i look around at all the diffrent things in ctt manly postwar and i see many things that pepole consiter clasics but i consiter them favroites what is your favroite thing that you own for your trains ( oprating cars acssorys or locos )
my favroite thing that i own is a k-line B&O picific whats yours?[?]
Boy that’s a tough question for me. I like it all! My favorite locos are Lionel PRR K4s, M1a and K-Line B6s. As far as rolling stock, I my favorites are my 7 car passenger set and my billboard reefers. As far as buildings, I scratch built a coal tiple(sic?) and sanding tower and associated buildings. They are scaled up from a Bachman Plus HO kit I bought when I was doing HO many years ago. Another favorite is a 2 bay loco shed 12" X 26" kit bashed from 2 smaller Lionel loco sheds.
There is only one real favorite. A scale deluxe F-3 Santa Fe War Bonnet passenger set!
Jim H
If I had one, it would be mine as well.
the santa fe is great but i would much rather have a wabash passenger set
Anything in Standard gauge! [:)]
I’m just getting started, but I would have to say the MTH Erie Triplex (See below).[8D]
My 248 engine from 1928ish
Lionels Lionmaster Big Boy 38075.
laz57
Kind of like asking me which of my kids I like best (not telling).
All our locos and rolling stock are special in their own way. I just bought a log dumping car for the kids. The Lionel dowels are so light, they get tossed, not dumped, so I cut a few real “logs” off a tree. Wow, looks great! Logs don’t sail off into the next county any more either!
Two of our freight cars have been re-painted, so they are kind special. I took an old K-Line SF tanker and made it over as a fictional Merrimac Oil car. Likewise, I bought a Lionel starter type reefer and made it into a ficticious J&M Dairy car. Both came out alright.
Jim
I have the K-line B&O Pacific too. It’s on the top of my list along with my MTH N&W J 4-8-4 and Markin HO VT601 TEE. I grew up near the B&O and N&W and was fortunate enough to hear and see the first two. The VT601 just looks and runs great.
Yep…I love it all!
MY favorites are my 681 turbine[^].Hopefully when I get my lionel new york central
limeted set with railsounds that also will be my favorite.
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yeah pasenger sets forever!
My restored 2343 Santa Fe F3 A-A. But, if I had a Prewar Baby Blue Comet or an MPC Blue Comet, that would be my favorite.
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For me, my F3 Santa fe 2343, and milwaukee road gp-7.
Top of quality
and 100% made in usa.
Andre.
I have two Lionel trainmasters.One I cut down and modified into a baby trainmaster that I can run on 027 track
Ed
Hmmmm lets see,
There is my 726 , 675, 671, 736, 1666, 2025, 2026, 2443 set, 2334 set, MTH challenger, big boy, dryfuss, standard gauge sets, K line hudson, Some of my HO, American Flyer Challengers & hudsons.
OH heck I don’t know there is just so many to pick from, That would be the problem with having too many different scales.
Don’t get me going on the farm toys or antiuqe tractors.
Steam engines with super complicated operating motions. I like those ETS trains with their delicate valve gear and I’m determined to get my hands on a Shay and a Heisler to see all those gears, shafts and conrods flailing about.
I dont much care for diesels mainly because there’s not all that much to look at in terms of mechanical bits and pieces thrashing about but the newer ones with working fans and smoke (they’d have blown rings or seriously faulty injectors if they really smoked like that but never mind) may change my mind.
Lionels operating accessories really make me grin, especially some of the older ones like the reactor but I like them all
I’m thinkin’ an IVES Circus set or a Black Diamond. Of course, I own neither myself.
The favorite in my collection is my Lionel Frisco Mikado. Sentimental favorites are my two childhood sets, a Marx 490 set and a Lionel 8020 set.