How Many Different Locomotives Road Names do you Have on Your Layout?

[Len Turner]

Two - TSE (Texas South East) and NRLCo. (Neches River Lumber Co.)

 

[jmupton2000]

Oh blimey, loads!! Spread across three plank layouts, actual railroads:

SP
SSW (Cotton Belt)
T&NO
BN
One solitary Conrail (because I liked it!)
SF - SPSF Kodachrome
DRGW
EMD - Demonstrators various mostly

Fictional Shortlines:
CWRR - CenterWest RailRoad - also their leasing operation CWRX and heritage CWRH subsidiaries
CD&LR - Coppertown, Davenport & Lancaster Railroad

Lot of Alco's, particularly S series switchers and EMD Geeps, only a couple of GE locos though and the odd oddity like a Athearn Hustler!!

 

[bnsf971]

the odd oddity like a Athearn Hustler!!

The only HO locomotive to break the sound barrier.

 

[D&J RailRoad]

The only HO locomotive to break the sound barrier.

how is that?

 

[Iron Horseman]

how is that?

They have a rubber band drive (called Hi Fi) that had performance closer to that of a slot car than a railroad locomotive.

Actually, there is faster. Just not "stock". The "Youth in Model Railroading" group had an annual loco drag race. A Hustler won for many years. THEN, for my daughter, I found an F7 with a rubber band drive. Usually the F units didn't perform as well because they have a stand that holds the drive shaft up. Basically just a hole in the metal as a crude friction bearing. I trimmed it out bigger and added roller bearings for the shaft to turn it. I then honed down the wheel sets about 1/16" an inch to make the "gear" ratio even less. Everyone who showed up with their Hustlers laughed when she put it on the track. After the flag dropped they weren't laughing, they were picking their jaws up off the ground. It ripped the whole 15' of the track in about two seconds. The next year I devised a Tapered shaft for the rubber band to "roll up" effectively changing the "gear" ratio to just get it up to speed faster. We never got to run that one though. We moved away and tired to stay involved, but it became too hard to attend the YMR events.

This little red Hustler that was the top contender. They just said go, and it is already an inch ahead of the other.

And her hot pink war bonnet on the line. We did not make any "test" runs like the others because we did not want to "show our hand".

 

[jmupton2000]

In the UK, Hornby have been trotting out thousands and thousands of 0-4-0 based diesel and steam models as starter locos, all share the same basic chassis design since the mid 1980's and all exhibit two speeds, stop and a scale 200+ mph...

 

[GGNInNScale]

BN, BNSF, AMTRAK, British Columbia, CN, CP, CP Rail, Great Northern, Rio Grande, Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, and for fun TGV and JR Shinkansen. I model western rails and terrain.

 

[westtexjohn]

For my fictional railroad of the Gulf Coast & Western located in north/central Texas in the early 1950s, I have railroads that came through Dallas/Ft. Worth and nearby towns. So I have :

Gulf Coast & Western
Santa Fe
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (C B & Q)
Texas & Pacific
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific / St Louis & Southwestern (Cotton Belt) / Texas & New Orleans (T N & O)

Even though some locomotives of the above listed railroads only operated in different states in different areas of the country, they all come through on my railroad, such as U P Challengers and Big Boys.

Layout still in progress but have locomotives and rolling stock ready to go.

 

[Alcomotive]

Wow!

How did I miss this post in 2019? Like TomO said it's nice to see this one revived!

Railroads locomotives I have: to many? nah.....you can see a lot of them on my YT channel link below.

UP (primary power)
SP (fallen flags, primary power)
DRGW (fallen flags, primary power)
CNW (fallen flags, primary power)
MOPAC (fallen flags, primary power)
WP (fallen flags, primary power)
KATY (fallen flags, primary power)
RI (fallen flags, primary power)
CSX (run thru power)
NW (run thru power) actually lease power
NS (run thru power)
Guilford (run thru power)
PanAM (run thru power)
AOK (serves the south end of my layout interchange)
EMD Demonstrators (run thru power)
HCLX (run thru power) lease power
GATX (run thru power) lease power
CITI (run thru power) lease power
A&M (serves the south end of my layout interchange)
WC (serves the north end of my layout interchange)
WS (serves the north end of my layout interchange)
GBW (serves the north end of my layout interchange)
M.T.&W (serves the north end of my layout interchange)
AS&B (serves the south end of my layout interchange)

Some guest visiting power.....
SNC
SC&H
SNEX
BKRR



I think that is all of them? May edit later......

 

[Rico]

James, all those colors but no green?!?
You’re upsetting the balance of nature here.

 

[Alcomotive]

James, all those colors but no green?!?
You’re upsetting the balance of nature here.

Awww man Rico...lol I may just have to get a green and black BNSF turned lease to rectify that problem lol.....My NW is an EX Illinois Terminal which is green.



.......

 

[migalyto]

Awww man Rico...lol I may just have to get a green and black BNSF turned lease to rectify that problem lol....

That would be the right thing to do!

 

[KriegslokBR52]

For me the more appropriate question is; how many countries you have on your layout

 

[Canalligator]

My main layout is one country (US), but my side layout is in Canada. My other side layout, a rail museum, has a GW(UK) static loco, and I’m thinking about putting an NS (Nederland Spoorweg) loco on there too. Hmm, I should put an Irish Rail piece there too.

 

[Chessiewmfan]

Chessie, Wm, B&O, C&O, V&O, Alleghany Midland

 

[Iron Horseman]

Chessie, Wm, B&O, C&O, V&O, Alleghany Midland

That is a nice concise and well matched set.

 

[Dunalastair]

I have quite a variety, mostly, but not exclusively British, and the time frame I use is somewhat elastic.

I think this lists them all:
British Railways;
LMS;
LNER;
Great Western;
Southern;
Caledonian Railway;
Highland Railway;
New South Wales Government Railways;
Canadian Pacific;
SNCF.

I also have a Hornby Dublo 0-6-2T that I modified to look a bit like Thomas the Tank Engine, but I'm not sure how to list that one.

 

[NorthBrit]

I have quite a variety, mostly, but not exclusively British, and the time frame I use is somewhat elastic.

I think this lists them all:
British Railways;
LMS;
LNER;
Great Western;
Southern;
Caledonian Railway;
Highland Railway;
New South Wales Government Railways;
Canadian Pacific;
SNCF.

I also have a Hornby Dublo 0-6-2T that I modified to look a bit like Thomas the Tank Engine, but I'm not sure how to list that one.

I like the list, but the Caley!!! (joking)

 

[Dunalastair]

I like the list, but the Caley!!! (joking)

A 60 class and a "Cardean" both in full Caledonian livery and a further "Cardean" in lined LMS crimson lake. Also a 439 class 0-4-4T and a "Wemyss Bay Pug" 4-6-2T, both under construction, to be given full Caledonian livery. I also have a Bachmann 812 class 0-6-0, but I haven't worked out how to convert it to 3 rail yet.......

 

[NorthBrit]

A 60 class and a "Cardean" both in full Caledonian livery and a further "Cardean" in lined LMS crimson lake. Also a 439 class 0-4-4T and a "Wemyss Bay Pug" 4-6-2T, both under construction, to be given full Caledonian livery. I also have a Bachmann 812 class 0-6-0, but I haven't worked out how to convert it to 3 rail yet.......

Really nice locomotives.

It is the Caledonian Railway Company. Great rivals to the North British Railway.