Favorite steam loco

[Anonymous]

You gotta love the big boy & then SF's 4-8-4 3751(it's restored{www.sbrhs.org}),
& SP's GS-4 4-8-4 4449(restored{www.friends of 4449.com[Site unter comstruction]}).

Ps. how many times has this poll been run?

[Anonymous]

HYSTERS? you mean heilsers right.

[Anonymous]

Sorry my link has been split (www.friendsof4449.com)

[selector]

I like the chunky firebox at the rear of the K-4 that looms over both the cab and the boiler. When I get my ducks in a row, I'm definitely getting a die-cast one of those with sound.

Also favour the 4-8-4 AT&SF (even tho' I'm a Canuck), and especially the 2-10-4 Selkirk that CP used to run. Of course, I'd have to rip out all of my curves and re-plan the main with 26' or better. Darn, eh? [;)][:D]

[countershot]

Challenger!
i Have seen #3985 in action that got me hooked[8D][8D][8D][8D][:)][:)][:)][:)][:)][:)][:)][:)][:)][bow][bow][bow]

[bluepuma]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dhuff

Bluepuma,

My uncle was one of the engineers of the Knott's Berry Farm 4-4-0, can't remember when. In the '60s he ran the Disneyland train. Free Rides whenever we visited!

Pretty cool... It was the 1955 or later the first time I saw and rode that train, when Knotts still had the gravel/grass parking lot it ran through on the North and Western side long before they fenced in the park.

The only other steam around was at Griffith Park on the back side, SF valley side noy
far from the Golden State Freeway (I-5).

Rode from Tennessee in '53 to Union Station, but have no idea what train line or locomotive we were behind, just the signs in the restroom, which was locked in town.
Didn't understand why, but remember the rails/ties below the toilet hole. Man, that made track maintenence a bad job!

Hooverphonic mentioned as my favorite band for the end of 2005 to March 2006.

[Anonymous]

CGW 2-10-4's

[Virginian]

Okay, so that explains why everyone is selling Big boys, but it sure does NOT explain the love affair with those ugly Pennsy Pacifics. A squared off firebox on a round boiler... oh yeah.... cool. :-)

[tomikawaTT]

N&W class A - the Mercedes of steam. Faster and more powerful than any 12-drivered loco except the alleghany (which was three times as complex and cost 30% more,) the same tractive effort as a B&O EM-1 with four fewer drivers, able to cover for N&W's J on passenger runs.

Of course, I am rather partial to the J, as well!

[Bill H.]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 4884bigboy

How about some of those "not mentioned much steamers"? Like the santa fe blue goose, or the southerns cresents. And lets not foget the best looking of them all, the N&W J type.[:)][:D][8D][^][:p][;)]

Best looking? OK...



B&O 5304

[grayfox1119]

I can't believe it

You didn't list the

BERKSHIRE ?? 2-8-4 ??

This is the engine that conquered the Berkshire Mountains in the East, hauling long drags of freight from Boston to Albany. Later, these locomotives where used in many other RR's in the East and Midwest....Cowabunga, how could you POSSIBLY forget THIS engine ??? Tsk, tsk This locomotive does NOT deserve "Other" classification.