My problem is that I’m getting too many engines that I like and I don’t have enough room in my 6 X 11 layout that I have inside my home. I just keep collecting them. I can only run 4 trains at a time (4 tracks). I now have 19 locos. Do any of you have this problem?
Reuben
PS, Laz57,
How is your UP FEF Northern running? Mine is all right, I guess. the chuffs are not in rhythm . It goes cuff-----cuff-----cuff-----cuff cuff-----cuff-----cuff etc. got any ideas?
Its an adiction. I have engines on storage tracks, filling in the area in the back room and under the layout. I’ve got engines that I have not touched in months. I keep on adding them on.
“Hello, I’m Frank and I am a trainoholic.”
I use to buy guns and then it was fishing equipment. Now it is trains.
Hi, I’m Jim and I am a trainaholic too
And that does not include the operating accesories and cars[:-^]
Jim
Lessee:
2037 (2), 2026, 671, 2020, 1060, 8010, Texas Special Alco ('60), 1666, PRR & NYC Flyers, #54 LFD Fire/Rescue, C&O Super Freight, Polar Express, and coming: CNJ 1000 Box cab.
Complete Polar Express car set, Fire rescue set, 6 Sunoco Cars, CNJ tool car, etc, etc
and 4X8 “L” shaped layout with 2 independant tracks & TMCC/Powermaster.
Nah. I got room for more…(I’m in denial…and, no, it’s not a river in Africa!)
Great collection Jim!
Gives us small layout operators a reason to hope.
STEVE
Lets see…
Lionel:
681
2020
1688 (soon to be back from Keith’s repair and restoration services)
Chessie GP-30
Chessie GP-30
C&O Berk
B&O Mikado
C&O Docksider
C&O Ballast Tamper
#60 Trolley
Gangcar
MTH:
B&O RS-1
B&O SW-3 Switcher
WM GP7 pwr
WM GP7 dummy
C&O Streamlined Hudson
Williams:
B&O Sharks A-B-B-A (2 pwr, 2 dummy)
RMT:
WM BEEP
X-Mas:
North Pole Central Berk
North Pole Central General
North Pole Central Docksider
— on order Lionel X-Mas Mikado
I have 18, with more on my wish list. I can run three at a time. I rotate them every few weeks. I have several storage tracks, with more rolling stock than I need. But not nearly as many as I want!!!
Just build a storage shelf or add a siding and store some locomotives on it. In time you may need more storage shelves.
I have at least 15 locomotives and over 125 pieces of rolling stock, to include passenger cars. My layout is 8ft. by 11ft. with an upper level of 6ft by 4ft. Have four mainlines on the lower level and a trolley line and two main lines on the upper level.
Lee F.
I wish I had this problem [%-)][sigh][sigh] Oh well, maybe someday.
But Jim, where’s the other half of your collection…the diesels and electrics I mean[:D]. Just playin’ with ya, phenomenal steam collection!!
runtime
I have a bunch of them. Much more than I can remember, but not quite as many as my wife thinks I have. The vast majority of the ones I have are Pre/Postwar steam. I also have a fair number or postwar diesles. Lately, I have acquired some modern items, but not as many as the others. I am a recoverring trainaholic. I now try to focus on specific era (1949) for prototype and also specific road names. One thing I did was to have one loop of track with some O-36 curves in it. This has been my marker for limiting engine purchases too. I could make all loops O-72, but that would make it too tempting to purchase some of the scale items out these days.
Dennis
Thanks all for the kind words. I am hoplessly HOOKED, and I do not plan on recovery.
The layouts are a 6.5 x 9.5 all American Flyer
A test loop that sets on the bed that rolls under the layout
And a 600 All Aboard
Trains and the fun folks who play with them is what makes this hobby great
Jim
Reuben: Yes, I do…That is, until I wake up! Then reality sets in.…Pardon me, I have to go back and re-count them…[zzz][zzz]
ChiefEagles,
i couldn’t resist. “…haven’t run in months”. I have a Lackawana Trainmaster in a box somewhere, with I guess some freights, which I haven’t seen in over 20 years. It’s not out because I’ve no place to display or run it. But I’ve bought 6 engines in the last 4 months. The next time there is an auction or meet, what’s that number I need to call?
runtime
Hi, I’m Doug, and I am also a Trainaholic,
I have been a Trainaholic since before I could stand up on my own, with me it goes even deeper. I am hooked on Union Pacific and more recently Southern Pacific as well. But that is just the surface of it, I am also a MULTI-SCALER [:I] My current addiction 3-Rail O-Gauge started about 2 1/2 years ago, before that and still currently I was/am an active member in a large HO club here in Portland, OR. I also have some G-Scale a little bit of N-Scale (MAN THEM IS TINY) and when a little guy myself I had some American Flyer ( Wish I still had those)
I know that I am beyond HOPE, but as I tell the Guys down at Whistle Stop Trains here in Portland ( only 4 miles from my house, maybe NOT such a good thing [:-^]) “If I gotta have an addiction, better trains than Cocaine, at least if I ever have to sell any, I wont be going to prison for it”
Here is a partial view of my collection that I had displayed last June when LOTS visited our club during their convention, this was before I added both versions of the scale FEF-3s in March.
If not a Financial investment, they at least are an investment in my SANITY.
ps. Click on pic to enlarge.
Doug
I buy engines when I really need to buy a bigger transformer. Its like buying a 2nd car when your first one is out of gas.
REUBEN,
Try and do a reprogram on the engine, look in owners manual. Mine is still running great NO PROBLEMS. I’m thinking of purchasing the grey one now.
laz57
LIKE all the other GIZ here, I too am a TRAIN a HOLIC.
My wife says don’t you have enough trains? I answer,
More then I need but not as many as I want.
laz57
Hi giz,
Yes… I’m Reuben… And I’m a trainaholic. This is all good advice you given. My dear wife… well, she has turned her upsetness to feeling sorry for me. She just looks at me. With a wonder in her face. I hooked, I have to have engines.
And as for “Its just Toys, A childs Plaything”…get the heck out of here, we’re dealing with some serious money here. An investment, and I’m involt here. (lol) Reuben