Trussrod
Well-Known Member
Say Carey,
That's my thinking too as there are only so many loco's that are actually needed
to operate with.
How Many engines do you have of a certain mfg'r.?
- Thread starter Larry
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Say Carey,
That's my thinking too as there are only so many loco's that are actually needed
to operate with.
Roster of HO Diesels:
Rio Grande
Athearn Genesis (11):
-F9ABB set #5771, 5762, 5763 (single stripe)
-F9AB set #5774, 5773 (single stripe)
-F9m #5531 (single stripe)
-F3ABBA set #5541, 5542, 5543, 5544 (single stripe)
-F7A #5764 (single stripe) phase II
Stewart Hobbies (14):
-F9ABB (single stripe)
-F9A (undec)
-2 F7AB sets phase I (4-stripe)
-3 F7AB sets phase II (4-stripe)
Atlas (18):
-6 GP40-2 (large herald) from #3094-3128 series, 2 with sound
-6 GP40’s (small herald) from #3051-3080 series
-3 GP40’s (large herald) from #3081-3085 series
-2 GP40’s (large herald) from ex-Conrail series
-1 RS3 yellow stripes (yellow box)
Proto 2000 (16)
-1 F7 ABBA set (single stripe) with sound
-2 SD7’s (yellow stripe)
-2 SD9’s (orange switcher scheme)
-4 GP30 phase I (3 small herald, 1 large herald)
-3 GP30 phase II (3 small herald)
-1 PA (4-stripe)
KATO (6):
-3 SD45’s (large herald – two for sale)
-2 GP35’s
-1 NW2 #100
Athearn (31):
-2 GP40-2’s #3099, #3104 blue box
-2 GP40-2’s #3116, #3120 RTR
-3 SD50 #5501, 5506, 5507 RTR
-8 SD45 ( 3 small herald, 4 large #3317, 3319, 3324, 3327, 3329, 3331, 3333, 3338) RTR
-14 SD40T-2 RTR 5 1st run, 4 2nd run, 3 3rd run, 2 4th run (looking for #5374)
-1 SD40T-2’s blue box un-powered
-2 SW1000 RTR #141 and #144
Walthers (1):
-1 Fairbanks Morse H10-44
Amtrak (6)
-3 F40PH’s (phase III paint) Walthers
-3 F40PH’s (phase III paint) KATO
Southern Pacific/SSW(14)
-5 SD40T-2 Athearn RTR (1 snoot)
-3 SD45T-2 Athearn RTR 1 SP, 1 SSW & SP Kodachrome
-1 C44-9W KATO (for sale)
-4 SD45 Athearn RTR (2 original #8855, 8893, 2 rebuilt #7429, 7480)
-1 SD45 KATO #7500
Union Pacific(5)
2- SD45’s KATO (Kaiser unit coal train)
2- SD45’s Athearn (Kaiser unit coal train #40, 48)
1-SD40-2 KATO
Burlington Northern(1)
-1 SD40-2 KATO
Utah RR(3)
-3 RS4’s Atlas
CB&Q(6)
-1 GP30 phase I Proto 2000
-3 GP30’s phase II Proto 2000
-2 GP35’s KATO
Western Pacific (4)
-1 Athearn Genesis FP7A
-3 Stewart F3ABB passenger paint
Rio Grande
Athearn Genesis (11):
-F9ABB set #5771, 5762, 5763 (single stripe)
-F9AB set #5774, 5773 (single stripe)
-F9m #5531 (single stripe)
-F3ABBA set #5541, 5542, 5543, 5544 (single stripe)
-F7A #5764 (single stripe) phase II
Stewart Hobbies (14):
-F9ABB (single stripe)
-F9A (undec)
-2 F7AB sets phase I (4-stripe)
-3 F7AB sets phase II (4-stripe)
Atlas (18):
-6 GP40-2 (large herald) from #3094-3128 series, 2 with sound
-6 GP40’s (small herald) from #3051-3080 series
-3 GP40’s (large herald) from #3081-3085 series
-2 GP40’s (large herald) from ex-Conrail series
-1 RS3 yellow stripes (yellow box)
Proto 2000 (16)
-1 F7 ABBA set (single stripe) with sound
-2 SD7’s (yellow stripe)
-2 SD9’s (orange switcher scheme)
-4 GP30 phase I (3 small herald, 1 large herald)
-3 GP30 phase II (3 small herald)
-1 PA (4-stripe)
KATO (6):
-3 SD45’s (large herald – two for sale)
-2 GP35’s
-1 NW2 #100
Athearn (31):
-2 GP40-2’s #3099, #3104 blue box
-2 GP40-2’s #3116, #3120 RTR
-3 SD50 #5501, 5506, 5507 RTR
-8 SD45 ( 3 small herald, 4 large #3317, 3319, 3324, 3327, 3329, 3331, 3333, 3338) RTR
-14 SD40T-2 RTR 5 1st run, 4 2nd run, 3 3rd run, 2 4th run (looking for #5374)
-1 SD40T-2’s blue box un-powered
-2 SW1000 RTR #141 and #144
Walthers (1):
-1 Fairbanks Morse H10-44
Amtrak (6)
-3 F40PH’s (phase III paint) Walthers
-3 F40PH’s (phase III paint) KATO
Southern Pacific/SSW(14)
-5 SD40T-2 Athearn RTR (1 snoot)
-3 SD45T-2 Athearn RTR 1 SP, 1 SSW & SP Kodachrome
-1 C44-9W KATO (for sale)
-4 SD45 Athearn RTR (2 original #8855, 8893, 2 rebuilt #7429, 7480)
-1 SD45 KATO #7500
Union Pacific(5)
2- SD45’s KATO (Kaiser unit coal train)
2- SD45’s Athearn (Kaiser unit coal train #40, 48)
1-SD40-2 KATO
Burlington Northern(1)
-1 SD40-2 KATO
Utah RR(3)
-3 RS4’s Atlas
CB&Q(6)
-1 GP30 phase I Proto 2000
-3 GP30’s phase II Proto 2000
-2 GP35’s KATO
Western Pacific (4)
-1 Athearn Genesis FP7A
-3 Stewart F3ABB passenger paint
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Tyco (Mantura) DC original and all run well
2- 0-4-0 switchers with slope back tenders
1- 0-4-0 Saddle Tank switcher
Athearn Genisis
1- USRA 2-8-2 Light Mikido W/ Soundtrax DSD-100LC sound decoder
Bachmann Spectrum
1- 0-6-0 Saddler Tank switched w/ Digitrax DZ143
1- 4-6-0 Baldwin w/ Soundtrax DSD-090LC sound decoder
MDC/Roundhouse kit:
1- 2-8-0 Old timer w/ Soundtrax TSU750 sound decoder
MTS Imports HOn3
0-4-4T "Forney" Brass w/ Soundtrax Moble decoder
On the short list to purchase:
Blackstone C19 2-8-0 HOn3 w/ sound
2- 0-4-0 switchers with slope back tenders
1- 0-4-0 Saddle Tank switcher
Athearn Genisis
1- USRA 2-8-2 Light Mikido W/ Soundtrax DSD-100LC sound decoder
Bachmann Spectrum
1- 0-6-0 Saddler Tank switched w/ Digitrax DZ143
1- 4-6-0 Baldwin w/ Soundtrax DSD-090LC sound decoder
MDC/Roundhouse kit:
1- 2-8-0 Old timer w/ Soundtrax TSU750 sound decoder
MTS Imports HOn3
0-4-4T "Forney" Brass w/ Soundtrax Moble decoder
On the short list to purchase:
Blackstone C19 2-8-0 HOn3 w/ sound
Burlington Bob
Well-Known Member
My's new locos, DCC equipped:
1-Atlas GP-7, CB&Q Blackbird
1-Atlas SD-9, CB&Q Redbird
2- Kato F-3' s CB&Q Silver, for CZ
On the lookout for more 1960-65 era CB&Q in the near future.
Old (Pre-1988) locos:
1-Trix U-28C, BN
1-Trix U-30CG?, BN
1-Lifelike GP-38, BN
1-Bachman F-9, BN
1-Bachman 4-8-4 Northern, CB&Q
Quite a few other older diesel locos of different manufacturers that all bit the dust early due to the crude design and poor quality that seemed to be a consistent problem of early N scale products. I am so glad that seems to be a problem of the past for the most part!
1-Atlas GP-7, CB&Q Blackbird
1-Atlas SD-9, CB&Q Redbird
2- Kato F-3' s CB&Q Silver, for CZ
On the lookout for more 1960-65 era CB&Q in the near future.
Old (Pre-1988) locos:
1-Trix U-28C, BN
1-Trix U-30CG?, BN
1-Lifelike GP-38, BN
1-Bachman F-9, BN
1-Bachman 4-8-4 Northern, CB&Q
Quite a few other older diesel locos of different manufacturers that all bit the dust early due to the crude design and poor quality that seemed to be a consistent problem of early N scale products. I am so glad that seems to be a problem of the past for the most part!
1 - 2-6-6-2 NJ N&W Z1
2 - 2-8-0 MDC Old Timer
1 - 2-8-0 NWSL N&W W6
9 - 2-8-8-2 Powerhouse N&W Y3
1 - 2-8-8-2 Lifelike Y3
2 - 2-8-8-2 Rivorossi Y6b
2 - 2-8-8-2 BLI Y6b
2 - 2-10-0 Bowser PRR I1
2 - 4-8-0 Sunset N&W M
1 - 4-8-2 Bachman USRA /N&W K2
1 - 4-8-2 Bowser USRA N&W K2a
1 - 4-8-2 Sunset? N&W K3
1 - 4-8-4 Spectrum N&W J
1 - 4-6-2 Bowser PRR K4/N&W E3
1 - 4-6-6-4 Bowser Challenger /Clinchfield
3 - Trainmaster Athern BB kits N&W
2 - 2-8-0 MDC Old Timer
1 - 2-8-0 NWSL N&W W6
9 - 2-8-8-2 Powerhouse N&W Y3
1 - 2-8-8-2 Lifelike Y3
2 - 2-8-8-2 Rivorossi Y6b
2 - 2-8-8-2 BLI Y6b
2 - 2-10-0 Bowser PRR I1
2 - 4-8-0 Sunset N&W M
1 - 4-8-2 Bachman USRA /N&W K2
1 - 4-8-2 Bowser USRA N&W K2a
1 - 4-8-2 Sunset? N&W K3
1 - 4-8-4 Spectrum N&W J
1 - 4-6-2 Bowser PRR K4/N&W E3
1 - 4-6-6-4 Bowser Challenger /Clinchfield
3 - Trainmaster Athern BB kits N&W
Iron Horseman
Well-Known Member
OK this thread got me curious, according to my spreadsheet....How many of one or 2 kinds of engines do you have in a certain stable.
I have 15 BNSF engines, 9 Conrail, 10 CSX, 9 NS, 7 Amtrak.
I'm trying to stay w/certain ones, but I have a lot of nice pulling engines I won't get rid of other manufacturers.
It would seem I have by manufacturer:
AHM/Rivarossi 11
Athearn 60
Atlas 42
Bachmann 20
BevBel 1
Bowser 3
Broadway Limited (Precision Craft) 13
GSB 1
Hobby Town 2
IHC 2
Kato 10
Life-Like (Proto-2000 & Proto 1000) 101
Mantua 2
Marx 4
MDC 7
Model Power 6
Stewart 60
By road name.
Amtrak 7
ATSF 58
B&O 7
BN 16
BNSF 2
C&O 4
CB&Q 33
CP 3
D&RGW 12
GN 32
GTW 2
MP 26
LV 3
N&W 1
NP 26
NYC 13
PRR 4
Reading 3
Rock Island 4
SAL 1
SLSF 1
SO 5
SP 11
SP&S 1
SWSF 1
TP 1
UP 14
V&T 2
Wabash 1
WM 1
However I instantly know these numbers are not right. I can count at least 6 V&T locomotives, 3 Texas Pacific, and 4 Frisco off the top of my head. Likewise I know I purchased 5 Bowser Kits last summer, so obviously I don't have everything recorded in this sheet.
Then it also depends on how one counts. Is an FT ABBA set just 1 locomotive, or 4, or 2?
Regardless of the exact numbers it does show the general mix of my fleet. I am surprised at the number of Proto-2000 and Athearn. I would have guessed I had more Stewart and Atlas than anything else. In fact, I would have said I had 60 sets of just FT units. Of course many (most) of the Stewarts are the AB, ABA, and ABBA sets of F units, while most of the Protos are going to be single SD and GP types.
According to these numbers I guess I should start modeling the Santa Fe.
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Wow thats ALOT
... On another topic.... If you have to many Athearn's I'll help you lessen your pile!
Burlington Bob
Well-Known Member
By Iron Horseman:
Maybe you should reconsider and go the Way of the Zephyrs instead!
Everybody models the Santa Fe.
Maybe you should reconsider and go the Way of the Zephyrs instead!
Iron Horseman
Well-Known Member
I do have three BLI California Zephyr sets. Too bad the only two places the SF and California Zephyr meet is in Chicago and Denver. In Chicago it isn't even at the same station. But seriously, my CB&Q equipment is geared toward the Colorado and Southern and the Fort Worth and Denver. I am planning on taking on Pueblo Colorado as the focus of my layout. This is where the Santa Fe - Rio Grande joint line meets the Missouri Pacific. There is also the Colorado Wyoming serving the steel mill there. In 1964 the Colorado Southern was in a power shortage so that the GN and NP were sending down old first generation diesels to help out. They were stationed out of Pueblo.By Iron Horseman:
Everybody models the Santa Fe.
Burlington Bob
Well-Known Member
I think I hear opportunity knocking!!
What about the new Walthers Proto 2000 SD9 with the green patch which is supposed to be an ex C&S diesel. As it happens, there is video of one of those P2K SD9 numbers in Colorado up on one of the branch lines.
Pueblo would be a good area to model due to the convergence you mentioned, with CF&I there to send trainloads of Coaking coal, Iron Ore, etc.
My excuse for having some CB&Q diesels (P2K GP30's and KATO GP35's is that the CB&Q pooled power with the D&RGW on the Chicago to Denver freight train, which continued thru Denver on to Salt Lake City with the same power sets. This led to freight trains with CB&Q power crossing the Rockies and D&RGW power going into Chicago. My D&RGW Color books in the 60's show the chinese red GP30/GP35 power sets in the Rockes, very cool!
I have 4 of the Proto2000 GP30's but 3 of them are phase II and only 1 is phase I. I wouldn't mind trading one of my phase II GP30's for another phase I GP30 just to balance it out a bit.
Iron Horseman
Well-Known Member
That is why I have a set of NYC U23Cs. NYC used to run trains with their own power through Chicago onto the CB&Q. Of course that is back from the days when I was going to just model the CB&Q in Ill. & Iowa.
trailrider
Well-Known Member
No one ever needs an excuse to model Q equipment!
Except, of course, those green & black monstrosities adopted by the Jim Hill lines after the ICC let them combine their financial books in 1969. The paint schemes on the current locos is great, though I find 100+ unit trains running down Santa Fe Drive to Colorado Springs and Pueblo horrendously boring! And no way does an Amtrak train compare with Zephyrs from #9900 on! Speaking of Zephyrs, She looks just about like I remember her when I rode from Chicago to Quincy to see my grandparents as a kid...except for the fourth car, which they have removed for lack of room in the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago. (I can still see President Truman from my Dad's shoulders as our Zephyr was sidetracked in Galesburg, IL, in 1948... All I have to do is look on my layout! No, you never need an excuse to model Q equipment! 
D&J RailRoad
Professor of HO
These are a few of the locos with sound. The rest, DCC and DC are still in storage containers until I get the layout running.
Secondhandmodeler
All new now!
Some of you guys are hilarious with your totals. I realize you've been collecting for a long time, but holy cow! My wife would kick me out of the house if I had that much stuff!
I have:
1 Athearn BB GP35 Canadian Pacific
1 Athearn BB F7 Chicago Northwestern
1 Proto 1000 AB set F3 Chicago Northwestern
1 Bachmann Berkshire relettered for CNW
1 Bachmann Consolidation reletttered for CNW
1 Mantua Pacific in pieces that will someday be CNW
That's it! It's like Charlie Bucket only opening TWO Wonka bars!
I have:
1 Athearn BB GP35 Canadian Pacific
1 Athearn BB F7 Chicago Northwestern
1 Proto 1000 AB set F3 Chicago Northwestern
1 Bachmann Berkshire relettered for CNW
1 Bachmann Consolidation reletttered for CNW
1 Mantua Pacific in pieces that will someday be CNW
That's it! It's like Charlie Bucket only opening TWO Wonka bars!
No one ever needs an excuse to model Q equipment!
Well, I do need an excuse to model "offline" power, because I don't have unlimited resources so what I do have is usually because it fits historically. Yes, I know the "it's my RR" and all that, but it's exactly because it's my RR that I choose to model things the way I want, which sticks fairly close to historical fact. That in turn helps discipline me to spend money more strictly and avoid too many impulse buy's, which I can't afford and saves me from having to sell that stuff later!
As for the Joint Line, I don't have plans to model it - yes, partly because it's boring -er, mostly because it's boring and I want to model the more scenic parts of the D&RGW, probably starting with western Colorado and eastern Utah.
Amtrak trains may be boring but when I rode the Superliner I California Zephyr in 1990, I wanted to model it. I have KATO and Walthers F40PH's for power and Walthers Superliner I (phase II & phase III). I also have a BLI CZ set which includes a total of 15 cars (extra domes primarily) and D&RGW F3's, F7's and F9's in single stripe paint (Genesis).
Yes, I've been collecting for about 25 years, and btw, my ex is my ex partly because of she hated my trains and severely restricted my train budget while she took trips to Europe etc. Needless to say - that is now history.
diburning
AlcoHaulic
Some of you guys are hilarious with your totals. I realize you've been collecting for a long time, but holy cow! My wife would kick me out of the house if I had that much stuff!
I've been collecting since 2007. I'm not married so I don't have that problem
(my girlfriend doesn't approve or disapprove of my hobby)Right now, my engine roster looks like this:
Athearn - 17
Athearn Genesis - 12
Atlas - 26
Atlas Trainman - 7
Bachmann Spectrum - 2
Broadway Limited - 1
Grandt Line - 1
Intermountain - 4
Kato - 5
Mehano - 2
Proto 2000 - 8
Walthers Trainline - 1
Total: 86+ locomotives (I know I'm forgetting a few that I don't have on my official roster, but are sitting somewhere waiting to be worked on)
Of the 86 locomotives on the list above, 15 of them have sound. Eventually, I will install sound in all my units. I keep an up-to-date/present day roster (which means I model the present day and if the locos are off the roster in real life, they will be off my model railroad's as well) with a few exceptions.
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