If it runs on rails then i like it
SD-7, SD9, SD24, SD35, Alco RSC2. RSD4/5, anything six axle whether for drag freights, switcher duties (SD-38), or standard manifest freight. especially after photographing brand new fresh out of the factory Frisco SD-38’s on delivery day!
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Pity you should have problems with it, Selector. My Niagara (also BLI, #6001, no sound, from their outlet direct at a very nice price!) runs like a charm with a Lok Pilot decoder, although something is squeeling terribly in the siderods (light oil didnt help, I’ll try it with grease next). I too like it being an all-rounder although I have yet to find a picture of it actually pulling a freight. They apparently did pull a lot of mail & express trains. (so that’s my next focus of ebay browsing, getting a string of baggage cars from various railroads)
(re: tenders, I would LOVE to get a centipede 14-wheel tender for my BLI Hudson!)
For modeling, I like the 4 axle Alco RS and C series road switchers.
To take a train down the road in real life: SD40-2s (as long as the doors still close and toliet doesn’t stink [:P])
Nick
Well…From the choices listed…I would have to say…Hmmm…
- SUPER HEAVY ROAD FREIGHT!
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Big, Powerful, Awe-Inspiring…Where’s Tim Allen when you need him?[:p]
Being a PRR fan at heart (even though I’m modeling the B&M at the moment) my choices would be the GG1, the K4 (does a Pacific get any better?), RS1-RS3, and the GP40-2.
I’m in the #4 catigory mostly with modern equiptment but I do love a Santa Fe GP30
2-foot guage Beyer Garret (steam loco) built in 1994 in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. I’ll a photo when I get home from work.
hi hood Southern SD40-2 or a sd70MAC in southern’s Tuxedo.[;)]
Favorites? GP7/9/35/38/38-2/40/40-2.
Alco RS1,RS3,RS11.[:D]
All of my favorite units are 4 wheel general duty locomotives.[;)]
So far E-6 Santa Fe War Bonnet.
But the real quest at this point is a CW 44-9. I dont know why but I feel like I need some.
Cuda Ken
EMD Geeps. Especially the GP38-2 but I like every one from the 7 to the 60M. But EMDs F units were just as good. As well as the SD series.
I’m also a fan of Alco switchers / road switchers.
GE LOCOMOTIVES!!!
Gevo series
ac4400cw
ac6000cw
c44-9w
mp36ph-3c ( yes, the metra/caltrain ones )
4-8-4 northern
4-6-6-4 / 4-8-8-4
acela
TGV’s
F3
F59phi ( A TRUE CALIFORNIA ENGINE – DESIGNED FOR CALIFORNIA, ADOPTED BY ALL, its real nickname is the california engine )
SD 9s (as long as they are SP with the full light package)
SD 40s, 45s, 45Xs, 40T-2 & 45T-2 [#ditto]
SW 1500 MP 15AC [#ditto]
SDL 39
RSD 5
Harriman 2-8-0s with vandy tenders
SP AC-9 2-8-8-4 & AC 4 - 12s 4-8-8-2 cabforwards
F 7s 9s (Espee cialy in black widow paint)
SWs modified for logging ( like Coos Bay & Canfor )
Believe it or not I like GE’s ( U23-b, U30-b, U33-c, U28-c, U33-c, well almost all u boats) and EMD GP and SD’s.
Hmm…
SD45, SD45T-2, SD60M, GP38-2, 8-40B//W Dash 9’s SD70ACe ES44’s…
I think that covers it.
James.
- Any narrow gauge shay doing any sort of work.
- Any shay doing anything.
- Any narrow gauge geared loco doing anything.
- Any geared loco doing anything.
- Most narrow gauge steam locos doing anything.
- Steam locos doing anything.
That’s what I like. I could care less if it was freight, passenger, mixed or empty.
I just like steam engines.
I know next to nothing about them but I like watching them any time anywhere.
Anyhow that’s my 2 cents.
OOps I almost forgot. The only standard gauge Steam loco I really like is the Pacific. That would be number six and no. 6 would be 7. If you know what I mean.
Other than that it is the list above.
GE B23-7 or 4-axle Dash-8s. ATSF Warbonnet Es. Then SWs, GP38-2, GP50.
No wide cabs, no Amtrak fuglies like the current PH-whatevers.
Shays,GPs,SW switchers,F-7A&Bs and of course THE BIGBOY and my most fav loco is my Mantua 2-6-6-2 With tender at the club i’ve pulled 39 cars with it I have made a few changes on it to make it run better.
JIM