How Many Trains Do You Own?

[Redimus]

Official Lego (all modified to some extent):

- Full Horizon Express train (2 sets) modified to be fully articulated and powered at both ends (but controlled from only the front).

- Yellow freight train set, plus everything again but the track and the loco, although most of the second lot have been dismantled, as have both container wagons, and the containers have been spliced to form Maersk scaled containers.

- Maersk set plus 2 black and red versions of the wagons, 2 custom containers and a load of makeshift containers (see above).

Custom:

- Blue generic 2-6-0 steam engine, modified several times over. Probably going to make it a 4-4-0 as the current wheel arrangement looks *very* toylike when compared to my other loco MOC.

- Southern Railway Q Class 0-6-0 (7 wide) (see the sig).

- 2x Mk0.5 (generic sort of but not really Mk1 coaches, 6 wide and very toy like, Standard Brake and 1st/Buffet).

- Pullman coach (torn between building a couple more (including a break end) or redesigning them to be a little longer, and 7 wide to go with my new preferred standard).

- 2x generic tankers on bogies, modified from 4 wheeler tankers bought from ebay, I have no idea if they were customs or actual Lego designs).

The build list:

- Generic Southern Railway Brakevan (7 wide). Well on the way to completion.

- Generic '4 plank' open wagon. Bits ordered (7 wide).

- Generic van, cattle van, steam era tanker wagon, '2 plank' open (all 7 wide). Designed, waiting on the completion of the open wagon to make sure there's no problems with the chassis.

[Feuer Zug]

I started collecting LEGO trains only a few years ago. They have often lost out to other sets when considering what to buy, but I am working on a couple of MOCs (2 diesel, electric, and 1 steam) that will hopefully build up my collection.

Minifig Scale

3677 - Red Cargo Train

9467 - The Ghost Train (Modded into an American 4-4-0)

10194 - Emerald Night (PF modded)

Micro Scale

31015 - Emerald Express

40028 - Mini Hogwart's Express (Closest I got to getting one)

40034 - Christmas Train

Accessories and track

7499 - Flexible and Straight Track

7895 - Switching Tracks (2x)

7936 - Level Crossing

8870, 8871, 8879, 8882 (3x), 8883 (4x), 8884, 88000 (a few), and 88002

I also have a train station I build, a signal tower, and a few odds and ends sets to expand my layout that aren't quite train related. And if it counts, 79110 - Silver Mine Shootout

[Mestari]

This is embarrassing ;) but I only have the Lone Ranger set, that I grabbed on sale... I do like trains though very much. It's just hard to buy them with virtually no space and with them being so expensive. And then you have to explain that to your wife ;)

So... Just one unpowered train.

Edited September 26, 2014 by Mestari

[Murdoch17]

These are all the trains I have.

They all are customs, and reach back from ones built in 2009 to the present. All one I list here are still built.

(Most are custom engine numbers, not set numbers.... except for the ones marked 2126, as these are from set 2126, Train Cars.)

The makeup is as follows.

GREAT BRITAIN: 7 locos, 0 streetcars, 15 passenger cars, 3 freight cars

UNITED STATES: 6 locos, 4 streetcars, 16 passenger cars, 10 freight cars

GRAND TOTAL: 13 locos, 4 streetcars, 31 passenger cars, 13 freight cars OR 61 "finished" trains total

Edited September 26, 2014 by Murdoch17

[snowvictim]

These are all the trains I have.

They all are customs, and reach back from ones built in 2009 to the present. All one I list here are still built.

(Most are custom engine numbers, not set numbers.... except for the ones marked 2126, as these are from set 2126, Train Cars.)

The makeup is as follows.

GREAT BRITAIN: 7 locos, 0 streetcars, 15 passenger cars, 3 freight cars

UNITED STATES: 6 locos, 4 streetcars, 16 passenger cars, 10 freight cars

GRAND TOTAL: 13 locos, 4 streetcars, 31 passenger cars, 13 freight cars OR 61 "finished" trains total

Pics or didn't happen.

[Murdoch17]

They are not all photgraphed (yet), but they are stacked behind this engine here (in the boxes):

Almost all my built UK trains are photographed here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/55973205@N08/sets/72157635402963937

Edited September 26, 2014 by Murdoch17

[PeteM]

All sets, not really got the confidence to moc yet... Leaving out track and accessories:

7710 Push-Along Passenger Steam Train (motorised)

7720 Diesel Freight Train

7740 Inter-City Passenger Train

7818 Passenger Wagon

7725 Electric Passenger Train

7821 Track & Lighting Maintenance Wagon

7735 Freight Train

7745 High-Speed City Express Passenger Train

7813 Shell Tanker Wagon

7938 Passenger Train

10194 Emerald Night

10219 Maersk Train

10223 Horizon Express x2

79111 Constitution Train Chase

[ScotNick]

Hmm, I have some sets, but none of them are actually built.

I own:

10194 Emerald Night (2x)

4559 Cargo Railway

4552 Cargo Crane

7936 Level Crossing

I have one custom engine that waits for money, parts and time. It sits on its shelf already for some years and is improved every now and then.

And there is a soon to come custom 2-6-2T engine waiting for parts to arrive.

Edited September 26, 2014 by ScotNick

[Fish777]

10027 engine shed

7939 cargo traiin

Emerald night

Maersk train

Horizon express x2

And my prize possession: 7996 switch rail thing

[Commander Wolf]

When I was a kid I was really good at asking for Lego trains every Christmas, but as the official sets got derpier they got less exciting. My biggest regret is not getting an Emerald Night when I was in college.

4.5v/12v

7715 Push-along train

7813 Shell Wagon

7839 Car Carrier Platform

9v

4559 Cargo Railway

4561 Railway Express

4564 Freight Rail Runner

4563 Load N' Haul Railroad

10022 Santa Fe Cars Set II

10170 TTX Intermodal Double-Stack Car

2126 Train Cars

10025 Santa Fe Cars Set II

3225 Classic Train

4552 Cargo Crane

4543 Railroad Tractor Flatbed

4536 Blue Hopper Car

4525 Road N' Rail Repair

4533 Train Track Snow Remover

3744 My Own Train - Green Kit

3747 My Own Train - Dark Grey Kit

3741 My Own Train - Large Engine

3741 My Own Train - Large Engine

3742 My Own Train - Tender

10020 Santa Fe Super Chief

10133 BNSF GP-38 Locomotive

10027 Train Engine Shed

10128 Train Level Crossing

4557 Freight Loading Station

4553 Train Wash

10173 Holiday Train

10001 Metroliner

10183 Hobby Train Set

The little handcar you got from the Lego Loco PC game (it counts right?)

rc

7898 Cargo Train Deluxe

pf

60052 Cargo Train

MOCs currently assembled

ACE 3000

DRG T18

PRR T1

Assorted rolling stock

[snowvictim]

They are not all photgraphed (yet), but they are stacked behind this engine here (in the boxes):

Almost all my built UK trains are photographed here: https://www.flickr.c...157635402963937

Not-So-Emerald Night

[Redimus]

Yeah., that's utterly unlike Emerald Night, lol.

[Scheemdalegotrain]

Since I was bitten by the train bug two years ago, I have collected the following trains, all RC/PF:

assembled:

- the 7938 red passenger train;

- the 7939 yellow cargo train;

- the 3677 red cargo train;

- the 60051 ICE passenger train;

- the 60052 blue cargo train.

Still to be assembled:

- another 7938 red passenger train;

- the 7997ICE passenger train;

- the 7998 green cargo train.

[fred67]

This is embarrassing ;) but I only have the Lone Ranger set, that I grabbed on sale... I do like trains though very much. It's just hard to buy them with virtually no space and with them being so expensive. And then you have to explain that to your wife ;)

So... Just one unpowered train.

I'm going to go out on a limb, here; among all "official" LEGO trains, I like the The Constitution from The Lone Ranger the best. Yes, even better than the Emerald Night, as far as appearance goes. I did modify it - I took the old (MOT) caboose and replaced the red with the dark green, and made the accent color brown instead of yellow, and used smooth slopes on top instead of the straight ones, so it really matches the rest of the train well. I also removed the "play" feature from the cargo car and fixed that part of the roof to match. IMO, it's the best "classic" style steam engine TLG has ever released. The EN is awesome, of course, in all it's grandeur... but the Constitution just looks like a more classic old-timey steam engine. I haven't motorized it yet (although I did motorize the Toy Story train just for kicks a couple of years ago).

My updated list (engines/sets only)

3470: Small Locomotive, x3

4561: Railway Express, x2

10020: Santa Fe Super Chief (not limited)

10133: BNSF

4708: Hogwarts Express (2001) x2

4841: Hogwarts Express (2010)

10157: High Speed Locomotive x2

10194: Emerald Night x3 (one modded to Ruby)

10219: Maersk

10233: Horizon Express

7597: Toy Story Western Train Chase

9711: Lone Ranger Constitution Train Chase

Micro:

4837: Mini Trains (not official - I built a couple in various colors with my own bricks).

31015: Emerald Express, x2

40028: Mini Hogwarts Express, x2

[dr_spock]

Shoot, I forgot 60052 Cargo Train on my previous list.

This is embarrassing ;) but I only have the Lone Ranger set, that I grabbed on sale... I do like trains though very much. It's just hard to buy them with virtually no space and with them being so expensive. And then you have to explain that to your wife ;)

So... Just one unpowered train.

Don't worry. For 30 years I had only the 7710 Push Train. I didn't buy another train until Horizon Express came out. I bought the Lone Ranger set on sale too. I liked the engine but ended up parting it for MOCs.

[brickbuilder711]

A lot... but I guess the best way to quantify is how many built trains I have on hand, LOL.... 3 CSX locos, 2 FEC locos, 6 hoppers for rock train service, some Intermodal, and some manifest.

[snowvictim]

Well, so I did revive my train collection somewhat... Some trains are still incomplete, but at least they're mostly assembled.

This is a quick snapshot. As you can see I've got the 4511 High-Speed Train, the 60052 Cargo Train, the 7939 Cargo Train Loco (wagons still unassembled), my custom Red Engine, the 7938 Passenger Train, and a complete 10233 Horizon Express. 4512 on order from BrickLink, currently shipped. Also, I've finally got the bucks for selling my 10179 Millenium Falcon so I'm ordering the BNSF engine, the Santa Fe Super Chief, the Red Cargo Train, another 4511, and probably one or two 10158 Train Cars depending on how much money I have left.

Right now it's running a small oval. I was lucky enough to get my hands on 117 9V rails for $70 from some guy in the countryside. I guess they don't know the value of that stuff over there. But the small track for the 4511 isn't because of a lack of rails, it's because of a lack of space. I'll be relocating my railway to the attic soon where I'll have an enormous amount of space.

Then there's the 60052 Cargo Train. Got this one yesterday. In my opinion it's much better than the 7939 Cargo Train to the left of it. The 7939 is still incomplete, ordered the doors to the storage hold from BrickLink along with some of the roof parts. I got the stickers though, so that's good.

This is my custom Red Engine. It's nothing fancy but I like it. I haven't got any 9V switch tracks yet so it's just standing on the RC track waiting for that BrickLink order to arrive. Front wheels need some rework though. Also, the City Windscreen on the other side is transparent. Got a red one ordered already.

Emerald Night rebuilt just today. Stayed up till 5am redoing this badboy. My sister has a little dog that has a very bad habbit of going to the toilet in the house. Well, you kind of get why I had to make a rebuild. Disassembled it, washed the parts, dried them and the reassembled the finest Lego model (in my opinion). As you can see there's still some parts that need to be added or replaced, but at least it's in working condition.

Car. Still missing some elements from the roof and the hull. Got those ordered too. There's currently nothing inside as I haven't decided whether I want this to be a sleeping car or a passenger car. I'll definitely make more of these. Unfortunately I'll also have to invest in a XL motor, the M motor isn't doing full speed with this empty car.

This is a custom train station I've made. Nothing amazing, but it does the trick well. There's Dracula in the top right corner, but you can only see his legs and cape.

Passenger Train, also rebuilt very recently. I'll need to buy an IR receiver and a train motor for this guy, took them out to power up my double Horizon Express. Right now he's just sitting on the track waiting for the power functions. As you can see the engine is missing a few parts, but I have these lying around somewhere so I won't have to order them.

There's my double Horizon Express on the outer track. I alternate between the Horizon Express and the Emerald Night on the outer tracks, but the passenger rail is connected with the cargo rail anyway so I can pretty much put any train on all the tracks (except the 9V rails as the switch tracks haven't arrived yet).

Well, I'll get an update done once the BNSF, Santa Fe Super Chief and Green Cargo Train arrive. I'm off to the mall now to get some more track and start the relocation to the attic.

[branio]

Hello.

Up to today I've been an occasional reader of the forum. Just (finally) created an account.

I love the trains and love the lego, so why not to have both combined :D

With my sons (6 and 3y old), we build tracks, just recently we did some experiments with bridges and tracks going up and down.

Our collection up to this day is as follows:

7938: Passenger Train (+1 extra middle wagon)

7939: Cargo Train

10219: Maersk Train

60052: Cargo Train

10194: Emerald Night

Built from bricks obtained through bricklink:

10016: Tanker (2x)

10017: Hopper Wagon

And a lot of tracks (PF)...

[snowvictim]

Seems like everyone's got the Maersk train. It's a really pretty model. Hard to choose between Maersk or BNSF/Santa Fe Super Chief...

[Merkurius]

7710

7715

7720

7722

7725

7727

7730

7735

7740

7750

7755

7760

and a half 7745

Stations/wagons

7813

7814

7815

7816

7817

7819

7821

7822

7823

7824

7834

7838

7839

7866

Edited September 29, 2014 by Merkurius

[Henrik Ludvigsen]

I have stopped counting.... I have more than 130 different trains and stations. It is from the very start with the 4.5 blue era, 12 volt, 9 volt, RC-train to PF-train.

Many of Them are double, some in MISB and so on.

My collections also include different kinds of track in many colours including blue, Grey, Black, yellow, red, maersk blue, transparent and some more. Most of Them are prototypes..... Or test run from the moulds.

According to BL the weight of the collection is 1.300 kilos.... That is a lot.

There is pictures here (at the bottom....)

I Think i have 95% of all the train related sets....

Henrik

[snowvictim]

I have stopped counting.... I have more than 130 different trains and stations. It is from the very start with the 4.5 blue era, 12 volt, 9 volt, RC-train to PF-train.

Many of Them are double, some in MISB and so on.

My collections also include different kinds of track in many colours including blue, Grey, Black, yellow, red, maersk blue, transparent and some more. Most of Them are prototypes..... Or test run from the moulds.

According to BL the weight of the collection is 1.300 kilos.... That is a lot.

There is pictures here (at the bottom....) https://www.flickr.c...57645433059799/

I Think i have 95% of all the train related sets....

Henrik

You've got... 1.3 tonnes of Lego trains? I assume that's what you mean as 1.3kg is not that much, thus your "That is a lot" wouldn't match in there.

Edited September 30, 2014 by snowvictim

[AgentRick]

Seems like everyone's got the Maersk train. It's a really pretty model. Hard to choose between Maersk or BNSF/Santa Fe Super Chief...

I actually prefer the BNSF SD38 to the Maersk train, which is one of the reasons why I didn't pick it up while it was out. I just prefer the combination of Dark Green on Orange moreso than the combination of Maersk Blue on Black (Not that Maersk Blue isn't a nice color, it's just that Dark Green is probably my favorite brick color). I still kinda regret not getting one now that they're in the $300 range online.

[wondermonkey]

I actually just finished Bricklinking a BNSF engine... I brick built a base, used the orange windows from the arctic sets and found a decent deal on the train wheels (light gray instead of light bluish gray). In all I spent less than $80, oh plus stickers from ministickers.nl, which I highly recommend using. I did mod it a little to my liking after building by instructions. I love my Maersk, but yeah, the BNSF might be nicer to look at... Maybe it's just the satisfaction of tracking all the pieces down, I'm not sure. I'll have to get all my locomotives together, I'm not even sure how many I have.

[Henrik Ludvigsen]

You've got... 1.3 tonnes of Lego trains? I assume that's what you mean as 1.3kg is not that much, thus your "That is a lot" wouldn't match in there.

Yes, 1.3 tons. I have more than 6.000 meters of tracks stacked in my house....... That is a lot .......... The tracks has been used for a Guinness World record.

Henrik