You would be wrong there sir. I have N scale Atlas Trainman Milwauke Road GP9TT. That’s it.
Hmmm, why don’t you use 4 digit addressing for all the locos? It seems it would be confusing sometimes using the first two digits and other times using the last two.
Cool! Okay, you win (and I noticed after my post went up that the poster right before me had only two locos as well).
Glad to see there are others out there with small rosters. Truth be told, I was beginning to feel a little inadequate. [bow]
Bill
Bill,
To be honest, I never intended to have this many locomotives. I only wanted one of each of my favorite EMD models. It just grew from there!
Let see my current roster from memory is:
Steam
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2 BLI 2-8-2 Powerhouse w/upgraded chips Milwaukee Road
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1 Bachmann Plus 2-8-0 Great Northern
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1 Bachmann Spectrum 2-10-2 Duluth, Missabi & Iron Range
Diseal
- 2 Athearn BB F7 AB units upgraded to with sound and DCC
Electric
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3 Cannonball Car Shop GE 40 ton steeple cabs
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1 NWSL 2-D-D-2 Little Joe
On Layaway:
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2 PCM S3 4-8-4 Great Northern
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1 Bachmann Spectrum 2-10-2 DM&IR
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1 Overland Bi-Polar Milwaukee Road
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1 Bachmann Spectrum 4-4-0 Unlettered
You know, next time my wife questions why I need another locomotive because I have so many already, I’m going to show her this thread. I trail many of these rosters by an order of magnitude!
About 10 years ago, the wife of a club member came up to me and asked if other model railroaders had more than a few locomotives and how many I had. Apparently her husband was looking to purchase a fleet for his new layout (wow about 40x40). I told her my story of starting a count for the insurance man and giving up when reached over a certain number. Her eyes sort of glazed over and she acted like she didn’t believe me … at first. She started testing me by asking me to bring loco type x in paint scheme y to the operating sessions we were starting to hold at their house. After five or six times when she was unable to choose something I didn’t have she finally understood I wasn’t joking. From that point on often when we go visit other peoples’ layouts while they are talking about or showing off their fleets, she will steal over to me an whisper something to the effect of “what a light weight” they are. That is why I jokingly started using that term for some collectors. When people ask her husband how many loco’s I have he always just smiles and answers with the question “how many does the prototype have”?. His UP collection now puts mine to shame!
When the wife askes why you need another locomotive the answer is:
- I don’t have as many as the prototype has.
- the person with the most loco’s wins and I haven’t won yet.
- they are less addictive than booze, cigaretts, or illegal things.
- they are much safer/cheaper than another new motorcycle, race car, or ATV.
- The new paint scheme is the latest fashion.
- Locomotives are herd oriented and get lonely/scared if there aren’t enough o
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A pic of most of mine:
Eventually, I’ll paint them.
Do you mind if I use those when some people say I have too many?
BTW, here’s one picture. I have about 20 more from when I did this:
I model a fictitious branch line set in a region where the prototype never operated, so that might be a tough sell.
“This is only an exhibition, not a competition…”
NOT TRUE!
I keep saying that, as midlife crises go, they’re better than an expensive sports car and a cheap blonde!
See response #1 above
Hmmmmm, I might get some traction with that one. As soon as I get a roundhouse.
Bingo! My wife’s name is Katy, so that gives me an ENTIRE RAILROAD to lease some power from!
My roster contains around
51% Burlington Northern
15% Great Northern
15% Milwaukee Road
8% Northern Pacific
6% Western Pacific
and 5% other.
a total of 100%.
Just a few:
1 Train & Trooper 2-6-2 S.R.& R.L. #24
2 Sango Dachs 2-6-0, private roadnames, one modified
1 AHM Minitrains 0-4-0ST private roadname
2 GEM 2-6-0ST no roadname
Roster of HO Diesels:
Athearn Genesis (11):
-F9ABB set #5771, 5762, 5763 (single stripe)
-F9AB set #5774, 5773 (single stripe)
-F9m #5531 (single stripe)
-F3ABBA set #5541, 5542, 5543, 5544 (single stripe)
-F7A #5764 (single stripe) phase II****Stewart Hobbies (14):
-F9ABB (single stripe)
-F9A (undec)
Currently I have 32 locomotives, all decorated for SOUTHERN Railway (one is southern paint lettered for Central Of Georgia). I have 3 first generations in the mix that won’t be used when I build my layout.
My roster is:
1 GP18
1 GP30
8 GP38
3 GP40X
1 MP15DC
1 B23-7
2 SD24
5 SD35
3 SD40-2
5 SD45
Most of them are as released by the mfgrs. 2 of the GP38’s were un-numbered units that I added decals for the numbers on the cabs and numberboards, so I have a total of 8 different numbers on those. Two of the SD45’s I have are custom paint and detail jobs I did many moons ago. The two SD24’s I have are old Con-Cor models that I added some additional decals, paint and detail parts to. The GP18 and SD24’s most likely won’t be used on the future layout. I’ve already sold and given away the rest of my first generation fleet. I plan to model Southern in the 70’s/80’s…using only 2nd generation diesels.
I have several models on order. 3 B23-7’s, 2 SW1500’s and 2 SD40-2’s. The SD40-2’s are from Broadway Limited and have been re-scheduled about a half dozen times…originally supposed to be released over 2 years ago. I’m not holding my breath on those…and when Athearn announced their SW1500’s, I cancelled my order for the Precision Craft SW1500’s, that keep getting their release date pushed back as well. I don’t think we’ll ever see those.
I have in excess of 100 locos in my collection about 70 to 75 are active the remainder are either in the construction stage or non-operating collectables like some Athearn bi-centennial units or what I kept from my dad’s collection or stuff thats cool but doesn’t fit the era of the layout. Of the active units about 25 are Brookfileld & Western the rest are from the various prototype roads that serve Chicago IHB, BRC, EJ&E, BN,GT,CR, NS, CSX, SOO, MP, ICG plus a few KCS units as they use the B&W for trackage rights into Chicago. Most of the collection is Athearn blue box, old and new Atlas, a couple of Kato SD-38-2’s, a couple of P2K E-8’s and 1 walthers Amtrak unit. Believe it or not there I would still like to add about 10 more units to the total for operations on the layout.
My roster is divided into display case and operational.
My N-scale layout is fairly small, DC operated and only allows to run 4 trains at a time. So I only use an older doodlebug designated for the GN and a single RDC for passenger service.
All other GN units are:
a) Atlas: 1 x GP30, 2 x GP35, 2 x SD9, 1 x RS-3, 1 x SW800
b) LifeLike: 2 x FA1 A, 1 x FA2 B, 1 x SD7
c) Bachmann 4-8-4 with Vandy for excursion runs
d) Kato: 1 x SD45.
Visiting is a train powered by SP 2 x RS-11 in double heading and a train BN with 2 x GP38-2 heading.
All my trains need double heading because due to space limitations my layout has stiff grades up to 5.4% as well as sharp curves (11 ‘’). switches are mostly #4 Kato Unitrack - Unitrack is used for the most and sometimes mixed with Peco code 70 flextrack to get more flexibility.
The display fleet is well over a hundred locos, steam, traction and diesel alike.
Sorry, need to correct myself: the little switcher is of course not made by Atlas but a Lifelike model.
Both RS-11 are from Atlas though and the 2 Gp38-2 are LL Proto. I forgot to mention another loco that is frquently used on the layout despite it not matching the other locos, but for the sake of enjoying to see it run - it is a little Athearn beauty, a SD75 M Rio Grande model in the red/silver war bonnet scheme.
I don’t model the Santa Fe but I like their paint schema very much I can’t withstand to let it run frequently, after hours so to speak.
Main thing is that the hobby makes fun. I’m not a rivet counter but of course like to have things plausible, i.e. they need to fit together and make sense. So the above is the exemption from the rule.
can we see your display