If you check my Trainboard Albums you'll see that all my (30+) locomotives are from different roads. I buy what appeals to me and run them on my freelanced model railroad. Link in signuture. See ya Ron
I'm modeling the modern Twin Cities, specifically BNSF and Minnesota Commercial, so I've been focusing my modeling efforts on detailing to match MNNR's locos and buying some BNSF models that catch my eye. Once I've built up my roster some, I expect that I will branch out a bit and get a few CP locomotives and maybe one or two CSXs, since I like the look of them and they make it up to the Twin Cities every once and a while. For now I'm going to try to keep the expansion of my roster kind of slow, since I don't have a whole lot of track to run on.
lol...that reminds me. Chuck at Feather River Trains asked me one day (while purchasing my umteenth loco or car), "Don't you think you should get some track to run this stuff on?"