Favirite Desel Engine of all time?

[Anonymous]

hard choice but i'll say the GP-9 types, they been around forever to me and i still see them regularly. just saw a mile long CNR train go by with 3 of 'em with the leader long hood foreward, -timeless.

[Anonymous]

I agree with jhhtrainsplanes--for passenger service: THE ALCO PA!!!! All paint schemes look better on a PA than any other diesel, ever! My favorite is one in UP Armour Yellow (I'm not sure UP had any PA's, but it still looks neat).

But for my all time favorite, I am forced to agree with Puckdropper: The Alco RSC-2. I haven't yet compared a girl to it, but any railroad which purchased one got a dependable, hard working locomotive which pulled its weight and earned its keep. And besides, those 3-axle trucks just look neat!

See you around the forums,
Daniel

[Anonymous]

Anything ALCo!!!!!!!!! Especially the RSD-15. Gotta love that nose!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by traingeek087

That is unlike anything I've ever seen!!!! I want to kit ba***hat now.

Bachmann made an HO scale model, but I don't know if you can still find one. I doubt there is anything in any other scale. Maybe brass? They might possibly have a cab kit? Sounds like you may have your work cut out for you, but then again it is a simple cab sans windows.

[Anonymous]

the EMD

E or F series

There both very beautiful engines.

[traingeek087]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wncrails

I found another fav......

Anyone remeber Seaboards BQ23-7? Neat looking loco. Here's some links to a couple of photos.
http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/html/z_fl-y.html
http://www.robl.w1.com/Pix-4/I-780860.htm

Have fun and be safe! [8D]

That is unlike anything I've ever seen!!!! I want to kit ba***hat now.

[traingeek087]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Kozzie

Thanks railpac! - I'll note that - helps me understand all the letters and numbers.

I have a Kato HO SD45 in Rio Grande colour scheme - not sure if it's a Dash 2.
But it looks great ,and it goes like cream over jelly!
(oops - not your jelly but jello in US English - I have to watch that - the little differences in the various English's ha ha...)

Kozzie

If it has flared radiators it's a SD45 if it doesn't it's a SD45-2.

[traingeek087]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Doggy

BN SD70MAC and AMTRAK P42

There you go, I love the SD70MAC!!!! Someone who actually knows what I mean.

[Willy2]

I like the SD70MAC and DASH 9 locomotives.

Willy

[Anonymous]

I found another fav......

Anyone remeber Seaboards BQ23-7? Neat looking loco. Here's some links to a couple of photos.
http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/html/z_fl-y.html
http://www.robl.w1.com/Pix-4/I-780860.htm

Have fun and be safe! [8D]

[The Block House]

My all time favorite desel of all time was the Illinois Central E-8 in its Choclate, Orange and Yellow paint . This was only applied to the passenger fleet before Amtrack.

[Anonymous]

SD40-2 and SD9 from any railroad. C44-9W in CNW paint only. All other dash-9s are boring. Well SP is ok.

[Anonymous]

Alco Century's (600 series) or perhaps that Centipede thingamabob, just cause I like weird stuff....Maybe the FM Trainmasters too, cause they rocked

[espeefoamer]

Southern Pacific FP7 6449.I had a cabride on this loco on a fantrip in 1973.The FP7 was already my favorite unit and the cabride clinched which one would be my absolute favorite unit.[:)][:D][8D][:p][:p][8D][:D][:)][^][:)][:D][8D][:p][^]

[eolafan]

Impossible to pick just one...so let's go with F units (especially F-9 and FL-9), E units (especially E-8 and E-9), F45 and FP45, SD45, DDA40X, SD-9, and lately the GP60M (which kind of reminds me of the old F units in its overall scale, kind of squat and powerful looking). Eolafan

[Anonymous]

The high hood GP30 is another that ranks up there...... [:)]

[Anonymous]

1. EMD F-7
2. EMD GP-7,9,38
3. Alco FA
4. Alco RS-3

I like all of the above the same... A whole lot!!!
You can keep anything built after 1960 except the GP-38. They got moxey.

[NEALNP]

UP SD40-2

[Anonymous]

For Passenger Service the Alco PA in the Santa Fe paint scheme was a beauty. I do like the early E units the slopped nose is cool looking. The E 8/9 are a nice looking loco (but not in BN green/white). The passenger units must have the gyralite nose light too, that really makes them look sharp.

For Freight Service NOTHING beats the Alco RS series (RS-1, RS-2, RS -3). The high hoods looked great and meant business. Of course I like any Alco with a high hood. Actually I like any Alco period. As Will Rogers might have said, I have never met an Alco I didn't like. ( Well he MIGHT have said it.) [;)]

[Anonymous]

The DDA40X and the Dash9 / AC4400 series.

[daveklepper]

The D&RGW's F-7's that powered the California Zephyr and the Rio Grande Zephyr and after Amtrak ran via the D&RGW, occasionally the Ski Train. But then these are always my favorite trains, bar none. Dave Klepper

[Kozzie]

Thanks railpac! - I'll note that - helps me understand all the letters and numbers.

I have a Kato HO SD45 in Rio Grande colour scheme - not sure if it's a Dash 2.
But it looks great ,and it goes like cream over jelly!
(oops - not your jelly but jello in US English - I have to watch that - the little differences in the various English's ha ha...)

Kozzie

[Anonymous]

Gotta be an ALCo C-630 or C-636 with ALCo's Hi-AD truck, hands down. You can tell that they are powerful just by looking at them! [:)][:D][8D][;)]

Kozzie: the Dash 2 (-2) in the any EMD model (not rebuilds) means that the unit has the (new in '72) Dash 2 style modular electrical cabinet (each component is on its own removable card), locomotive models before the Dash 2 line had a somewhat "hardwired" electrical cabinet, as the individual components are NOT removeable for easy access/maintainence.

[Kozzie]

msernak, could you explain the "snow bird scheme"? Sounds intriguing...

Kozzie

[Kozzie]

Train Guy 3, what does the 2 on SD45-2 signify? An engine upgrade?

Kozzie

[Puckdropper]

Alco RSC-2

Compared a girl's beauty to it once.

Pacific Steam locomotive

Compared the same girl's beauty to this also. :-)

[Anonymous]

Lehigh Valley Alco C628 in the snowbird scheme.

[Train Guy 3]

I like the SD70MAC's but I've always had a thing for SD45-2's

[Kozzie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AntonioFP45

The EMD E7.

No disrespect intended to Alco PA1 fans, but the as popular as it was with railroads and as often is it's been seen in Hollywood movies and tv shows, the E7 is truly an American passenger locomotive icon!

I agree with AntonioFP45 - the EMD 'E' series are it! I really like the raked nose on the earlier E3 to E6!

Kozzie