Do you have a train car that you have never run?

Peter -

 

Seriously? That's one of the most annoying parts of having "O-Gaugeus Acquisitionitis".

Most (most!) of the rolling stock I own is still in the box. Not on purpose - but I still

pick up a piece here and there and here...now, mostly, as soon as I get it I take it out

and at least go put it on the layout (then throw the box away - there, I said it!). Then I

have to move it because there's no room...now where did I put that box?

 

Locos I always test, now, as soon as I get them. It's the "get them" that I don't do nearly as much, but "occasionally" still adds up. And I have one coming right now from daBay.

But it was a deal!

 

It's too crazy for comfort, in all honesty.

I have never run my 100 anniversary gold plated lionel caboose.  Its strictly a shelf queen.

I feel your pain.  I gave up on my corral a long time ago.

 

Jeff Davis

Lots of them.

 

 

More than I am willing to tell my wife about.

I've got a MIB 6827 flat with the orange-yellow variation crane load.  Was thinking of breaking it out and super-detailing the crane a bit one of these days, just haven't gotten around to it.

 

 

Thanks for bringing this up...yes I have one.

 

I took the last tour with OGR to Tony Lash's layout and got one of his cars.....he signed the car for us. It has never been run and probably will never be run. Tony was a super host and a very kind gentleman. I don't know what happened to his layout, but I thank God that I was so blessed to see it and have it inspire me with mine.

I have a TTOS Smokey Bear set of three cars, tank car, flat w/ airplane, and boxcar.  I don't know why I didn't run them yet but I didn't?  I like the way they look but gotta get em on the track.

Dismantled when he sold off his business and retired to Florida.  It was quite a remarkable layout, to be sure.

Maybe this will help?

 

A similar one was given to me by a close friend, that got it from his dear wife. Sorry, but at least it wasn't a picture of one of those daylight cab forwards...

I have several pieces of rolling stock. The only time I run the trains is at Christmas.

Don

nope. If i have it, it either has been run, or will get run as soon as I get it in the basement.

A Williams brass Hudson, that is proudly on my mantle for the past couple of years. It hasn't been run, simply because I have not had a layout in many years, and am currently renovating the basement after almost 20 years to be a livable space for a layout...then, of course, have to figure out if I can build a layout with curves wide enough for it to run okay

Never run my Gold plated Lionel scale Hudson and caboose.

The one car I have never run is in the center of this old photo of my 1980's layout, the C&NW Bi-level coach. I don't know the manufacturer, it was a kit. Wood floor, wood roof, metal ends, trucks and couplers, and plastic sides. I still have it, in pieces, but it has never rolled an inch in any train on any track.

 

 

The PE with the smoking whistle locomotive has never even seen its box opened. I have several add-on PE passenger cars, the Elvis anniversary car, the Theodore Roosevelt, Truman and maybe the Andrew Jackson (?) cars that also have never seen the outside of their boxes.  I have the MTH Premier Pacemaker freight cars that came with the Premier Mohawk and only one has been out of its box.  Finally, I have a Lionel Southern Express set from 1972 that has never been run.  

 

Peter

With the exception of a few cars I just bought in the last week or two ALL HAVE BeEN RUN

Yes!  Hundreds of pieces.  No exaggeration, either.  I only have a little bitty 4' x 6' layout.  Meanwhile I've been stockpiling inventory for many, many years hoping I would have a place to run all of it some day. 

I will finally have a brand new 18' x 24' train room later this year.  I can't wait to finally let all of this stuff see the light of day!  My intention is to run all of it...I definitely don't want to be a "collector" any longer!

All of our engines have been run.  There are a few items of rolling stock that for one reason or another have not made it to the track yet.

We are still using a carpet central with fastrack, so it may be a little while longer before I get to them all.

Jon

I have a Lionel postwar 6472 reefer that I picked up as "New Old Stock" so its only been out of the box once. It feels neat to be the first consumer to own it and since it hadn't run in 50+ years, some more won't hurt

 

Peter

A simple • No

2007 Silver Denver Mint Banquet Car
http://www.tranz4mr.com/Photo_...Denver_Mint_Car.html

Far, far too many.  

Many, but will get to all of the O gauge ones eventually (I hope).  Even some of the non-O-gauge ones I have may see some kind of track time somehow, but that is more of an up-in-the-air type of thing.

 

Andy

I have numerous weaver cars from the eighties and nineties still in their shrink wrap. That was when I was buying from hobby shops around the country to get their special run weaver cars. Also a majority of the club cars I have bought have not seen the rail. But I have only one engine that never saw running time ......................Paul

Still have loads of freight rolling stock on the shelf from 30+ years of collecting/buying but all 33 engines have either been run or tested.  About 13 years ago I became an operator and came to realize that we had more trains than could possibly be run. Plans call for many cars to be placed on secondary trains on the passing sidings and on the factory sidings.  Should be able to display and run 40-50 cars on the layout and that should be satisfying. The P/W stuff will mostly fill shelves as collectible pieces. New buying is on semi-permanent hold, as there is always something interesting that seems to comes my way. If you stop completely the fun goes away. I tell you, its a sickness.

I'm still awaiting a permanent layout which should happen when we purchase a new home (soon I hope).  Currently I only set up a Christmas layout in December.  Because of this, several of my high end engines have not been run and are still sitting in their shipping boxes.  This includes:

Vision Line Big Boy

Vision Line NS Gen-set Switcher

Legacy Polar Express (this will be run next year but didn't get it in time to run this year).

Jacob.....no need to keep those great engines in boxes......keep an eye on our website for one of our modular set ups and take a road trip....you (and any Forum member for that matter) are always welcome!      Our 2 Mains are O81 & O72.

 

Peter

Many, many... Lots of Atlas billboard reefers, most of my ETS tinplate, and several Standard Gauge items that I can't run until I get around to restoring or rebuilding them. There are also some locomotives and rolling stock that I bought with the intention of repainting or modifying them.

 

My layout is small (13x13), and still very much under construction, so I spend more of my "train time" building than operating. I do run big engines and long trains at our toy train museum, but that's every couple of weeks at most. So, a lot of my collection gets run once a year, or not at all. 

100's of them .... ;-)

I have run everything at least a little bit. 

 

The one car that took me years to break and run was the original lifesavers tank car.  I have run it few times in limited service until this past weekend.  I took it and several other tank cars to a public display at the local library.  I thought it would get a fair amount of attention but boy was wrong!  You simply can't compete with two polar express trains and Thomas.  With that competition my prized chrome plated tank cars just faded into obscurity

My only "sins" are the 2353 Santa Fe's that I bought at a local train store. They had been run, but not much. The B unit is immaculate.

  So far I have yet to run the CN Coal train set I bought at Oct 2010 York.

Yeah trains are for running.........I will probably NEVER run the 2353's (they are the scarce year) but the coal train will see some track time next year. At Christmas time loaded with candy.

 

several in fact, but the one i want to run and cannot find in the closet is a testing "weight car"

 

it will show up one day

 

good thread peter

 

j

this may sound crazy but i have more rolling stock and engines than i have track to put them on 

I want to consider myself as a operator but the sad thing is that I have not had a layout in my home since 96. My problem has been is that I have been buying for my future layout that has not developed yet. I have way more trains that have never seen tracks then I could ever imagine.

 

So in the past few days I have finally decided that soon I will be downsizing collection.

 

Funny, I was under the layout and "found" a bulkhead flat and depressed center flat that I had forgotten about.  Nice new boxes.

 

I like the looks of my Alaska freight now, so I suppose they'll get some run time I get some loads for them. It's already too long for my siding. Somebody will have to get parked. The demurrage will kill me.

you, me, and most of the people on this forum!

I have a few but the only one I can name for certain is the Centennial Lionel Crane car. All die cast and the same design as the old PW crane cars.

Lionel 3562-25 red lettered barrel car in the box

I found two K-line aluminum tankers and covered hopper. I will never run them but might put them in a display case. Right now they are on the for sale forum 

 

Clem k