With so many locos and so much rolling stock, I tend to have 'sessions' where I can use the same coaches or wagons with many different locos e.g. a WR steam session, an ER diesel session etc until I've run through them all without getting loads of stock from their boxes.
The good thing about my exhaustive test of Kato #4 points is that I had to try every loco/unit through the points for a full evaluation.

Quote from: jpendle on February 03, 2021, 06:06:01 PM

I've got around 45 things with decoders in them, perhaps I'm in a minority but for me, I want every loco to have a train to run, so my loco purchases are sometimes limited by my rolling stock purchases. MU's are a different matter.

I've got 16 CL66's but a couple more wouldn't go amiss, and 7 CL68's but I'll buy one more as soon as Dapol get around to bringing out a second one in TPE livery.
I'll eventually have 7 Pendolinos as well.

I used to be the same, I've even got an old note on my phone of exactly which wagons each loco would haul, no duplicate liveries or anything. Then one day I realised I had forty 66s. I'm not sure how this happened.

What have you found for seven 68s to haul?!

Quote from: njee20 on February 03, 2021, 07:36:40 PM

Quote from: jpendle on February 03, 2021, 06:06:01 PM

I've got around 45 things with decoders in them, perhaps I'm in a minority but for me, I want every loco to have a train to run, so my loco purchases are sometimes limited by my rolling stock purchases. MU's are a different matter.

I've got 16 CL66's but a couple more wouldn't go amiss, and 7 CL68's but I'll buy one more as soon as Dapol get around to bringing out a second one in TPE livery.
I'll eventually have 7 Pendolinos as well.

I used to be the same, I've even got an old note on my phone of exactly which wagons each loco would haul, no duplicate liveries or anything. Then one day I realised I had forty 66s. I'm not sure how this happened.

What have you found for seven 68s to haul?!

I've got 4 top and tailing my KUA's and my Farish flasks.
I've got one hauling some megafrets, and one idle, although DRS do double head some of their intermodals.
The TPE one is waiting for my MK5 rakes from Revolution.

Regards,

John P

Yep my two are deployed on Megafrets, in a bid to move a decent rake!

I'm going to throw a different spanner in the works here.

A friend who owns a model shop - I'm NOT going to be drawn as to which one but he knows most of his large customer base fairly well - made an interesting observation based on his regulars as they get older.

The proportion of collectors (as in showcase collectors) who suffer from dementia is in his experience about three times as high as the proportion of modellers who suffer it.

That is not related to the number of locos, as many modellers have larger loco collections than many collectors.  The difference is the creative activity of the owner- modellers build things, locos perhaps, or buildings, or scenery etc rather than just sit and enjoy a showcase of toys.

Just a thought
Les

Quote from: jpendle on February 03, 2021, 06:06:01 PM
I'm with @Bad Raven here.

Everybody has somewhere between too many and not enough, where not enough is greater than too many 

I've got around 45 things with decoders in them, perhaps I'm in a minority but for me, I want every loco to have a train to run, so my loco purchases are sometimes limited by my rolling stock purchases. MU's are a different matter.

Regards,

John P

I work the same in reverse- every train needs three locos- one to run the train at a show, a second travels with the layout to act as a change-over spare at the show to cover at-show servicing, and to take over if the first develops a longer term problem. A third is in the box left at home to swap with no.1 or no.2 on return from the show to allow bigger servicing- pre-Covid I occasionally had three shows on consecutive weekends which doesn't give much servicing time in between them.

Bearing in mind Croft Spa has 22 trains running that makes 66 locos to keep the layout active when shows return...

I have three layouts, one BR (NE), one Industrial OO, and one German outline.....

Les

I am currently thinning out analogue BR-outline models after two other layouts I supplied stock to have passed on to new owners.

I guess we could also ask who has the greatest loco to track ratio...

I have 39 Locos - 95% Steam, mainly LNER/BR with some LMS/GWR - none of them were bought full price, usually sales, shows and the Bay. Being annoyingly anal about it I have a spreadsheet of everything, locos average price £69 Average RRP £134.
Most of them new, a few second hand and some NQP from Dapol open days that are destined for minor repairs to get running.

Side note I have 94 coaches; 52 Wagons and 27 vehicles (mainly oxford off the Bay)

Amount of track layout = 0' what I had is in storage and although at one point I had a rolling road test bed that is also stored at present.

Loco to track ratio 39:0 

Quote from: Les1952 on February 04, 2021, 10:40:53 PM
I'm going to throw a different spanner in the works here.

A friend who owns a model shop - I'm NOT going to be drawn as to which one but he knows most of his large customer base fairly well - made an interesting observation based on his regulars as they get older.

The proportion of collectors (as in showcase collectors) who suffer from dementia is in his experience about three times as high as the proportion of modellers who suffer it.

That is not related to the number of locos, as many modellers have larger loco collections than many collectors.  The difference is the creative activity of the owner- modellers build things, locos perhaps, or buildings, or scenery etc rather than just sit and enjoy a showcase of toys.

Just a thought
Les

Maybe this deserves its own thread. A friend once asked me how many members of the club I am a member of had dementia  and the answer was none that I knew.m. My friend said that was the case at every club he had asked. The suggestion being that the problem solving and creative brain work required to build a model railway helps to keep dementia  at bay. I hope that is the case but of course it just be that members go slowly downhill and then just disappear off the radar so we don't hear about it.