Your locomotive roster- post-Christmas edition

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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It’s now more than a month after Christmas. All our locos we got are broken in by now, we have received anything we mail-ordered after Christmas. I’m sure many of us have new lcomotives we want to brag about, so here’s the topic to do it in. Post your latest up-to-date loco roster here.

Athearn Amtrak California F59PHI #2002
Bachmann Spectrum Union Pacific 4-8-2 Light Mountain #7009
Life Like Proto 2000 Union Pacific GP9 Ph. II #252
Life Like Proto 2000 Union Pacific FA1 #1624
Life Like Proto 2000 Union Pacific FB1 #1624B
Life Like Proto 2000 Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe S1 #2303
Rivarossi unlettered 2-truck Heisler

My roster is a bit small, but my layout is only 5’x9’, so it’s actually more than I really need (not that there’s anything wrong with that.[;)])

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Athearn Blue Box BNSF GP50

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N scale, Dapol GWR 14xx class 0-4-2 tank loco (and matching “autocoach” push-pull trailer). Amazing little thing, superb detailing, smooth running, and about 3.5in long over buffers. Now I just need to build somewhere to run it!

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I have nothing to brag about but my engien roster is very small… in fact so small I only have one engien… unless there is more stuff in storage… in that case I may have a couple more. As of right now my roster reads as follows.

1 Life Like (basic Life Like) F7 UP Locomotive

possibly in storage

1 bachmann prarie flyer
1 bachmann F9

and possibly aprox. 3 or 4 HO Locomotives… if these are in storage I will wind up selling them on ebay. because I do not have the room for a HO layout.

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I have 50 locomotives on my roster:

Locos that I’ve painted myself (36 units, all analog, run on home layout)

CN F7A 9096 (Athearn)
CN GP7 4801, 4803, 4812 (Athearn)
CN H16-44 2205 (Bachmann)
CN RS-3 3016 (Atlas)
CN SD40 5124, 5126 (Athearn)
CN SW900 7202, 7214, 7239 (Life-Like)
CN SW1200 7028 (Life-Like)
CN SW9 7008 (Life-Like)
CN S-4 8154, 8161 (Atlas)
CN S-3 8456 (Atlas)
GTW S-2 8106 (Atlas)

CP GP7 8415, 8416, 8419 (Athearn)
CP H24-66 8905 (Athearn)
CP SD40 5500, 5505 (Athearn)
CP RS-2 8407 (Atlas)
CP FB-2 4467 (Life-Like)
CP S-2 7020, 7024, 7053, 7064 (Atlas)
CP S-3 6507, 6510, 6528, 6568 (Atlas)

RSD-4 (My own road, LBSS&G) (Atlas)
S-2 (My own road, LBSS&G) (Atlas)
VO1000 (My own road, LBSS&G) (Stewart)

Factory painted locos (11 units, DCC equipped for running on club layout)

CN SW8 8517, 7167 (Life-Like)
CN S-3 8469 (Life-Like)
CP SW8 6700 (Life-Like)
CP S-3 6511, 6514 (maroon & grey) , 6514 (action red) (Life-Like)
CN RS-10 1881,1884 (Life-Like)
CP FA-2 & FB-2 4001, 4401 (Life-Like)

Miscellaneous locos

0-6-0 saddle tank switcher (Bachmann)
N scale CN SW8 8503 (Life-Like)
N scale CN SW8 8517 (Life-Like)

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1 - P2K SD7
2 - P2K GP9 Ph 1
1 - P2K GP9 Ph 1 with sound

A;ll were planned’ purchases(other than the SD7) I may get the other number for the Milwaukee Road GP9, but I am waiting to see if Intermountain really will produce that FP7 they showed off last year.

Jim Bernier

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BLI steam:

PRR J1 2-10-4, PRR M1a 4-8-2, undec Heavy Mike 2-8-2 (2nd run)

BLI Desiel

B&O SW7 # 9550

Athearn:

Cow and Calf set B&O vintage late 80’s Chessie SD40, B&O FP45 (looking for a pair)

Riverrossi:

Heisler 2- Truck

Life Like

2-8-8-2 QSI on Order, Proto 2000 0-6-0

A-B-B-A set of B&O FA-2 units with dynamic brakes.

Bachmann

4-6-0 Ma and Pa and 2-10-0 Decapod Western maryland.

I have sold off many other engines that dont really fit in or perform as they should regarding grades and switches. My roster is more manageable and I may add one or two more engines in the near future. Once those come, then no more acquitisons. Then focus is on Sound and DCC Decoders.

Who knows? 10 years from now I may end up with 40 engines because I enjoy quality engines that run well.

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I’ve added 2 Ontario Northland GP9’s and another SD-75 Athearn Genesis Loco.

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Rivarossi UP FEF-3
Spectrum UP 4-8-2
Bachmann UP 0-6-0
Athearn ATSF FP45
P2K SP SD7
Athearn Genesis SD70M

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Athearn Cotton Belt SD45T-2
Athearn Blue Box SP Dash 9
Athearn Blue Box Conrail SD40-2

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The ones I’v added to my roster
1 Atlas Trainmaster ((SP) with sound)
2 Proto Gp 30 (CNW)
2 Atlas C-40-8 (CNW)

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BLI E-7A (GREAT NORTHERN) # 512
BLI NW-2 (Great Northern) # 160
BLI 2-8-2 (Great Northern) # 3205
Spectrum Doodlebug (Montana Western Rwy.) # 31
Spectrum 4-6-0 (Montana Western Rwy.) # 10
IHC -0-4-0 Dockside (Valier Mining Company RR) # 2

  • All are DCC w/sound, except the Dockside which just has a straight decoder…

Bob

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Parro–you can NEVER have too many locomotives, don’t you KNOW that, LOL? Sorry, my post-Christmas loco roster is the same as the pre-Christmas, only because BLI didn’t release the Santa Fe 2-10-2 like it promised. So the roster remains as it was:
all steam and LOTS of it!
Tom [:D][:D]

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HO

Athearn Amtrak FP 45 three powered one dummy
Athearn Amtrak F9A one powered one dummy
Athearn Amtrak F9B one dummy
Life Like Burlington GP 20
Unknown C & O BL 2
Model Power CNW (ex-BN) E 9
Model Power CNW (ex-BN) E 7
Athearn NKP PA 1 one power one dummy
Athearn NKP PA 1B dummy
Bachman Amtrak F40 PH four engines
Athearn Amtrak (ex-SP) EMD SW 1
Walthers Amtrak EMD SW 7
IHC NKP 2-8-2
Bachman N & W J
AHM NKP Berkshire
Joef SNCF CC 72000
Walthers Amtrak GE Dash 40BW two units
Atlas L & N FP 7 A four units
Proto 2000 NKP SD 9 two units
Bachman VIA Rail F40PH two units
Athearn Amtrak P 42 dummy
Athearn Amtrak P 40
Athearn Amtrak P 42 two units
Roundhouse Amtrak RS 3
Athearn CNW F7A
Concor Royal American GP 40 two units
Walthers GO Transit F40PH
Atlas GO Transit GP40

I won’t start listing the N or O engines this is more than enough!

Dale
[8]

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Actually, my engine roster SHRANK over the holidays! While I did receive one P2K Berkshire from my loving wife, I also sold off 30 or so engines at a local swapmeet (to pay off the tab for the rest of the P2K berks that will make up the bulk of my fleet!). My roster has shrunk from about 120 engines to about 90. I want to get my roster down to about 30-40 engines that I’ll actually USE on a fairly regular basis, rather than have a huge roster of box queens.

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I’ve gotten everything since Christmas–except a Hogwart’s my son got on Christmas.

So let’s see.

BLI E7 PRR
Proto 2000 S1
Proto 2000 FA/B
Lil Guy
Bachman 4-8-4
IHC 0-4-0
IHC 4-4-0
MDC 2-6-0
BLI M1A PRR I haven’t seen yet.

I got a “lot” of trains on wBay that has not arrived yet. In it I have an 0-6-0 a couple pf Athern GP-40’s a couple of other desiels I don’t recognize from the pictures.

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lets see…

2-athearn genesis SD70MACs
2-Atheran blue box GP38-2s
1-Athearn blue box GP35
1-Specturm Dash 8-40C
1-spectrum 44 tonner (actually i dont have it, i sent it to bachmann for repairs 4 months ago, they dont answer emails, probably will never see it again)
2-athearn blue box SW7
1-Athearn blue box SD40-2
1-IHC 4-6-2 (odball among all the modern diesels [:D]
1-MDC “critter” 40 tonner
1-athearn blue box SD60 (won it on ebay, still shipping)
1-athearn blue box SD45 (won on ebay, still shipping(
1-Spectrum SD45 (won on ebay, still shipping)
1-athearn blue box dash 9 (maybe, still negotiating over it)
1-BLI AC6000CW (preordered)

Wow! i didnt know i had so many blue boxes!
[:P]

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OH! i forgot my athearn ready-to-roll Amtrak Genesis

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N: LL GP20, UP
Athearn F59PHI, Metrolink
Atlas B-40-8W, ATSF
Spectrum C-40-8W, UP, doesn’t work.

Plus a couple junk locos in the mail…

HO:

Athearn GP60, DRGW
Athearn AC4400, CNW doomed to become UP
Spectrum 70 ton switcher, SP

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My current roster of the “good power” is as follows…

2 GP-60M’s in Red and sliver Warbonnet with the BNSF
1 SD70 BNSF Cream Color

And for Christmas…

1 BLI CabFoward with smoke.

Small list on power but my rolling stock has grown almost 35 cars.

Best Regards
John k