What is your favorite steam locomotive and why ?

[railroadboy]

i like the 4449 SP Daylight

[Tommy0218]

I'm saving my pennies for a Bachmann Spectrum 3-truck Shay later this year.

[ttrigg]

Hi Everyone,
My favorite trains are Roundhouse 2-6-2 (SR & RL) live steam, Accucraft E-8 (CB&Q) and the small LGB forney. If anyone has any pic's of their layout -  please submit.  I am trying to rekindle this forum.

I never met a Steam locomotive that I did'nt like.

My first choice would have to be a 1:1 K28, but since I do not have that much room in the yard, let alone in the wallet, my second choice would have to be a "G"arden sized (1:2x.x) heister.  One of which has been on my Christmas wish list the last three years.  Since the daughter is getting married in November, I doubt this year but most likely next year.

[Ray Dunakin]

<BLOCKQUOTE><table class="quoteOuterTable"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/trccs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif">&nbsp;<strong>Tommy0218 wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4"><P><BLOCKQUOTE><table class="quoteOuterTable"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/trccs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif">&nbsp;<strong>Snoq. Pass RR wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4">My favorite production locomotive is the Bachmann 2-8-0.&nbsp; I just wish someone would make a 4-12-2.</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE></P>
<P>I am also hoping that&nbsp;bachmann will also come out with the 2-8-8-8-2 (triplex) in G scale</P></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

So far as I can tell, Bachmann has only made narrow gauge stuff. The 2-8-8-8-2 was standard gauge, so if anyone made it in G it would probably not be Bachmann.

[Anonymous]

My LGB Porters, but I'm very fond of my kitbashed Class A Climax, and my AC Price 16 Wheeler.

 

Storebought loco's are cool enough, but once you start bashin' yer own.....

 

 

 

 

wow you are talented!!!! lets see more!

[vsmith]

My LGB Porters, but I'm very fond of my kitbashed Class A Climax, and my AC Price 16 Wheeler.

 

Storebought loco's are cool enough, but once you start bashin' yer own.....

 

 

 

[paintjockey]

I would have to say my B-man Climax is my personnal favorite, followed in a close second by my LGB SV Mallet.

[Anonymous]

 THE BIG BOY bigger is better

[Anonymous]

My favorite production locomotive is the Bachmann 2-8-0.  I just wish someone would make a 4-12-2.

I like the bachmann 2-8-0 and the 2-6-0 also.  I am also hoping that bachmann will also come out with the 2-8-8-8-2 (triplex) in G scale

I LOVE the looks of that Bachmann 1:20 2-8-0.  Years ago I fell in love with the Bach Shay--then (to my own surprise) the Bach Climax.  But that 2-8-0 as far as looks, is the tops for Bach!  Every year at the Fullerton Train show they have the 2-8-0 on a garden railway.

How does yours hold up ?  I have heard some bad things about the running qualities, but i have never owned or run one myself.  I have some Bach Ho and On30 steam and its so good that I am almost ready to jump to their G stuff.

Cheers,

Tom M.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Everyone,

My favorite trains are Roundhouse 2-6-2 (SR & RL) live steam, Accucraft E-8 (CB&Q) and the small LGB forney. If anyone has any pic's of their layout -  please submit.  I am trying to rekindle this forum.

I never met a Steam locomotive that I did'nt like.

I would have to say that right now, I guess my Harz 2-6-2 and my LGB crocodile.  I have owned these engines for years and the Croc runs superbly---so smooth, so silent, so slick---and it handles tight R1 curves.

The Harz 2-6-2's have come a long way since 1974 when they first were born from Nurnberg.  Of course I have only owned the older series from the 1980s.  These pups are a little fussy because they have one engine and no pickup skates.  So you usually have to put a power trailing car of some sort behind them and add the extra power that way.

But I just love the looks of these locos, and the 2-6-2s are excellent slow speed pullers.  I just got a sound model (my first LGB factory sound model ever) and it is just the pinnacle of German meter gauge steam. 

I used to be loyal to the Stainz loco, because it was so stubby and yet it was a "real " life engine...but I slowly have been migrating to bigger locos but that still can handle R1 (because I have an indoor pike ).

Regards,

Tom M.

Ps...Of course, I have my eye on the New Harz 2-10-2s, the "big sisters"---but I am not wild about the fussy clearance on R1 they would probably cause me, and I have not got to the point where a $1K engine is rationable!

 

[Anonymous]

My favorite steamer , would be the Shay.I love the design of it. Its really fasinating to look at. Wondering in the  back of your mind ,just how the mechanical workings of the gears rods and pistons move.Its a beautiful loco.

[Tommy0218]

My favorite production locomotive is the Bachmann 2-8-0.  I just wish someone would make a 4-12-2.

I like the bachmann 2-8-0 and the 2-6-0 also.  I am also hoping that bachmann will also come out with the 2-8-8-8-2 (triplex) in G scale

[Snoq. Pass RR]

My favorite production locomotive is the Bachmann 2-8-0.  I just wish someone would make a 4-12-2.

[John Busby]

Hi

Mine would be no5 Cheena ( an Aussiefied Roundhouse Millie) and no1 Ngegee (a factory modified Argyle Loco Works Bantam) both manual live steam.

Yes they have name and number plates.

I aso have a Ford model T locomotive that was built for me by the Toenail Ridge Shortline  that I particularly like

regards John

[Don H]

It would have to be my LGB Uintah

[rpc7271]

I like the 2-10-0 Russian. Wish someone made it in G sacle.

[Tommy0218]

Hi CaZephyr,

I have a small lgb 2-6-0 and a 2-8-0 but the southern daylights are very nice also

[CAZEPHYR]

Hi Everyone,

My favorite trains are Roundhouse 2-6-2 (SR & RL) live steam, Accucraft E-8 (CB&Q) and the small LGB forney. If anyone has any pic's of their layout -  please submit.  I am trying to rekindle this forum.

I never met a Steam locomotive that I did'nt like.

I have one of the 2-6-0 LGB's and a #1 Scale Union Pacific Challenger and GS4 Daylight.

Sorry, I do not have a layout outside or inside for these models.

 

[Tommy0218]

Hi Everyone,

My favorite trains are Roundhouse 2-6-2 (SR & RL) live steam, Accucraft E-8 (CB&Q) and the small LGB forney. If anyone has any pic's of their layout -  please submit.  I am trying to rekindle this forum.