I've posted this one in this forum before, but my favorite of my 50 or so is this Hallmark Midland Valley Mike:
Got it in 1970 or thereabouts. open-frame motor (replacement - I wore out the brushes on the original) runs super-quiet, extra "Templow" weight poured into the boiler, and she'll pull the plaster off the walls.
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Gary M. Collins gmcrailgNOSPAM@gmail.com
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I have a few steamers that I like, but the one that I'm especially proud of is an old brass Van Hobbies/Samhongsa CPR H1b Hudson.
It's been re-geared, re-motored, and re-drivered with Greenway drivers,and the appliances have been changed to accurately model CPR Hudson 2816 as it runs today.
This engine was bought off of Ebay, and it took quite a few months, and the help of several friends to get it 'just right'.
It now runs like a dream, and as a result, it is operated more than all my other locos combined.
It has a Tsunami "heavy steam" decoder with the USRA 6 chime whistle, of course, as it used during 2007-2008, although my wife tells me that the Southern Railway 3 chime sounds closer to the "original" CPR whistle.
It's been out of service for 3 weeks now, getting rebuilt (again). I chased an intermittant short for 2 weeks until I figured out that the springs had sagged and the front driver flange was shorting on the crosshead. So it get's new springs and a tune up.....
I'm itching to get a pic of it up, and I will as soon as it's back in service. (Within a week, I hope, depending on work)
I'st runner up is a little Van/Sam CPR 0-6-0 yard goat. It's not sexy or fast, but it runs like a champ
Van Hobbies H1b, K1a, T1c, D10g, F1a, F2a, G5a. Division Point: H24-66 Hammerhead, Alco covered wagons A-B-B-A, C-Liner A-B-B-A, EMD FP7A A-B-B.
H1b modified to replicate modern day 2816. All with Tsunamis.
Well if you reaally try to pin me down best I'll be able to do is my PFM Great Northern N3 2-8-8-0 and her older cousin no.1973 a smallish Challengers models M2 2-6-8-0 seen riding the table here.
I love the M's because they are different. No one else really had them. SP's were a completely different engine. This little Sunset Model gem runs impeccably.
I have several of each class shown here, but the pics don't come out well when I move the camera back. I love all of N&W's articulateds for different reasons.... The early Y's for their great performance, so early in history, when other roads were double-heading smaller engines.... the later Y's for their absolute refinement of the mallet type locomotive and the exact, purpose-built design for mountain hauling, and the A's for their beauty and grace.
Hi All,
Can anyone tell me why my photos are not showing up?
I used the "Insert Media" option and posted the URL I wanted to post and nothing has shown up yet. I was shown a page that said my changes needed to be approved. That was early yesterday. Am i still waiting or did i do something wrong?
I'll try again with this photo of my most recent restoration project locomotive which is right up there with my favorites. This time i will just copy and past it.
Thanks in advance,
Sean
Ah, I see someone's perusing the old threads.
My favorite stream locomotive that I have is my Bowser K4 I built almost 40 years ago.
Enjoy
Paul
The weiner man I have 4...... and it's the hardest choice i'd ever have to make to say i have a favorite. all ho 1: a bachmann spectrum 3-truck climax 2: an IHC mogul (i've repaired her so-many times.....) 3: a life-like 0-4-0 4: a bachmann 0-6-0
I have 4...... and it's the hardest choice i'd ever have to make to say i have a favorite. all ho
1: a bachmann spectrum 3-truck climax
2: an IHC mogul (i've repaired her so-many times.....)
3: a life-like 0-4-0
4: a bachmann 0-6-0
Make it 5. i got a rivarossi heisler. she's just as good as my climax if not better
Planning a 1940's logging road in HO scale.
My favorite steam engine is also my favorite overall in my fleet. It is a BLI Paragon Norfolk and Western Class J #611 as used in normal service.
I model modern day so this engine does not see alot of track time but I do take her out and streach her legs every now and again. Her main consist is the Powatan Arrow made up of some Spectrum heavyweight cars. I have a Con Cor Powatan arrow set that I am needing to assemble and detail the interior of. I will get on that here some day.
Massey
A Veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life."
Well I see it is three years later since this was originally posted. I confess I have changed my favorites since then.
It is a toss up between my Overland Great Northern 4-6-0 E-15 and a PFM Great Northern 4-6-2 H4, both are painted in the Glacier livery. Fantastic detail and great runners. Will pull anything I give them.
That's an easy question to answer. The one in my avatar.
Having H U G E problems posting pictures here, so the avatar will have to do until I figure out this computer thing...