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What's YOUR favorite EMD locomotive?

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Posted by WP 3020 on Sunday, August 6, 2006 8:14 AM
SD7, 9, 38, 40, 45, 45X & 40-2. SDL39, NW5, F7
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Posted by homertech on Sunday, August 6, 2006 3:42 PM

you are right on track. sd40

 

 

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you are on the right track. SD40 2 is my favorite to. from jeanjaio. 08/06/06.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by CNSR4500 on Monday, August 7, 2006 7:28 PM

What *list*?  I didn't see a list anywhere.

My favorite: SD45.

2nd: SD9 or SD24 - depends on which one I can get.  Highnose, bell on the nose, C&O-style.  :)  But those new SD70M-2's with the SD45-style radiators are moving up my list...

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Posted by engineer on Monday, August 7, 2006 8:37 PM

1: SD70MAC

2: SD45

3: SD40-2

4: GP30

5: E-9

6: SD80MAC

7: SD60M

8: SD70M

9: SW1500

10: GP38-2

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Posted by pajrr on Thursday, August 10, 2006 6:09 PM
My favorite passenger units are E-8s and F-40s. Favorite early road switchers are GP-7s/GP-9s, favorite later road switchers are SD40-2s and SD60s. My girlfriend's favorite EMDs (yes guys: a true lady railfan!) are F-40s and SD80MACs.
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Posted by SactoGuy188 on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:03 AM

My two favorite EMD locomotives are:

1. SD40-2. Well-built, very reliable and every major Class I railroad bought them in huge quantities. The railroads preferred the SD40-2 over the SD45 series because EMD had a lot of trouble with the 16-cylinder 645-series engine early on and also the SD40-2 used a lot less fuel than the SD45, too.

2. GP7. Also well-built and very reliable, the GP7 was very difficult to damage the traction motors and this was the locomotive--NOT the F-series "covered wagons"--that finally made the railroads phase out steam power on a large scale.

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Posted by Ham549 on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:15 AM
F40PH woot
Save the F40PH!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 15, 2006 10:10 AM
My favorite EMD loco... lets see, I can think of three.  SD40-2, SD40-2, and, wait, I had it in my mind a minute ago, yes, the SD40-2.  Did I mention I like the SD40-2 (and yes, you detractors, I have heard it compared to s certain penetrating oil...)
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Posted by Lord Atmo on Friday, September 15, 2006 11:55 AM

expanding to my list.

UP SD70ACEs

NS SD70M-2s

all SD70s

UP SD70Ms (yes, even 5177)

CNW anything

all SD60s

all SD50s

CR SD80MACs

i could go on and on and on. there's not much with trains i DONT like. and the stuff i dont like i made too obvious anyway.

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Posted by Citizen on Thursday, March 31, 2011 3:33 AM

Clyde Engineering's AT26C. CL Class locomotive. Maroon and Silver livery. Beautiful, majestic locomotive. By far my favourite Australian built loco.

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Posted by TrainManSteamFan on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 8:50 PM

For some reason, I love the SW-1500's for the sound, and she SW-1's because it was the first locomotive I got to get up on!

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 3:10 PM

This topic needs a poll so you can see a bar chart of all the loco's listed and which bars are the longest.  Otherwise it's hard to tell what is most popular.

For me its a hard choice, I can't make up my mind so I'll break it up by era when the EMD loco was being manufactured:

1950's: F7

1960's: SD45

1970's: SD40T-2

1980's: SD50

1990's: GP60

Thats it for me.

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Posted by Amtrak79mph on Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:33 AM

SD70ACe!!!!!

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Posted by Transcon on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 7:48 PM

B&O EMD E8 or E9 (in solid blue with yellow 'B&O', early 60's scheme) racing through Kensington, MD with the Shenandoah or Capitol Limited!

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Thursday, November 3, 2011 9:15 PM

None of the above.

(Kind of like asking, `Who's your favorite enemy general.')

Incidentally, why was this dredged out of the landfill?  Look at the post dates!

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Posted by JoeyGarner on Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:54 PM

That would be the GP-9, then GP-18 and following up with GP-7

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Posted by Lehigh Valley 2089 on Monday, March 12, 2012 5:18 PM

It would HAVE to be the SD70ACe, the modern era SD40-2 and GP9.

I'm also a fan of the F40PH.

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Posted by LaurenFan on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:49 PM

The EMD SD70ACE, the EMD SD80MAC, The EMD SD90MAC and the SD40-2.

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Posted by HighIron_fan on Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:37 PM

I'll put my 2 cents in (get 1cent in change)

Top three have to be:

1. the SD45 non -2. With 20 cylanders it was the push for superpower.

2. the one off (sorta) SD75I for Santa Fe. I have a soft spot for locomotive one offs like the GP60M but that model has bad ride montra. And the &%I looked AWESOME in Warbonnet livery.

3. the SD9. Cadilliac says it all.

 

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:42 PM

HighIron_fan- Welcome to trains.com! Cowboy

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Posted by HighIron_fan on Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:48 PM

A thousand thanks Mr Lion. Was here eons ago and decided it was time to return.

 

Eons being when I got my new laptop (read into that stingy haha!)

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Posted by Rockfan 71 on Sunday, September 16, 2012 9:19 AM

AB6........

Just to be different!

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Posted by bubbajustin on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1:34 PM

SD70M

 

 

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Posted by BN Coal Train III on Friday, September 28, 2012 8:44 AM

Three Burlington Northern SD40-2's on the point of a 110 car unit coal train, headed through East Dubuque, Illinois, with a green, wide-vision caboose on the end.

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Posted by LaurenFan on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 8:07 PM

Let me add to my list the EMD E9.

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Three Burlington Northern SD40-2's on the point of a 110 car unit coal train, headed through East Dubuque, Illinois, with a green, wide-vision caboose on the end.


For me, it would be awesome if there were a 110 car coal train with two SD80MAC's on the point, two SD40-2's in the middle and one SD70ACE on the end.

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Posted by HarryHotspur on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 8:26 PM

The F7, probably because of the multitude of ads showing the F7 pulling the Super Chief when I was a kid.

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Posted by Steven S on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:29 PM

E3

http://www.railwayclassics.com/images/MP01/E3%207000%20Color%20Art.jpg

'Nuff said.

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Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 4:24 AM

I may have posted this before, but here goes again, a three-way tie:

The E-5 for stainless steel good looks, the GP-7 because I got to run B&M 1567 and 1568, and the GP-9. because I made a small construbtion to its design.

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Posted by mobilman44 on Monday, November 12, 2012 5:36 PM

Hi!

Lots of answers here, and I suspect one's age plays a big part in the choice..........

While I like pretty much all of the first generation EMDs, my choice would be an E unit - probably an E7 or so.

As a kid I watched them fly thru southern Illinois, while sitting on my Grandmother's porch in Anna.   The speed limit there - as I understand - was 100 mph, and the City of New Orleans and Panama Limited would likely be pegging that mark.  

WOW!

ENJOY  !

 

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Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central 

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Posted by Metro Red Line on Sunday, January 20, 2013 12:52 AM

Classic: SD40T-2 (Snoot Nose) - Sorry I'm an SP boy :)

Contemporary: SD70ACe

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