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If you were a locomotive, what would you be?

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:23 PM

I would be a Prr K4 pacific

the standard of the PRR,magestic, beautiful, and the ability to run almost anything anywhere...that and it is the whole reason i model the PRR(so it is my favorite locomotive) 

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Posted by GraniteRailroader on Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:46 PM

I'd be the lonely diesel switcher working 12 hour days in the yard. With the clean square lines of the GP-9, and the soul of a hard working mountain engine...

What? No.. it wasn't a long night last night. It's not like I derailed half a train on a customer siding, either. Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by twhite on Saturday, June 28, 2008 11:29 AM

I'd be an M-3/4 Yellowstone.  That way I could spend my winters in Colorado Tongue [:P]

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Posted by PA&ERR on Saturday, June 28, 2008 10:58 AM

I'd be an E-44. Just quietly doing my job without any fuss or fanfare!

-George

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Posted by sfrr on Saturday, June 28, 2008 9:30 AM

Gee, I will have to say an SD90/43MAC just because of the size, and the nice sharp look.

 

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Posted by tstage on Saturday, June 28, 2008 9:23 AM

Probably an 0-8-0 switcher: Quiet, unassuming - but pulling my weight and doing my job.

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Posted by Crewman1 on Saturday, June 28, 2008 9:04 AM
I would be either: an Erie Triplex (2-8-8-8-2) or a shay.  Either way, big and slow, but impressive...Wink [;)]
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Posted by 2-8-8-0 on Saturday, June 28, 2008 8:37 AM

I would probably just be one of the many Q4 2-8-2s B&O had roaming every inch of their system. Common, hard working, and underappreciated!

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Posted by wjstix on Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:10 AM

See now, this is the question Barbara Walters should have asked President Ford, rather than "what kind of tree would you be, if you were a tree??".  

Well I'm pretty big and un-streamlined...so maybe an ALCO C-628 highnose in CNW colors. preferably hauling iron ore / taconite. Of course my wife would probably agree I'd be an ALCO, with lots of rumbling and sputtering followed by noxious 'exhaust' emissions. Dead [xx(]

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Posted by loathar on Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:31 AM
Broke and out of fuel.Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Medina1128 on Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:26 AM
That's easy.. I'm 6'1", 255#... A 4-8-8-4 Union Pacific Big Boy..
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Posted by Flashwave on Friday, June 27, 2008 11:51 PM

Gee, I'm not sure. My immediate action would be to take the place of the 4449. Since she has a long service life, plus all the fun of the excoursions. Alsoone of my first loco love affairs. But knowing what I also do with the likelyness of that fun continueing, a diesel such as UP 1996 might be a more fun route.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nah. Hand me the steamer.  

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Posted by Autobus Prime on Friday, June 27, 2008 11:44 PM
Folks:

I would be an H8/H9/H10. A little backward, not real elegant, not at all fancy, but it gets the job done. Plus the H is a ruggedly handsome devil. Wink [;)]
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Posted by Texas Zepher on Friday, June 27, 2008 10:59 PM
Real or Model? What would I want to be, or what would my personality end up making me be?
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Posted by tomikawaTT on Friday, June 27, 2008 10:54 PM

I would be a Withuhn-Garratt eight-cylinder triple expansion high pressure 4-8-4+4-8-4 with 70-inch drivers, a 500psi water-tube boiler, a cyclone gasifier Porta firebox, dynamically counterbalanced machinery and end-of-locomotive cabs similar to modern diesel cabs.  Microprocessor control and automatic stoking, of course.

Why?  Because I write science fiction, and that strikes me as a great, "What if we could resurrect steam," locomotive.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - ten years before Bill Withuhn's ideas were published in Trains)

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If you were a locomotive, what would you be?
Posted by galaxy on Friday, June 27, 2008 9:59 PM

....and why?

I would be a PRR 4-8-2 Mountain.

Why? Impressive, powerful, majestic, goes for the long haul.

That, and because I fell in love with PRR M1B (nee M1A) #6755 at the Pensylvania Railroad Museum in Strasburg, PA (static display but boy would pay to see her run and ride in her cab!). I was more impressed with her than I was with the Big Boy at Steamtown National Park in Scranton, PA. With a "oversized coast-to-coast" tender for long hauls and with a dog house for the brakeman.

My oh MY

 

-G .

Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.

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