Steam Roster

Nice looking collection obx, just a couple of mine

Rail King Pennsy Mallet

Good idea for a new thread - thanks for starting this one

Over the years I've transitioned from post war to mostly full scale 3 rail equipment. I still have a few however that are favorites:  The Super O General 1872, 1947 Berkshire 726, and a prewar 1666 with a few tinplate cars. First train was Christmas 1949 in New Orleans with this American Flyer set headed by a PRR K5 #310. Photo below of me with it on the porch of our home. Still have the set and this Gilbert American Flyer 326 Hudson 4-6-4

Modern era steamers include a Williams PRR T1

K-Line Hudson 5344

Legacy PRR K4

Legacy /K-Line B&M Berkshire

Lionel N&W 611 J Class

MTH Erie Berkshire

Lionel 4-8-2  Mohawk

Lionel C&O 2-10-4 'Texan'

MTH 2-8-2 Southern Mikado 4501

Lionel Southern 4-6-2 Pacific PS4

Legacy 5445 Dreyfuss

MTH 5450 NYC Dreyfuss

Lionel ERIE 4-6-2 Pacific

Lionel B&O 'President Harrison' 4-6-2 Pacific

Legacy Fresco 2-8-2- Mikado

Lionel American Flyer 2-8-2 Southern Mikado 4501

Lionel Large Scale NYC 4-4-2 Atlantic

Gilbert American Flyer 326 Hudson 4-6-4

A few pictures

@obxtrainman posted:

I don’t have many. I love my trains.
I had limited access to the trainroom over the holidays. I had ordered a Christmas Lite Express for upstairs. It’s a shame we can’t find  the one add on car for that set?2028300?  After it came in I wasn’t able to go upstairs for awhile. I ended up ordering eight sections of 0’31 curve. It came in on Xmas Eve. I set it up on dining room table and am still running trains on it. I eventually over the last couple of weeks brought down a 990 and a power master. It’s easier to service here than upstairs. I’ll eventually remove this loop and go back to the test track that I had made. 🤔 Is there a better hobby?

obx

Well, I'm not surprised that the Drill Sergeant has those engines in "dress right dress" order!

Here’s a video of a (very) small part of my steam roster - an NYC Hudson… an NYC Niagara… an NKP Berkshire… and a PRR J1a (all Lionel Legacy).

Steam rosters?  Oh my.  While I may be known for my GG1 collection, I do have a soft spot for steam locomotives too.  Nice collection @obxtrainman!  My roster has some postwar locomotives with a 1964 773, 2026, 736, 681, and a 2035.  Only the 773 is in the kind of condition to make it collectible.  However, I do have a large collection of 1:48 scale locomotives in 2 and 3 rail.  Most are brass with probably half of them in the "budget brass" category from Weaver and Williams.  My oldest O locomotive is a Walther's Mikado from 1941 that I'm in the process of rebuilding.  It's been quite the restoration project as my soldering skills are not up to par on brass / metal locomotives.   

Well I don't have a current roster handy but some of you started by talking about your initial train.  So here I am in 1946 with the "Donald Duck" 0-4-0 string powered switcher that ran on Mom's carpet!! This was the start of the obsession I joyously live with every day today. 

Best Wishes

Don

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@ToledoEd posted:

Well, I'm not surprised that the Drill Sergeant has those engines in "dress right dress" order!

He’s left over from Xmas. I had in front of toys for tots dressing down rudolf and his girlfriend for not bringing in enough toys 😜

Paul, that's a terrific presentation having the brutes pass one at a time in your video!  Is that a 'smoke free zone' perchance?

@Apples55 posted:

Here’s a video of a (very) small part of my steam roster - an NYC Hudson… an NYC Niagara… an NKP Berkshire… and a PRR J1a (all Lionel Legacy).

Sweet😃

Here's part of my steam roster, this is 16 of the total of 55 Steam locomotives, the others are distributed on the turntable, freight yard, and other shelves.  50 are command, either Legacy, TMCC, or DCS, the other 5 are going to be when I get around to converting them.

All great presentations gentlemen. This looks like a  great subject and I need to enter. Paul, nice idea with the parade.

@Bill Park posted:

All great presentations gentlemen. This looks like a  great subject and I need to enter. Paul, nice idea with the parade.

Paul certainly gets the presentation award, cool display on the roll!

Couple more on the Steam Roster

@obxtrainman posted:

I don’t have many. I love my trains.
I had limited access to the trainroom over the holidays. I had ordered a Christmas Lite Express for upstairs. It’s a shame we can’t find  the one add on car for that set?2028300?  After it came in I wasn’t able to go upstairs for awhile. I ended up ordering eight sections of 0’31 curve. It came in on Xmas Eve. I set it up on dining room table and am still running trains on it. I eventually over the last couple of weeks brought down a 990 and a power master. It’s easier to service here than upstairs. I’ll eventually remove this loop and go back to the test track that I had made. 🤔 Is there a better hobby?

obx

What? That's it? Amateur....!

In fact, I wish that I had had more restraint. Really. Your roster above would have been considered unimaginably vast when i was a kid; unthinkable.  Even if all of what you have had even been available. You show 8 locos - in a rational world that would be plenty.

But, for several years now I have been (almost entirely) a recovering trainaholic. 

A few from my collection.

@c.sam posted:

Paul, that's a terrific presentation having the brutes pass one at a time in your video!  Is that a 'smoke free zone' perchance?

Yes, Sam… my house is a smoke free zone!!! The smell reminds me of petroleum. One of the first things I do with a new engine is to turn off all smoke. I will admit that I did try the smoke units on my Lionel BigBoy (the first run). I wanted to check out the whistle smoke and the alternating smoke from the 2 main stacks. The smell hung in the air for a week

@GG1 4877 posted:

A few from my collection.

Wonderful collection, Jonathan. And I noticed you just had to slip in a GG1