What kind of steam engines do you run?

Thanks for the pictures, sorry to say I have never seen a picture of these Pacific's. I really do like the streamline pacific. Maybe somebody will make one. 

 

Thanks again for the pictures,

 

dave

Not following any era.  I just buy what appeals to me.
Lionel Pennsylvania T1...it is a beauty.
Lionel Cab-Forward...unique and just plain cool looking.
K-Line C&O Mikado...real work horse and a great runner.
Several docksiders...I like small steam.
K-Line Tank Engine...neat locomotive.
Lionel PM 1225...like Berkshires, Pere Marquette and Polar Express.
K-Line Allegheny...important to the C&O and my favorite large steam.

At one time I thought about getting a 3rd Rail GTW 4-8-4, but finances and a lack of space brought me back to reality. Eventually, I'd like to find one of the MtH Ps3 version of the Empire state Express 4-4-0 with the original 84" drivers.

 

But 99% of my modeling is trolleys and a little On30 nowadays....

 

Jeff C

All of my steam locomotives are PRR, all TMCC or Legacy control. Most are Lionel with a few Kline. I am listing them from newest (to me) to oldest:

 

PRR Y3 2-8-8-2

PRR J1 2-10-4 (TMCC)

PRR E6 Atlantic #460 Legacy

PRR M1a 4-8-2

PRR A4 0-4-0 Kline/Lionel

PRR K4 4-6-2 Postwar Kline

PRR A4 0-4-0 Kline

PRR H9 2-8-0

PRR L2 2-8-2 Kline

Williams PRR 2-8-2 Mikado - this engine got me hooked on scale engines. I have not run it for quite some time but every time I put it on the tracks it runs. No TMCC so its use has decreased over the years but it still gets a mention.

 

JohnB

I find that I regularly operate models of steam engines built as late as 1944 (4-8-4) all the way to as early as 1905 (2-8-0).   My late tries to replicate the year 1950, so virtually all 20th Century steam was in use, along with the first generation of diesels.  The one requirement I place on my engines is that they are all Milwaukee Road, with a few C&NW engines in reserve. 

 

So the 2-8-0 pulls short "patrol freights", the 4-8-4's pull both time freights as well as passenger trains, the Mikado also handles main line freights and the streamlined Atlantics and Hudsons do the duty on passenger assignments.  No steam switchers at this time.

 

Of course, in the electrified territory, the big electrics take over for all steam. 

 

Paul Fischer

my steam roster-

Weaver Models 4-8-4 (2 rail)

Weaver Models 4-6-2

Weaver Models 2-8-0

Lionel          2-6-0

I run anything and everything that is PRR, both Lionel and MTH mostly MTH Railking and Premier Lines, with a few Erie, NYC and of course NW, J, Y and A. Love them all.

Bob Delridge,

If MTH makes that streamlined Seaboard Pacific in Rail King, I must have it. It's a beauty!

Lately, I love running my 2012 Lionel Southern Crescent 4-6-2 with matching passenger cars.  Anyone who has dropped by my house and seen and heard it in action has been drawn to it.  At some point, I would like to buy one of the Vision Line steamers as soon as I have a big enough layout to showcase it.

These are the steam locomotives I run regularly.

 L=Lionel  M=MTH   W=Weaver 3rd=3rd Rail  A=Atlas  K=K-line

L-4-8-2 MIb Legacy, L-4-4-2 Legacy, L4-8-4 (3751), M-4-8-8-4  M-4-8-8-2  M-2-8-8-3 RS M-0-4-0, M-0-8-0, M-4-8-4 T1, M-4-8-4 FEF, M-4-8-4 S2, M-0-8-8-0 L1, M-2-10-0 Russian, M-2-10-0, M-4-12-2, M-4-8-8-2, M-2-6-6-4 A Class, M-4-10-2, M-2-8-4, K-4-6-2, K-0-6-0 B6, K-2-8-2, A 0-6-0 USRA, 3rd 2-6-0.

I like steam.  My PRR themed layout is frozen in time - 1948.  The PRR was using over 20 different types of steam that year, plus several of the "new" diesels.  I'm about four steam engine types short of having an example of each type.  I run Legacy/TMCC and DCS, with engines from 3rd Rail, Williams, Weaver, Lionel, MTH and K-Line.

 

Ron

Rich:

 

One problem.  Your Berk is a REAL Berk!

OK, I did not renew my FRA certificate some years back, so all I am now is Fireman. Does THAT count? 

My steam roster is all FRISCO, except for a BIG BOY along with a S-3 MILWAUKEE

CapPilot

I also run PRR, what are you missing?

PaPaT

All my steam locomotives  are electric powered.

 

right now, the L Rock Island pacific, legacy is pretty sweet

Lionel T-1 Reading, 8603 C&O, postwar 736 painted T&P and Lionel SP 0-6-0dockside switcher.  Lionel postwar 1656 and 736 Berk are serviced but haven't been out much lately

My roster is constrained by the three roads I admire--Frisco, MoPac, T&P--and the fact that I limit my roster to scale (to keep the numbers under control) and Lionel manufacture.  To date, Lionel has produced 5 scatle steamers for these roads:

 

Frisco 2-8-2

T&P 4-8-2

Frisco 4-6-0

MoPac 2-8-2

T&P 2-8-2

 

Of the five, I have and run the first three.

 

Sitting as a display piece on a shelf is MoPac 2-8-4 #1125 which I 'bashed out of an MPC Berk-clone (the SRR 2-8-2). 

Short-wheelbase British locomotives - originally because I use 027 track with 027 curves. Currently running Lionel's Thomas and Percy-redone-as-Ivor-the-Engine from the BBC television series. 

PaPaT,

 

The engines in use by the PRR in 1948 that I don’t have are the Q1, T1 prototype, and E6.  I’m not too concerned about having the unique Q1 and early T1s, but I will buy Lionel’s Legacy E6 when it is released in post-WWII colors.  I don’t have the D16sb/d, S1 or S2 because they were retired by 1948, but I may pick these up in the future as “static displays”.

 

Ron

I focus on modern superpower steam,but I have a few older prototypes.The oldest locomotive would be the MTH ESE 4-4-0 (1893)and the newest would be the N&W J's 610,611,612 (1950).I don't have a exact count but I have just over 300 steam locomotives from MTH,Lionel,3rd Rail,Weaver and K-Line all but about about a dozen(Lionel prewar and postwar)are modern era 1996 or newer.I run DCS,Legacy and conventional.I returned to the hobby in late 1999-2000.

My steam current and future is limited by my O36 track

 

Currently only have USRA L&N  0-8-0

 

Have some 15" PRR passenger cars and looking for a TMCC PRR E6 ATlantic to pull them. 

I've acquired a few older, mostly Weaver models and done electronic upgrades.  Constraints of an O-54 layout limit size somewhat.
Pennsy M1a (Weaver)

Pennsy C1 (Weaver)

Pennsy E6 (Sunset 3rd Rail)

Pennsy H10 (Weaver)

Pennsy K4 (Lionel 2002)

Pennsy L1s (Weaver)

Lionel 2025 (my Christmas present in 1957--it had already had 10 years of hard running)--love them Baldwin drivers!!

Mostly switchers. K-line TMCC Lionel post war conventional and TMCC. A couple of Berkshires and k-line tank.

I like scale but am limited by my 36 inch Atlas track.  Nevertheless, I think that my little 0-4-0 is every bit as nice as the bigger locomotives.

 

MTH/Railking:

PRR B6sb 0-6-0 (PS2)

 

MTH/Premier (all PS2):

ATSF 3463 4-6-4

LIRR G5s 4-6-0 (repainted from PRR)

LIRR H10s 2-8-0 (repainted from PRR)

PRR L1s 2-8-2 (DAP version)

PRR I1s 2-10-0 (short tender)

 

Lionel:

NKP USRA 2-6-6-2 (TMCC)

PRR E6s 4-4-2 (Legacy, repainted from ATSF)

PRR M1a 4-8-2 (TMCC, pre-war style)

 

Stuart

Anything that's either New Hope and Ivyland or Strasburg Railroad. Doesn't matter to me wether it's prototypical or not since those who enjoy seeing my trains run wouldn't know that anyway but they do know of the nearby Strasburg and N.H.& I. railroads. BTW, Also have two Polar Express locomotives (rtr set one and the one with whistle steam effect) and two MTH Pennsy Bantam steamers (an older freight with loco sounds and more recent proto 2 passenger sounds).

I am a steam nut. Newbie, Just have 4 locomotives, Polar express, hogwarts, the old 999 empire state 4-4-0, and The Newer Empire state 4-6-4 passenger train. The last 2 are MTH with proto sound. Eyeing a Challenger next, just can't find an o scale I like. All the ones I like are american flyer.

I understand the constraints & currently using small steam.  I am looking to make some changes.  Which turntable are you using & how do you like it?  Thanks, John  

This TT is an older Diamond Scale Turntable kit. OT105  Al Zamorski, CSX Al here on the forum sells a smaller TT that is very close to this kit.  Millhouse River Studios, 28" TT. Click on the underlined phrases to link.

Mike CT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dirty ones. Mostly east coast though.

Steve C.

My principle era of interest is the steam to diesel transition period inclusive of 1947 through 1957.  But step back a decade to include the Southern Crescent Limited and first Southern diesels.  And even step back further to include the Erie Triplex and Angus.  My steam roster only numbers 55 engines including the very first Lionel 2025 that Santa brought Christmas 1947.  All but five are scale size.

 

The Pennsy is the primary road.   The Pennsy roster numbers 25 steam engines if you include the “John Bull.”  All Pennsy classes are represented (multiples of Es, Ks, Ls, & Ss) except five (Ds, CCs, Fs, HCs,  &Ns).

 

Moving to Charlotte in the late 70s during the heyday of the Claytor brothers Camelot of Steam excursion, I got hooked.  So roster includes Southern 4501 & 2716, N&W 611 & 1218, UP 844, SP 4449, PM 1225 w/extra PE tender, NKP 765 and PRR 1361.

 

But then there are the truly unusual or BIG.  This includes a Big Boy, UP 9000 series, C&O M-1, and on order a Jawn Henry.

Because I only run on my limited space carpet central, I mostly run a scale MTH Mikado and WBB scale Hudson. I also have an MTH Niagara that I can only run when I can get to a larger layout. I'm thinking of trading it for a smaller scale engine like a Pacific or Ten wheeler.

 

Jay

 My fleet consists of primarily Lionel Docksiders, O-4-0s and a pair of 0-8-0s.  I also have 2 K-line Porters, a Lionel 4-4-2, an MTH 2-6-0 and three Atlas Industrial Rail 4-4-2s.  Works for me. 

Sometimes #71, an 0-4-0 Southern Pacific. Seen here on former layout. Usually runs on lower level of current layout.

 

Lionel Pm 1225 Berkshire   I work the the 1 to 1 model that's why.

Lionel Sante Fe Berkshire   Got it for Christmas from my boys a few years back

K Line Allegheny 1601        I climbed in her cab when I was in 3rd grade and fell in love with her size.

Lionel Baby C & NW Hudson   I like it

Lionel Baby Nickle Plate Berkshire  Just acquired

 

I would rather run steam but I do run diesels to test the layout so if a disaster happens I won't hurt any of the above.

Ron

 

 

 

 

I like big and powerful mainline steam with at least eight driving wheels!