Why’d you get THAT Train? My
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- There's a method to our madness! When we're looking for O-Gauge Trains to add to our roster, there's certain criteria that need to be met. So if you've been wondering why we choose the engines that run on our rails at home, or why we HAVEN'T picked certain ones up, this video is for YOU!
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That Rock Island Fairbanks Morse H15-44 adds color and variety !!
Great video and explanation of your collection. I’ve set up similar rules for my collection, not around a specific engine or time, but a cost limit and brands. For example, I like old Marx, but only the tin 6” cars, Marx has a lot of other great stuff, but once I get another variety it will just open it up to too many different styles.
My cost limit, roughly $300 per engine makes it interesting and fun, and frustrating at times, but I can get a lot of great engines within that budget.
I think with a collection it’s important to have some self imposed rules and parameters. I enjoyed this look into your ideas behind your collection.
Pulling in the historicals, helps bridge the gap between imagination and real life. It's a blast!
Great video Mike. I still look at stuff and say hey that’s cool and buy it 😂😂
Since I'm in Kansas I tend to collect UP and Santa Fe but we had a lot of different roads that came through Kansas. I collect a little bit of everything if it catches my eye like the Southern Pacific, Katy or MKT, Rock Island, Frisco. MoPac, Burlington Northern, Milwaukee Road, Chicago and North Western, Kansas City Southern, Denver and Rio Grande, Great Northern.
The Chicago Great Western railroad, the corn belt route, Milwaukee Road, and Norfolk and Western went through Omaha Nebraska. Nebraska shared some similar roads to Kansas. I have a Union Pacific time table from 1970 that has a map that shows all the different track routes of the roads at that time.
That sounds like a really great range of roadnames to collect! The Milwaukee Road and Great Northern are definitely on my list of engines to add someday, but I do have some of their rolling stock.
Very nice, Mike! Your knowledge and advice is always some of the best. Your diversity, especially with all of the Western roads, is great and it's neat to watch all of them running on your layout. I enjoy the Northeast railroads and the Great Lakes/Midwest lines, the best. I spent my youth going between our family home town of Atlantic City and Toledo, where our family moved to, back in the day, so they are the roads that I was familiar with. The 'problem' with us post-war Lionel collectors, is that we are pretty limited in whichever diesel types were produced. The F's, Trainmasters, Geeps and NW2's are about it. There were a couple of electrics, too. They did produce a nice variety of road names in both, though, which is a good thing. Unfortunately, steam is really limited. Prairies, Hudson's and Berks, for the most part. A few cheap Scout engines, like 2-4-2's, were around. Steam was almost always Lionel Lines, so other road names were basically non-existent. I would love to pick-up some Pennsylvania/Reading Seashore Lines and Atlantic City Railroad trains and do an Atlantic City-themed run, which will be something that I'll do in the near future. As always, an excellent and informative video.
Started any thing Illinois Central RR and anything Fairbanks Morse... especially Train Masters ...
After I discovered full scale O ,my semi scale Illinois Central has been sold off ...
Limiting my Fairbanks Morse collection to Demonstrators , if no Demonstrator was made I fall back to Milwaukee Rd and Chicago & Northwestern schemes ...
New locos are Lionel Legacy ...
My Train Master collection is the one out of control ...
Basically ,I'm collection varying versions of TM from every O manufacturer ...
Amen. Awesome talk . Thank you
Great video, Mike! I agree with all the points you made. I try to keep my layout centered in the PA/NY/NJ area, so I don’t end up buying every preserved steam locomotive in existence.
That’s smart! The collection can easily get out of hand!
I'm good with having all of my locomotives blue. My goal is to have the Conrail fleet in O Gauge lol. But what's neat about Conrail is the fact that you can have different colors because the early years of Conrail was called the rainbow years. Thats before everything was repainted blue. So you saw patched Reading, Lehigh Valley, etc.
Rainbow Conrail! You gotta assemble the fleet in order of the rainbow!!
Great video. I’ve started to focus on stuff from the northeast myself. Haven’t really narrowed in on any particular era though
You definitely need to have a plan when collecting! Over collecting is too easy of a trap to fall into. Plus you (and your wallet) will enjoy your collection more when you purchase something you cherish.
For me, it's the WM and NYC from the 1940s-70s. That gives me room to branch out with things like my Chessie Steam Special. Then I have a shortlist of specific prewar, postwar, MPC, and TMCC stuff (I swear, it's a short list lol).
Yep. Im pretty sick of hearing about Big Boy and big steam in general!😂
Sorry not sorry! 😅 actually we’ve added more diesels in the last month than we have the 18 months we’ve been at this. Nice to have variety!
Great video, I followed your advice and try to stay in my road names, helps control the budget but also allows me to research and get unique locomotives from those railroads.
My rule is that it has to be a design from the 1940s-50s-60s but then I broke my rule with a Atlas Union Pacific GP-40 I got in a model shop while in Texas seeing Big Boy 4014.
Interesting concept. I pretty much collect anything I like. But I definitely steer towards Wisconsin themed trains. Which actually gives me a lot of options. The one thing you didn’t cover. Which I already know the answer is: why don’t you collect pre war, post war, MPC era , or basically anything conventional? Ken
What makes a collection? Well typically it's a central theme. In my case the collecting's two-fold, I'll never own a REAL steam engine so the models make a pretty good substitute. And coming from northern New Jersey as I do the old 'roads native to the area pique my interest AND there were quite a few. The Erie, the New York Central (West Shore Division) and the New York Ontario & Western which came down the West Shore on trackage rights. There's the Susquehanna, the PRR, the Reading, the Baltimore & Ohio, the Lehigh Valley and the Lackawanna and we can't leave out the Jersey Central. All coming toward the North Jersey and New York City area like iron filings being drawn to a magnet. LOTS to choose from and what a show it must have been in the old days!
My buying habits are kind of quirky, based on my personal interests (like the DC Comics trains or Looney Tunes) or maybe based on favorite railroads of my father and my uncles that all collected trains.
I actually prefer semi-scale, because it allows me to fit more cars in a given length of space… but I’ll buy scale stuff from time to time.
I also tend to buy things in particular color schemes, like Great Northern, but only if it is orange and/or green.
I make no attempt to be era-accurate and I enjoy a lot of classic Lionel operating accessories (maybe more than I should).
i was just buying random stuff but now i think i might focus on the midwest / chicago area 1990s - 2001 with my railroad Mid National rail lines inspired by a series Greenfrog made called chicago odyssey . plus i don't have a layout yet and if i do build one i'm sticking with o-36 which limits me to traditional / smaller SCALE diesels where did you get that rock island engine? that thing is gorgeous.
The Rock Island FM diesel came from my friend David at the Lionel Store in NC. They had one left in stock heavily discounted and I couldn’t say no!! Highly recommend one if you can find it
Local history is the main reason I collect so much SP, I started with basically only wanting SP and then I learned what the DRGW was, what the ATSF was., then I learned what railroads connect to those and so on. It was nice having some different paint schemes, running a WP mountain next to a ATSF diesel with pennsy rolling stock is great because the COLORS, I definitely understand your logic behind buying these engines (especially the cab forward and daylight) having color on your layout is SO important and at the end of the day, TRAINS ARE TRAINS! they all have something cool about them! One of my favorite things is researching the real thing, it definitely adds a new layer of depth to the model when I can link it to the real thing,
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Awesome video man!
I picked it because I like it lol
Rules were made to be broken!
I find myself running the trains that I broke rules for less often though. The way I like to run these is “what works together” like I’m recreating a scene from a railroad long ago. My son likes to run whatever and I wish I had that more child-like abandon to not be tied to “what it should be”.
Not really wanting to step out of my Boundries, but I'm not real sure if listing wtf on the Opening Page for this Video is really Appropriate. Too many kids watch these Train Videos and in their head they are saying exactly what wtf says. I think we can all do better in making The Train Community a Clean and Healthy and Fun Hobby like it used to be. And make it a Great Environment for kids 3 to 99. Anymore I hear so many adults in our Hobby using swear words and such. And if I mention it to them then I am the Problem not them. I am sure I will catch some Heat from this but that's OK. I just don't want to see our Train Community ruined like the Sportscard Community. Sorry.
With respect, I’ve made 164 videos (not counting shorts) since April of ‘23 when I switched gears to doing things with my 5-year-old son. If 3 letters on one thumbnail referring to comments I have received from viewers is enough to ruin this community then we have far bigger problems.
But I don’t think that’s true. If this is the first time you’ve seen a video of mine then I can understand where the assumption might come from. However if you’ve seen any fraction of the experiences I’ve shared in the videos here then you’ll know I’m not intending to head down any negative path you’ve assumed.
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