Rather than listing your entire locomotive roster, I would like to ask those people, who like me, probably have too many locos; if they would list the 6 essential locos of their collection they would keep if they had to sell off everything else. Please try it ! It’s really tough to choose.
I figure this will help me to decide what to keep. I’m mainly into first and second generation diesels.
I have only 2 locos. a dooddle bug and a GP7. I would keep the geep
6 huh!
Wow, make it tough why don’t ya!
But, if I had to choose 6, they would be
My Proto D&H PA
My Athearn RTR VIA P42
My Athearn RTR CPR AC4400
My Athearn BB CPR SD40-2 (Beaver livery) with the new drive in it
My Proto D&H RS11
My Athearn SE SL&H SD40-2 set,
Ya ya I know that’s 2 locomotives, but one’s a dummy & they came in 1 box!
Gordon
I have an Acela loco and an Amtrak Dash-8
My 6 P2K GP9’s - I can use them for everything!
Jim Bernier
Kato SD90/43MAC 8242 Union Pacific
Kato C44ACCTE 5799 Union Pacific
Athearn RTR C44AC 6366 Union Pacific
Athearn Genesis SD70M 4527 Union Pacific
Athearn Genesis SD70M 4528 Union Pacific
Athearn Genesis SD70M 3992 Southern Pacific (patch)
-Tom
Six you say…well here they are in “N” scale:
1-my newly “won” 4-8-8-4 Big Boy
2-my Heritage 2-8-8-2 Mallet
3-my Model Power brand new 2-8-2 Mikado
4-my pair of DD40AX(Spectrum’s)
5-my pair of SD-45(Kato’s)
6-my SD-70(Kato’s)
Pretty tough to select six,even eight…I cheated but I couldn’t let these go.
Bachmann SN GE 44-tonner (second, single-motor version)–old reliable
Proto 2000 WP Alco S-1 (beautiful, runs great)–new reliable
Brass Baldwin-Westinghouse Class D (electric, looks good but needs new motor)–scarce!
Brass Birney trolley (scarce, prototype, needs repowering)
Bachmann SN GE 70-tonner (The two-motor Bachmann GE’s have a bad rep, but mine works great, and it’s my first kitbashed diesel!)
Too easy! No contest. I would keep my 2 BLI E-7’s, My Stewart FT ABBA set and add the BLI NW-2 switcher I have on order The other 12 are all analog and I would let them go, or keep and convert 3 more FT’s to DCC and let all the rest ( about 10) of the analog units go. Reason is I am converting to DCC and doing Free-mo modules because I prefer big curves and turnouts. I am also getting into operations on a friend’s layout.
[?]What do I have?
Three diesels at the moment(I actually have 34 but I have three in front of me)
Seaboard SDP35 1118 made by illehano(custom paint)
EL GP35 2570 made by athearn(custom Paint)
and my favorite:
Wabash GP50 567 made by athearn(first custom paint by me the others were purchased at my hobby shop!)
Yes,all of the above units are Athearn…However these are my FAVORITE road name locomotives.Of course it would be hard to part with my Atlas,P2K and other Athearn locomotives especially the IHB units…[:(]
Six huh? That’s easy, I can do it with one. I would keep my SRR 949 F-1 4-6-0. My Dad was fireman on the prototype in the thirties.
3 Atlas GP-38-3’s Custom decorated and detailed for Maryland Midland
nos 300, 301, & 302
2 Heavily modifed D&H PA’s. Athearn shells detailed with see through grills and with Helix Humper motors. They predate and will outrun the P2K offerings.
1 PFM brass 4-8-4 Western Maryland J-1 Potomac. Remotored and regeared, it rums like a ball bearing on a piece of glass[:D], the only modification I’m waiting on is the installation of a Tsunami sounde decoder as soon as I can get my hands on it.
Of course, it wont be easy parting with any of thier 67 other bretheren! [V]
My Atlas C424M, My P1K C-Liner and my soon to be completed kitbash of a GP40-2L(W)
Six? OUCH! Okay, if pushed to the wall, this is what I’d keep.
My 2 AKANE Missabe road 2-8-8-4’s.(Re-lettered into the ‘never was’ Rio Grande L-148 3900 series)
My BLI SP AC-5 4-8-8-2
My PFM Rio Grande L-131 2-8-8-2
My Key Rio Grande M-68 4-8-2
My PFM kitbash Rio Grande F-81 2-10-2
And after that, I’d spend a lot of time in mourning for the rest of my steam fleet.
My BLI Southern Pacific AC-5
My BLI ATSF 3751 4-8-4
My Spectrum SP USRA 4-8-2B
My P2K N&W Y3
My P2K PRR GP-7
and the P1K SF F3A&B