your first model loco

[tomt]

that you bought yourself.

what was it?

mine was a 'AHM GE 35 ton'

$4.77, + tax at woolco ...

(some years back)




was, and still is, a 'growler', right from the box ...

[Callufrax]

My first was Lima's British Rail HST train set. It still exists, though boxed up.

[ottergoose]

The first loco I bought myself was an N scale C44-9W CNW by Kato... at least I think that was the first... I had a collection of O gauge stuff, but, I think those were all acquired as gifts.

[Arne H. B.]

My first that I bought was an Athearn SW7 in Santa Fe blue and yellow. I still have it and after it was run so much it is very quiet now! Before that it was a Bachmann F9 in Santa fe red and silver (or should I say chrome) but that was a gift. Hard to believe I would become an SP fan after all the Santa Fe stuff I had early on.

[trainboysd40]

Athearn SD40-2, I haven't used it since I simulatneously got a Kato equivalent, or sliced off the coupler boxes in a mis-guided attempt at...something.

[Darryl Rule]

My first engine was an HO scale Athearn Pennsy F7 that sounded like a coffee grinder.

[Watain]

my first locomotive was an athearn Norfolk Southern Dash-9 kinda wish i still had it since athearn discontinued most of the GE models and no one else makes C449w's in NS paint kato is releasing dash 9's for HO but only in SP and UP but i guess you can always buy undecorated

[molinematt]

My first was BN EMD SD38-2. I can't remember who made it though. I still have it, and it is still in use.

[Peter MacCauley]

My first locomotive was a BC Rail GP40 (which, by the way, they never owned) dummy - maybe a reflection on the one operating it! The first powered locomotive was an Athearn blue box AC4400, which came with the wrong sideframes (rollerskates instead of radial). I bought replacement sideframes (well after Athearn released a RTR version of the locomotive with the correct sideframes already installed) but still have yet to assemble, paint or install them. Just a case of too many projects, not enough time i guess!

[Mark Rosnick]

My first locomotive was an Athearn GP35 in Erie Lackawanna paint, bought in 1974, and still have it.

[JimThias]

Bought it when I was 10, and it now resides over my kitchen sink 30 years later. Oddly, three sections of Lionel track fit PERFECTLY in this spot:

[ccaranna]

I didn't buy it, but I worked for it...

An Athearn SW7 "Cow" painted with white B&O lettering. That was in about 1981, if I recall.

Here is a pic of the "calf", but they must have changed the paint and lettering over the last 25 years or so; this has yellow markings and the "B&O" is spelled out "Baltimore and Ohio".

Horizon's $19.75 price tag isn't too bad for those ol' 'blue boxes'. I think it was around $12 way back when.

[andy buckley]

My first loco I can remember buying was a Triang - Hornby 00/H0 scale Great Western Railway liveried 4-6-0 'Hall' Class loco no 4983 'Albert Hall'.

I remember it cost me £5.60 - which was a lot of birthday money in those days (1970's?). The reason I chose it was because it had a 'sound system' of sorts built into the tender - this consisted of an abrasive strip that rubbed against one of the axles in the tender that made a 'chuff chuff' sound as the engine went along.

A far cry from the Phoenix etc digital sound units of today....

Strangely I still have the box but I don't know what happened to the loco....

[WembYard]

Originally Posted by andy buckley

My first loco I can remember buying was a Triang - Hornby 00/H0 scale Great Western Railway liveried 4-6-0 'Hall' Class loco no 4983 'Albert Hall'.

Hey, I had one of those too! Though my first loco was a 1950s 46201 "Princess Elizabeth".

I don't do any modelling these days, far too busy playing with the 12 inches to 1 foot scale version.

[railfan_Montreal]

My first loco was an Athearn AMTRAK F7

I still get it,but it's paint in VIA rail scheme

when it was AMTRAK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ldwzJaSzeA

and now in VIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldsVZC_hzg0

[TrainFanNZ]

My First Loco brought by me (4 years ago) was a Atlas SD24 in AT&SF (Black & Silver). Don't have it anymore.

BTW, my first ever Loco was a Fratechi U20C in a NZR (New Zealand Railways) paint.

[jnevis]

If I remember correctly the first one I bought myself was either an Athearn UP SW1200. That was soon followed by an F45 and a Life Like low nose GP7. The F45 was undec and painted the same as the boat my Scout unit had. None survived after I left the house.

My N scale stuff started with a A&B four car sets of Kato E-1 Max shinkasen, and a six car Kiekyu k600, plus a GreenMax eight car K1000. I had been in Japan for two years and was getting ready to leave. The k600/1000 was the local trains we took all over and I wanted a model of one. None of them ever got ran until recently (14 yrs later) when I actually had N track from a set I got for Christmas.

[Freericks]

Athearn GP9 (Union Pacific), bought in 1971 from Highway Hobby House in Ramsey NJ, and which while I do still have, but was horribly repainted in some slopped on terrible, terrible, repainting accident that occured about 1975 or so, and which also destroyed my entire collection of diesels at the time (I think a total of five units), all of which I still have.

In the back of my mind, I've always thought that one day I would buy new shells for all of them to restore them to their original paint schemes, but most of them are no longer operational.

[Torpedo423]

This lovely Athearn CSX Dash 9 #9009, got it when i was like 7, still runs really well, and can pull every single car on the layout (and that we have) with a little help from that chessie system engine one shelf up.



Here it is along side my dads newest B&O A-B set, with one of his pullman cars on the train behide it, rest are mine (not a very good picture, taken with cell phone)

[ac4400cw]

The first locomotive I bought myself was a Bachman GP30 painted burgundy & silver for Santa Fe. I looked like a "superfleet" locomotive, but the red was considerably darker. Sadly, I no longer have it.

[troy12n]

I sure dont have pictures of it, but it was some O-27 gague steam loco. Complete with the drops you could put in the smokestack to make it smoke. Needless to say, it didnt last very long.

[craftsmaster]

Here's my first loco model 8RN. Now it's on my first ever written book about model trains actually. Almost the same specs with ALASKA 3014.

[Bob Rule, Jr.]

My first model engine I bought myself was and Athearn Hustler, yellow with red stripes with the good old HiFi - rubber band - drive. It is loooonnnnnggggg gone.

[CaliforniaRailFan]

My first locomotive was a Bachmann Spectrum Dash 8-40 CW Union Pacific. I still have it but it is damaged so it is not on display.

[Joe the Photog]

I don't have a model,but if I did, I'd probable get a CSX ancestor B23-7 or L&C SW1500