What Is Your "Must Have" Engine(s) Or Car(s)?

Always on top of my list-a Lionel 773 Hudson. Someday  !!

Always after MTH premier Westinghouse!

Southern Pacific Daylight passenger train (by Golden Gate Depot, 11 cars), and various SP GS-4 4-8-4s. The most spectacular train on our layout.

My current must haves haven't been made yet. Atlas is working on one of them, just waiting for the official announcement (53' well cars and containers).

I have low expectations, but I really want a set of Santa Fe F (maybe the Railking PAs when they come out) units and matching passenger cars. 

At the moment, I would say a set of Yellow Sante Fe Warbonnets. Thanks to Scott Mann, the F7's should be out in September or October. I have a set of passenger cars patiently waiting on a very long siding to join this power up front.

 

This set has been a long time in coming.

Same here. I keep hoping someone will make a relatively easy to make kit of the road-made hopper cars my narrow gauge modeled RR had in real life. I specify easy to make as I really would need several of them.

That, and I can't believe nobody makes a good Jackson & Sharpe passenger coach in O scale narrow gauge for the correct length. AMS makes one that is pretty close, but it's still a little shorter than a real one... That's the problem with NG modeling, so many people get into it to run the 'shorty' stuff that wasn't common at all even among the 2 and 3 foot lines.

3rd Rail PRR Q1 as it appeared after WWII with its streamlining removed.  I have not found any shop that has it, and I've been outbid a couple of times. Next time it comes up on auction I'm going high.

 

I'm not sure why I want it, but I do.  It is a great looking engine.  However, my layout is set in 1949 but this engine was put in reserve and no longer used after 1946.  Since it wasn't scraped until 1949 I'm going to justify having it on the layout by saying it was brought out of reserve for a short while before it was scraped, something missed by the history books.

 

 

Not a thing in the world wrong with that. Your layout timeline would, to a degree, allow for that anyway.

Buy one. Run it. Enjoy it!

Previously produced:

Any of the "rats"  BB-1 or DD-1..... at some point

 

Not produced yet:

Florida East Coast Mountain class 4-8-2,  MTH premier

At least for this year, I have my 'must haves" on order:

 

3rd Rail CNW SD7/SD9

MTH ATSF GP38-2

MTH "As-Restored" Big Boy #4014 (scale wheels)

MTH CNW GP30

 

Hopefully nothing gets cancelled. Going to have to seriously think about what, if anything I order from the next catalog go-round as I'm running out of space even with my herd-thinning plans.

The post war Marx Lehigh Valley hopper is supposed to be a scale sized hopper for a narrow gauge road somewhere in Nevada.

I'm thankful to own all of my 'must have' list. 

Well, it depends on how much I've been drinking.... early on and I'm looking for a nice vintage KTM K4 or I1..... but stay up to late and I end up with a boiler from this and a motor from that in the mail from all over  

The next MTH LIRR G5 will be a must have.

 

Also a 6-18005 1-700e Hudson at some point. I don't run conventional much any more and the sounds are primitive, but for some reason I just want one. Maybe it's trying to obtain what I couldn't have as a kid.

i have a long time NEED for a UP Veranda capable of O-54.  When Lionel first cataloged the Veranda with the Odyssey motor, it was supposed to be O-54.  When it finally came out, it was with the Odyssey system and O-72. I have it, but i can't run it.  So, a LlonMaster Veranda with a Legacy sound package would be just dandy.

 

 

I have always wanted Lionel to make an Erie Triplex. I know that MTH has there new one and I have own the older version but was not happy with it. I want a Vision Line Erie Triplex.

No one has made any of my absolute "must have" locomotives.

Those would be O scale versions of:

Missouri Pacific 2200 class 4-8-4

Missouri Pacific 2100 class 4-8-4

Missouri Pacific 6600 class 4-6-2

Missouri Pacific EMD E-7's

SSW Cotton Belt 800 class 4-8-4

Texas and Pacific 600 class 2-10-4

Frisco 4500 class 4-8-4 

Rock Island R67b 5000 class 4-8-4

Every Triplex, Every Duplex, Every Articulated, Every Turbine ever made....I am already poor...Really

If I was starting from scratch and could only get an engine every six months and one car every month, I think I would start with a sp daylight steam, then sf warbonnet f3,  up F3, then 18005 Hudson.  Cars:milk car, coal dump 3359, 3370 outlaw, 16705 hobo car, horse car, forklift car , barrel car, culvert car, satellite car, searchlight car, smoking caboose.  Accessories: 497 coal loader, 464 forklift, barrel loader, culvert unloader, loader, 132 station, 145 gateman. 
With a 2 yr old grandson modeling and prototypical quickly disappeared.  Gotta have action and color.  I should be able to reclaim my hobby in 5 or 6 years.   But if not then that's okay.  Would prefer to have someone handy to play trains with and be in charge of new acquisitions for years to come.  His justification and marketing presentations for new purchases are more successful than mine.  Plus we have 2 birthdays to buy for and double purchasing power at Christmas.  All I have to do is print out a picture of something he likes from the internet.
What a great life.

CPR T1 Selkirk and the room to run it.

There is nothing in current production that I would consider a must-have except the Milwaukee Road USRA Heavy Mikado, which I have on pre-order.

 

There are only two things I want at this point, neither of which is likely to be produced. First is more Milwaukee Road steam. Top of the list would be a K class 2-6-2 Prairie, then an S-2 or S-1 class Northern, and after that a Ten-Wheeler or maybe an N class 2-6-6-2. 

 

The other thing I would jump for is a Beyer-Garratt. 

I've got the GG-1 in Tuskan and Broadway Limited cars, so that's done.

I also picked up a few Marx El Capitan cars so....   

 A Santa Fe carbody with the War Bonnet, the more powered units the better.

 

  But after that first A unit is moving, a Green 5 stripe GG-1, or P5a, R1 or DD2 is on the radar again. Or at least a 520 like, box cab.

 

My most wanted engine would be the MTH Union Pacific with the yellowing pin striping and the smoke deflectors.  My must have would be a set of new CZ cars from Lionel like the ones they made similar to the old K-Line 15" Reel Steel cars.

Same old list of three rail rolling stock nobody has made: Little River 2-4-4-2, Great Western/Strasburg 2-10-0. SMALL two truck Heislers (a couple of different ones), 

McKeen car, Brill gas electric, Mack railbus, Edwards railbus, steam dummy, inspection

engine..maybe a 4-4-0 version...and ....????  Several cabooses in three rail, the FEC

side door, sold to Great Western and others, the Colorado Midland side door, several

other lengthy side door, combine, and drover cabooses from the Burlington, Missouri

Pacific, and several obscure southeastern roads.  All of this steam era.

GE 9-44CW is absolutely essential on my railroad.  I could give up my sd70aces, es44acs, 8-40cw's, sd40-2s.  But not the Dash 9.

I don't think it is a must have , but if Lionel continues to come out with the Lion-Master steam engines. I will be in more deep trouble. Love those things.

Larry

My old must have was any sort of scale Dreyfuss Hudson. Now that I have an MTH Premier model my new must have are the matching 20th Century Limited passenger cars.

Right now it is the Atlas F-3s in Santa Fe.

Paul,

   I guess right now it's the upgraded Tin Plate 249ERR that just came back from gunrunnerljohn's work shop. As far as I know it's the only one of it's kind, and I am very grateful to Guns for doing the custom work on it.  I never dreamed I would have such nice remote controlled Tin Plate Trains to run at Christmas time, I am like a kid in a toy store with this kind of upgraded original equipment.

PCRR/Dave

Keith,

   Nice looking Tanker Train, way cool!

PCRR/Dave

I think I pretty much have my 'must-haves'—that would be a RailKing Dreyfuss Hudson, RMT GG1, and Lionel Shakespeare Express.  The only item I can think of that I don't have (and it's more of a 'want-to-have' than a 'must-have') would be a LionMaster T1 Duplex.

(I think I could live without the MTH Orient Express.  It would require too much money and too much space.)

I have it x2, which completes all the locomotives I will ever need or want. I have enough (hobby-heresy, I know.)

What Is Your "Must Have" Engine(s) Or Car(s)?

 

The new tooling items that haven't been produced yet.

NO MORE COOKIES.

If I started O gauge differently, I would do all logging locos Heislers, Climax, Shays and, Log Cars lots of them. My Dream engine I would like to get when Lionel Remakes 3751, I'm gonna go get it.

If a New Haven Comet train set was ever offered I would get one.

MTH Nickel Plate and Illinois Terminal Heritage Diesels.  Those are my boy's favorite heritage units.   I'd like to get them each one for Christmas.

Extant:

20-20067-1

 

"Must have"? Must have it all!

But really, I have 3 modern diesels that I'd really like to have

NS SD60E
NS SD70 (standard cab)
CSX SD40-3

I can't see these ever occuring on their own unfortunately....

Trevor