i got about five
Welcome crw1993! What are they? I am very fortunate to have five also - the Ballyhoo Circus train, a prewar 248 and 2 passenger cars, a prewar 2-4-2 with litho freight cars, an MPC FA and a long string of plastic-trucked freight cars, and an MPC 2-4-2 with the famed Lionelosi Special - streamlined car.
I have 43 TMCC diesel engines and over 200 pieces of rolling stock. My wife says that I have too much.
you can never have too many of any kind of toy. i have a dozen engines or so and maybe 50 cars. Say cnw1995 I get to Crystal Lake about twice a month. Maybe we could get together and I could see your layout sometime. I travel from the Bloomington area. John
I have more than five. First there’s what’s left of two postwar sets that belonged to my Dad when he was a kid, including both of the locomotives, and there’s a passenger set that he put together a couple of years before he died, and I have a prewar Lionel 259E set and a prewar American Flyer passenger set. Then there’s the Polar Express set that I couldn’t resist getting. Then there’s the early 1960s Lionel Scout set I got because it was $35. Then I’ve got at least four Marx sets. I like those because they’re cheap–a basic Marx set can cost as little as $20. Most of my Marx is really run of the mill but I like it. I guess that’s 11 complete trains I could run at once if I had enough track, not counting the loose stuff. I probably can cobble together another train or two just from that.
I really need to lay off on buying trains and concentrate on getting my layout at least looking presentable, even if I can’t get it to look just the way I want it yet. It seems like once you get on a roll buying trains, it’s hard to stop or even slow down. At least for me it is.
Trains and train accessories are like friends; can’t have too many of them 
five locos
two diesels
Not as many as I want and more than my wife knows.[;)]
I haven’t bought any sets, all of mine are individual pieces.
Locos,
Diesel
B&O FT-AA, Lionel
B&O F-3-ABA, K-Line
D&H C-420 Lashup #412 + #411, Lionel
B&O SD-35 Atlas
Wabash GP-7, Lionel (Christmas Gift in 1957)
Steam
B&O Pacific(027) K-Line
B&O Mikado, K-Line
C&O Mikado, K-Line (on order)
Rolling stock
B&O Passenger, 7 car Madison w/express box
About 8 dozen assorted freight cars, predominantly scale size.
All of the locos except two are TMCC.
At the present rate of growth my wife and I might have to move into the spare bedroom and move the trains into the master bedroom. [swg]
I have 8 sets
alot of solling stock about 50 pieces
and the wife still complains i have too much[:-^]
18TMCC engines 14 conventional engines.
lots o rolling stock.
laz57
Hi John, sounds nice. Email me directly and we can see what we can coordinate on yoru next visit. It is fun to see what people collect. Dave, where do you find your Marx sets?
Two, a BLI J1e, and a P2K Heritage 0-6-0. I have maybe seven pieces of rolling stock, and don’t expect/anticipate getting much more.
At some point, I will add another steamer (K4 or a Consolidation 2-8-0), and possibly a modern diesel just to have variety. I don’t really want to build up a huge collection that sits in cases or anywhere else but ready for operations. As a retired man, I can’t afford to, for one, and for another, I want very much to keep a wide range of interests as I age with my better half. Putting too much into toy trains is not the way to go about it, IMHO.
I got this many, plus some more.
I ain’t got none.
But I do HAVE many.
Too many to try to count, many of which are still under the layout, as the shelves and tracks are pretty darned full! I’m going to the train-show today to try to clear some of them out…
Jon [8D]
I have one set from my Dad (N Gauge), and I got another with some Christmas money 2 Christmases ago, my first Lionel Set.
Matt Prescott
http://Lionel-Trains.blogspot.com
I have 14 scale steam, 9 diesels
Dave.
I have 4 engines (2 steam, 2 diesel), 1 trolley, and 1 handcar.
Ummmmm…I don’t know! I went on kind of a buying spree last year. I got a lot more HO steam locos (probably 20) a few diesels and an electric. Picked up some prewar tinplate O (various manufacturers) and a Bing clockwork steamer. I also ventured into Marklin prewar Gauge 1. All this on top of the stuff I already had…I think I need to buy a house…with a barn! [:p][:p][:p][:p][:p]
underworld
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Toooooo Much ??? no way NEVER ENOUGH