favorite old EMD

[Anonymous]

SD40-2

Like the Energizer bunny.....they kept going and going and going......AND they were comfortable.

good choice they made over 3000 of them still running through the hart of my home town every day glennbob

[Trainmaster.Curt]

Well, i have video that i took of a 567c powered GP9 doin about 10 or 15 mph on a 85lb rail branchline. It was Central Manitoba Railway's 4000, and that approach with the da-da-da-da of the 567c which David P Morgan called the "Rhythmic Chant" If anyone would like to see this video, contact me.

[CMSTPP]

A couple of SD10s would make my day. Those would have to be one of my favorite locomotives besides the SDL39.

 

James

[CMSTPP]

SD40-2

Like the Energizer bunny.....they kept going and going and going......AND they were comfortable.

good choice they made over 3000 of them still running through the hart of my home town every day glennbob

They made almost 4500 of the SD40-2s. They were some of the most common locmotives in the USA. Not even the SD45 beat that number.

 

James

[Andrew Falconer]

E-7, E-8, E-9 leave a lasting visual impression.

The chunky GP9 is the favorite because it was much more real and had an everyday reliable quality.

Andrew

[billbtrain]

I definately have to answer this one after looking thru it several times over the last couple of weeks.

Favorite locomotives are like Lays potato chips.Can you choose just one?NOT!!

EMD's,567C and 645E (in all their variants)engines,GP9,SW1200,SW1500,GP40,SD45,GP38, Dash-2's,MP15AC,and,of course,the SD40-2's in all 4 phases.And sooooo many still in service after 40 to 50 years of hard,unforgiving pounding.Can't beat that with any steam engine/passenger train stick! :-)

Have a good one.

Bill B 

[Anonymous]

Having worked with most of the road switcher types of EMD's it is hard to find any that I like.   

Single and Dual control GP7's thru SD45's, long hood lead SD40's & 50's, constant high pitch noise and vibration............no thanks.  If forced I can claim a small affection for the 2 EMD rebuilds of B-L-W products performed for the NKP before said road disappeared into N&W oblivion.  DAM

 

[GMTRacing]

The FL-9. We have one in the museum yard on loan from ConnDOT. The official farewell tour was last year, but they still run the Danbury/Norwalk branch in authentic New Haven colors usually on the weekends. It always makes the heart beat a bit quicker to be working in the yard and see one pull into the station, once disliked, now venerable rolling bits of history. Yeah the FL-9 - last man standing and my favorite. J.R. 

[JamesPH1966]

BL-2 or GP-30

(or , in the case of the C&O, a GP-30 built on a traded-in BL-2!)

[Anonymous]

It's hard to pick just one but I will need to agree, the SD-9's I was around on the old C&S at Rice Yard, no matter how slow or heavley loaded a consist of them would never go into the red or let you down, I guess my next would be the NW-2 ( the only bad thing with them is a cold winter's night with a good cab heater they would rock you to sleep).