Road names, Are you selective or like em all?

I stick to local with engines. Local being B&O, Chessie, C&O, Amtrak, CSX, a little Pennsy, etc. Subject to change of course...(there may be an N&W 2-8-8-2 in my basement).....

 

Rolling stock is pretty much across the board. Whatever I like and feel like spending money on. 

All I have are Santa Fe Engines, I love the War Bonnet paint schemes. However I do like other road names as well. In the past I have had Burlington Northern and, Milwaukee Road. But eventually they get sold and I go back to the Blue and Yellow

As long as I like the look of the livery and the price, all livery's are welcome on my layout although I am partial to UP and PRR, GN and FEC.

CNJ,CNJ,CNJ
OK I have others
Reading,B&O,CSX,NS.BNSF ,Santa Fe,Union Pacific(4014)
Amtrak
In rolling stock all of the above plus many more

I'd say I'm very selective.  I favor Santa Fe, Union Pacific, and to a lesser extent Denver and Rio Grande. When I buy any other road name, I am buying an specific and iconic loco I want, something not available in ATSF, UP, or D&RG. 

 

Sometimes I leave the loco alone and just live with it, as for example my entire train, the B&O Royal Blue (just too pretty as was) or the Vision Hudson and Premier S-1, but most times I repaint and relabel them as UP or ATSF, as below: top to bottom, NYC Mohawk, the Southern Crescent, and the N&W J. 

 

 

In the beginning, I was all over the board.  Whatever I like, I got.  No matter what the road name was.  In the past few years, I have scaled down a bit.  Now I stay with local roads, Western Maryland and Pennsylvania.

I keep it to RR who were headquartered in PA otherwise I'd have far too many items to fit on the layout.

 

--Greg

I have only two roads. Union Pacific and Milwaukee and I have only passenger cars.

Chessie System (C&O, B&O, and WM) Engines. Except circus colors in WM and selective in cars i get mostly coal hoppers and grain hoppers etc.  

The main ones now are:

All the Military, Clinchfield,Southern,FEC,Seaboard,CSX,ACL.

 

Larry

I promised myself when I got into the hobby that I would only buy BNSF, as a strategy to limit my spending.  If I bought every loco I liked from every time period, I would soon be overwhelmed with more stuff than I could run, plus an empty bank account.

 

I have ventured a little into UP territory, though...

Mostly LIRR except for an ALCO Amtrak, Hogwarts and Thomas set (for the grandson).

Scotie

I'm fairly selective - Western Maryland (local road) is my favorite and makes up all of my locomotives and the majority of my rolling stock. Other local railroads that would have been seen on/around the WM also appear on my layout in some rolling stock - B&O, C&O, PRR, and Reading. 

In the past few years I have been more selective in road names, mainly Reading Lines and Reading Company, Reading & Northern, Philadelphia & Reading Railways and some Amtrak.

 

I have trying to sell off some Pennsy and Lehigh Valley.

 

Lee Fritz

I am selective:  I select whatever engines appeal to me.

Whatever I like I run. My railroad, the Lionel Lines Railway Company can never seem to get enough motive power or rolling stock, so they often end up leasing/buying motive power and rolling stock from other railways. If the paint is good, why repaint it?

Steve,

   I like them all, from the old K-line Sea Board, to the Big Williams UP City Of San Francisco, to the PRR GG1, to the NASA work Train & US Army Special Forces Train, to all the unmarked different Tin Plates trains, however my very favorites, the old Green Union Railroad engines & rolling stock have never been made.  Love to have them most of all someday.  My latest is a West Virginia Mountain Logging Engine, the Legacy Meadow River Lumber Company Shay, that helped work the Pa & WVA mountains in my Great Grandfathers era.  He in fact drove one of these engines as they logged the Pa mountains.

PCRR/Dave 

Perfer Louisville& Nashville (L&N) but have a Norfolk Southern, NYC and now a UP

 

Brent

I'm definitely selective.

Just a few.......

 

New York Central

New Haven

New York Ontario & Western

Conrail

PennCentral

Pennsylvania

Lehigh & New England

Amtrak

Delaware & Hudson

Union Pacific

Lionel Lines

US Army

MTA subways

 

 

Peter

all PRR power

Modern Conrail Gp38- Sd80

Modern Amtrak Sdp40F- P42

 

Demonstrators up to SD90.

I started only UP but then my grandkids and son wore me down with BNSF.  Si my railroad is just after the UP and BNSF merged.  That also allows me to have the fallen flags of these RR's.

 

Art

Jersey central, lehigh valley, nj transit, amtrak, ns, csx.  Basically things that ran or currently run through new jersey near my home.

very selective prr b&o erie ac&y nyc milw and anything else with wheels under it. i guess that might not be very selective....

When I was doing HO I was an Espee modeler with some WP thrown in occasionally, for variety. Sold all that stuff years ago, and now, since I run postwar Lionel, the road name choice is simplified...Lionel Lines. This saves the chores related to trying to match prototype details (...ie snowplow pilots) as well as special paint and lettering. This happy circumstance results in more time to run the trains. 

Mostly Long Island. But I do hope they start coming out with some earlier schemes. For example the black/Brunswick VO1000, RS-1 with gold lettering

I like them all, but due to the thinness of my wallet, I have limited myself to the Reading (as I use to see these engines as a kid) and the B&O (as I have lived in MD for the last 24 years).

 

Jim

VERY SELECTIVE.  Just roads that ran in Colorado during the steam era, oops... that would encompass freight cars.....presently, locos are either D&RGW or lettered with custom decals for my fictional road.  Others are planned kitbashes for relettering to Great Western and, maybe, Colorado Midland.  (I have the decals and loco for the

GW, just no loco yet for the CM...need to get on it and letter the GW one)

 

UP only for me.

My primary road names are Southern and Norfolk & Southern.  I also have the Milwaukee Road in my collection, but only 1 engine and passenger cars.   If my wallet allowed it and more space, I would have more of the Milwaukee Road.  I would also consider Nickel Plate Road, BNSF, Norfolk & Western, but by keeping primary to the Southern & NS keeps me out of trouble!  

I have two favorites.....

I live and grew up in Florida. And on the s line its CSX territory so naturally I tend to favor the CSX road name along with its predecessors that sparked my fasination with trains in the mid 80s as a boy living by the tracks. Colorful consist including the Chessie System, Seaboard System, Family Lines etc. I loved the way the trains looked during the merger years. But I also have a few Southern and NS locomotives. I have always thought the Southern railway had some tough looking diesels. With the black and white "tuxedo" high hoods I would see as a kid In south Georgia, to the present day Norfolk Southern heritage units.

At first blush I figured NYC, PRR and N&W but after looking at what I have I am really all over the place.  I'll be honest here,  I have to include Lionel Lines as well.  I guess if its O gauge the road name doesn't really matter.

As long as it says Western Maryland I'm not the least bit selective.

I lean towards PRR and Amtrak, but I like bright and shiny things.  Whatever road looks good to me at any particular time, I'm likely to get it.

I limit my roster to the Erie Lackawanna  and Erie railroad.  I try to keep to the time period right

At the merger.  However, I couldn't  resist the new legacy  berkshire  and had to get one.

Conrail!!!

I'm selective, I keep my interests centered on a Midwestern Wisconsin theme: Milwaukee Road, Chicago North Western, but I also have some Soo Line, and Green Bay Route items too.

 

However, I deviated from that with a Lionel VLBB 4017 locomotive purchase, because I didn't want to miss out on a special offering, and also because the prototype is preserved in Green Bay.

 

Its nice reading everyone's responses, good thread.