Thanks for the info. [tup]
My favorite diesels are the GP30 & the SD40-2s. Least favorite is the AC4400s. Still modeling the good ole Union Pacific after all these years
I am also a big emd switcher fan. I like the SW1, Sw14, SW1200
Favorite 4 axle EMD = GP40X
Favorite 6 axle EMD = SD60M 3 Window
Favorite 4 axle GE = U25B or B23-7
Favorite 6 axle GE = C30-7
Favorite 4 axle ALCo = RS-27
Favorite 6 axle ALCo = M630 (ok, it’s a MLW. All’s the same here)
Phil
My favorite?
Check out page 24 of the autumn issue of “Classic Trains.” Yep, there it is baby, the Illinois Central’s infamous “Green Diamond,” known to the locals along it’s run from Chicago to St. Louis as “The Tomato Worm”
So damn ugly it’s classic! Wow!
Here, I’ll help you out a bit…
http://streamlinermemories.info/?p=306
Prepare to be stunned.
Least favorite? Whichever one did the best job of killing steam.
Least Favorite - built by GE for SCL to house a 5 man train crew - without caboose.
Conrail SD80MAC. The first, successful, 5000 HP, all purpose AC locomotive with cutting edge technology. The 30 of them are still in mainline service on NS over 20 years after they were built.
Nobody else wanted to take a chance on the 20-710 engine. It’s still around. The other >5000 HP engines are long gone.
love the looks of the PA
I always liked the looks (really liked the looks) and sounds of the BL2 love the looks of the Saratoga and North Creek Railway.
Favorite: Any of the early Alco road switchers - RS1’s 2’s or 3’s.
All-time favorite: Green Mounatain (ex-Rutland #405)
Least: BL-2. Sorry, to me it just looks like a reject from the designers waste basket.
Does anyone else have a connection between favorite railroads and favorite locomotives. I’ve always liked the nonturbocharged EMD SD’s and my favorite (small) railroads were the old US Steel roads. See the connection?
My favourite diesel locomotive is a GE ES44DC, is also the most used locomotive.
But I don’t have a least favourite locomotive. All are beautiful! Instead what’s your favourite locomotive?
Forgive me for saying this but what happened to Amtrak’s P40’s?
Alongside the F40PH and F59PHI, I like the P40’s, they’re a lot better than the P42’s.
The red white and blue stripes on the side scream 90’s to me.
Hey, remember on August 27th I mentioned “The Green Diamond,” otherwise know as “The Tomato Worm,” or “Tobacco Worm” depending on which part on the country you lived in?
I went looking for some vintage film of the same but had no luck. Maybe this’ll do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmnwL5Ds4g
Like I said, so ugly it’s classic!
Firelock, the Green Diamond looks kind of squashed. Pro basketball players probably had to take the Abe Lincoln.
Nice job Wanswheel! You continue to amaze!
They gave me a tier 4 gevo for my local the other night. A GE that actually loads and takes off in a timely manner. Also could pull or push what we threw at it (although the amount of cars we moved around were child’s play for a road engine). I was pretty impressed with it.
People - in all forms of activity were smaller then than today. George Mikan was a ‘giant’ playing basketball after WW II at 6’10" - today there are a number of Guard’s that are that size.