Todd's probably waiting for the shock to wear of before he posts the pics of the REST of his trains,and his railroad,LOL!! The mainline covers the entire downstairs,and there's a three track main going through the bathroom!!!!
He's married to the lovely Becky. How makes the meatballs for all of his open houses. He built the basement to spec & threw a house on top of it.
Todd is my hero also. But.....he is my wife's anti-Christ! Actually my wife has been very supportive of my hobby, (She always says "if you want it get it") but I do believe she would draw the line at that. I can see from the posts to this thread that there are no "averages". Some are truly amazing.
Interesting thread. I'm in HO, and my collection occupies about 800 cubic feet. I have about 39 locomotives (this figure off the top of my head), and that includes both decorated and undecorated models. (Strangely, I do not have a spreadsheet listing my engines.) My car roster has 141 cars, decorated and undec. This is about 67% of what I started with, as I sold off a number of cars a couple of years ago as I rationalized my fleet on the context of a long-planned switching layout. I've been working on an Excel spreadsheet to help me manage my car inventory better, including printing sheets detailing what cars are in a given box. If anyone's interested, I can share it with you. Dieter Zakas
Well I will ante up as well. 1488 Locomotives, down from 2176 8,785 various freight cars 388 Passenger cars Modeling since 1992.
Wow, hats off to Todd, David and a few others. 1000's of rolling stock and loco's. I've been collecting since around the end of '06 and have 28 loco's, 330 freight cars, 8 passenger cars, 3 MOW cars and 2 cabooses along with a layout in progress that's in a 10x12 room and is 5 levels with a helix for 3 levels and a mountain line that snakes back & forth, which counts as a level, that goes from the 3rd to 5th levels. The bottom 2 levels are staging/holding yards. Track is laid and just started the scenery. Go here to see some pix http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Metro_Atlanta_N_Scale/photos/album/1454360650/pic/list Ray
I guess you mean these guys? Nope,LOL!! The whole train is made from junk.The locomotives are Christmas ornaments I powered with Kato SW chassis.I removed one truck,and just used the other as the front powered truck on both units.The rear truck is a regular passenger car truck.Both units are permanently coupled,and wired together.The passenger cars are a set of old European cars,I made skirt casting to fit them,and then matched the colors and painted/decaled them,and put on Atlas 4 wheel passenger trucks..Seriously,I don't think I have 45 bucks into the whole train,it rose from my junkbox in a week or two..I'm working on a nice tail end streamlined Ob for the back.I have two more shells,at some point,I'm gonna make a B unit,also.It looks great until some UP knowledgeable guy sees it,and says:"what the heck is THAT???" It runs like a watch,though,and since I put a bunch of lead in the locos,they pull well over 60 cars..
As of this hour, 436 pieces of rolling stock 56 locomotives ...But I haven't looked in the mailbox yet today.:teeth: Brian
I've been putting off a much needed update of my inventory for a couple weeks and after several days of entering information into a Microsoft Access database I built a couple years ago to keep track of my collection (and haven't updated since), I've come up with: around 600 freight cars, 80 locomotives, about 50 passenger cars (long distance and commuter) I have yet to go through most of my intermodal equipment, including Road Railers, as well as the various vehicles I've collected since switching to N scale in late 1998.
Started in 1996 and have 23 engines, 95 freight (no duplicate road numbers), 10 passengers. They are all New Haven. I have 20 freight of other roads. I think I'm stuck in a rut.
I have way too many locomotives, an abundance of freight cars and a very large quantity of passenger cars. Then there are the bits and pieces in all my junk boxes that could be used to assemble many more. I would not know where to start counting. The vast majority of my collection is in flat fishing tackle boxes where the cars are sandwiched in between two sheets of foam. Then there are the display cabinets, my hollow core door with a test track where I leave random trains staged to run when I need a fix. Complete Passenger trains that I regularly run when we set up the club NTRAK layout: Santa Fe Super Chief, El Capitain, Texas Chief, California Special, San Francisco Chief, Ranger, Fast Mail Southern Pacific Sunset Limited, Argonaut, Boarder Limited, Sunbeam/Hustler, Houston-Kenedy Dinky, Daylight Burlington-Rock Island Sam Houston Zephyr, Burlington Silver Streak Zephyr UP City of Los Angeles MKT-Frisco Texas Special, Bluebonnet MoPac Texas Eagle KCS Southern Belle N&W Huckleberry 1947 Freedom Train My own Tourist Excursion train Old timer Denver & Rio Grand passenger train Old timer Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railroad passenger train As for freight cars, I would not want to start counting.
I am much smaller. I have two locomotives, both Forneys, two passenger cars[coach and combine], 40 freight cars, twenty-two boxcars, nine flatcars and nine gondolas. I may add some, but right now as the freight cars are still in kit forI have plenty of work ahead of me. As it is I already have more freight cars then some of the railroads I am inspired by, Maine two footers. So it will be slow short trains and a leisurely schedule of 1904. On one of the railroads, on a hot summer day with only a few male passengers, the crew decided some time for a swim in the lake for them and the male passengers might be popular. It was, so everyone skinny dipped and then they took off only to discover they had left one shy passenger behind. So they backed the train to the lake, near a bush so the remaining passenger could get back into the baggage car with some privacy. So that is an idea of my kind of railroad.
I've got about 600 freight cars, 150 Diesels, 1 steam, 2 electrics, 80 passenger cars, and 30 MOW. No layout currently. The old 4x8 was demolished during a break-in. I can run in new locos on the kitchen table on Sun when Amanda is out horse riding !!!
I really like some of these shots, particularly the Sunbeam and Texas Special. They capture something ... Mike
Operating under the theory that one never has enough coal cars, I have just ordered more. I am top heavy with open hoppers. Over a third of my fleet is open hoppers.
Way too many cars for someone with a layout he isn't completely sure about, even with benchwork finished and track laid. :crying:
Russell Straw's lineup of Texas (and other) passenger trains was so great, I had to save them and put them in a special "RStraw" subfolder in my picture library "Chooch" folder for future reference and inspiration. Should SP "Boarder Limited" be spelled "Border" as in "La Frontera" rather than "boarder," as used by the newspaper columnist who referred to his adult move-back-in son as his "star boarder."
Yeah it is misspelled. Without spell check I would really be lost. However, it only tells me that it is a word, not necessarily the correct word. Sent from my DROID4 using Tapatalk 2
