Train Running Poll

One inverted 8, so one train at a time.

5 and possibly a sixth

 

Norm

Two

None.

 

My layout is so packed with projects - finished and not - that nothing can move except

around one of my mains, which is now nothing but a test track. You're not actually

supposed to run these things, are you?

3:

2 O 3-rail

1 On30

 

I could have another enigne moving in the yard, but the lead isn't long enough for it to do anything else.

4

Safely, only two. I have two loops. I can run two trains on each loop, but you have to watch it and they should probably be limited to 6-8 cars each including engine. I tried running four on one loop once, that got ugly when I tried to stop them all separately.

Well there is only one of me and the layout is designed as a single track loop to loop with a junction to another return loop.  Two on that configuration as long as one stops at the junction.  There is a trolley loop that is a start and let run setup and a mine switcher that cycles back an forth along a 12 foot track using the now defunct pocono mountain lines reverse board.  There are several locations where trains can hold but the total operating at any one time would be 4.  

On my old layout, I was only able to run 1 train at a time. This was due to only having one transformer (2001 CW-80), running conventionally, and having one main line.

 

My hopes for any future layout I build (possibly this next winter or by summer 2016) is to be able to run two to four locomotives at a time. It would be on two separate loops powered with 180-watt bricks running Legacy (since most of my motive power is TMCC or Legacy) with a switcher doing work in and around a small yard that the outer loop would be connected to. I would have to add TMCC to my conventional locomotives (Williams UP E7 A-A, K-Line Reading Company F7 A-B) and somewhere down the road I would add a smaller, separate loop that would have my first Lionel train (2001 Santa Fe 4-6-4 O-27 locomotive) running around conventionally (using the same CW-80 I mentioned earlier) pulling a short freight consist. 

 

The current "record" on the modular club two track mainline is five;

 

Two DCS consists on the outer loop

One conventional, one LC, and one TMCC on the inner loop

 

Gilly

I have 2 subway loops and 2 loops on the main level, so 4. If I run DCS engines on the main level, I can run 2 trains per loop.

 

Peter

hello guys and gals.....

 

1 at a time is all I need................

 

Tiffany

4

Right now two safely with legacy/tmcc, on two main lines.

rob- if you cut me a deal on that nyc shark nose and a few more switches  at least three if not 4.  ��

 

-eric

Eric,

 

How many switches are you looking for?

Definitely 2, maybe 4.  One O72 LH and RH.  Still working on the expansion plan. Trying to get the wife to agree that she won't miss parking in the garage  

If I just want to let them run and by the selves then 4
Any more than that and I have to get involved... The most I've had was 7 at once ... but it was pretty hectic!!

Three - one on each loop.

Two O-gauge.

One S-gauge.

at home my 3 loops are kind of small so I limit it to 3 trains.

 

However at the club conventionally we can run 7 at once but with Legacy and DCS many more, have not yet counted the new limit.

That's a nice looking train layout you have.

4

2 loops on main and one doing switching and one on shelf loop around the room 

4 on Mains (counting lashup 8 engines)

1 subway loop

5 trains plus a trolly line.

I have two loops of about 120 feet each.  I have run up to 4 trains on each loop with command control and Odyssey turned on.  Eight trains is a lot to keep track of so I usually run no more than 3 per loop. Even with 6 trains the mixture of Legacy and TMCC makes it hard to keep constant spacing.

4 & 1 trolley

I have none at this time, but hopefully I will have one in the near future. I did have some years ago but when I had the opportunity of using my trains to start a public Christmas display at a volunteer fire station 35 years ago I had to dismantle the one that I had in my basement to bring the display together.

 

My goal was to have as much moving as possible. We started off with a 10' x 32' display and it has grown to 22' x 44'. The last year that I was involved with was in 2007. But in 2004 I had 18 trains and 2 trolleys each operating on their own tracks and on 7 different levels. I even designed the display to have a 6' wide walkway right thru the center of it.

 

But right after they opened to the public last year I have decided to go back and help them out again. Last year they had 9 trains operating by DCS, so maybe they will have more running this year.

 

I just wish that I had the room to put a large layout together. I have to at least wait for my youngest daughter graduates next year to see what the future will hold.

 

Anyway here are some photos of that 20 rail display.

 

Four, two on each mainline but I really have to pay attention to make sure every train keeps proper spacing or bang.

3 on the On-30 mountain.

2 on the main lines

2 on the superstreets.

1 on the O-9 line

James 

Three and a slim chance for a four.

My club has two mainlines. Each can run 2 trains conventionally at a time using block control with left throttle/right throttle/off  switches for each block. That's 4.

We also have three small loops and two subway loops which adds 5 more.

We have an out and back single track with Dalee auto reverse and station stop control - 1 more

That's 10 total.

We are in the process of completing an additional dog bone loop which was started last year. That will give us 11 trains running simultaneously.

One. Though, come to think of it, another can move a foot or two in an MTH single-stall engine house - I set it up that way but have never used it.

The layout I just started will accomadate 6 to 8 trains depending on the lenght. when I run trains with just me running it will be no more then 2 or 3. I am a believer that the less the better to enjoy them. I came to this conclustion after running as many as 10 to 12 trains at AGHR could be a bit much, 6 to 8 was tight but still to much to watch even with the 1000 ft. main lines. My layout will have two main lines with many sidings to make it interesting and fun.

Three; 2 mainlines and a trolley loop.

On my 6' X 12' I can run three O-gauge and one ON30 at the same time.

ON my transportable 4'X8' Cisco RR I can run 2 O-gauge trains.

 

So if I put them in the same room, I can run six at the same time.

 

I have four main lines, but I can run five engines at the same time. Lionel Odyssey allows me to run two engines on the largest main line.

 5 on a 38x13 layout plus a 44 ft. long trolley line.

3....two on the main and one in the yard

THREE EACH on two layouts in two different homes in two states! 

5 and 3 'bumper' cars, if nobody asks questions while they are running.

 

Theoretically, we could have four all at once, but we really choose to run only two at once (not enough of us to do more than two). We have a mainline loop that can run, and then either the lumber switchback area, the roundhouse engine servicing area, the sawmill area, or the yards area for switching.

John