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Rolling Stock What do you have?

Modeling Rolling stock
#1

Howdy Railfans.

Lately I have had my eye out looking for a center beam or bulk head flat car and I got to thinking about all the variations of rolling stock, standard to custom built by RR shops.

I think we all have boxcars in 20’ 30’ 40’ 50 ', gondolas, flats and a pasenger car or 2.

On my rolling stock roster these cars will be found.

Boxcars. wood and steel, reefer and van.

Flat cars and depressed center

Gondolas high sided and low.

Hoppers open and enclosed

Passenger cars, baggage, combine, coach, open air, observation.

Mow cars, Crane and tender, plus support boxcars, small crane and flats.

Rotary plow and wedge.

Tank cars older style long and short.

Fire fighting car.

Skeleton log cars

Various Cabeeses.

I’m sure I forgot a few. I want my RR ready to be able to handle anything that might come along freight wise. I’m thinking I need a drop end gondola and a center beam flat.

Any suggestions for my average non modern RR?

So what kind of rolling stock do you have on your rosters?

#2

My inventoried rolling stock roster contains a little over 250 freight cars, ranging from 2 bay covered hoppers to an automax… roster consists of 2-bay covered hoppers, 3 & 4 bay covered hoppers, 40 ft boxcars, 40 ft flatscars, 40 ft bulkend flatcars, 40ft woodchip cars, 40 ft gondolas, 40 ft centerbeam cars, 40 ft 3-bay coal hoppers, 100 ton coal hoppers, 50 ft boxcars, 50 ft refrigerators cars, 53 ft evans boxcars, 60 foot boxcars, 89 ft USA autoracks, 2 - 89 ft TOFC’s & one 89 ft autorack (scratch built), one Automax (scratch built)… Have numerous cars still in boxes, not inventoried and not setup to run yet…

My operating era is the late 70’s to early 80’s

#3

I only have around 125 cars, mostly the 34’, 40’ and 50’ variety with one 53’ Evans box.

#4

What a fun thread,I will go count and get back with Yaaaaaaaaaaaa’s.

#5

Andy Clarke said:

2 - 89 ft TOFC’s & one 89 ft autorack (scratch built), one Automax (scratch built)… Have numerous cars still in boxes, not inventoried and not setup to run yet…

My operating era is the late 70’s to early 80’s

Anyway I could see pic’s of some of these??

Nice roster.

#6

Here’s the roster of the Snowshoe & San Juan:

Locomotives:
Steam
D&RGW K-36 #489 (KISS 137102, Battery Powered)
D&RGW K-28 #473 (LGB 20831, Battery Powered)
D&RGW C-19 #345 (LGB 2019S, re-lettered as #345, Battery Powered)
D&RGW C-18 #315 (LGB 23191, lettered as #315, Battery Powered)
Rio Grande Southern K-27 #461 (Bachmann 81298 converted to K-27, Battery Powered)

Diesel
D&RGW Speeder #380-AD (K-Line K-92001, Repainted, Battery Powered)
D&RGW Davenport #50 (LGB 2063, Battery Powered)
Rio Grande Southern Goose #1 (Bachmann 82399, Battery Powered)
Rio Grande Southern Goose #5 (Accucraft AC78-132, Battery Powered)

Passenger Cars:
San Juan
RPO #63 (Two LGB 3081’s spliced to make an RPO, Repainted)
Baggage Car #163 (LGB 30845, Repainted)
Coach #310 (LGB 3082, Repainted)
Coach #3xx (LGB 3082)(To be repainted/relettered)
Parlor Car Durango (Modified LGB 3080/3082, Repainted)

Shavano
Combine #210 (LGB 3081, Repainted)
Coach #285 (LGB 3080, Repainted)
Parlor Car Chama (Modified LGB 3080/3082, Repainted)

Silverton
Combine #212 (LGB 30815)
Coach #320 (LGB 30805)
Silver Vista #313 (Scratch built)

Varnish
Business Car B7 (Modified LGB 3080, Repainted)(To be relettered as B3)
Business Car B1 (Modified LGB 3083)(To be repainted/relettered)

Freight Cars:
D&RGW Reefer #78 (USA 1603)
D&RGW Boxcar #3271 (USA 19081)
D&RGW Boxcar #3393 (USA 1949B)
D&RGW Boxcar #3689 (USA 1943)
D&RGW Stockcar #5639 (LGB 4068, Repainted)
D&RGW Stockcar #5687 (LGB 4068, Repainted)
D&RGW Stockcar #5710D (LGB 4068, Repainted)
D&RGW Drop Gondola #712 (Hartland 02008, Repainted)
D&RGW Drop Gondola #xxx (Hartland 02008, Repainted)
D&RGW Drop Gondola #xxx (Hartland 02008, Repainted)
D&RGW High Side Gondola #1530 (LGB 43730)
D&RGW High Side Gondola #1530 (LGB 43730)
D&RGW Pipe Gondola #1830 (LGB 4073, Kitbashed)
D&RGW Pipe Gondola #1557 (LGB 4073, Kitbashed)
D&RGW Flat Car #6518 (USA 1720, Kitbashed)
D&RGW Flat Car #6537 (USA 1773, Kitbashed)
D&RGW Idler Flat Car #6715 (Hartland 01008, Kitbashed)
D&RGW Idler Flat Car #6758 (Hartland 01008, Kitbashed)
D&RGW Idler Flat Car #xxxx (Hartland 01008, Kitbashed)
UTLX Tank Car #11037 (Precision Scale 98007-1)
UTLX Tank Car #11048 (Precision Scale 98007-1))
D&RGW Caboose #0505 (USA 12001, Repainted)
D&RGW Caboose #0540 (USA 12017, Repainted)
D&RGW Caboose #0579 (MDC 4821, Repainted)
Rio Grande Southern Reefer #2101 (USA 1603, Relettered)
Rio Grande Southern Stockcar #7302 (Bachmann 98142, Relettered)
Rio Grande Southern Stockcar #7303 (Bachmann 98142, Relettered)
Rio Grande Southern Stockcar #7304 (Bachmann 98142, Relettered)
Rio Grande Southern Caboose #0409 (MDC 4824)

Maintenance of Way:
Rotary OM (USA R2100S, Battery Powered)
Rotary OM Tender (Aristo 80800, Repainted)
Crane OW (USA 1862)
RPO #X66 (Bachmann 89093, Repainted)
Water Car #0459 (Bachmann 93430, Repainted)
Sleeper #04997 (USA 1847, Repainted)
Bunk Car #1832 (USA 1832)
Flatcar #06413 (Aristo 46701, Repainted)
Flatcar #1822 (USA 1822)
Gondola #09172 (Hartland 00009, Repainted)

Mine Train:
Whitcomb Loco #1 (Accucraft AC78-512, Battery Powered)
Mine Cars (Three Bachmann 92502)

Retired/Unused Equipment:
Silverton Northern 2-8-0 #34 (Bachmann 81297)
Silverton Northern Combine (LGB 3081, Repainted, Used on abandoned line)
Silverton Northern Boxcar (Bachmann 95370, Relettered, Used on abandoned line)
D&RG Boxcar #4067 (LGB 4067, Used on abandoned line)
D&RG Reefer #3572 (Delton 4257, Used on abandoned line)
D&RGW C-16 #278 (Accucraft AC88-117, Battery Powered)
D&RGW C-25 #375 (Bachmann 81298, lettered as #375)
D&RGW Reefer #71 (Bachmann 93248)
D&RGW Ore Car #55 (MDC 4162)
D&RGW Caboose #4065 (LGB 4065)
D&RGW Passenger Gondola #404 (LGB 30260)
Gramps Tank Cars (Three Bachmann 93430)

#7

Passenger:

  • 2x Hartland Shorty Cars - Rio Grande
  • ~30 Hartland Shorty bodies
  • 2x Aristo Smoothsides - Rio Grande
  • 1x Aristo Smoothside - Undecorated
  • 1x Aristo Heavyweight Diner - Pennsylvania
  • 1x Aristo Doodlebug - Pennsylvania - for conversion to powered combine
  • 1x Aristo RDC - Repainted into Arcade & Attica RDC-X1 (Diesel Electric rebuild)
  • Few Misc Bachman cars

Intermodal:

  • 2x 3-pack USA Gundersons - TTX - (Kitbashed from 1 five-pack and a single bucket)
  • 2x USA Gunderson Singles - Canadian National
  • 3x USA Gunderson Singles - BNSF
  • 3x Aristo RoadRailers - TripleCrown
  • 1x Aristo RoadRailers - CN

Cabeese:

  • 1x USA Center Cupola - Canadian National
  • 1x Aristo Bobber - Undecorated - To be painted in C&O Passenger Scheme
  • 1x LGB Little Bobber, Offset - Undecorated

Freight:

  • 10x Aristo 100ton Hoppers - Arcade & Attica
  • 15x LGB Centerflow Grain Hoppers - Ass’t Roadnames
  • 1x USA 4-bay Centerflow Hopper - NYC
  • 7x LGB Modern Tank Cars - Ass’t Roadnames
  • 1x USA 52’ Tank Car - UTLX
  • 5x Aristo 40’ Boxcars - Ass’t Roadnames
  • 1x LGB 40’ Boxcar - Pennsylvania
  • 4x LGB field flatcars - Rebuild to tiny ore carts
  • ~10x Aristo Spring ECLSTS Show Cars - First through ~2007

Diesel:

  • 1.5x USA 44-ton Centercabs - rebuild into a 130-ton mother/slug road switcher set
  • 1x USA 44-ton Centercabs - rebuild into 65-ton centercab
  • 1x USA Mighty Moe - Rebuild into custom FCR US-30-C road switcher
  • 1x Aristo u25b cab - Rebuild into custom FCR US-30-C road switcher
  • 1x Aristo d9 truck - Rebuild into custom FCR US-30-C road switcher
  • 1x Aristo F1-B - Rebuild into Officer Car Special (OCS) HEP generator car
  • 1x Aristo DASH-9 - Rebuild into custom FCR XD-95-HTE Hydrogen Turbine “A” Unit
  • 2x Aristo GP-40 - Rebuild into custom FCR GP-45-TGX RoadSwitcher w/ EcoSlug Technology
  • 2x USA SD70MAC - Rebuild into custom FCR GP-45-TGX RoadSwitcher w/ EcoSlug Technology
  • 1x USA F7 A&B Set - Custom Paint into NS Office Car Special (OCS) engines

Steam:

  • 1x LGB “Stainz” - Rebuild into FCR Freedom Class 0-4-0 w/Tender
  • 1x LGB “Stainz” - Parts to power tender for above
  • 1x LGB “Stainz” - Other Parts
  • 1x LGB 23232 - Rebuild into FCR Built-Prototype #1 1/8
  • 1x LGB 23232 - Rebuild into Educational Railroad Services (EduRail) Training engine
  • 1x Lionel Atlantic - Rebuild, not certain to what though, lol
  • 1x Aristo Pacific - Rebuild into FCR Streamlined 2-6-4 OCS Engine
  • 1x Aristo Mikado - Rebuild into FCR Heavy Freight 2-8-2 w/ TractionBooster technology
  • 1x Aristo Mallet - Rebuild into ACE-3000-9 AND 2-6-6-6 Thunderbolt
  • 1x BM Lil’Hauler - Quick & Easy fun toy
  • 1x BM 2-truck Shay - FOR SALE
  • 1x BM Porter - Rebuild into Lombard
  • 2x BM 2-8-0 Connie - Rebuild into 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garratt

Expected Purchases:

  • 1x Aristo Heavyweight - Repaint into NS OCS Scheme
  • 1x Coach/Pullman - Repaint into NS OCS Scheme
  • 1x Dome car - Repaint into NS OCS Scheme
  • 1x USA 50’ Cushioned Underframe Boxcar for NS OCS HEP Car
  • 2-3 USA Autoracks
  • 2x LGB field flats - rebuild to mini ore carts
  • 1x BM Davenport - rebuilt to Plymouth/Brockville switcher for mining district
#8

I thought about this…And realized it would take hours to create a list; it’s time for a major purge. Way too much stuff.

:frowning:

#9

Mines easy. Logging railroads did not need much. I have the smallest roster.

2 boxcars

4 flat cars

1 tank car.

1 plow car

1 fire fighting car

1 work caboose

3 boxcars

3 skeleton cars

2 log buggies

3 dissconnects

3 passanger cars

2 gondolas

my 4 wheeled stuff

3 flats

1 boxcar

1 logging caboose

bunch of HLW mini series stuff. (ore cars, flats and gondolas)

#10

Probably in reality too many for the pizza, too few for the harbor layout, but lots of cars means I have alot of selection for shows even if invariably I pack the same cars for each show, D’oh!

Most of my stock on the pizza is HLW minicar variants most of the harbor is modified Scientific cars that have had trucks added and repainted. I prefer these as they have the look of mainline 40’ cars but are shorter and thereby fit better on that tiny layout.

I recently broke out my long time engine and car roster and split it into two separate ones for the pizza and for the harbor. It makes keeping track of whats for where much easier, although visually its easy, the pizza cars all have link/pin couplers, the harbor have Bmann knuckles.

No list, take too long to type out, my roster is actually drawn on AutoCAD, been so since the start, somewhere on my home computer I have a list of the complete history of my RRs purchases and sales, it is frighten how much I have acquired and sold over the last decade.

#11

Joe Paonessa said:

Andy Clarke said:

2 - 89 ft TOFC’s & one 89 ft autorack (scratch built), one Automax (scratch built)… Have numerous cars still in boxes, not inventoried and not setup to run yet…

My operating era is the late 70’s to early 80’s

Anyway I could see pic’s of some of these??

Nice roster.

Joe, here are pictures:

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/andyc/Autoracks and TOFCs/Articulated Auto-rack 1.jpg)

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/andyc/Autoracks and TOFCs/Autorack TOFC at Martys Elevator.jpg)

#12
Here is a sample CAD roster, numbers get assigned when i get around to and and by what numbers I have available
#13

23 100 tons

35 2 bays

50 40’ box cars

4 gondals

7 2bay cover hoppers

9 heavy weights

10 cabooses

2 crane cars

3 mow cars

4 tankers

4 flat cars

8 custom made flat cars

4 n&w sd45

3 southen sd45

2 prr sd45

2 erie sd45

1 spring field sd45

1 blue n&w sd45

1 n&s sd45

2 gp9 nw

1 gp38 prr

2 gp30 nw

1 44 tonner

3 rs3 southern

1 doodle bug

2 rail buses “delton”

3 speeders

3 mallets n&w

2 makidos southern

2 annie’s

2 c-16

1 pacfic

3 0-4-0

1 2-4-0

1 forney live steamer

#14

Ill add mu engine roster as well

Scratch Built Class A Climax

HLW Big John

Bachmann industrial mogul - newest vesion

LGB Forney

LGB Mogul

LGB Porter

Aristo Rogers

Regner Lumberjack

Roundhouse Sammie

Bellflower Cricket

Accucraft Forney

Project engine (backwoods engine)

#15

Vic Smith said:

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Gotham_Rolling_Stock_Roster1.jpg)

Here is a sample CAD roster, numbers get assigned when i get around to and and by what numbers I have available

That’s a great idea Vic. I have drawn my rolling stock in MasterCam AND I have an inventory in Word. BUT I NEVER thought about combining them! Good tip! Thanks.

#16

WOW you guys have some serious equipment! I will have to show my wife some of the lists here, she thinks I’m NUTZ and that I have way too many trains but my collection is really meager compared to soem of the empires out there.

I did forget on my list 2 stock cars, a odometer car, and a whole bunch of 2 axle LGB, hartland and bachmann types. I did a quick count and came up with about 125 pieces of rolling stock on my roster.

Question is will all your rolling stock fit on your mainline at the same time?

Anyone care to line their collections up and snap a photo for us?

Next new topic question should be how many locomotives or pieces with engines in them do you have.

Andy your photo at Marty’s? Looks REAL. Very cool.

#17

Todd Haskins said:

…Next new topic question should be how many locomotives or pieces with engines in them do you have.

I have at least one example of every piece of rolling-stock or steam/deisel engine Lionel produced for ‘Large Scale’…Not just type but road-name. Many more from LGB/USA/Aristo/etc. Not really proud of that fact, gotta cut back.

#18

Mark V said:

I thought about this…And realized it would take hours to create a list; it’s time for a major purge. Way too much stuff.

:frowning:

Me too! Way too much stuff. It’s time to take the trucks, wheels and couplers off to sell and toss the shells. Why I keep this stuff, I’ll never know.

#19

It’s far from complete, but I am bulding a Photo Roster with some car history here in the Photo Albums at http://www.largescalecentral.com/albums/view/11756 and in the CVSRy Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/CVSRy

I’ve done a pretty good job of paring down what I don’t run / need over the last 3 or 4 years. I’m still hanging on to a bit of 1:29 stuff, but i don’t really know why.

#20

Todd Haskins said:

Question is will all your rolling stock fit on your mainline at the same time?

Answer: yes, mine will, actually, with room left over…

Anyone care to line their collections up and snap a photo for us?

Answer: Not really, unless it all comes out an Operatiing session, but then I’d need a helicopter to take the picture from…

Next new topic question should be how many locomotives or pieces with engines in them do you have.

Answer: Motive power listed in my Railop file is currently 34 power units…

these consist of: RDC 1 & 3’s, 44 tonner, NW-2 Cow & calfs, GP-38’s, GP-40’s, SD40-2’s, SD-45’s, Dash 9’s. Have a couple of S-4’s, not in the inventory…

Andy your photo at Marty’s? Looks REAL. Very cool.

Answer: Todd, yes that last picture was at Marty’s, quite a few years ago, before Marty made his own autoracks and TOFC’s… and, Thank you…