I’m sure some of you folks out there have dozens of engines in your collection, while I’ve only got a modest little collection of about 16 engines which I’m really proud of. Out of these 16, I’ve got one steamer and one diesel that I favor over all the others. The steamer is a 2-8-2 Western Pacific Mikado made by Kato and the diesel is Southern Pacific GP 40-2 made by Atlas.
If I ever had to sell off my collection, these would be the last two to go…
At the club my favorite is a Proto 2K S1. At home it’s an MDC 2-6-0.
My Atlas ROCK ISLAND GP40, closely followed by my new P2K RI E6A sound - in full silver rocket scheme !!!
- George
I’d have to say my brass N&W ‘J’, my very first engine, is my favorite, but I love a lot of them. VGN 2-8-4, 2-8-8-2, 2-8-2, N&W Class ‘A’… that’s enuf.
A set of Kato SD38-2 locos I just acqired ~1 week ago…
An old Hornby Dublo 2-6-4T in its original packaging with all the documentation. Handed down to me from my Grandfather - and it definetly isn’t going anywhere!
Ian
My favorite is Westside brass GN P-2 Mountain.
Being the odd man out and in O scale to boot, and a little HO too, my favorites are my Atlas RS1 and my All Nation NW2’s, for my HO its my heavily modified MDC old timer consolidation, which has tender drive…[8D][8D][8D]
It would have to be my BN SW7
DRew
Nscale Atlas RS-1 in C&O paint scheme, Kato Mikado (Baltimore and Ohio), Atlas Chessie B30-7 and an Atlas GP30 I repainted into the B&O Sunburst scheme. Those are the locos I couldn’t part with.
Amongst my diesels…I’d say my pair of DCC equipped Kato CP SD90/43MAC(9122 and 9125).Steamers…it has to be my Heritage 2-8-8-2 Mallet(NW 2011),a Model Power 2-8-2 Mikado(CN 3441) but my top notch preference goes to my Rivarrossi 4-6-6-4 Challenger(UP 2874).
I love BIG non-articulated steam. So my roster includes, NKP 2-8-4 Berkshire, UP 4-8-4FEF, NYC 4-8-4 Niagra, and the N&W 4-8-4 J. But my FAVORITE OF ALL TIME has to be the Pennsy T-1 4-4-4-4!
My favorite engine is my Con-Cor CSX Veranda Gas Turbine Electric Locomotive. I love turbines!
~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~
My favorite steamer would be my Rivarossi UP FEF-3. For diesels it’d be my 2 Kato Conrail SD80MACs.
Most of my stuff is pretty recent (within the last 5 years) But I do have a few favorites.
My latest buy was an Atlas GP-40 DCC in Rochester and Southern color scheme and I’ll tell you what, this is a sweet running Loco.
My Athearn Genesis F-3 A-B Santa Fe Freight Set is a sweet group that I can’t wait to put decoders in.
My New P2K BN GP7 with Sound is a very nice unit also. The Sound just blows me away.
Chris
Seems the S and RS-1’s are an overall diesel favorite. Even if it weren’t, I have to cast my vote in for the S1. I guess I’m just a switcher/yard kinda guy.
My other locomotive is also a 2-8-2 Mikado - but a “Light” and in HO. I’d like to add a P2K 0-8-0 to the collection at some point.
Tom
In HO, probably the Eire-Built in my sig. Just wish I’d fitted a better DCC decoder - it’s getting a Lenz BEMF silent decoder to replace the Bachmann one as soon as funds allow!
In G scale, it would have to be my LGB Zillertalbahn 0-6-2 tank loco. A very solid-looking metre gauge steamer, for which I have one of the matching coaches (would like to add more, but they’ve been out of production for some time so I have to keep an eye open and buy when I find them). The barrel-shaped Bar car is due to come back into production this year, so I’ll be ordering one of those asap.
In N scale, it would have to be my Minitrix DB Br.111 electric loco. Bought it used as part of a train pack with two coaches and a driving trailer, painted for the German S-Bahn suburban operations. It barely ran until I stripped it down, cleaned 10 years of gunge out of the gears and pickups, relubed and reassembled it. It’s just had new buffer mouldings to replace the missing originals and runs like a dream.
My favorite is my 2 Athearn Genesis SD75’s. When I run them together they just look so massive. A close second would be my new Proto 2000 GP 38-2. Proto did a nice job on them.
Atlas Alco switchers and Life-Like GM switchers.
ooooohhh I cant decide. Either my 3 genesis SD70MACs or my P2K A-B-B-A. Im going to have to go with the SD70MACs because theyre CSX![8D]