Whats the main steam locomotives you have in your fleet?

I only have two steam locomotives on my roster; rest of them are diesel.  One is a Premier GS4 (first release converted to PS2) and a Lionel scale cab forward.  I really enjoy operating both.

Don't have a main steamer, like them all. I have eight that I run on my layout. All K-line except one Weaver Hiawatha. Don

The mainstay of my steam fleet is a pair of Milwaukee Road S3 Northerns - one from Weaver and one from Lionel. I also have an assortment of 4-4-2 and 4-6-4 streamlined Hiawathas and a Weaver Milwaukee Road F6a non-streamlined 4-6-4. A  K-Line Mikado is awaiting redecorating to Milwaukee Road, and my K-Line Shay has already been relettered for the Milwaukee. A Weaver 2-8-0 Consolidation handles branch line and mixed train service. My "other" road is the SP, which is the hometown railroad here in Tucson. I have an MTH Cab Forward, a 3rd Rail Harriman Mikado, a K-Line Berkshire, and a Lionel 2-8-0 in SP. I also run an MTH UP 4-12-2; it doesn't fit the profile but I just like its massive size and wheelbase. There's also an ETS Beyer-Garratt - I just can't resist the big and unusual. I also can't resist a good Deco streamliner, so I have a Weaver John Wilkes that I converted to Protosound 2. 

Photo taken at Gadsden Pacific Toy Train Museum, Tucson

Weaver S3 4-8-4 with K-Line heavyweight passenger cars and express boxcars

Welcome to the forum, Eric!

The steamer that I run the most is my Lion Master Cab-Forward.  These are such cool locomotives.  I re-lettered mine for Lionel Lines and am currently working on a matching auxiliary tender.

Mine is a pair of 0-8-0 Railking switchers.  I am re-lettering them for my fictional railroad, the Michigan & Great Lakes.  

I like that name a lot.  My fictional road is "Michigan & Ohio Valley Lines".  I re-lettered one locomotive(K-Line Tank Engine) for it and plan to do a few more.

Thanks

The initials are after my kids, Madelyne, Gabi, and Lucas.  It just worked out to also be Michigan & Great Lakes.  

I have a RK/RR PRR 9915 2-8-0.  These units did everything except be main power for the BROADWAY.  PRR's steam geep.

Representing the Reading, my Weaver G1 Pacific and SGL G3 Pacific:

For the B&O, it would be my 3rd Rail T-3 and my K-line Mikado.  Here is the T-3:

Jim

I only have 2 that are currently running, a MTH RK 2-8-0 that's been modified and repainted for Seaboard:

and a MTH RK Imperial 0-6-0 that got repainted for Seaboard:

The 2-8-0 has Locosounds and needs upgrading badly.  With that in mind, I run the 0-6-0 with PS2 most of the time.

I'd love to have a N&W "J" or "K2a" and some full length Tuscan Red passenger cars to go with it.  Also would like to get a USRA 2-8-2 and modify it to represent a Seaboard Q3 Mike.

My steam roster is much similar to SouW Hi's.  Mostly Milwaukee Road, two S-3 Northerns, the Weaver being #261 the Lionel #265, two F-7 streamlined Baltics (Hudsons to you non-Milw Rd guys) one MTH, one Weaver.  The F6a unstreamlined Baltic from Weaver, the A-1 4-4-2 Hiawatha from Weaver, a K-Line 2-8-2 Mike done in Milw style, a K-Line light Pacific painted in the "Chippewa" colors and, finally, a Weaver 2-8-0 in Milwaukee paint.

Now, for the rest of the roster, we've got to go to C&NW.  First the big, streamlined Hudson (E-6?) from MTH, then a Weaver 4-6-2 streamlined "Yellow Jacket", another Weaver 2-8-0 in C&NW paint, a Lionel North Western "Omaha Road" 4-4-2, an Atlas 0-6-0 switcher and an older RailKink 0-8-0 which I question the authenticity of.

Guess that's about 15 engines.  Want to hear about my diesels and electrics?

Paul Fischer

Ps-4 Pacifics,Ms-1 Mikados and Mountain types. Challenger, Y6-b, A and J.

Paul, why do you waste your time with those "other roads" when there's Milwaukee! Don

My Indian Valley Railroad currently has 3 operating steam engines (All of my engines, steam, diesel, and 1 Subway are MTH Railking) with 2 being in active service. 

1) Railking Imperial K4s Pennsylvania Railroad. Picked this up last August - came out right around late Spring/Early Summer last year. Super nice engine. 

2) Railking Chesapeake & Ohio 4-6-4 Streamlined Hudson "Yellowbelly". This is not an Imperial and is the 2006 issued version with PS2. One of my favorites although I doesn't see as much running time as I would like due to the fact it tends to have a mind of its own - wheels will start spinning with no traction randomly, very rough on track, finds every rough/poor section of track you have, etc. Great running engine and looks great with matching cars but tends to find an issue with the track or develops a minor issue or two with itself every time it is run. 

3) The engine that got me back into O Gauge in 2004 - a Lionel 4-4-2 from the PRR Flyer set. No headlight, No whistle, no smoke but it still runs and never does. My entire layout is DCS and it sits on display. 

When the new Imperial Railking steamers ship, hopefully sometime soon, I have decided that ONE more (yea right...) will be added and that will be it. I have 5 diesels, 2 steamers, and 1 Subway set (All PS2 Railking ranging from Rugged Rails to Imperial) and need just "one" more to finish it off....

The first 4 from right to left are my main steam N&W . I like pulling coal. Sometimes i switch them out and pull a mix  passenger sets  on  special occasions.

this one didnt make the pic

Weaver Milwaukee Road Baltic

Lionel Milwaukee Road 261

MTH Premier Chicago & Northwestern E4

MTH Railking Erie Berkshire, Milwaukee Road Hiawatha, Wabash Hudson.

Maybe I'll add a steam engine to that list... :-)  

O.K. guys I have the following steam locomotives.1 lionel 736 berkshire 1 mth railking erie berkshire 1 mth railking C&O berkshire 1 mth L&N berkshire.1 kline mike made of for seaboard and a kline gs4 the freedom train.4 moutain/mohawk steam locomotives.I mth railking hiawartha hudson.1 CSX SD70ACE AND 1 NS DASH 8 LOCOMOTIVES.OPPS!!Almost forgot I have a kline up gp38 and a mth railking up fef.

My doubleheaded postwar 671 and 681 get the most run time right now. Sixty four wheels in just under 40 inches make for an interesting visual, and not to mention, a lot of smoke!

Weaver 4-6-2,

Weaver 2-8-0,

Lionel   2-6-0,

K-line   2-8-2,

I like Berkshires!

Counting my new Legacy EM-1, which has been shipped but not delivered, I have 15 scale steam locos and 8 non-scale (LM, Railking, etc.), and maybe a dozen a bunch of pre- and post-war locos.  Many of the scale locos are big articulated ones that will make it around my layout but look a bit silly, so I don't run them often.

My runners, that stay on the layout are:

• Lionmaster Big Boy - my favorite - I've worn mine out so that it gives problems now, hoping for a new offering soon - I'll buy two this time.
• Vision Hudson - I don't like Hudsons that much, but this is just the best runner I have, and a perfect size for my layout
• Williams Baldwin ten-wheeler (modifed body, using a smaller tender from a Lionel Mogul) - a good slow runner that looks good on my tighter (all 36" curve loops.
• Lionel conventional Atlantic (2011 version) - just a really nice little locomotive in every way. 
• Legacy 3759 Northern - as good a loco as the Vision Hudson, except for the swinging bell.  Still, I love the sound and the look of it - great runner, too.

My railroad is mostly steam, so naming the main ones is kinda hard, but I will give it a shot.

Here are the ones that stay on the layout:

-Lionel 736

-Lionel 681

-Lionel 675

-Railking Blue Comet (Locosounds)

-Lionelville Fire Department Hudson

-Lionel 265E

-K-Line Big Boy (on long term visit from my Dad's collection)

-Lionel custom Lehigh Valley Docksider (down for repairs)

-Lionel Pennsylvania Flyer 4-4-2 (replacement engine when one is down for repairs)

-Two American Flyer 290's

Up on the shelf for regular use:

-Lionel 262E

-Lionel Union Pacific Steam Freight Set 4-4-2

-Lionel Hogwarts Express Hall Class 4-6-0

-Lionel A.T.& SF. Hudson (on long term visit from my Dad's collection)

-Williams by Bachmann Southern Ten Wheeler

-Lionel Thomas the Tank Engine

-Lionel Percy

Thomas, Percy, and James... . No 'stinkin' diseasels...

SO far this is the fleet:

MTH Big Boy

Lionel Cab Forward

MTH GS-2/64

MTH GS-4

3rd Rail SP 4-10-2 in layaway

Diesels:

MTH Sp F-3 ABA Black Widow

Wm ATSF PA ABA Warbonnet

Just like carguZM10 in above post, my early 1940s layout features mostly MTH Premiere steam. Runners are marked in red.

The big guys:

C&O 2-6-6-6

PRR 4-4-6-4 Q2

PRR Duplex

N&W 2-8-8-2 Mallet

SP Cab Forward

Erie 0-8-8-0

PRR J1 2-10-4

Erie 2-8-8-8-2 Triplex

PRR 4-4-4-4 T1

W&M 4-6-6-4 Challenger

Medium guys:

NYC Berkshire A2 2-8-4

NJ Baldwin P47 4-6-2 (Green)

PRR 4-4-2

PRR H10s 2-8-0 Consolidation

WM Russian Decapod

C&O 4-8-4 Greenbrier

My favorite

NYC Dreyfus 4-6-4

Little guys:

PRR 0-6-0

USRA 0-8-0

Special types:

Hillcrest Climax

WM 4 Truck Shay

My Lionel 2046 and 681.

NYC Niagara Premier MTH seem to have the most miles, I run single and double head two or on the point of a set of E8's and Alco F-A. Sadly all my power is in the for sale column.  

Lionel 6-18024 T&P Mountain (really a repainted NYC Mohawk for which there WAS a prototype).

Lionel 6-18030 Frisco Mikado.

Assuming this ain't a wee-wee contest:

The Polar Express Berk that got it started for us.

Pennsy Flyer 4-4-2

Lionel Lines Docksider

Pete

I only have one steam locomotive, a Lionel 1684, but it is very special to me as it belonged to my father when he was a kid in the 1930s and it was my first train at age 8. It still runs great!

On my layout right now:

Lionmaster UP Big Boy

Lionmaster PRR T-1 Duplex

Legacy A.T.& S.F  E6 Atlantic

George

I have two TMCC steamers I run a lot.  My Lionel PRR Mikado Jr and my upgraded Williams 773 Hudson.  Both are great engines.

I have to say, my favorite postwar engine to run is my 736 berkshire.  I still like all the others though just as much

Lionmaster Legacy Big Boy, get's serious run time. 

Hogwarts Hall Class

Thomas 

1-700e Hudson, great runner very smooth.

MTH Premier PS2 N&W J class

Nick

I have a whole bunch of steamers ranging from 2-4-2 Columbia types to a 4-8-2 NYC Mohawk but by far my favorites are the Lionel Berkshires and that includes all of them with just a slight preference for the early 1946 Berky with the beautiful Baldwin Disc drivers, smoke bulb and the double worm gear drive.