Why not have a third thread, this time with locomotive spelled correctly. [(-D]
What is the BEST locomotive you have NEVER owned?
My best one is a U.P. 4-8-8-4 Big Boy.
Great locomotive but I will never buy it.
Rich
Beyer-Garrett. I doubt I’ll ever see one in S and of course they weren’t here in the U.S., but I do like them.
Enjoy
Paul
If you never “owned” it, how do you know it"s the best? Can you lease “scale” locomotives?
If you never “owned” it, how do you know it"s the best? Can you lease “scale” locomotives?
I was wondering that my self.
Best Locomotive, Y6 B by PCM.
This is what all other steam engines want to be. Had well over 400 hours before I had to do any kind of repair on it. It is now pushing 700 hours. Pulls like a mule, at K-10 Model Trains it pulled 70 cars up a 1.5% grade like it was nothing.
Loksound 3.5 decoder sound great, and slow speed is fantastic. Engine all so tracks great.
Best money I have ever spent on a engine.
Cuda Ken
I don’t know about the “best” part, but I have never owned a model of a long list of popular and/or famious locos:
I don’t have and have never had:
UP Big Boy, Challenger, FEF or Gas Turbine
SP Cab Forward or GS4
PRR anything
NYC Hudson, Mohawk or “lightning stripe” F units
N&W “class J”
anything who’s prototype was built after 1954
Triplex or any other loco that was a “failure”
anything with more than 4 coupled drivers or a rigid wheel base of more that 20 scale feet
Sheldon
I don’t know about ‘best’, but I kinda/sorta regret not picking up the Sunset NP Z-6 4-6-6-4 when it came out. I’ve heard REALLY good things about it.
Oh well, maybe it’ll turn up as used brass in another 10-20 years, LOL!
Tom [:$]
The best locomotive I have NEVER owned has to be a brass Union Pacific Veranda. I’ve always been fascinated by them but I’ve never owned one. I will one day…
How 'bout a 1:1 Dreyfuss Hudson? It sickens my heart that the NYC didn’t keep a single Hudson or Niagara. [banghead] There should have been at least one saved destined for a museum.
Sadly, the head honchos at NYC headquarters didn’t have that foresight during dieselization and scrapped nearly everything. It’s a miracle that the two Mohawks survived at all.
On the modeling front: An OMI NYC H-10 2-8-2 Mike built by Ajin.
Tom
Best locomotive that I ever owned is a Division Point FT set of A-B-A painted in black tuxedo for Southern Railroad. Great runners and pullers. They were worth the money.[:D]
Anything Kato.
The best locomotive I never owned, would be anything that didn’t run right out of the box.[;)]
I’ve been fortunate. The few locomotives that I have purchased recently have ran fine right out of the box.
Division Point has come out with an N&W Y6b for about $2700.00[:S] That is way too much for one locomotive even if I ran it!![:'(]
I missed read the post, I own the PCM Y6-b.
Aikidomaster, it was a tuff to shell out the $700.00 for the PCM version but I am glad I did.
Best Locomotive? Easy, an Athearn F7 Rubber Band Drive with the motor in the center of the frame. Why? Because it was my first and I still have it. It isn’t currently running but it wouldn’t take much to put it operating condition. I loved that locomotive, that is where I first started learning how electric motors operate, and that started my journey into Model Railroading.
Wayne
oops…I read this best locomotive EVER owned. Sorry.
I’m waiting for what some would call “Exact Scale” HO SD40-2 that has a real 16 cyl diesel engine, working guages, opening panels & doors. But I doubt THAT would ever happen… Imagine the cost!
For now a Rapid-Prototype cutaway of an SD or GP would be pretty neat in almost any scale!
Tom
I picked up one and they are nice indeed for the money. It runs super smooth and the sound is very good, which I don’t think you normally use. There are still some out there but they are almost gone at most dealers. Tom, on the Sunset page, three GN Z6 models are available without sound! The GN also had three locomotives of the Z6 class which were transferred to the GN from the SP&S and were returned before the end of steam.
The sound models are SP&S Challengers Z6.
CZ
HO GN Z6 No Sound
(ONLY 3 LEFT) at Sunset
Uncle Dave’s Brass has two NP without sound below and one with sound.
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NP |
SUN/KOR |
4-6-6-4 |
Z-6 |
F |
NEW |
#5100,16,20 BLACK/GRAPH;DCC READY 30" RADIUS; COASTING FLYWHEEL |
$1,199 |
12/2009 |
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NP |
SUN/KOR |
4-6-6-4 |
Z-6 |
F |
NEW |
SAME AS ABOVE - ADDITIONAL PHOTOS –> |
My thought to this post would be either the ROW or the Fine Arts Big Boy #1 scale. Both are simply detailed beyond the the wildest imagination for a Model Railroader of any scale.
CZ
Best loco I’ve NEVER owned?
Dunno as I’ve not bought it yet.
A Proto87 model of N&W J #611 with a good sound chip and superb, silky, quiet mechanism that’ll last through 100s of hours of regular running. Oh yeah, it’s a heavy thing, die-cast locomotive, so it can pull nice long passenger trains like the prototype. The coal load is an actual coal load and it’s not short on detailing either.
Alvie
Th PSC HOn3 Baldwin 8-18 4-4-0. Why? Because it’ll never get built, but it’s been on the PSC web site for years.
Fred W