Your favorite name for a steam locomotive? Ex: "Mikado", "Allegheny", "Bull Moose"

[Anonymous]

Mikado aka "Big Mike"

[NHRRJET]

My favorites would be as follows:

Berkshire
Pacific
Prairie
"The BIG ENGINE", PRR S-1 6100 (6-4-4-6)

[Anonymous]

Now remember this is a question about favourite names, not favourite loco's.

So there I was at my favourite hobby shop at the time, and I asked the guys - "say, what's a Climax." Well you could have heard the laughter for a mile. Says they, slapping their thighs, "he doesn't know what a Climax is."

[michaelstevens]

[;)]
Rick,

We've got to ask -- which "hobby" [?][?]

[:D][:D][:D][:D]

[vsmith]

I've alway liked "Decapod" a ten-legged insect that crawls around the layout.

[CBQ_Guy]

CLIMAX! [;)]

[Anonymous]

Have to say Western Maryland 4-8-4's..............POTOMAC.

Or maybe EBT's "Millie".

It really doesn't matter what you call it, if it's steam it's good enough!

Roger

[Anonymous]

From the U.S. you can't beat "Mikado", it sounds mysterious. But my all time favorite comes from England, "The Flying Scotsman". Not really a specific type of locomotive, but a romantic name none the less.

[MudHen_462]

GN 2-8-2 Mikado

[CP5415]

Royal Hudson, you can't get any more regal than that!!!!

Gordon

[vsmith]

I'll add another of my fav's

Minaret,

a lofty name for a lowely 2-8-2 tank engine but I like them.

[Anonymous]

The Q's COLORADO by far. It was a very fitting name to the locomotive(2-10-4 wheel arrgmnt.)
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[Anonymous]

Cabforward.

[Anonymous]

I like " Central " That is what the IC called its 2-10-2's.
Greenbriar is good too.

[Anonymous]

But Most of all, "Union Pacific" the name for the 4-12-2

[Anonymous]

Wait a minute: How about "Dixie" 4-8-4 NC&STL

i have too many favorite names for any to be a favorite.

And the engine crews on the NKP called their 700 class engines "Big Mikes'" Now I know they were Bershires, but they had their names for them.

[mecovey]

Since my name is Michael and my wife's name is Shayla I have to vote for Mike and Shay

[Anonymous]

a great name for an engine is " Union" 0-10-2

[Anonymous]

mikado

[Anonymous]

And who could forget the "American" 4-4-0

Or the "Ten wheeler" 4-6-0
Daylights 4-8-4
"Southern Pacific" 4-10-2
There are a few more that I will list later on that are not known well.

[twhite]

Like a lot of the names--the steamers, like the guys that ran them were always pretty individualistic. But my very favorite is the one that SP engineers used to identify their 2-10-2's. They called them "Decks." Now what the heck does THAT mean? Oh, and by the way, gang, it's not 'Cabforward', it's Cab-Forward. HYPHENATED! Got it?

[AggroJones]

"Bullmoose", as in the not so cool UP 2-8-8-0.

[cspmo]

Cabforward it's a logical design.

[NHRRJET]

I always liked the names BERKSHIRE ( 2-8-4) , PRAIRIE (2-6-2) and SHORELINER (NH 4-6-4).

[Mark300]

Great bunch of AKA's for your 4-8-4 Northern/Niagara;

The Lehigh Valley's 'Wyoming'
The Delaware Lackawanna & Western's 'Pocono'
The Reading's 'T-1'
The Western Maryland's 'Potomac'
The above mentioned NC & STL's 'Dixie'
The Candian Pacific's 'Confederation'

All of theses engines by the way, are ripe for modeling/manufacturing!

Mark

[Anonymous]

hudson

[Anonymous]

Pacific Coast Shay, number 2 is West Coast Special Heisler!!!

[markpierce]

valley malley (S.P. M-9 moguls that pulled articulated locomotive length trains in California'sCentral Valley (at very low speed).

[AltonFan]

Decapod - Meaning "ten-footed", it is at once literate, descriptive, and colorful.

Baltic - The other name for the 4-6-4 wheel arrangement, preferred by Europeans and the Milwaukee Road.

Dixie - Somethin' to be said for regional pride.

Zulu - What the C&NW called its 2-8-0s. (And their 4-8-4s were called 'Zeppelins'.)

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bangert1

Wait a minute: How about "Dixie" 4-8-4 NC&STL

Definately Dixie or Southern, a GREAT name for a 4 8 4 . [:D]