Whats the main steam locomotives you have in your fleet?

Rail King Imperial N&W "J"

Rail King Mohawk

Rail King Cab Forward

Two words, COAL & TURBINE. Here's one of my favorites...

I have 32 steamers ranging from NY Central MTH A4 to a Big Boy a Yellowstone an R2 to class "A" to Cab Forward.  Many Northerns and Mountians and Etc. The majority of my Steam Locos are MTH with Weaver, Lionel, Orginal K-line, 3rd rail and Arlas O also represented.

I run steam era named passenger trains, so I have several principal engines. All of these locomotives are MTH Rail King:

NJC Blue Comet 4-6-2;

NYC Commodore Vanderbilt 4-6-4;

NYC Dreyfus Hudson;

Southern's Queen & Crescent 4-6-2;

Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha Hudson;

Pennsy K4s;

Pennsy GG1, Tuscan red;

Long Island G53 Camelback 4-6-0;

D&RG Ski Train 4-6-2;

N&W Cavalier J 4-8-4;

C&O Yellow Belly Hudson.

After having left O guage for a while, I'm back and while I have a few more diesels to my name, I've been using my steamers a lot recently. My favorite has to be my newest, the Lionel conventional 4-4-2 Atlantic. The smoke unit needed some attention at the local service station (a very pleasant and reliable place) but it runs extremely well and I think it's really nicely done. I have a Lionel tank engine that runs like a top and a very nice MTH O-27 Hudson which I bought used from a shop (I don't know how old it is) and it really runs smoothly with a big whistle and clouds of smoke. The first thing I bought when I was getting going again was an Industrial Rails Set. The engine now needs some attention but it might still be under warranty. It was a nice little runner for about a year with a big bell, decent smoke production and a whistle that I can sort of hear. Maybe it will be again. It's a smaller version of the Atlantic.  

Mine is, and is the only one I have that's a Lionel Northern Pacific 0-8-0 with TMCC and RS5.

2 post war Berks (+ 1 Polar Express Berk)

3 post war Hudsons

3 F3 AA sets

3 starter set Atlantics

2 post war 520 electrics

wm challenger (railking)

Yuengling engine ( mth GS-4 with special paint)

lionel 0-6-0 docksider

Have a few others but these are the main stays

Easy!  Kohs Y6b/  B&O Old Maude 0-6-6-0/  PRR T1 /  PRR J1/   NYCS J1e /  BN Z6 4-6-6-4 /  N&W J 4-8-4 /  C&O  K4 2-8-4 /  Espee AC9  2-8-8-4 /  B&O EM1 2-8-8-4.   There are a few others, but that's enough eccentric crank for this Dieselover!!!!

Well with 55 steam engines on roster that is hard to qualify, but within a couple of weeks will be capping the number at 56 with the long awaited Jawn Henry.

PRR K4, I1, L1, and a couple of various H class.   The I1s are probably right up there as favorites and then the H6s

Passenger PRR T1 & K4s

Freight PRR M1a, M1b, I1s, L1s, Y3 and sometimes a J1 or Q2

The only two steam engines I have are still sealed in their cartons, waiting for the end of summer .... 

     Legacy Mikado ... that I'm going to re-decal into East Broad Top 

     Legacy Polar Railroad K-4 ... that I just bought from Nicholas Smith

(other than the under-the-tree dedicated 2046 that's been in our family since 1951 ??)

Lionel Docksiders, 0-8-0s, and postwar style 0-4-0s.

Lionmaster Union Pacific Challenger and Rail King Chesapeake and Ohio Allegheny are my  "Gods of Iron".

This is a tufty....Favorite main line engine. Lionel K4 I have a weaver K4 and a K-line K4.

Lionel PRR Y3

Lionel T1 PRR

Lionel L1 PRR

Lionel M1 PRR

Lionel J1 PRR

MTH Q2 PRR

Lionel is by far the best.K4

Lionel EM1 B&O

3rd rail B&O T3,S1,Q4 and soon to be P7e

K-line P5 B&O

MTH P5 B&O

MTH 2-8-2 B&O

MTH C&O 2-6-6-6

Lionel H7 soon to be here

MTH Cab Forward

MTH GS4

Lionel ATSF 37514-8-4

MTH 2-10-4 Texas

MTH Milwaukee 4-6-4 

Lionel RDG 4-8-4

Heck they are all my favorite.

3 Lionel Reading T-1s

Lionel URSA 0-8-0 converted to Reading E5sa

Lionel dockside converted to Reading #1251 tank engine

Williams CNJ Camelback

Lionel Dockside PP&L

In progress or in waiting:

Williams USRA 4-6-2 to be converted to Reading & Northern #425

MTH 0-8-0 being converted to Reading I8sd 2-8-0

Polar Express Berk Jr to be converted to Reading M1sa 2-8-2

Lionel USRA 0-8-0 to be converted to Reading I9sa

I also have a Postwar 2035 for Christmas Tree duty.  

The big ones I'm looking for are a good 2-8-8-2 to build into a Reading N1 Mallet, and an MTH H9 2-8-0 to build into a Reading I10sa 2-8-0.

Scale Locomotives

PM 1225 Berk

PM 0-8-0 Switcher

New York Central Hudson

Copper Range 0-6-0 Tank

Traditional

Santa Fe Berk

Nickle Plate Berk

C&NW Hudson

C&O Allegheny

A small but proud roster.

Ron

My how the roster has changed in just a few short months. Still dedicated to the N&W alphabet soup of steam, with a few turbines tossed in just for fun.

Norfolk and Western

A #1234 2-6-6-4 Lionel Trainmaster TMCC

A #1218 2-6-6-4 Lionel TMCC

E2 #578 4-6-2 Weaver TMCC

E2a #557 4-6-2 MTH RK PS-2 (For Sale)

G #??? 2-8-0 MTH PS-3 (Reserved)

J1 #605 4-8-4 MTH PS-2

J #604 4-8-4 MTH PS-2

K3 #205 4-8-2 3rd Rail w/ JDS Ltd PS-2

K2a #137 4-8-2 3rd Rail TMCC

M #475 4-8-0 3rd Rail (Reserved) TMCC

S1a #274 0-8-0 MTH PS-2

TE-1 #2300 3rd Rail (Reverved) TMCC

Y6b #2200 2-8-8-2 Lionel JLC TMCC

a whadizit #800 0-6-0 Lionel Docksider custom lettered for N&W

Still in the "buy-list" are the Lionel #266 0-8-0 TMCC and a Y3. MTH/Lionel/3rd Rail, still patiently waiting for more alphabet letters. How about a Z1a?

Turbines

M1 #500 C&O MTH w/ TMCC

S2 #6200 6-8-6 PRR 3rd Rail (future JDS Ltd PS-2)

#80 UP Coal Turbine MTH PS-1

I would be in so much trouble if I fell off the wagon and focused on streamlined steamers. There are so many I like! 

Gilly

My operating steam fleet includes the following

*MTH Railking Imperial K4s 4-6-2 (Proto2)

*MTH Railking Imperial B6 0-6-0 (Proto3)

*MTH Railking Imperial Y6B 2-8-8-2 (Proto2)

*MTH Railking L1 "Yellowbelly" 4-6-4 (Proto2)

I also have a Lionel Pennsy Flyer 4-4-2 but I do not run it. It is still operational. I also have a K-line Allegheny (non-operating), an MTH PRR 2-8-0 (non-operating), and an MTH Imperial Railking USRA 0-6-0 (non-operating). 

I would say I run them all pretty much the same except the 4-6-4...that engine finds every little dip in the track and regularly gets stuck just spinning its wheels with good, new traction tires, and a very short train. All occur on very slight dips in the track. All other steam locomotives run on the layout without ANY issues. That Hudson is VERY picky! 

My steam fleet not much:

Lionel 2-8-4 Chessie System Steam Special Berkshire Jr. With TMCC.

Lionel 4-4-2 Mopar Express .

hello guys and gals..........

the only 2 engines I have in this rather TINY (BUDGET MINED) fleet...

S.F. #5011 2-10-4 Texas

S.F. #623 NW-2 diesel switcher with #9163 red caboose

Tiffany

My most-often used steamers are:

Lionel 736

Lionel 2046

Lionel 681

Lionel 675

I've also got a Lionel 1615, but I don't run it often.

I must say if I had to picked one? The K-line Demo Berkshire. Don

I've got almost all of Lionel's PRR crop.  The one's that seem to get the most layout time are:

Lionmaster T1 (always on the 031 portion of the layout)

Odyssey Y3

Tuscan K4

Vision CC2s

Lionel 773, 1666 and newer Reading Dockside Switcher. Dick

Prewar 226E  5 of them.  It's a sickness

My 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler.

It pulls double duty, the commuter train in the morning and fright during the day.  Commuter trains back in the evening and the vacationers on the weekends.

My steam roster is unchanged since this was originally posted.  I have two command engines: My Legacy PM 1225 and my MTH Santa Fe Northern.  The 1225 gets the most work.  It mostly pulls my Polar Express passenger consist but sometimes there are photo ops where a freight train is put together.  This is more likely now that the railroad has been able to obtain a PM caboose from Michigan and Great Lakes RR. 

Sadly, the SF is not yet certified to run on the RR.  The only engineer says he is having too much fun with the PM to get familiar with the SF.

There are various other conventional engines in storage and they only rarely see the rails.

all of them i have.----jim

Hard to pick a favorite from my post last March.  Probably the best running engine is the Lionel S-3 #265.  For freight operation it's my "go to" engine because it runs and sounds so nice and it was completely weathered and really looks the part of a steam engine in service.  But I also like my Weaver S-3 #261.  I've kept this engine looking as it did when it came out of the box because I use it to pull my "excursion train" with 21" K-Line passenger cars, looking like the real excursion train running out of Minneapolis.

But, for sheer beauty, nothing can beat the gorgeous Milwaukee Road A-1 Atlantics!  My representation is from Weaver and pulls seven of Weaver's 21" smooth-sided 1935 era passenger cars.  I'm in the process of upgrading the interiors to more correct representations of the original plus adding details to the underside of the cars. Will become "the worlds most beautiful train" when it's completed, at least according to my opinion.

But meantime, watching a little 2-8-0 "teakettle" pulling a patrol freight of six or seven cars brings back nice memories for me.  This is what I use my Weaver die-cast Consolidation or my K-Line Mikado, for.

And, Don:  I have some C&NW trains because I inadvertently grew up in Milwaukee where both railroads had a strong presence.   They had their own charm.

Paul Fischer

Cab forward

Berkshire

GS-4 Daylight

Mikdado

Two 4-6-2 Pacifics

0-6-0 Switcher

Matt

My MTH 0-4-0 is the only steamer that I own that I haven't been disappointed by--so, my favorite.  There are some wonderful locomotives pictured on this thread.  Thanks for sharing.

Lionmaster Delaware & Hudson Challenger
SGL Reading Pacific - added tmcc with a saw board
MTH scale PRR K4 ps1 - added tmcc with ERR boards
Williams Delaware & Hudson Berk 4-8-4
Hogwarts 4-6-0  - heh!

2025 Pacific

2020 6-8-6

1688 2-4-2

Jersey Central 0-4-0 switcher

The rest are diesels

One engine I really love for it's versatility is my Lionel Legacy Great Northern Mikado. Runs great, looks great, and it's a perfect size because it looks good with both scale cars and traditional-size Lionel cars (I still have a nice fleet of those from the MPC days and later). It's just about the perfect all-around steam engine for all types of use.