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at the risk of fanning the flames again: 1) I consider myself a railfan. 2) I recognise pretty much all the locomotives and classes named above, in that the name evokes an image in my mind's eye. 3) nowhere in the original question did I read the phrase "must be a real locomotive." 4) the *MOST* famous ones are by definition the ones that spring immediately and un-prompted to the minds of the general public, not the one most picked by railfans (after careful thought) from a multiple choice list. 5)so: if someone were to spring this question on *me* by suprise and at random (a 'la Jaywalking) it's even odds that *I'd* have said either "Thomas the tank engine" or "the Little Engine that Could." By no stretch of the imagination is this scientific, but I think that many of you would probably said the same if Jay Leno jumped out at you with a microphone and a camera crew. (I wonder how many of the dumb answers he gets are an artifact of a "deer in the headlights" reaction from people startled by simultaneously meeting a celebrity and having a TV camera pointed at them?) (though I might have said "4449" if you caught me thinking railroady thoughts, as that was my first experience with the living, breathing reality. . . my dad took me to see her in '75 and managed to wrangle a cab tour for his 5 year old son. Pulling a whistle cord and making noise leaves an impression. . .) (note: my personal favorites are all geared locomotives and yard goats, so don't land on me for favoritism. . .)
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