Trainmaster.
My layout I am planning is a modified track plan by John Amrstrong. The Plan is the Montana & Puget Sound (Shown in the Nov 2004 MR) and I have come up with two primary varations. The first I have added another pennensula to it, and the second I have added it on to the end of a lengthened and modified Central Midland Track plan in the Atlas Book 7 Step by Step HO Railroads.
In the first variation. There is a yard at the modeled East end of the System, A yard at the West end of the system. The primary Interchaging RR has a yard on the east end of the layout. And there is a East end and a west end Staging for both the Primary Line and the interchanging Railroad.
In the Second Version.
There is a yard at the east end of the mountan. A yard at the west end of the mountain. a Cach yard ajacent to the freight yard. after negotiating through some industrial switching, the interchanging Railraod has a yard and there is room for adding a second interchanging railroad with two hidden staging yards. From the East end of the mountain the main line continues around the room to the other end and there is a big city and I am looking at least east and west bound Flat switch yard and am seeing if I can squese in some kind of compressed east and west hump.
I plan on having 40-60 of each type of car- for example- 50 Accurail illinois central covered hoppers, 50 Athearn RTR PS cvrd hoppers (BNSF/new logo) and 60+ well cars, ect.- don’t know how all this will fit in my yard though.
I have four or five enclosed auto racks from Walthers that are the same exact number (haven’t gotten around to renumbering yet) I also have prolly 10 - 12 BN boxcars that are identical. Its all stuff I got relatively cheap on ebay so I don’t mind renumbering them.
On numerous occasions. Athearn had models of a Michigan Alky chemical tank car. I had about thirty of them, same number, because two of my uncles worked there.
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How many of a given type of car you have depends on your railroad. I am modeling an ore hauling railroad in Michigan’s upper peninsula, so I have alot of ore cars. So far I have about 60 MDC cars and 204 Walters cars. Of course there are box, gondola, flats, reefers, hoppers and any thing else that a regular railroad would have. How many ore cars will I need to creat the image that I want? I’ll know when I get them.
I’ve got a pile of FE reefers, a few long strings of gons, and a mile long passenger fleet. Oh yeah, and a mess of boxes and 'booses. The real railroads have yards full of rolling stock. Why shouldn’t we?
3 open hoppers
2 covered hoppers
6 tank cars
1 reefer
2 flat cars
1 caboose
and 5 locos
i have a total of 15 freight cars… and 5 locos lol but its growing.
I do own about 6 ballast hoppers all form the milwaukee road and I also own some ore cars from the GN and DMIR. Milwaukee ran with all of those. My locomotives you should imagine are milwaukee road but with the exception of a C30-7 UP and an SD70M. Not to mention the two SD60 Oakways I own. i also have some NP boxcars and milwaukee boxcars. So yes I do have a few models of the same car.
Well I don’t currently have much rolling stock but i do have several of the same types of locos
I have
2- kato SD-90/43 1CEFX(rental company) and 1 UP
3- kato AC4400CW 2 UP 1 CEFX
2-Athern genises SD70M 1UP and 1 Conrail spartinCab
1 Athern RTR SD45T-2 Shouldn’t Paint So Fast(SPSF)
2 atlas GEEP’s 1 GP7 DRGW and 1GP38-2 BN
as far as rolling stock, in the near future i plan on getting like 50 Coal Vayors to do a Coal train, like the ones in colorado
How many yards are you using on this layout?