Whats your favorite articulated steam engine

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My is…None of them!!! I don’t realy see the big deal about them but I like them a bit.

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Alleghenys. More horses than a Big Boy and more versatile

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I like Big Boys and Challengers. Cab forwards and Alleghenys are also nice.

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I don’t see the big deal about them either–I like small locos better. I suppose if pressed I’d pick Hammond Lumber Co. #7, a 2-6-6-2 tank engine built by Baldwin in 1929. Tiny for an articulated at 212,000 pounds.

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N&W A

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What about the 1908 Baldwin 2-4-4-2 built for Little River http://www.littleriverrailroad.org/baldwins.htm which later went to Columbia River Belt Line Railway, Carlisle Lumber Company and Deep River Logging. Both GEM and Oriental Powerhouse have offered HO models of this tiny articulated. My wife has one of the Powerhouse versions in her logging collection. It is no bigger than MDC’s Old Time 2-8-0.



http://loggingmallets.railfan.net/models/modelmallets.htm

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I like Cab Forwards, no, I love Cab Forwards. I forgot to mention that.

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That 2-4-4-2 is some cute, I’d buy a model of that if available at a reasonable cost.

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Having never seen one except in photo’s, I would have to say that a 4-6-6-4 Challenger would have to be my favourite.

Gordon

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I like them all, the bigger the better! I personally like the Santa Fe and the Virginian 2-10+10-2 and the Erie Triplex. Beyer-Garrants are pretty cool too. The D&RGW L105 Challengers are massive looking too. So yes, all of the above!

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Big Boy by far. But I also like Cabforwards, Alleys, Yellowstones, Challengers, and the N&W’s mallet monsters.

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Watch ebay, we got ours for under $170- about a year and half ago…

In the past four years or so, they have gone for between that and $400.

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  1. Southern Pacific AC-8
  2. DM&IR M-4
  3. Union Pacific 4-6-6-4
  4. C&O H-7
  5. C&O H-8
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GN M Series, 2-6-8-0[:D]

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D&RGW class L105
D&RGW class L131
Union Pacific 4000 class

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th UP bigboys !

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4-6-6-4 Challenger. Very versatile, high speed passenger or drag freight.

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I know some guys in large scale that would trade in their Grandma’s to have that 2-4-4-2 in G gauge.

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Any of the well eductated and well spoken steam locomotives is fine with me. So few of them can really carry on a coherent conversation or really get a point across. [:)]

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Hi everyone,
This is my first post in this forum.
C&O H-8’s would be my vote for articulated.

Dougster