Who has only one, two or three road names?

One. Is there another one? Don

Chicago & Northwestern  and Chicago Great Western

As a kid I had all sorts of stuff (and still have it all). Now I am focusing on PRR and Santa Fe. Figure between the two I pretty much cover the US coast-to-coast.

I do have a few E, J & E pieces because my grandfather worked for them. But that flag is pretty scarce to find.

Penn Central.  I have a few PRR and NYC locos and cabin cars, but these were quite common on the PC, especially in the early years.  I have most of the scale rolling stock that has been produced in PC paint.  All other rolling stock is from that era.  No bathtub gons or articulated auto carriers.  Unfortunately, this also means no steam.

Tom

Western Maryland as the primary road with run through service by the Reading and N&W.

Poppyl

In Lionel compatible, and planned to use on the layout, I just collected D&RGW in locomotives. and cars.  However, the Joint Line and the area in the period before WWII saw C&S(CB&Q), D&SL, Colorado Midland, although the feds killed it off in WWI, Rock Island, Great Western, and Missouri Pacific.  Those roadnames are found on cars, and may eventually be found on a few locos.  Most other locomotives and many cars are painted or repainted or will be repainted for my short line's fictitious name, which

will give me a total of two major ones.

A.T.&S.F. out in front by a large margin with PRR (many various), UP (diesel & steam), Southern (several), NS (Dash 9s),  NYC (a Hudson & PAs), N&W ( J class & A class) and with one example of each -  D&H Trainmaster, L&N E7s, C&O Berkshire, GM&O F3s, Rio Grande FTs, D&RG Southern K27, Milwaukee Road S3, Western Maryland FAs, Texas Special F3s, New Haven RS1, and  Virginian in a Large Scale Triplex.

Have been trying to pare down due to space restraints but I like a LOT of different roads!

So David, after re reading your original post I guess I should not have posted here after all!

I'm also with Brian above - there are so many beautiful passenger trains...

1) Chicago and North Western (largest fleets)

2) Chicago Great Western

3) Minneapolis and St. Louis

4) The ROCK (Bankruptcy Blue only)

5) Iowa Interstate 

I just run PRR equipment.  Small layout and it saves on costs. 

--Greg

My favorites are Military and Clinchfield.

But,  like PTC I have made no attempt to place limitations on the number of road names. I like all trains.

For my late 1940s era layout, 90% of my engines and passenger cars are Pennsy.  I have some Southern Railway passenger equipment pulled by F2s that interchanged with the Pennsy in Washington DC on its way between New York and New Orleans, and I have the Golden State pulled by Rock Island E6s that interchanged with the Pennsy in Chicago on its way between New York and Los Angeles.  70% of my freight cars are Pennsy, and the rest are a mixture of cars from eastern railroads and company cars.

Until I started getting on this site, and learning from Bob Delbridge, I thought the

C&O was the only road that had "smaller" steam locos that looked the way I thought they

should.  Rio Grande articulateds generally have the right appearance. Sure looks like the Seaboard "smaller" engines did, too.  I model neither C&O nor Seaboard, which is an incentive to model a fictitious road that uses locos styled like those.

I model the Erie and the New York Ontario and Western railroads on my layout (except for Coketown which is a private industrial line.). Everything else is on the shelf. However due to recent financial difficulties there have been some merger talks with the Lackawanna railroad to merge with and bail out the Erie and possibly the O&W. That's the nice thing about modeling, you can change history whenever you want! It will be no time at all before that NYO&W SD-60 pulls in the yard.

Only 2 here, BNSF & UP. All are diesel, no steam. Majority by far is BNSF.

Also: note to Allan Miller (& anyone else who listed Alaska RR), there is a new show on Saturday night at 9 pm central time about the Alaska RR. I think it was the Destination channel? (Remembered the time but not certain about the channel?)

Have not been too successful narrowing it down to one or two road names…but I am down to one continent.

- Mike

PRR for me.  I only have 1 or two pieces from other roadnames.

My son likes the Big Boy, so the new Legacy Big Boy may find its way to our layout.

Don,

That's just a branch line.  What real railroad to you model?  Matt

One or two (locomotive) road names? I wish. Focus really can improve one's en-

joyment, as does reality-based operations (working on that; just let me do ONE more

command upgrade...).

Definitely I'm NYC- and GM&O-centered, but ATSF (steam mostly; I actually do not

own any Warbonnet F3's) and SP (AC9 - the Articulated of Articulateds)...and so on.

USRA 2-6-6-2 - hard to beat...Louisville and Nashville, Southern...N&W steam,

though the N&W means little to me as such...C&O Super Power, those Big Limas

and Baldwin Hudsons...the little Alabama, Tennessee and Northern - means nothing to you guys, but I actually model it...not much of a UP fan, but I have a Veranda and a 4-12-2...the "P Company" seldom rates in a NYC house, but I have an old Williams brass 4-4-4-4 (they look like they are from Mars) and a 3rd Rail 6-4-4-6 (20 feet long); nary a K4s, though...it goes on and on.

I wish that I could stick to 2 or 3. It's really better.

By locomotives:

PRR --11 (5 GG1, 1 O1, 2 Steam, 3 Diesel)

NYC -- 2 (2 diesel)

LV   -- 1 (Diesel)

NH  -- 1 (Diesel)

Alco's rule; 6 of the 7 diesels are Alco's (3 PA's, 2 RS3's, 1 FA)

Era modeled: 1945 - 1956

Wow very impressive you even got the bar above the airpumps.Yep thats a q3 alright you even have the right kind of tender.Now all you have to do now is is get a m2 mountain.If you doyou can,t go wrong with a mth mohawk.You could go with the oil tender or coal tender they had them both.I have a question for you.Are you gonna try to build a R1 2-6-6-4 steam locomotive?They operated through my home town monroe nc to charottle nc.You did one heck a job on this locomotive.

BNSF, SF, GN, ACL, RI, PE, PRR, C&O...

Mostly BNSF & GN. I'm also a sucker for a good looking F3! 

Lionel Lines, B&O,C&O,Chessie, PRR, NH, NYC, one EL Trainmaster and one UP Challenger.

Someone learned something from me?!?!?!  Most humbling, thanks!

seaboard streak wrote:

Wow very impressive you even got the bar above the air pumps.  Yep that's a q3 alright you even have the right kind of tender.  Now all you have to do now is is get a m2 mountain.  If you do you can't go wrong with a MTH Mohawk.  You could go with the oil tender or coal tender they had them both.I have a question for you.  Are you gonna try to build a R1 2-6-6-4 steam locomotive?  They operated through my home town Monroe NC to Charlotte NC.You did one heck a job on this locomotive

Thanks!  I have no plans to do a mountain or a R1.  About the only engines I want (to round out my Seaboard fleet) are a Pacific and a F3.  An accurate Seaboard F3 MAY be coming from Atlas one of these days, but a Seaboard Pacific...no way.  An ACL USRA Pacific (sometime in the future) will have to do.

The replies are fascinating.  Since I decided one day to collect every Lionel TMCC Geep and accomplished that mission, I run everything from Lionel Lines to Pennsy.  And mostly classic sized and PWC rolling stock, active with accessories.  I may slowly acquire more cabeese to mate with my Geep fleet, but I'm fine with mix and match for now.  It will always be a make believe world for me and I just can't take it that seriously.  I like flawless operations and building models and scenes.  I also like and appreciate everyone else's approach or interests in the hobby.  Like I said, it's fascinating.

Mainly 100% PRR, with a little Conrail and NJT thrown in for a variance.

Other than my childhood PRR Alco FAs, and a "Lionel Lines" 2025, every locomotive I own is either Reading Lines or is scheduled to eventually become something Reading Lines.  Eventually I may expand to include CNJ, L&NE, LV and PRR as they all interchanged with the Reading.  (So did the B&O and WM, but not in the coal region I intend to model.)

I model Post War Steam and Diesel in SP,UP,Santa Fe,WP and N&W Steam articulateds only.

AEC, Nasa, PP&L and U.S. Army.

MOTIVE POWER

CN by a LONG WAYS 80%

ATSF 15%

GTW 5%

(ONTARIO NORTHLAND only 1)

Rolling Stock

CN about 50%

ATSF about 255

GTW ABOUT 24%

A few misc roads in one and two cars About 1%

I have Alaska RR (Lionel only), Polar Express and Sodor (Thomas and Friends).

Before this thread started I knew that I had a lot of motive power and from many road names. I did some numbers on these names and found out that my B&O has the most engines, 28 which accounts for less then 1% of my motive power. 

Heck Mike, only one continent? I just can't narrow my focus at all. I have US/Canada, Australian, Japanese, French, British, German, Swiss, Czech, New Zealand and God knows what else. I like the way some people can be so disciplined, and focus on one or two roads. Me? No chance.

Boston and Maine

Maine Central

New Haven

I narrowed my roads down to three. UP, NYC & N&W and modeling the transition era. I figure I have plenty of motive power to pick from and I do like articulated engines . I decided to narrow down to three fairly soon after getting back into the hobby, since a guy could go broke or divorced if left to buying every engine they like.

I'm a steam guy, and I am sticking to the N&W,UP and the NKP.

If I like the looks, I buy. Dosen't matter whether it's steam or diesel. Some of what I have are:

B&M

NYC

PRR

UP

ATL

Lets see   There is the Erie, the Lackawanna and the Erie Lackawanna.   Then I figured some might consider that one railroad so I threw in some Long Island and Jersey Central

Steam:

UP, NYC, N&W and Santa Fe

Diesel:

NS, Conrail, BNSF and Santa Fe

All FRISCO, except for UP Big Boy and Milwaukee S-3

NYC here, nothing else.