How many of you have multiples of your engines?

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Just curious how many people have several of the same type of engine?

Could be just differnt cab numbers or different manufacters (Lionel, WBB, MTH, etc)

Are any of those your favorite Locomotive? Is that why you have multiples of it?

Thanks!

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Personally, I’d rather broaden than replicate. I have been tempted to acquire more cosmetically perfect replacements for a couple of my postwar but came to realize that for me the nostalgia of how/when the engines secured their battle scars over the decades was important to me.

Jack

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I have a pair of 2353 Santa fe F3s and a 2343 set if that counts. I bought the 2353s a while ago but at a garage sale, the 2343s were so cheap I couldent resist.

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I have PRR turbines from Lionel’s Postwar Era, the 681 and 2020. I also have 3 Lionel Chessie System GP-30s (1 Legacy, 1 TMCC, 1 dummy). I also have a set of B&O Sharks made by Williams in an A-B-B-A configuration.

Other than that… I can’t think of any other duplicates in my stable.

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I have a diverse roster - no dupes. I do have different series/versions of GPs & SDs but I dont think that counts. Hmm, does F3 AA count as a dupe?

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I have 3 Williams BRASS CAB FORWARDS … Love the cab forwards and the etxreme detailing and quality of the Williams brass engines .

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I have no duplicates, yet.

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Two Rail-King AMTK P40s (Geneses); two ABBA ATSF F3 sets, 2243P-2243C-2243C-2243P and 2383P-2243C-2243C-2383T; two 10-stanchion 623 ATSF NW2s wired together in series; two 2338 MILW GP7s; and two 773 Hudsons, 1950 and 1964, both with 2426W tenders.

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I have what would be considered pairings - like a set of F3 ABBA, and FT ABA, but otherwise I have lived within my own motive power procurement policy and procedures, that is, diversification of motive and steam power. This drives the mechanics crazy in Lionelville. ALCo, Electromotive, Fairbanks Morse, General Electric.

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I have three 736s, three Santa Fe F-3s: 2333, 2343, & 2383, two 2046s, two Jersey Central diesel switchers, and maybe a couple more duplicates. I buy stuff when I find it at a good price, regardless of whether I already have one or not. I think the 736s are the best steam engines Lionel made in the post war era. I also like the way the dual motor F-3s run. They are very good at low speed as are the 736s. I have always felt that the Lionel steam engines didn’t have enough gear ratio between the motor and the drivers. The 736s and the turbines are worm drive which gives them a higher numerical gear ratio than the other steam engines.

Bruce Baker

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I have several duplicates, without looking I’d guess I have 4 290’s, 282’s, 5 302’s, 3 300’s, 2 312’s, 4 or 5 21160’s, 4 283’s, 2 350’s, 2 21088 Franklins, some are vairations of the same loco.

Jim

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I have numerous dupicate of engines, postwar steam and diesel. Some were aquired because I was trying to better something, and some were aquired because they were in a lot of trains I bought, and I didn’t sell my duplicates. My daughter was 7 or 8 years old, and said to me one night "daddy you have 2 of everything, one for running, and one for parts’. It wasn’t planned that way, but I would often run something, if I was having trouble with it, would scavange a part off the other, and then replace or repair the other as time permitted. It is amazing, you can have 2 or 3 of something, but you like running 1 better than the other. No matter how many 2026s I aquired, I couldn’t just replace the shell on our original because it was missing a marker light. I finally gave it to my nephew, as it was his dad’s first train. The time frame for when I aquired a lot of these also factored in. Today there is much more, and you have to plan your purchases.

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Got “quite a few” doubles, some triples and one set of diesels, I have 4 off.

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NYC Niagaras-3-Lionel

NYC Mohawks-3-Lionel

Shays-2-Lionel

NYC Hudsons-2-MTH

FEF,blavck and grey-2 Lionel Legacy

NS-Dash 9s-2-Lionel Legacy

laz57

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I’ve got multiples of NYC GP7/9s and F3s, from various mfgrs., FM Train Masters in NYC and PRR, Alco RSs in a couple of road names (NYC, NH, and PRR), and Williams U33Cs and Dash 8s I repainted into NYC.

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I have 2 of the Williams FM Trainmasters in Jersey Central.

I also have a Lionel #671 & tender from 1949, and a Williams #671 and tender from 2004.

Chuck

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As a Collector of Lionel and “O” gauge, not an Operator, I only have two cases of duplication. “OO” gauge Lionel Hudsons, I have 3, 1938 Scale, and 1939-41 in both Scale and Simi-Scale. The other is the 225E with die-cast tenders, I have 2, I just like that New Haven prototype locomotive.

As an Operator, I have 500+ feet of “G Gauge” track winding around my yard. Lashups of two or three twin motored locomotives are often used to pull 30 foot trains up the grades. DCS “Lash Up” command is used. I have, in addition to MTH locomotives, five Aristo-Craft locomotives converted to DCS Control.

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None. Now and then, if I see a similar one in much better condition, at a reasonable price, I might buy it and sell the first one. I really like to have different engines (and cars). Thanks for asking.

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Thanks to all for the responses. Very interesting info.

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Ten AF #10’s. Each one heading up a variation of the Flyer Rainbow sets which were offered in the late 1920’s.