For a general question, what’s your top ten favorite locomotives.
Mine would have to be:
SD-60M SOO Candy Apple Red SD-60 SOO SD-40-2 Algoma Central
SD-45 WC SD-35 WC F-40 WC
SW-1500 WC GP-9 SOO marron and gold
SDL-39 WC SD-9 SOO
Steam, Sierra 2-6-6-2, Shay, Climax, Yellowstone and then a lot of others. Tomorrow the order will change. If the NP S-2’s ever hit the market, maybe that one.
Which yellowstone Art? There are 4 varieties. [swg]
M’kay. Mine are as follows:
Southern Pacific AC-6
Southern Pacific AC-12
Southern Pacific 4-10-2
DM&IR M4 2-8-8-4
N&W Y6b 2-8-8-2
C&O H8 2-6-6-6
Union Pacific 4000 4-8-8-4
Southern Pacific F5 2-10-2
Southern Pacific GS4 4-8-4
Santa Fe 2900 4-8-4
Easy 1. UP Big Boy 4-8-8-4 2. UP Challenger 4-6-6-4 3. UP FEF 4-8-4 4. UP Turbines (all of them!) 5. UP E series - their fan trip locos 6. UP DD40’s 7. UP M1000 (hurry up Con Cor!) 8-10. Anything else UP (does that suprise anyone?!)[:D]
1.) Big Boy
2.) Challenger
3.) The FEF’s
3.) SD70MAC BN’s executive scheme
4.) Big Blow
5.) Cab Forwards
6.) GS-4
7.) Yellowstone
8.) K-27
8.) F3’s
9.) U.S.S. Missouri, crud not a train…
10!?
I can’t really say which one is my #1 favorite, but my top ten would have to be:
UP 4-8-8-4 Big Boy; it’s big, it’s powerful, and it looks just plain cool.
PRR T-1 4-4-4-4; it has an interesting wheel arrangement, and I love the streamlining.
SF Warbonnet F units; they’re cool looking diesels, and I don’t think a single engine looked better in the Warbonnet.
Old-time wood burning 4-4-0s; I’ve always liked how they look, with the balloon stacks, big headlight boxes, and small, but long, boilers.
UP U50B; I don’t think a weirder, more interesting diesel has ever been built.
SD80 and 90MACs; they’re big and they’re modern.
SP #9020 series Krauss Maffei; even if they were unsuccessful, they sure looked cool.
0-4-0 Dockside; a very small saddle-tank switcher that I always thought looked neat.
Amtrak F40PH; fast passenger diesels that I’ve always liked in the Phase II and III paint.
C&O 2-6-6-6 Allegheny; they’re the heaviest steam engines ever built, and they look awesome.
Those are my top 10 as of right now.[:D]
PRR J1 (with a courteous nod to the good folks at Chessie for the original, the T1)
and, there’s something about this gazelle that grabs me where it counts -
The UP greyhound Challenger is no slouch, either, and I would have to rate the S1b Niagara right up there, too.
1- CNR U4-a Series Streamlined Confederations (Northerns)
2- CNR U1-f Semi-streamlined Mountains
3- CNR U2 Series Northerns
4- CPR H1-e Streamlined Royal Hudson
5- CPR K1-a Semi-streamlined Northern
6- PRR T1 4-4-4-4 Duplex
7- CPR J1 & J2 class Jubilee’s (Streamlined 4-4-4’s)
8- UP FEF-3 4-8-4 Northern
9- UP 4-6-6-4 Challenger
10- Via Rail AMD-103’s (Genesis) in the Renascence scheme
Too bad the Canadian Steam Loco’s aren’t produced in HO and plastic[:(]
TEN?
Hey, thanks, most of these ‘favorite’ posts limit us to just one.
Okay, mine, but in no particular order.
Steam:
DMIR M-3/4 Yellowstone 2-8-8-4
SP AC-6 4-8-8-2
D&RGW L-131 2-8-8-2
D&RGW L-105 4-6-6-4
D&RGW M-75 4-8-2
D&RGW F-81 2-10-2
SP MT-series 4-8-2
Diesel:
EMD E-2 City of San Francisco
EMD E-6 City of San Francisco
ALCO PA series: Rio Grande
And one more for the books:
EMD F-3 Rio Grande
Model or prototype?
Favorite Prototypes:
1-9 = Any steamers still running that I can catch a ride on!
10 = Any deisels muscling by while I’m standing next to the rails.
Favorite models (keeping in mind, I have N scale):
ALL articulated steamers (UP prefered)
ALL Gas Turbines (UP, naturally)
Older steamers (2-6-0, 2-8-0, 4-4-0, etc), providing they are excellent runners.
Also some of those older, tiny European 0-4-0 steamers, because I think they are “cute”. AOne of the few items I still don’t have and would like to one day.
New to the boards here, but being a “engine-holic”, felt the need to chime in. :^) -Rob
In no particular order:
Any F-unit.
RS3s.
UP Northerns
UP Big Boys
UP Challenger
NYC Dreyfus Hudson
Pennsy K-4
Mikados
Consolidations
10 Wheelers
- SD70M-2
- SD70ACE
- SD80MAC
- ES44AC
- SD60M
- SD70MAC
- 8-40CW
- 8-40C
- C44-9W
- AC4400CW
A quick explanaiton of my top 10.
To me the SD70M-2 is the SD70ACE and the SD80MAC combined in one.
I love the oversized cooling on the ES44AC.
I love the widecab and the SD60M has the “look” as well as the SD70MAC.
GE wide-cab engines just look “right” to me
-Smoke
The top ten among my collection?
EMD E6 EMD E7 EMD E8 GP30 SD40-2
EMD FT EMD F7 EMD F9 SW 1200 PA-1 (2)
Alco/MLW S-2
Alco/MLW S-3 (early version with riveted carbody)
Alco/MLW S-4 (early version with riveted carbody)
Alco/MLW RS-3 (with louvered hood doors)
Alco RSD-4/5 (with louvered hood doors)
EMD/GMD GP7
EMD/GMD GP9
EMD/GMD SW9/1200
EMD/GMD SW8/900
FM/CLC H12-44 (late version with big picture windows on the back of the cab)
My personal choices are (from my actual collection);
1 - UP Challenger
2 - Rio Grande 2-6-6-2
3 - Southern Pacific Light Mountain
4 - Santa Fe Consolidation
5 - Santa Fe Pacific
6 - Southern Pacific F-7 A,B,B Black Widow set
7 - Southern Pacific GP-40-2 (X 2)
8 - Union Pacific 8-40 CW (X 2)
9 - Santa Fe 8-40 CW (X 3)
10 - Southern Pacific GE C44-9W
Tracklayer…
E7, FP45,
SDP40F, U36B,
E60CP, NH EP5,
SD45, SD40-2,
E8, U50
----------------------------------------------------------------------Except for the 4449 and Chessie 614, I’m not really into steamers, though I do like them.
Ironically the Chessie #614 Greenbrier, which I got to see in action back in 1981, has not been produced in HO. Yet the old girl still exists (though not running currently).
1 Amtrak P42
2 PRR T1 Duplex
3 UP Challenger
4 AC6000
5 GP38-2
6 F40
7 AC4400
8 SD45
9 E8/9
10 PRR K4
E3
E5
E6
E7
E8
E9
… simply all EMD E units (paint scheme I most prefer is MKTs & FRISCOs Texas Special livery).
Steam engines I really like the Cab Forwards & the SP GS- Daylights.
Anything modern. I’m a big fan of the older GP40’s and GP38’s. I also like some of the bigger diesels of today. I don’t get to see those as much though. I like what I see. Don’t really have a particular favorite. So I’ll stick with modern…