Best lines on a non streamlined non articulated steamer

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What is your pick ?

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What scale? With or without DCC? With or without sound? Too broad a question to have an answer. In G scale you can even get live steam if you have several grand laying around in your bank vault collecting dust.

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The Nickel Plate Berkshire - hands down.

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Can’t give you an argument against that pick

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The real ones

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Boston and Maine R1d

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NYC Niagara

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My favorite is the Rio Grande 1700 series M-64 4-8-4’s built by Baldwin in the late 'twenties. One of the prettiest 4-8-4’s I’ve ever seen.

Here’s a model of it produced some years ago by Key Imports:

Tom

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As a diehard, lifelong ATSF & IC fan, I have to say the best looking steam loco is the NYC Hudson!

For the ATSF, their large Northerns (37xx) are their best.

For the IC, much as I hate to say it, those Paducah style box sand domes just kill the aesthics of the locos. And to make matters worse, you can’t even get a decent HO model of them!

Hey, the above is just my opinion, and I won’t argue one way or the other with anyone that disagrees.

ENJOY !

Mobilman44

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Japan National Railways C62 class 4-6-4.

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

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Mobilman

I agree the NYC Hudsons were very nice looking locomotives, but I was raised watching the 2500 and 2600 series Illinois Central mountains and the sand boxes looked just fine to me. I was surprised to find other railroads had rounded sandboxes.

The trick is to pace them at 75mph to get action shots or up close.

CZ

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My all time pick might be the C&O Greenbriar. A very nice locomotive.

And it might be?? This is one of those questions that has about 100 anwsers!!

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I personally like the GN S2 a lot.

If BLI actually ever made it, I’d be tempted to get one and use it for excursion service or something

I’m suprised there hasn’t been a nod to the AA 20-01 (4-14-4) or UP 9000 (4-12-2) locos

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LNER A3 Pacific I love British trains http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygF5_98PTrQ watch the first couple of minutes in HD, it is the new Tornado, wonderful stuff

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Reading T1!

Nick

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I vacillate a lot the Nickle Plate Berk–the USRA heavy Mountain and the Lackawana Pocono

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I can’t decide betwen the C&O T-1/PennsyJ1 and the UP 9000 series long-boilered three-cylinder beasts with the flying pumps. Eventually I’ll have one of each. [swg]. At least, that was the plan…BLI seems to have gone soft on their offer of the 4-12-2.

-Crandell

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Bingo! For me, a classy and timeless design. I will say that the NKP Berkshires are not too far behind though.

Tom

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For me I think the best looking example is CNR’s class U-2-e Mountain. They are a very clean looking loco especially with a Vanderbilt tender.

Lawrence Stuckey, a fairly well known photographer of the CPR thought so too.

CN Charlie

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Gotta love those chunky PRR steamers

How about an E6 Atlantic?