What's your favorite locomotive?

[Anonymous]

Fairbanks Morse H-24-66

[Flint Hills Tex]

Vintage U.S. diesel: EMD-F's, Baldwin Shark Noses and Alco RS units, in any livery available!

Contemporary U.S. diesel: MP 36

Vintage European Diesel: Scandanavian Nohab, Russian "Ludmilla"

Contemporary European Diesel: Vossloh Euro 4000

[espeefoamer]

Diesel: FP7

Electric: GG1

Steam: SP GS4

[Packers#1]

EMD GP-9. Just has a nice look about it. A classic like its twin, the GP-7. 

[lordgow]

Anything ALCO, especially RS3, T6, and RS-11 through the M-640. Wish Alco could have made the the cut, and still be building locomotives today.

 Would that include Niagaras and Big Boys?

[lordgow]

I second that 'thank you'. Now I need to go get a better shot for my avatar, shucks darn it. Oh well, back to the tracks...

 

EMDF40CFAN wrote the following post at 12-31-2007 3:17 AM:

Thank you.  You have been of great help. 

silicon212 wrote:

Just find a picture you like in a 4x3 format (i.e. 640x480, 800x600 etc) and upload it as your avatar in your profile.  When you click on "Update Profile" above, you will be taken to your profile and from there, scroll down until you see 'Avatar'.  Click on the 'Yes' for Enable, and then use 'Browse..." to find the picture on your hard drive that you want to use.  Click 'update' and your avatar will now be the picture you want - the F40C for example. The picture that's in my message body is hosted offline, in my case, on my personal web site.  I use the img tags to link it.

[wisandsouthernkid]

you cant spell garbage without GE it doesnt work. see, arba so im gonna go with the sd40-2 or sd70 in the norfolk southern scheme those things look SWEET freshly painted like this one

[Anonymous]

My first choice is the SD70ACe with a Ferromex paint scheme. Next is probably the SD40 and the SD40-2 Snoot with a Santa Fe paint scheme. I wish Kato would make the SD70ACe in N-scale. Kato makes the SD90-43 MAC, but the Evolution series is quite a bit different. I'll have to learn to scratch build one I guess.

[NEALNP]

UP EMD SD40-2

[chefjavier]

Union Pacific DD-40X, SW1500, F7, and GP-35

[nsscot]

cn rs 18s, cn c424  cn  rsc-24  cn s-13

 

Don

[shayfan84325]

Any 2 cylinder 2 truck shay.  Gives you plenty of time to enjoy the scenery.

 -Phil

[da_kraut]

Has to be the AC4400 in CP colours, that was the final straw that got me back into the hobby.

Frank 

[Anonymous]

CP 3024
a GP38-2
Yes, that is very specific

[Anonymous]

Anything ALCO, especially RS3, T6, and RS-11 through the M-640. Wish Alco could have made the the cut, and still be building locomotives today.

[bobbo]

My favourite locomotive is an 0-6-0 Hudswell Clark built in 1924 for Slough Estates (England) which is preserved and working on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway in Wiltshire. I'd like to post a picture on here but I don't know how! Help. It's on my avator though.

[Ulrich]

My favorite is anything Alco...especially MLW RS-18s, C424's and the M series locomotives.

[WNYPRailwatcher]

My all time favorite is from the fallen flag WAG RR, I really liked the F7's  that the railroad ran, dressed in orange and cream paint. 

My favorite engine that is operating is the ALCo C424 and the particular unit I fav the most is running on the WNYP at this time, but labeled under the LA&L family name LA&L #424

[Ster1]

Diesel   GP30

Steam    2-8-8-4 EM-1  The B&O's Coal movers

[trolleyboy]

     I wish I could an HO model! If someone decide to make them I'd probably buy half a dozen or so. Ironically Broadway Limited now sells their RSD15 in CN paint with the RSC14 numbers. 

Unfortunatly that's likely as close as we're going to get Then again trueline may do it, they had mulled it over when they brought out the Proto RS10's and 18's,it would require some changes to the master mold, but should be doable,I'd by two or three myself if they did.

Rob

[Boomer Red]

     I wish I could an HO model! If someone decide to make them I'd probably buy half a dozen or so. Ironically Broadway Limited now sells their RSD15 in CN paint with the RSC14 numbers. 

[hf1001]

That isn't a bad looking locomotive.

[Boomer Red]

     My favorites were CN 1700 series RSC14s! I used to glue my nose to the screen door when I was a kid watching them work the branchline that went past my house.

 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=91932&nseq=0

 

[Lord Atmo]

why, the EMD SD60 of course!

then i have several 2nd place runners up.

the SD70 (spartan cab only), SD45X, and DD35A 

Lord Atmo:

You got me by surprised. I though you were SD70 all the way.  

i would've been if CNW had any SD70s 

FWIW...  Everything CNW had after the GP50s (or maybe the secondhand GP40s that were properly nose-belled) wasn't a "real" CNW locomotive, since the SD50s were built to MoPac specs, and the SD60s were built to SOO specs...

when did i say anything about real CNWs here? 

[RR Redneck]

The late great Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boys.

[fuzzybroken]

why, the EMD SD60 of course!

then i have several 2nd place runners up.

the SD70 (spartan cab only), SD45X, and DD35A 

Lord Atmo:

You got me by surprised. I though you were SD70 all the way.  

i would've been if CNW had any SD70s 

FWIW...  Everything CNW had after the GP50s (or maybe the secondhand GP40s that were properly nose-belled) wasn't a "real" CNW locomotive, since the SD50s were built to MoPac specs, and the SD60s were built to SOO specs...

I think overall, my favorite common locomotive would have to be the SD40-2.  For somewhat less-common locomotives, I like GP60s -- the lines of the dynamic brakes just looked neat to me -- and the CF7 -- they were quite the engineering marvel, considering where they came from!!!

[sovablunt]

 The F40PH-2's operated by CalTrain. Been a fan of them since I was 10 years old.

 

[EMDF40CFAN]

Thank you.  You have been of great help. 

Just find a picture you like in a 4x3 format (i.e. 640x480, 800x600 etc) and upload it as your avatar in your profile.  When you click on "Update Profile" above, you will be taken to your profile and from there, scroll down until you see 'Avatar'.  Click on the 'Yes' for Enable, and then use 'Browse..." to find the picture on your hard drive that you want to use.  Click 'update' and your avatar will now be the picture you want - the F40C for example.

The picture that's in my message body is hosted offline, in my case, on my personal web site.  I use the img tags to link it.

[silicon212]

Just find a picture you like in a 4x3 format (i.e. 640x480, 800x600 etc) and upload it as your avatar in your profile.  When you click on "Update Profile" above, you will be taken to your profile and from there, scroll down until you see 'Avatar'.  Click on the 'Yes' for Enable, and then use 'Browse..." to find the picture on your hard drive that you want to use.  Click 'update' and your avatar will now be the picture you want - the F40C for example.

The picture that's in my message body is hosted offline, in my case, on my personal web site.  I use the img tags to link it.