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


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!!
 
D&J RailRoad said:
how is that?
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They have a rubber band drive (called Hi Fi) that had performance closer to that of a slot car than a railroad locomotive.
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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.
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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".
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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.
 
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......
 
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