Wow more than I thought!

About 160? (a guess, haven't counted lately. about 7-10per loco

 About 30 locos over 50years.

But we destroyed about 9 plastic loco's (Plastic motor 2-4-0, Columbia, A-A? Alco Army (? drk blu), A-B? Alco Navy (? lighter blue), Army missile loco, Fireman critter, gang car, tie ejector, Oh, and the Erie Alco set too! And another 50+ cars growing up. All three metal engines survived C5+ to C-7 (enough paint chips to think about chip-dip) depending who's lookin, and 30+ cars survived us too, and all still "live with me" [I have lil bro's too])

   All those Alcos broke but the Erie. It, and many cars, didn't survive a flood we had. I don't even want an Alco again. But EMD E or F, I love (not FA)

Yes, I have way too many freight cars. I try to sort them by commodity in bins and cycle them on the layout.

Way too many.   I have 37 Christmas boxcars alone and that is only a tiny portion of my boxcars/rolling stock.

I dont even buy rolling stock anymore unless its something unusual. Or i will buy one or two per year just because.. And the annual xmas box of course.

How many cars  does one really need....

At least one  more!!

Brent

Thought I had more.  Not including the 34-Atlas(12),Inter-Mountain(2), and MTH(20) that are for sale.

Only have 0.80 box car per engine!

10-Lionel&KLine

34-MTH (all Premier)

56-Weaver.

Ron

almost 600.

30-40 locomotives

100-150 pieces of rolling stock

100 ish locos and 300+ cars, more If you count other scales Probably have another 75 Athearn Bluebox cars in ho as well as 20-30 Marklin ho engine's/cars.

I've lost count. I think they are breeding on their own now - in different scales.

That is where keeping up with my inventory on the comp comes in handy.  I already had/have most of my BCs, Reefers, etc. in categories and sub-cats.  So, I recounted all my "squared" rolling stock, and not including the boxed 10 sets of the 6464 reissues, I came up with 411.  of these, two are prewar Lionel, the rest are PW, Modern, MPC, etc. of all makes and manufacturers.  But, all O gauge, and except for a few collectable in boxes, they do see the rails pass under them.  I have a locker type trunk packed with 50 BC all in their own paper bag.  Each bag is numbered 1 to 50, designating their place in the consist.  This was determined by running them on a floor track to find the best to pull them without derails or pulled over on curves.  These are for running and being pulled by the Big Boy in a good looking consist.

Jesse    TCA

Always room for more.

Thing is it just like the potato chip ad.You just can,t eat just one.Seem to never have enough boxcars.

I don't even want to know....

According to my Excel spreadsheet: 67 boxcars in a fleet of 149 cars (175 car lengths).  I have reached a point where I only buy quality rolling stock of my favorite roads to replace something of lesser quality.  And I really don't have many toy-like cars left to replace. 

After unpacking a series of Atlas Steam Era reefers...pouring them out of their boxes in pieces of rotten zinc, and rebuilding the bolsters and trucks, I feel content with what I have.

Yeah, me too.  I'm  sucker for boxcars.  Especially when they're scale-sized with a fallen flag road name.  Probably out number all of my other rolling stock 5 to 1. 

AMCDave posted:

I don't even want to know....

It's almost as bad as guys that try to figure out how much they've spent on them. The less I know, the better. What's the term? Plausible deniability?

I knew I had too many when I found Weaver cars I had bought still in the shrink wrap from the eighties. One of these days I am going to have to count them........Paul