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[quote user="CAZEPHYR"][quote user="tln1870"] Hi Everyone, My favorite trains are Roundhouse 2-6-2 (SR & RL) live steam, Accucraft E-8 (CB&Q) and the small LGB forney. [:D]If anyone has any pic's of their layout -  please submit.  I am trying to rekindle this forum. [/quote] I never met a Steam locomotive that I did'nt like. [/quote] 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!
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