Though I’m the one that came up with this poll and topic, it would be awfully hard for me to have to choose just one, but if I did, I’d have to say trains of the past… I really like the old steam engines and the simpler times they ran in.
trainluver1
I like the deisels of the past. More elegant and less big and brutal than today’s techni-toasters. Rob
What about diesels from the past? Dave
Edit: Rob, you beat me by five seconds[8D]. Dave
I prefer steam, but I have 2 early diesel switchers (sw1, sw9) along with a GG1 to go with a 2-6-0 kit and a 2-8-0 kit for the standard gauge. The narrow gauge has a Forney and 3 2-8-0 kits and a shay kit.
Enjoy
Paul
There are steamers of the present too. China, Eastern Europe, India, Malasya, Africa and some countries in South America still use them.
Have anyone ever built a layout of the future? That’ll be interesting. I had a friend that once had the idea to model a layout based on the future of the 1930’s. It would look like the movie metropoly and have these super streamlined steamers running on sleak designed concrete viaducts and huge zeppelins will be docked atop of the pinacles of 200 stories “art decco” skycrapers.
You should have included diesels of the past.Most of the good stuff has been replaced by today’s techno diesels.Most of the interesting units dissapeared in the 1970s with a few lasting into the 80s.Most of the GE Dash 9s,and AC units have basicly the same carbody,and the only relief is sometimes seeing an SD 70 or the SD70 ACE,which has a different (and fugly) carbody.
Present definitly. I love the colorful paint schemes of rr’s like BNSF and CSX.
Give me steam prior to 1930 and all associated with it.
For those of you that have mentioned that I left out diesels of the past must have missed the enclosed following the two choices. One says steamers and the other says diesels. That’s the only two choices I intended to offer.
trainluver1
Give me Big Stacks,Wooden cars and Iron men, the 1870’s.
Model the 1870’s at:
http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/1879/why/
Just a thought[:D]
Harold
I marvel at the sophistication and nostalgia associated with the 1910-1940 era steamers. Some, like the tiny 0-6-0, were built in weights from 40-over 100 tons (what a range!), while the FEF’s, Texan/Selkirk 2-10-4’s, and all of the articulated engines (yes, Aggro’s SP is included) were leviathans that must have required rail straighteners pulled after the tender. But, if you have never done so, seek out a simple little steamer and have a good long look at all of the pipes, valves, gears, rods, stays, bolts, access plates, and so on. How did those things ever work well enough to make any money for their patrons?
I’m leaning heavily toward old steam, but have way to much modern equipment to just give up on the french fry grease burning locomotives of the future (don’t laugh, it’s just around the corner!).
Well, if that’s the case then I would choose steam over diesel everyday and twice
on Sunday. I have early diesels because they fit my era, but if pinned down and
forced to choose between the two… steamers win. Dave
Though the big guys of the 21st century are extravagent, you see the same style locomotive in every train.
I prefer early generation diesels through the late 1970’s, even though I wasn’t born until 1992.
-Siddharth
‘Techni-toasters’??? [:D] Where does that name originate from, Rob?? That’s the first I’ve heard of that one!! Give me STEAM, baby!!! Especially the 1880s to 1905 era…a wonderful time to model.
1930’s steam Allllllllllllll the way & “modern” steam (roamers & non-museum owned engines). The diesels & electrics of the 40’s & 50’s also are cool.
By the way whats up with those ugly SD-90’s
I like the big steam of the 1920-40 era, and though I don’t have any diesels on my Yuba River Sub, I am fond of the early E’s, F’s and Alco PA’s, and the later Rio Grande Tunnel Motors and even if they weren’t very successful, those Baldwin Centipedes just knock my socks off! But by and large, give me the indivuality of big steam–today’s techno-diesels all look alike. How do you tell them apart–louvers? Number of fans? Cab size? Heck, I don’t know. Don’t much care, either, LOL!
Tom [:P][:P]
o.k…
that’s a 10-4, on that
I chose present, since I’ve always liked being able to model what I can see in everyday life. (I do have some ‘past’ diesels as well though.) If I’d been lucky enough to actually see steamers in normal revenue service, Id probably have been a steam modeler like the majority.