OK, y'r right.  It is the cars (rolling stocks, locos, etc.) which are 118 in total (125 at last count).  I actually only have 2 official running train sets, the Thunder Valley and the Explorer.

One person asked how I manage to count them.  I do have the free RRTrains program, which is very very very useful.  Every time I get a rolling stock, I just enter the data.  The program will take care of the rest.  It generates an automatic web page, and also a summary web page.  The best part is that you can mark each entry that you want to sell, and the program will create a selling page.  I highly encourage everyone who has the time to use this program, especially if you either just started out like me, or have a limited amount of entries to do.

As I wrote at the very beginning, this is not a contest, or invite people saying "number does not matter" or "bwahahah, I have the most trains".

I just want to have a feel of how many cars one have.  Because obviously many people have more than the track can handle.  So what people do with the extras?  Put them in a storage box and forget about it?  Rotate the stocks every month?  Put them on display on a wall?  Create a yard and put them all in it and treat them as non-operational? 

Why does one continue to buy even though one has more than enough than one's tracks can handle?

Personally my original intention was to create four consists.  This include two DCs, one DCC, and one DC which is the mouse train for Buzzie.  I have four power districts...hence can create four "train sets".  There are also about two dozen rolling stocks which are not for playing, but for display, as they are promotional items and are meant to be for display.  This include the Chevron set, the Bicentennial set, and the Anaprox set, but also rare items such as Xmas stock cars and dealer-only promotional boxcars.

I do not really forsee myself buying anymore other than extra flatcars to create a longer mouse trains.   

I was raised next to the train station from my old country.  The train station is my neighbor.  Now the train station has become the national museum of the old country.


I probably did anything and everything that a kid would do with a train, train station, handcar, tracks, trying to uncouple couplers, signals, station master, station employee for fun and drive the adults nuts.  I did not get inside the ticket office and mess with their paperwork though.




I started model trains this year because I want to share it with my cat, who as it turns out, loves train.   1/4 of the spare bedroom now devoted to the layout, which in effect becomes Buzzie's room.  You can check it out by clicking on the link of my signature.

Anyone has extra OLD Bachmann N-scale white jewel case box available?  One or two will be fine.  I have a couple of cars that do not have boxes, and they dated back to the 60s.

I'm curious how many trains do you guys have?  How many trains are bachmann?

No, this is not a contest, I am just curious about what is the average collector has.

For the record we have 118, all Bachmann, N scale.

The regular Bachmann EZ track takes 6 to make a half circle.  That means 12 for the two half circles of a figure 8. 

Last nite the train was parked, Buzz managed to knock off the mice without knocking off any cars.  Must be in a good mood ;-)

It may be a good idea to buy 3 or 4 locos, take turn to run them, maybe each loco runs for 5 hours a day.  When it is not run, you can dissemble it and clean and lube it if needed.  Once you get used to it you can dissemble, clean, lube, adjust, assemble within 15 mins.
Probably better than buying a new loco every few days.

I just bought a Chevron set from *bay.  It comes in a white box and that's about it.  Just the trains and four pieces of tracks. Anyone knows anything about it, including what year was it made?

I cannot locate it in either the 94 or the 95 catalog.  Not the Annie, not the tender, and not the passenger cars.  I find it strange because these items do not appear until 2001 catalog.

Perhaps I either need a G video catalog or some sort of Xmas catalog?  Do you think it is a one off production, and was brought back to be sold individually some seven years later?

Ask the G folks.

I cannot find a set that contains what you describe.   The key are the passenger cars.  There is *no* South Pacific Coast Observation Car (#43), but there is one that is numbered 41.  Can you please check if you got the numbers right?

Since I have a catalog gap in 2004-2005, I do know that the passenger cars were made between 2001-2003.  The #21 Annie was made starting in 2003.

My guess is either 2004 or 2005.  I am taking an educated guess because the pattern of Bachmann's selling seemed to be that when they try to get rid of the rest of an old stock, they will package them into a set.  Since there is no such set in 2006, while in 2003 there is no such set either but the passenger cars were still in production, that means either it is 2004 or 2005.

What I listed is every single UP F7A 1468 that Bachmann has ever made, with scales, years, catalog number, and costs, etc.

Yours is H0, made between 92-97 if it was sold separately originally.  Should be in the typical Bachmann white paper box.  Occasionally it was sold as a set with a caboose.  However, if yours came from a train set, then it was made between 98-01.  That is, after 1997 you could no longer purchase your loco alone.  This is typical Bachmann strategy to combine older models into a train set, while working on improved versions.

If you have the original box and the loco is mint, it should worth around $10 today.

I have just about every single Bachmann catalogs since 69

Bachmann Plus F7A Union Pacific #1468

H0 scale (1992-2001):

Catalog #31203 (1992-93 MSRP $39.95)
Catalog #11293 (1994 MSRP $42.95)
Catalog #11203 (1995 MSRP $46.00 1996 MSRP $35.00 1997 MSRP $36.50)
Worths about $10.00 MIB today
Catalog #01103 The Pioneer (Premium Silver Series Train Set 1998-2000)
Catalog #01103 The Pioneer (Silver Series Train Set 2001)
Worths about $30.00 MIB today

N scale (1994-1997): 
Catalog #11253 (1994 MSRP $42.95 1995 MSRP $46.00 1996 MSRP $35.00 1997 MSRP $37.00)
Worths about $15.00 MIB today

Many engineering designs features of the Bachmann Plus N scale F7A diesels are retained in today's Bachmann Spectrum N scale F7A.  But no UP Spectrum F7A was ever made, nor is there an undecorated version which you can paint to UP colors. 

Today's Spectrum F7A has to be purchased with the F7B together, with an MSRP of $90.00.  For Example: Sante Fe #307 & #316B Catalog #81259 (2007)

Hope this helps.

What is significant about that date (31 Oct 1957)?

I don't know that..how do you define modern?
Those stock cars look like the ones that I grew up seeing back in the 70s.

I accidentally deleted all the pictures, so I have to retake the pictures again.  Originally I was just going to take the pictures of the layout and the train cases, because Buzz is sleeping so I do not want to disturb him next room.
Then September shows up and proceeds to walk over the place as if she is saying "Everything that belongs to me is mine, and everything that belongs to my brother is also mine!"

http://www.cygoth.com/~buzz/index2.html