I will get just one big locomotive and thats it.

that's what I said not just about steam engines but all engines, and after I ordered my NPR Berkshire and VL big boy, 8 more engines this year.

Aaaahhh  .  .  . I'm happy

 

I got a great deal on this Southern belle from a Forumite

 

Hmmm . . .  I'll bet an engine like that would fit in my garage

Nope...it starts out with just 1...well ok 2, I meant 3 errrrr well you know. 

Actually, I've managed to do it: back in the 90's, I bought the first run MTH Railking 4-6-6-4 Challenger and haven't gotten anything bigger since.

Of course, if things were somewhat more affordable and were still offered as conventional, it would be a different story.

I just need one more

 

OK, now that's a big locomotive. I can see how one of those would be enough.

 

Gilly

I always buy 'one last big loco'..........

First last one......

 

OK....that's it. No more....I have what I need.

Then I found this........

 

NOW I'm done......I got 'The Big One' so I gotta be done......

Until......

 

Finally.....all the big locos I need.......

Well.......

 

NOW I am finished.......until I find another one!!!

The problem is that they keep making the same model over and over but with different cab numbers - gotta have them all!

You might think that one big locomotive would be enough...

 

HEEH HEEH HAA!!I knew I was not alone in this.I would like to have that live steam northern.I bet puting on the track would be a hassle thou.

That's the problem with these ones, once you have one, you'll want another so that you aren't running the 1st so much.  Then you get into building them, and you find the building is as, if not more, rewarding as running.  It's a never ending cycle.

Actually, the Auburn Valley has two. The second (a twin sister) was inside the shop. Her boiler was off the frame for running gear work.

I said that after I got the RailKing Lionmaster Challenger.

 

...and again after I got the RailKing Big Boy ('cause I was pretty sure I couldn't run anything bigger)

 

Spring York 2013:

 

This...isn't RailKing...

 

 

---PCJ

Yep, I bought a Railking RS3 back in the early 90s just to have a display model of a Seaboard Air Line engine.

 

Now I have 11 (still not bad after 20+ years) with the most expensive being a $600 3rd Rail E7.  I'm now fairly satisfied, but I still kinda want a N&W J (just because I've ridden behind 611) and if I can ever figure out what type of engine pulled the (wrong) train my British uncle Leslie put me on in London back in 1956 I'd like to have a model of it too.

 

To top it off, I bet I haven't put more than 1 hour on all the engines total in the past 3-4 months.

Let's face it, guys. The Webmaster wins with Big Locomotives. 

 

 

They are wonderful   But you can't eat them or pay the electric bill with them. 

Yeah, you will get 1 after another, after another! 

Welcome to the wonderful world of O-Gauge trains. No known cure for what you describe.

My son picked this out for us 30 years ago when we lived in Texas. Never thought I could find a better one.

 

Ray Marion

Yeah. Just like you can eat just ONE salted peanut.

I told that to myself decades ago............ I lied.

You are going to do it anyway, so why fret over it?  I have moved past all guilt to telling myself it is a natural part of being alive.  "I buy big locos.  That's what I do.  It's natural - part of the evolutionary plan."

 

This was taken a year ago and there are five or six more big ones now-okay eight or nine maybe!

 

 

I've always been loco for locos regardless of what scale I was in. Even in On30 where I scratch-bashed nearly all of them, I had too many!  lol

Hello guys and gals....

 

I just have one big engine, S.F.5011 and 2 smaller diesels. We might purchase a Lionel FT starter set diesel. 

 

The woman who loves the S.F.5011,2678,2003

Tiffany

If you have only one big loco, 5011 is a good one to have!

I only have one Big one, Scale Big Boy... plus one Imperial Railking Big Boy... plus a bunch of others that range in size from a docksider to my Newest Imperial Northern, which is pretty big unless it's sitting along side of the Scale Big Boy...

 

Ya, it's an addiction, we are not going to escape it.

I gots me the Premier Allegheny (C&O).

 

That's my one and only steamer, and its big!

THAT'S just pretty!!! Which Big Boy is that........I still want a BB.....maybe THEN I'll be done!!!

Ever since the first MTH Railking Imperial Y6b Norfolk & Western 2-8-8-2 came out, I think circa 2006, I wanted one. Couldn't afford to spend that kind of money on a train nor did I have any N&W and no particular N&W interest. 

 

2010 rolls around and MTH re-catalogs them. Still a "no".....got a nice big tax refund (instead of a pay up notice!) and said "screw it" and bought one as the 2010 run was still pretty easy to find. It is easily my favorite engine but don't plan to buy anything like that again...soon at least.....

Just like this guy. I live in total denial!

 

 

 

Thank you Mr.Willis...

 

The woman who loves the S.F. 5011,2678,2003

Tiffany

When I first got into O gauge, I said I would only need two engines: the K-Line GP38 that I got as a Christmas gift (my very first O gauge item), and the Lionel Pennsylvania Flyer starter set that I wanted, plus both expansion packs.  The idea was that the GP38 would haul all of the freight cars in the base set and operating freight expansion pack, and the starter set 4-4-2 would haul the Polar Express baggage car I had and the passenger expansion pack.  This did finally happen... But then I bought the Lionel "Shakespeare Express", followed by a RailKing Dreyfuss Hudson (which I never thought I would actually be able to get!) and a Lionel Bethlehem Steel 0-4-0.  The only "must-have" locomotive left that I want is the RMT GG1.

Although the Dreyfuss Hudson is technically my largest engine, I consider my Hall-Class 4-6-0 to be my "big engine" because it's the only engine I have that won't negotiate O31 curves.

Aaron

That's the MTH 20-3127-1 from 2004 Vol 1.

 

I got lucky that York

 

---PCJ