How many do you have?

Who was the guy, right here on "Trainboard", who referred to "plastic candy". He was so right and I wish I'd said it first.

 

He may be he is like me some the wife knows about:angel:
some she don't:zip:
2-marx .027
2-g scale
10-ho (2-steam)
1-still needed for collection

 

I think I might be embarrassed to say I have Secret Weapon beat, I must be nutz. Sad thing is present layout can only handle maybe 10 on the rails at one time. Oh well it's a hobby. The 0-5-0 gets alot of work!

 

N Scale:
1-Life Like SD7 Southern-207
1-Atlas SD9 Southern-198H

4-Atlas GP-9 Norfolk and Western #’s 510 & 514 & 651 & 695
4-Atlas GP-9 L & N #’s 500 & 507 & 508 & 520
2-Atlas GP-9 Kansas City Southern #’s 150 & 154
1-Atlas GP-9 Florida East Coast 665
1-Atlas GP-9 Milw 203
1-Atlas GP-9 Nickel Plate 481
1-Atlas GP-9 B & O 6471
1-Atlas GP-9 Western Maryland 27

My Oops Engines

N Scale:
1-Bachmann GP50 Southern-7078
1-Bachmann Santa Fe-807

HO Scale:
1-Athearn GP-9 Milw No RR

 

Let's just say...

When I go into my LHS the owners says

"You don't need another Loco..."

Sad but true

I have about thirty or so with a smattering of Diesels:secret: All DCC and slowly but surely being converted to sound (1/3rd so far)

Fergie

 

Hey,
I'm glad I'm not alone with this obession/hobby:shade: :teeth:

 

OK, I'll play

N Guage = 4 Bachmann F7 Santa Fe
1 Atlas (?) RS 7 SF
1 Bachmann 2-8-0 SF

HO Guage = 3 Rivarossi American 4-4-0 Custom RR
1 MDC 2-8-0 Unbuilt kit
1 Lifelike 0-4-0T Custom RR
1 Lifelike 0-6-0T Custom RR
1 MDC 0-4-0T Custiom RR

On30 Guage= 1 2-6-0 C & S
1 2-6-0 DSP, PRR (Former NP & S)
1 0-4-0 C & S
1 0-4-2 Co Mining Company

G Guage = 1 4-8-0 Custom RR
1 4-8-0 Santa Fe (running)
1 4-8-0 Santa Fe (basket case)

We will soon be adding a climax to the On30 roster (I hope ). I may be looking to sell/trade the N stuff FYI
John

 

I used to have loads of locos, but I have recently been selling off most of them to bring my fleet down to a managable size.

I now have:

Atlas Master GP38 BN
Atlas Classic GP7 BN (in paintshop at moment)
Atlas Classic S2 NP/BN
Atlas U33C BN (painted not decaled may be sold soon)
Atlas RS3 BN
Atlas GP38AC BN (ex frisco so needs repainting back into Frisco)
Atlas SD24 BN x2

Athearn SD40-2 BN (to be repainted into a wide nose CN unit)
Athearn GP38-2 BN (to be repainted into CN, unpowered)
Athearn F45 BN x2 (may be sold soon)
Athearn SW7 BN
Athearn SW1000 BN
Athearn SW1500 BN
Athearn S12 Montana Central
Athearn Slug Montana Central (built from a GP7)

Bachmann Spetrum 44t CB&Q/BN
Backmann Spetrum 70t Andersley Western

Concor E7A BN (green and silver)

Kato GP35 BN
Kato NW2 BN

Lifelike Proto 2000 GP18 BN (in paintshop at moment)
Lifelike Proto 2000 GP20 BN (in paintshop at moment)
Lifelike Proto 2000 GP30 BN (in paintshop at moment)
Lifelike Proto 2000 SD7 BN
Lifelike Proto 2000 S1 Montana Central

Repowered Model Power RS11 Montana Central
Repowered Model Power RS2 Montana Central
Repowered Model Power RS18 Canadian National (wet noodle)
Repowered Model Power RS18 Canadian National (stripes)

Roco FA2 Montana Central

Stewart Hobbies F7A BN
Stewart Hobbies F7B BN (unpowered)

Walthers H10-44 Montana Central

I have still got more than I need so there will most likely be more vanishing from my roster soon

 

you can never have too many GP38-2s.

 

MU city

I'm modeling the D&RGW from Helper to Soldier Summit ca. 1965... a little later than I had earlier planned, so I have a bunch of FTs that I no longer need. My problem is that, during this era, you saw a minimum of four-unit sets on the front AND the back of nearly every major train headed up the grade... and often, there were more than four. In Rio Grande in Color, Vol. II (Utah), there's a picture of a mid-Sixties freight at Soldier Summit with ELEVEN F units on the front end.

Plus, I've planned my layout so that I really NEED that kind of power to get up the grades, which top out at about 3 - 3.5%. With four GP-30s on the nose and four SD-7s providing help on the tail end, I can get 35 Trainworx quad hoppers up the grade.

So, presently, I have the following power sets available for service:

F3 (Kato)

• A-B-B-A (California Zephyr)
• A-B-B-A (general service)
• A-B-A (Prospector)

F7 (Intermountain)

• A-B-B-B-A (freight)
• A-B-B-A (freight)

GP-30/35 (Atlas) - four units
SD-7 (Atlas) - four units
GP-7 (Atlas) - four units

Alco PA/PB

• A-B-A (California Zephyr)

A really cool thing about modeling the Grande in '65 is that, due to an agreement with the Burlington, one could expect a daily train pulled by CB&Q GP-30/35 units in the beautiful Chinese red and grey paint scheme. I'm hoping to add a four-unit set of these to my roster.

I also have four Alco RSD 4/5s that, at some point, I'm going to paint (or have painted) for Utah Railway service.

I have a bunch of other stuff that I bought when I was thinking of focusing on a mid-1950s time frame... 2 FT A-B-B-A sets, 2 Alco RS-2s, and a couple of Alco S-2 switchers. I think about selling them but I don't really want to. Who knows? I might get interested in that time frame again!

I really think I have enough locos... it would be nice to have lots more, but I'm running DCC, and it's somewhat painful (and expensive) to purchase and install decoders in every new loco. Pondering this makes one stop and think before hitting the BUY NOW button (which is probably a good thing).

--Bryan Pfaffenberger
Charlottesville, VA

 

That's true on the F units. Gotta have at least 6 on every train.

 

Just counted 50 for me, mostly CSX......

This hobby really is a sickness....mg: :teeth: :shade:

 

I absolutely agree. GP-38’s are for some reason my favorite locos. Atlas made me very very very happy when they announced this beauty…

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Please, what is a "Goldilocks loco"? paint scheme?

As for loco count:

Mangament of The Grey and Grandure buys and runs
"What ever looks good and or appeals to women".
As such G and G has
A Bullet Trains - Cause they are sexy
BAR Geeps - Cause they are handsom
Santa Fe WarBonnet Turbines - Cause they are handsom
GN of all kinds including X UP/ Repainted U50s,
CP Rail of all sorts - Cause the bright red really stands out.
2-6-0s and 4-4-0 cause they are "cute"

 

LOL... A Goldilocks loco is an engine that is not too big, not too small, but juuuuust right!

(you know, the childhood story about Goldilocks and the three bears..)

to Dave Hughes:

Wow, that Geep in the P&W paint scheme sure looks snappy! I've seen some P&W GE units down here in the Long Island Railroad's Fresh Pond Yard here in Queens, NY now and then (kind of rare) when they bring in the odd freight or two, but never saw a GP38. Now I gotta put that P&W GP38 on my purchase list. (do I REALLY need another locomotive? )

 

If its a P&W engine, then yes you need it !!:giggle7yc: :cool6xb: :biggrin9xs:

 

If I was going to model the P&W I would have to have some M420's