Steam vs Deseil

[Anonymous]

By the time I was born, all of the mega-mergers were almost completed(hopefully) and most Class-1 systems were using North American Safety Cabs. But yet I still favor EMD "covered wagons" (E and F units) and steamers to a SD80MAC. My future layout will have an A-B set of F's, and I hope I can find a good quality steam locomotive or two. I don't think I'd even enjoy a layout unless it had about 50% steam on it, the rest being 1st generation General Motors, Alco, and Baldwin carbody diesels and early switchers.
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[Anonymous]

here is the order of what i like:
modern desial: see them every day [:D]
late steam: doesn't everyone?
early desial: the desials that did it
60s-80s desial: they all look the same........
early steam: low efficiency, low speeds, poor reliability, but thats just me.

also: nice pics big boy[bow]

[Anonymous]

Well I tell ya what. Steam is in my blood. My uncle drove a steam switcher Loco. for the Dallas Union Terminal Co. which is now in the Dallas Train Museum. The train that is not the train comp. Ha, ha. I just like to watch the big wheels roll and the sound of the whistle and the smoke blowing out the stack.
It stinks good and just more fun to watch and to ride in to.

[ddechamp71]

As I'm living on the right hand side of the Pond, each trip in the US or Canada is subject to railfanning. And all I see is, of course, modern era railroading (as the time-travelling machine still doesn't exist!); and what I see in northern America gives me a lot of gladness: in Europe cold and life-lacking electrics are the rule. So north american railfanning is very more interresting to my eyes, due to LOOONNNGG freights and diesel power (that is noisy and smelly!). That's why I'm modelling modern era with a fleet of hood units, that are definitively my favourite (but with a failing for a type of old diesels: EMD Covered Wagons). So I chose diesels.
But of course, if I was able to travel in time and to see a 120-car freight crawling on Sherman Hill with a Big Boy, a Cab Forward at Walong or an Allegheny at the point of a coal drag in the Appalachians, I could change my mind.....