Number of locos

[BramptonBranch]

Favourite loco Minitrix Warships, I have err a few..Farish WD  2 -8 - 0 is great,Peaks were a common sight on the Midland Main line so have a couple,soft spot for the kit built Metro Vick too.oh and 08s must have a few Brush 4s.....
then theres the type 1s (20s)......

[Bad Raven]

Numbers are irrelevent.

I have less than I want and more than I need. 


When I get the current tramway board finished I can restart clearing the "unfinished kits/mods dept", which includes:-

LMS Garratt
LMS Ex Midland 0-4-4T
LMS Ex L&Y Saddle 0-6-0T (making two)
LMS Turbomotive (this has "only" needed lining, numbers, etc for a decade!!)
LMS Princess
LMS ex LNWR 0-6-2T Coal Tank (Etched)
LMS exL&Y Steam Railcar (making two)
LMS exMR "Flatiron" 0-6-4T (making two, this one black)
LMS exMR 0-4-2T "Bissel Truck" (heavy hack on a GWR Pannier!)
LMS unrebuilt "Royal Scot"

(and probably a few more not remembered!)

[Gyppy101]

Numbers are not irrelevant.  The original poster asked how many locos we had!

[joe cassidy]

Dave (Bad Raven),

What is your starting point for the Flatiron ?

Best regards,


Joe

[PennineWagons]

I've got piles.
PW

Maybe I could have phrased that better.
I've probably got around three dozen locos. Which, as I can now see from other posts, isn't many at all. There are a great many people on this forum whose piles are much bigger than mine.
PW

[icairns]

My loco collection (first N gauge loco kit bought in 1967):

- Steam = 22
- Diesel = 28
- Electric = 3
- DMUs = 5
   Total = 58

Breakdown:
- Ready to Run = 39
- Modified RTR = 5
- Kit-built = 10
- 3D Print = 3
- Scratchbuilt = 1

List attached, if you are interested.

Ian

[Bad Raven]

Dave (Bad Raven),

What is your starting point for the Flatiron ?

Best regards,


Joe

Its an old Beaver Kit from ABS Models of (unsurprisingly??) Poole!, code N654 dating from the 80's or early 90's AFAICR,   Its not a bad whitemetal kit, using the then obiquitious Grafar GP Tank 0-6-0T with provided truck and wheels. I bought two kits as its a favourite (and visually quite different to almost anything else). Only made one so far, it was shown in the NGS Journal way back when my first non area specific "Wyrefleet" was featured.

I also have Beaver N653 kit unbuilt, which is a LMS (exHR) 0-6-4T, same chassis.  As said, I have more than I can remember, especially as most are 70 miles away from where I'm on Lockdown, and have not surfaced fro a decade while my interests were elsewhere.

Both of mine were bought shortly after they became available and the castings are nice and crisp.

[Les1952]

In three words- perhaps too many...

Totalled as follows
UK Steam-  44 Pacifics (A4-17, A3-17, A1-5, A2-4, Britannia-1),  6 V2s, 14 4-6-0s (10 B1s and 4 other), 2 0-6-2T, 2 0-6-4T, 4 2-6-0s, 3 4-4-0s, 8 0-6-0s, 6 2-8-0s (4 WD), 6 9F 2-10-0, 4 0-6-0ST, 2 0-6-0PT, 2 0-4-4T, 1 2-6-4T total 100 plus  any I've forgotten
UK diesel - 3 shunters, 1 type 1, 5 type 2, 5 type 3, 2 type 5 total 16
UK DMU- 2 2-car, 1 3-car, 2 4-car total 5

UK motive power total 121 or so..  This now only has one layout to run on (Croft Spa) with the sale of Hawthorn Dene and Rise Park.

Continental steam 5
Continental B-B diesels 3, other diesels 2
Continental Bo-Bo electrics 29- I think.
Continental Co-Co electrics 2
Continental other electrics 3
continental railcars/dmu 2  total 47       This lot is all for Bregenbach which is only 8 feet by 2 feet...

That makes a total of 168 minus any boxes I've missed- and that is after I've been thinning out the collection having sold Hawthorn Dene.

Plus of course Thomas and Percy now sitting in the showcase waiting for reassignment....

It also ignores the 50 or so OO small locos for NO PLACE.....

You can't have too many locos.
Les

[longbow]

Let's face it - beyond 50 or so locos, you have more than you'll ever need for all the layouts you'll ever build. And so you've become a collector.

[Bealman]

I've got piles.
PW

Maybe I could have phrased that better.
I've probably got around three dozen locos. Which, as I can now see from other posts, isn't many at all. There are a great many people on this forum whose piles are much bigger than mine.
PW

I actually know a joke about piles which has a railway connection. I could probably get away with it on the forum, but it's pretty long, so I can't be bothered typing it.

It's one of those jokes that benefits from gestures during the telling, anyway.

Involves someone pulling the emergency cord. 

[springwood]

Let's face it - beyond 50 or so locos, you have more than you'll ever need for all the layouts you'll ever build. And so you've become a collector.

Fully agree with you longbow. I see Les1952 has a crazy number of locos(!!)..probably won't use a fraction of those. Personally, I've got about a dozen, together with 2 DMUs. There all my favourite ones, so I'm happy with that and it means I can rotate their rosters nice and easily.

[thebrighton]

Dave (Bad Raven),

What is your starting point for the Flatiron ?

Best regards,


Joe

Its an old Beaver Kit from ABS Models of (unsurprisingly??) Poole!, code N654 dating from the 80's or early 90's AFAICR,   Its not a bad whitemetal kit, using the then obiquitious Grafar GP Tank 0-6-0T with provided truck and wheels. I bought two kits as its a favourite (and visually quite different to almost anything else). Only made one so far, it was shown in the NGS Journal way back when my first non area specific "Wyrefleet" was featured.

I also have Beaver N653 kit unbuilt, which is a LMS (exHR) 0-6-4T, same chassis.  As said, I have more than I can remember, especially as most are 70 miles away from where I'm on Lockdown, and have not surfaced fro a decade while my interests were elsewhere.

Both of mine were bought shortly after they became available and the castings are nice and crisp.

And by chance someone listed 3 unmade kits on eBay yesterday.

[Les1952]

Let's face it - beyond 50 or so locos, you have more than you'll ever need for all the layouts you'll ever build. And so you've become a collector.

Fully agree with you longbow. I see Les1952 has a crazy number of locos(!!)..probably won't use a fraction of those. Personally, I've got about a dozen, together with 2 DMUs. There all my favourite ones, so I'm happy with that and it means I can rotate their rosters nice and easily.

During the exhibition season Hawthorn Dene and Croft Spa each went out with three boxes of eighteen locos- both need 22 locos on trains at any one time.  Croft Spa is a high attrition layout for big locos- they run at scale speeds on a line with an 80mph speed limit on the prototype, and pull trains of up to 10 coaches.  If a loco is used over a whole weekend it runs quite a bit over a mile.

I now have two Dapol B1s and one Farish WD where I've worn through the plating on the tyres.  One of the B1s has done 38 shows- that is 38 miles it has run (tender first) - probably beyond its design life. The other was also used on Trevor Webster's "Stamford East" until he sold it, so will have run something approaching the same figure.  The WD is the strongest of my four so is used the most.

My first layout Furtwangen Ost had a tramway that needed five trams to run the service.  I had nine, a number that eventually grew to eleven.  After twenty weekends of showing I noticed that all of the trams were getting to the stage of needing replacement if the layout did many more shows. I then calculated how far each tram had run - yes, about a mile and a half each weekend so they were all reaching or beyond their design life.  Selling the layout was a better option than forking out for a new set of trams at £150 a time.  Its new owner doesn't run intensively so the trams will last a good few years at low mileage.

So yes, I am a bit of a collector but that collection has to work hard for its living.

Les

[ntpntpntp]

Let's face it - beyond 50 or so locos, you have more than you'll ever need for all the layouts you'll ever build. And so you've become a collector.

Oh absolutely, I'll freely admit that and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it (let's not get into the debate whether or not some people's approach is "railway modelling" or "playing trains")   I buy something because I'd like it for my collection, not necessarily because it will fit in with my current layout's theme. 

Despite owning and running a modern themed German N themed layout I can run locos and stock from different time periods at a show just for a change, for example a steam special and historic electric loco session.  I also have items from other countries which wouldn't be seen in Germany but I just happen to like them; souvenir and fantasy liveried models that will never actually be seen on the layout and which sit in a display cabinet; old models from the history of N gauge (push-along Minitrix, Arnold Rapido 200, Ibertren 3-rail N).         

Then there is the stuff in other scales: T, Z, TT, HOe, HO, OO, O, G......

[Newportnobby]

Let's face it - beyond 50 or so locos, you have more than you'll ever need for all the layouts you'll ever build. And so you've become a collector.

Fully agree with you longbow. I see Les1952 has a crazy number of locos(!!)..probably won't use a fraction of those. Personally, I've got about a dozen, together with 2 DMUs. There all my favourite ones, so I'm happy with that and it means I can rotate their rosters nice and easily.

You may say that, but if anyone brought out RTR models of the EM1/EM2 electrics I'd buy them like a shot and have to build another layout I'll never finish