your dream consist

[Anonymous]

Supose you are walking along the railroad tracks in the middle of nowhere, and there is a train comming...

which vintage, classic locomotives would you like to see in it together pulling the cars, or if you have a taste for cars, which cars would be pulled by those locomotives?

diesel, steam, electric, anything..

As for me, I've recently seen a screenshot from a pentrex video featuring a "standard" turbine and a Big Boy pulling freight together.
I sure would like to have been there when these two passed by

[trolleyboy]

For me I'd love to be passed by CNR's Super Continental.Pulled by an ABBA of MLW FPA4's in the classic CNR passebger livery,pulling a matching train of heavywieght passenger cars in the same matching paint scheme. When you looked down the train the black stripe would continue from the locomotives right on down the passenger cars

Second choice would be an L&PS train of 3 or 4 of theior heavy weight Jewett cars schemeing along their ROW at 60mph with the panatgraphs singing along the catenery.

Rob

[Anonymous]

I would love to see the North Shore Electroliner flash by at 90 mph. If we only had that high speed service now!

[artpeterson]

I'd love to see a set of PRR centipedes negotiate double-slips out of Chicago Union Station pulling a postwar streamlined train. Wouldn't want to have to try and keep the centipedes running, but would love to watch them pull out!

[rji2]

Make it just after the break of dawn on a snowy winter morning in the late 1940's, Tennessee Central No. 84 headed up by three (yes, three!) 701 class Mikados, climbing the horseshoe curve on Algood Mountain in Putnam County, Tennessee, pulling 2250 tons behind 'em, full tonnage.

[trainboyH16-44]

BRAIN OVERLOAD! (AKA 1700th post)
Hmm, I have a couple there, some include a CP T1c and 2 S2a helpers (2-10-4, 2x2-10-2) and then there are the CLC consists of C-liners and H16-44s, not to mention Geeps and F-units, and lots of multimarks! You see, I have missed a lot of classic trains being so young....
Matthew

[Anonymous]

A strealiner like the "Nebraska Zephyr" [8D]

[PBenham]

Passenger: Lehigh Valley #9 or#10, at a crossing north of Leroy,NY, which was on a very gentle curve and wide open so one could see the train from its pair of PAs to the last coach.[:p] Special Consideration has to be given to NYC 25 or 26's 1948-56 consist. Freight: On NYC at School Rd, east of Batavia NY an early (1962) ML-12 with five RS32s or an Alco FA2/FB2/FB2/FB2/FA2 set leading. The cars were wide open, so you could see the autos, and the spectacle was..[8D]. well somthing that had to be seen to be believed! I should know,I saw ML-12 there in'67 with 4[8D]RS32s-"marred" by a U25B third from the leader. WOW! [:p]

[Anonymous]

Just joined the forums today and had to reply to this.
Mine would be the PRR's Broadway Limited hammering along behind a T1 (what a sin that not one of these beautiful locomotives survived). After that it would be the same behind a GG1, and then anything behind one of the S-Class PRR locomotives. Yeah, I dream of Keystone emblems running along the tracks :)

Eric

[Anonymous]

I would really love it to be passed by the Super Chief, being pulled by a 8 Unit A-B-B-B-B-B-B-A F-7 consist pulling 18 streamliner cars (baggage, mail, 6 sleepers, pleasure dome, diner, lounge, 6 sleepers and sleeper lounge observation), the absolute maximum allowed on the Super. And all this somewhere in New Mexico´s lonely desert.

[Anonymous]

A 2-8-4 Big Emma pulling just about anything.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Since my tastes run to secondary trains and mail & express, my dream consist would be Erie/EL's Atlantic or Pacific Express, with E's or PA's on the front, with a mix of mail and express boxcars, an RPO, maybe some piggyback and one or two heavyweight coaches on the rear. A close second would be Amtrak's Pennsylvanian, two coaches, a snack bar, and lots of express boxes and Roadrailers on the rear.

[daveklepper]

I would like to see the full California Zephyr consist resurrected and operating as a real transcontinental. OK. the domes won't fit into the Penn Sttation tunnels? So run the train Emeryville-Newark! And then of course I can see a resurrected GG-1 pulling the California Zephyr equipment to Harrisburg. What in the world could be finer than that? And given enough money it could be done! Of course those who really know me know I liked the New Haven's EP-5's and EF-4's even better, but none were preserved, so I will have to "settle" for just a GG-1.

And you know something? If there were a millionaire willing to invest in such a project, I bet he could sell the train out for monthly trips at a sufficiently high price to get a return on his/her investment.

Second choice: The full Budd Congressional or Senator equipment behind a GG-1 on a similar basis, Penn Station - Washington.

In either case, I mean full restoration, coach, parlor, sleeper, snack bar, diner, obs, the works

[GN-Rick]

The 1955 Empire Builder, behind any of GN's 350-series A-B-A passenger F sets.
OR, on the other hand, any GN manifest freight from about 1948 behind one of
GN's home-built class R-2 2-8-8-2s. Oh, bliss![:D]

[Anonymous]

2 bigboys blasting up sherman hill with a long frieght