I'm getting so much flak from the blokes at the bowlo. Well, are you an Aussie or a Pommy?   

I did think that a post I saw on the interweb was interesting, though.

"Head has not changed his game for the role, but perhaps Test cricket has steadily bent itself into his preferred shape" 

Quote from: Bob G on January 08, 2026, 09:41:04 AMI claim the fifth amendment... Oh and did you know N gauge storage takes up 1/8th the volume of OO? So you can have 8 times as many trains in N as you can in OO for the same storage space.

 

So N is vastly more expensive than OO if storage space is the limitation on loco numbers. If layout area is the limitation, then N is only 4 times more expensive than OO.

My locos are models from 3 continents (UK, North America, and Australia) across several time eras covering steam and diesels, but I only have about 55 locos in total  . I thought that I had a lot, but am really put to shame by quite a few others on this forum. But since starting in N scale in about 1978, I admit to having had in my hands another 25 or so locos that I have since sold on for various reasons.

Webbo   

Quote from: Roy L S on January 08, 2026, 11:47:23 PMand my kit-built 60532 "Blue Peter" (a resin kit but I can't remember by who),

Roy:

I think the resin kit for your Class A2 Blue Peter model was probably manufactured by a company called Fifty-Six and a Half Inch Model Railways (long since out of business). 

I bought the same resin kit (but from a different supplier) but never got it past the primer stage before GF came out with their A1 and A2 models.

Ian

all I will admit to is:
more than I need, but less than I want.

The simple honest truth is I don't know, but I have been modelling in N for a long time so it is a substantial number.

Most are now DCC (many sound fitted), but I have kept some of the more treasured analogue models such as my kit built Langley B1 61018 "Gnu" which runs on a Bachmann/Farish A3 chassis, and my kit-built 60532 "Blue Peter" (a resin kit but I can't remember by who), two Peco jubilees repainted into BR livery by the late and sadly missed Fred Hempsall (who also built me a Foxhunter A1 "Flamboyant" which I still have). there is also my first V2 converted (butchered) from a Farish A3 with scratch-built tender on their LMS chassis. I also have a few very early Farish locos like the original 94xx and Holden Tank. Oh, and maybe 8 Union Mills locos, only one of which has had the DCC treatment (a J38).

It must be some kind of illness I think! 

Roy

Just the 189 for me.
And the 44 DMU/EMUs
Which don't include the 13 HSTs

It is an affliction! At least they're colourful!

That really is a class 66 compulsion!!

More than some, but not as many as others!

I started in 2009, try to stick fairly rigidly to WCML post-2010 models, I think I've only got a handful that don't fit. Total of about 150, but it's a long time since I counted, and I do sell stuff on quite regularly. Think I've now hit fifty class 66s with the release of the Revolution ones!

Quote from: Newportnobby on January 08, 2026, 12:50:57 PMSo fess up - numbers please

OK. When I was an OO kid modeller in the 1960s I got 1 train a year. I had five when I changed to N in 1970.

We were not well off when I was at secondary school or even at Uni, and so I had maybe 10 N gauge by the age of 25. With my first job I had cash to spare. By the age of 40 I think I had around 50 locos. Then Farish sold out to Bachmann and there was a shortage, especially of green diesels!

Salaries went up, as did the desire to possess something even if it didn't fit in with what I was modelling at the time. I think that this qualifies as an addiction. I now had the ability to own something that in the past I could not have afforded. So I bought it. But I have also been selling things acquired like that too, because I can always look back and say "Yes I had one of those once". The Blue Pullman (Midland Pullman) is a classic example of that.

So in fact my stock is not as excessive as some. Well that's what I tell myself, anyway. It is themed by era, and I've narrowed the eras down to exclude most of the 1980s and 1990s now. The focus is on 1955-1968 and 1968-1980 now. And that's because of the availability of stock that fits my preferred regions (S and W) and eras (4-7).

And as I said before, of those 50 odd locos I had pre-2005, I only have my first N gauge loco, a Peco Jubilee, for posterity. Everything else has been bought post 2005 (but this also includes older models, like the Peco Adams B4 tank, for example).

Ah. That was cathartic.
Bob