favorite steam engine

[blade]

what is your favorite steam engine of all time?

[David_Telesha]

NH I-5 and I-4's, and R3's.

[selector]

PRR J1, followed closely by NYC S1b.

[Anonymous]

Currently operating: Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 #261

for steam that's long gone, CGW 2-10-4s are my favorite.

[GN-Rick]

Currently operating: SP&S 700
Historical-much harder question, but Great Northern's R-2 class 2-8-8-2s
are right up there and so are their M-2 class 2-6-8-0s.
The P-2 class is also a favorite-and two of them still exist-non operational,
2507 and 2523.

[Philcal]

Southern Pacific's GS 4's

[poppyl]

H-9 Consolidations

[JanOlov]

Too many to mention I'm afraid..... but if I have to choose, it will be Milwaukee Road's class A 4-4-2's and F-7 4-6-4's.

[West Coast S]

I still contend that the Southern 4501 is still the best, small and light enough to go anywhere, I hope she returns from retirement once again during my liftime.

Dave

[PBenham]

Of those I've seen, N&W 2-6-6-4 1218,with Nickel Plate 2-8-4 765 a very close second. I wish i'd been able to see a Lehigh Valley Wyoming 4-8-4 or a Seneca 4-8-2 after they were modernized prior to WWII. But, as a sage once said "If I had seen them, i'd be an old geezer, now!" I also would have loved to have seen B&Ms R-1s, NYO&Ws Y-1s Rutland's L-1 4-8-2s, Central's Niagaras and.....The list will be too long If I keep this up!

[Oconomowoc]

Nickle Plate Berks were the finest, smoothest running, nicest looking locomotives, in my opinion.

[wjstix]

I guess I'll go for one of the C&NW's streamlined 4-6-2's as used on the "MInnesota 400". However DMIR 2-8-8-4's are pretty neat too !!

http://www.cnwhs.org/memberphotos/displayimage.php?album=5&pos=7

[artpeterson]

C&NW Class D Atlantic

[wallyworld]

PRR Q2

[Anonymous]

Suothern Pacific GS-4 4-8-4 black & deskirted, followed by Texas & Pacific I-1b 2-10-4 followed by Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4

[ragnar]

QUOTE: Originally posted by GN-Rick

Currently operating: SP&S 700
Historical-much harder question, but Great Northern's R-2 class 2-8-8-2s
are right up there and so are their M-2 class 2-6-8-0s.
The P-2 class is also a favorite-and two of them still exist-non operational,
2507 and 2523.

I'm right there with you Rick, Although my favorite currently running locomotive has to be Milwaukee Road 261.
Ain't it a shame the GN didn't set aside a R2 ,N3 AND a M2 for prosparity!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by West Coast S

I still contend that the Southern 4501 is still the best, small and light enough to go anywhere, I hope she returns from retirement once again during my liftime.

Dave

I was sitting in her cab this time last year in the back shops of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Chattanooga, TN, and from the way they were talking, it will be quite a while before they take on the job of replacing those main bearings that kept going out on the old girl. She's pretty well buried back in the back shops too, but it was nice to see her again.

Regards! Michaelson

[Anonymous]

Union Pacific's heavy hualers all kick butt! However, the 4-8-8-4 Big Boy was the biggest and best of the lot.

[464484]

NH I-5, NYC J3, PRR T1, DSP&P 2-6-0's

[Tim Burton]

T-1

[daveklepper]

This is actually an old topic. However, again, N&W J, New Haven I-5, SP Daylight, NYC Niagra, PRR E-6, DL&W and NKP Hudsons, then NYC J-3a, unstreamlined, then K-4, also unstreamlined, NKP-W&LE-C&O 2-8-4 (only minor differences), AT&SF and CB&Q and UP 4-8-4's, PRR D-16 (4-4-0), and then articulates starting with N&W A's then Y's, then the Yellowstones and similar 2-8-8-4's. Then the UP big jobs.

[Anonymous]

The B&O Grasshoppers!

[Anonymous]

Anything geared! Shay, Climax, Heisler, etc.

[penncentral2002]

I'd say the N&W Class J like on my license plate.

[Anonymous]

The H-8 Allegheny 2-6-6-6 of Chessie and Virginian, the Royal Hudson Class 4-6-4 of Canadian Pacific and the Class 59 4-8-2+2-8-4 of EAR. However I've enjoyed immensely my collection of wonderful DVD's showing me UP's Big Boys 4-8-8-4 and Challengers 4-6-6-4, SP's Cab Forwards 4-8-8-2, N&W's Y6bs 2-8-8-2, A's 2-6-6-2 and J's 4-8-4, not to forget European steam engines as the German 01 4-6-2, the British A4 4-6-2, holder of the world's steam record and the mightily impressive French A1 4-8-4. I remember as a child looking for hours and hours at an old railway book of my grandparents including my then favorite steam engine, the German record breaking streamlined Class 05 4-6-4.

[Anonymous]

One favorite?! I could not possibly narrow it down to one. Here's my list of some favorites that come to mind.

UP 844, N&W Classes A & J, CB&Q S-4 Hudsons, C&NW Class E4 Streamlined Hudsons, SP&S #700, NYC J3a Hudsons, Sweden's Class F 4-6-2s, Switzerland's Class A3/5 4-6-0s, England's Duchess Class 4-6-2s

[locomutt]

C & O class G-9 (2-8-0) with a Vandy tender. Then the H-8s (2-6-6-6)

[Snoq. Pass RR]

Any logging style locomotive is good enough for me.
Snoqualmie Pass Railroad

[Anonymous]

Norfolk and Western's #611

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Snoq. Pass RR

Any logging style locomotive is good enough for me.
Snoqualmie Pass Railroad

like USP 11