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100%, but I only have 4 engines at the moment  I have two on the main and two in sidings at all times, and I have room for two more in the sidings.  So until I get to six engines, I run them all.  

 

Note that I will probably have more than 6 engines before I know what happened......

 

Then I'll have to choose or build more trackage.

 

-Eric

 

<EDIT>  In case I misinterpreted, they are all currently in running condition.  Two days ago it was more like 75%.  This aspect apparently varies based on my karma any given moment.

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As of now, I have 8 Railking Proto2 engines all vary from Railking Rugged Rails to Railking/Railking Scale and Imperial. All are run, about equal which isn't very much as I rarely run my trains. Included in that 8 is an MTH Subway set which sees almost no use and sits in a box most of the year. I also have 2 conventional engines but don't run them either. 

Originally Posted by SantaFe158:

100% out of between 15-20 engines (haven't counted recently and I've added a couple since last time)

Actually, now that I think of it.  I do have one postwar 2037 mechanism in my workbench drawer (the shell is a decoration for my locomotive maintenance shop yard) that we bought as a parts donor for my grandpa's 2037.  Ran fine when we got it, but the sentimental value of my grandpa's was more important to me and the donor engine.  The engine was cheaper (at about $30) than the parts I took off of it would have been separately.  I could always put it back together if I wanted, but probably won't happen.

I have probably over 100, some are very old from my childhood, and everything gets track time. I certainly have favorites that get a lot more time than others, and I don't run my old locos regularly. Now that I'm enjoying command control, they are getting more time at the moment. But, when the new Train Engineer and PS3 boards become available, most of my conventional locos will get upgraded.

Now that I am reduced to a small layout I guess I would use only around 5-10%. A 9x16 round-the-room attic layout is too small for long passenger trains or double-headed steamers or lashed-up diesel freights where the combined engines are nearly as long as their consist. I also have 5 or 6 articulated locomotives that will now only be fired up on the layout for photo ops.

 

Due to age and health issues I dismantled my 5-track 14x32 operation at our mountain cottage in 2/08 and my 13x23/8x12 benchwork layout upstairs here in the Condo 10/09. Lot of "cold iron" sitting on railrax or boxed now.

 

I am a Southern Ry/N&W  modeler and was thinking last night that I can run the famous Washington to Memphis "Tennessean" as my only passenger train and still utilize many locomotives for a single trip: Southern Streamlined Ps-4 Washington to Lynchburg, N&W "J" Lynchburg to Bristol and a pair of E6s Bristol to Memphis[ as well as other E units and Southern PAs occasionally]. That is the way "The Tennessean" actually was initiated and ran for several years. Then my 0-6-0 Passenger Yard Switcher would appropriately be on station in the Yard.

 

As for freight trains I plan to utilize my N&W "Water Buffalo" 4-8-2 for moving coal trains to supply the coaling tower and most likely only Atlantic & Yadkin  2-8-0s and Southern 2-8-2s for local and mainline freight service. I would likely station my 0-8-0 Freight Switcher in the Yard coupled to the Wreck Derrick just to increase the equipment population.

 

Quite a comedown from runing 30 car coal trains behind a Challenger or 14 lighted cars behind a Southern 4-8-2 Mountain or a N&W 4-8-4 "J"--all at the same time! But at 80 years and sort of lame, time to adapt and just dust the retired and newly crowned "shelf queens" occasionally.

I'm at about 60 engines now and all of them will run.  Of that total, I probably operate maybe 30-40 of them with any kind of regularity on my layout. I'll also "borrow" Max's layout from time to time and run two on his if he hasn't been spending much time in the basement.

 

My Postwar engines are operated only during the Christmas season around one of our two trees.

 

Curt

Out of 86, including motorized units, all run. Some conventional, but most TMCC. So the answer is 100%

 

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Currently run 58% of our engines.  My son and I just set up DCS this fall and run nothing but our command engines.

 

MTH GG-1 PS1 Upgrade to PS2 - Son

MTH M1 Steam - Daughter

MTH Big Boy - Son

MTH SD70M - Son

MTH NS Executive ABA - Dad (Me)

MTH 2-6-0 Loco Sound upgraded to PS2 - Community Property

Williams NW-2 upgraded to PS2 - Pop Pop

 

3 Conventional... Hoping to upgrade to command.

1 Broken Thomas

1 MTH GG-1 back to MTH under warranty repair.  Santa's elves did not do a great job putting this one together, so hopefully MTH can fix 'er up.

 

Ron

 

 

I have about 150 engines, 145 MTH and about 5 Lionel/Atlas.  All of them run without any troubles since I bought any of them.  As for what engines I run, well I have about 50 that I swap pretty often on the tracks.  The other 90 or so are on display shelves and about half of them are easily reached, should I choose to put them on the tracks.  I do have about 20 engines that I know are pretty hard to find, produced in low quanities and I feel are collectable and prefer not to run.

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