What's your top ten favorite locomotives?

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

  1. SD70M-2
  2. SD70ACE
  3. SD80MAC
  4. ES44AC
  5. SD60M
  6. SD70MAC
  7. 8-40CW
  8. 8-40C
  9. C44-9W
  10. 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…