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I have 60 engines/motorized units. I've got 4 down right now. Everything will be back up and running by summer.

 

I run mostly my new stuff. However when I get in the mood to run MPC or Postwar I'll stay on it for a  couple weeks at a time.

 

I keep a spreadsheet of when everything was last oiled and greased. This way nothing gets neglected. It's easy to do and keeps me honest for how well maintained my stuff really is.

I would guesstimate that about 80% of my engines see regular service.  I do have about 5 engines that are put away in boxes, only because they aren't that important to me.  I also have some 15, or so, engines of Chicago & Northwestern prototype, which really haven't been run for a year or two.  And then, there are 5 engines that are on the RIP (repair in place) track waiting to be fixed, upgraded or simply gotten rid of.  At York last year I found a little 0-4-0 Hornby engine from the early '30's which needs repair and restoration but when done, will only see occasional service like my other collectable trains from Lionel, American Flyer and Marx do. 

 

Everything I run on the layout itself is Command Control, TMCC, Legacy or DCS.  No provision to include conventional control on the layout itself, unless the CC engines are removed from the tablework.

 

Paul Fischer

I have sixty seven engines, counting A-B units are two units.

Two are on my workbench and will run when they leave it.

Five don't run (four electronic, one mechanical)

Four run rather poorly by modern standards (Lionel and Marx pre- & Post-war)

The rest do actually run.

 

Only 28 - fewer than half -- have been run in the last year, though.

 

Also four more used-to-be-engines are disassembled in my parts bin and I gave away one loco that needed TLC (for a total of 72 engines I've actually bought). 

 

I run only conventional.

All of my post-war engines run fine and well.  Beyond that, my newer non-command engines also do fine.  I'm afraid to test out any of my PS1's - I just let them sit. 

 

Now about the newer stuff - I run everything that haven't thrown a tire.  That's my biggest problem.  I've got about 20 subways, and quite a few have tires off.  They sit.  About five of my MTH PS2's also lost traction tires, out of about 20.  Lionel TMCC, Legacy and Vision are all running just fine - no tire issues, no other problems.

 

My Vision Challenger had to make a visit to the Lionel hospital for an antenna problem, but she's back to health now.  Knock on wood, that's been my only Lionel problem.  Even my K-Line engines are running just fine.

 

I've got to learn how to deal with those tires!

 

I have over 200 engines. From a few Lionel leftovers from the fifties to Lionel conventional and TMCC. Weaver, Wiliams, Atlas, 3rd rail, and MTH which are mostly PS-1's. Out of all of them so far I have only 2 that are not runing. A lionel because of a split gear and an MTH with a board problem. Because of so many PS-1's before I try them out I switch out the battery with a BCR first....................Paul

i have over thirty engines,steam and diesel.i run every engine at least once a week.no engine sets idle for very long.

 

i have a mixture of dcs and tmcc engines as well as postwar.i do find myself running the command control engines in conventional rather than in command mode.

 

i enjoy running the engines using my lionel cab-1 controller.

 

terry.......

All the ones I use run just fine

 

Maybe I should say, all the ones that ran when I purchased them, still do so.

 

 

And of all the ones I have purchased that either did not run, or were very incomplete, probably 50% of those now run.  I, unfortunately seem to purchase projects faster than I complete the existing ones.

 

There's probably 140+ engines from 1915 to pre orders for 2012.  So I would guess all told 75% of them run.

Originally Posted by c.sam:
Originally Posted by Ron Blume:

I don't wanna start lyin' to my wife, so I have never counted 'em up...what I don't know will never hurt me.  Do they all run???...of course!!!

  Ron did it right - he didn't even tell HIMSELF how many he has!

Wives can be as sharp as they want to be.  If she asks him "Do you have more than 100?" and he says he doesn't know he may be telling the truth.  If she follows up with "What is your best estimate on how many you have?" it would give considerably less wiggle room.  

I have 14 locomotives. They all run in some manner but I am in the process of converting them to TMCC. I run mainly the TMCC ones bit occasionally put the conventional ones on the track for testing. I have two with antenna issues that I haven't fixed yet but they still run. I can only run three trains at one time so 14 is really more than I really need. So I'm trying to decide if I should sell some of the conventional or continue upgrading. I like the upgrading process because it tests my electrical skills but I find that I have little time to work on all my train projects.
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