Canadian Pacifics Selkirk
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
PRR K4s and RS1
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Steam: , 0-6-0, consolidations, mikados, mountains, northerns, challenger, big boy
Diesel: Sw7, NW2, RS-2, Gp-7/9, F's, and E's. Plus SD7 and SD-38/40's
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
THe F unit, the E unit, and for steam only two locmotives of the same 4-8-4 Wheel arrangement have managed to make me a steam fan, THe SP&S E1 Northern and the SP GS4.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
BPoi narrow gauge nuclear but my ultimate favorite is the coal burners with the D&GRW K-27 (mudhen) and K-28 (sports model) mikes. Love all outside frames with the whirling counterweights coupled with the monkey motion.... I thought the whirling counterweights meant they were "inside frame"? Bruce
narrow gauge nuclear but my ultimate favorite is the coal burners with the D&GRW K-27 (mudhen) and K-28 (sports model) mikes. Love all outside frames with the whirling counterweights coupled with the monkey motion....
I thought the whirling counterweights meant they were "inside frame"?
Bruce
The mudhens have their counterweights outside the frames. Inside frame locos have counterweights integral with the drivers.
As for my favorite locomotives, anything 4-coupled with (approximately) 550 x 660 mm cylinders running on 42 inch gauge rails. (JNR classes 9600, C50, C51, C52) Also the Kiso Forest Railway Baldwin 0-4-2Ts (762mm gauge) and the unlikely 'critters' that replaced them.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
BPoiBPoi wrote the following post 14 hours ago: narrow gauge nuclear but my ultimate favorite is the coal burners with the D&GRW K-27 (mudhen) and K-28 (sports model) mikes. Love all outside frames with the whirling counterweights coupled with the monkey motion.... I thought the whirling counterweights meant they were "inside frame"?
I stand corrected. I wasn't thinking too clearly after happy hour with coworkers.
For diesels the SD45's. I remember watching up to 10 pulling Southern Pacific trains over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Even though I am not a steam person, it has to be the C&O H8 Alleghenney's. The most powerful steam engine ever built.
I live in Norfolk Southern country here in central PA. I love the new SD60E locomotives mainly due to the new Crescent cab. I Have already kitbashed 1 of these with the second currently under construction.
Mostly steam. Just about any articulated except for UP--never liked their lines, too clean and uninteresting. Missabe 2-8-8-4, NP 4-6-6-4, Rio Grande ANYTHING, lol. SP--especially their Mountains and 2-10-2's. For eastern roads, C&O and N&W.
Diesel: PA's, F-3's, E-6's, E-2's (yah, try and find one, lol!).
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
I may wind up having the most unusual picks.
Like most: GP/SD-7/9, SD 40-2, SW1500, GP 30, CSX slugs, F/FP-45 and SD 80 MAC.
I'm sure I'm the only ones to like these: BQ 23-7, CF-7, GP-7U, and any other "home-grown" re-builds
Pennsy K4s and Anything PRR steam.
I also have a soft spot in my heart for the EBT mikes.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
I must admit, I didn't really like diesel, just may be first generation of switcher like V1000, S2 or H44.
I am a steam lover and fan of N&W and C&O steam power.
I like switcher from 0-4-0 (old Rivarossi) or 0-8-0 from Walthers-Life like.
Mallets are my first love like the pocket mallets of C&O H4, H6, H8.
First N&W articulated like Z1 but also the Y class ending whith the famous Yb6.
But my favorite in all these articulated are the N&W class A, because of his style but also because of his level of engenering; she was the most powerful 2-6-6-4 ever built, she was more powerful than a challenger.
Iam so glad to see Big Boy 4014 returnning to live, but I hope so much for You to see N&W 1218 returning to steam again.
I am an Nscaler and unfortunately many of these models don't exist in Nscale; just the class H is represented by Bachmann Spectrum and also in brass by Key.
The class Z could be kitbashed from some early Walthers-Life Like Y3 or if You could fine one a Micro-Ace 0-6-6-0; the second run of the Walthers-LL Y3 is an handsome model.
The Yb6 was produced years ago by Atlas-Rivarossi but is now obsolete by N steam standard of today; Y5, Y6, and Yb6 where produced in brass in extremely small run, and when one appears in auction you must run and have money...
As far as I know the class A was never produced in Nscale.
In all respects, the N&W steam articulated where probably the most economical whith efficiency and sure footed extreme steam power ever produced, one of the reason I like these machines.
For me, my favorite steam are the Western Maryland's 4-8-4 Potomacs
Favorite diseasel?
Maryland Midland GP-9
Karl
NCE über alles!
Shays, Climaxes, Heislers, other geared steam, 4-4-0s, 2-6-0s, 2-8-0s are my favorites. Have narrow gauge and standard gauge Shays (back-dated MDC and Keystone). For other geared steam, I have only the MDC "sort of Climax" and the AHM Heisler (too big for my taste). Have the HOn3 2-6-0, working on the 4-4-0. Have the famous Mantua/Tyco General, Model Power and MDC 2-8-0s, and some other assorted small steam.
Have a strong desire to end up with models of Baldwin logging 2-4-2Ts, and something similar to the Little River 2-4-4-2 for an articulated.
Fred W
....modeling foggy coastal Oregon, where it's always 1900....
As for me, I'm like most people here when it comes to diesels. I would say, though, that mostly first and second generation diesels are my favorites, mainly GP7/9's, SD7's, SW1, 7, 9 and 1500 Alco S2's RS3's, FT, F3, F7, E8/9's, Alco PA's, GE U33/36C's, U25B's, C424/425, also SD45, GP35/38. Probably my most favorites are the GP7/9 and SD45. I don't deal in steam, so I wouldn't know a J class from a Chevy Nova!
the North East Rail ModelerI may wind up having the most unusual picks. I'm sure I'm the only ones to like these: BQ 23-7, CF-7,
I'm sure I'm the only ones to like these: BQ 23-7, CF-7,
CF-7, I just happened to be in Glen Rose Texas on a fossil dig when they were clearing ground for a new nuclear power plant and uncovered a bunch of dinosaur foot tracks. We took a day off from out dig to go over and look at them. That trip just happened to take us past/through Cleburne. At the time I had no idea that there was one of AT&SF's major shops were there. I saw a string of "brand new" CF-7s at the shops. I believe they were getting ready to depart the shop yard and head out to their first assignments, but I couldn't talk my fellow geologists into stopping to get pictures. That was when I realized the fate of all those F7s that had been slowly moved into service around Wichita Kansas and lines south a few years earlier.
The picture in my above post is a BQ23-7.
For now Athearn's new SDP45 just arrrived yesterday and running on my layout.
All of the narrow gauge mikes on the D&RGW were outside frame. The key point is where are the wheels and where is the main locomotive frame that mounts the wheels? When the wheels are inside the frame and the frame is on the outside, that is an outside frame loco like the Narrow gauge locos talked about. Almost all steam locomitives had inside frames with the wheels on the outside where you could see them. You cannot see the drivers on an outside frame loco.
The last of the D&RGW mikes, the K-37's, (490 number series), were originally standard gauge locos that were converted to narrow gauge outside framed engines.
I attach an image of my favorite K-28. You can't see the drivers just the eccentric cams, counter weight and monkey motion gear.
Richard
If I can't fix it, I can fix it so it can't be fixed
narrow gauge nuclearAll of the narrow gauge mikes on the D&RGW were outside frame.
I fully agree. In my slight haze I was thinking the frame was INSIDE the counterweights, so "inside frame," but ahem, I admit that error.
The C-25 375 was a cool engine, too. I prefer the consolidations just because they're smaller and "cuter and cuddlier," but 375 has the best of both worlds. Ahem, Blackstone! After the K-28s and K-36s.
Southern Pacific F-7s in black widow scheme, Santa Fe F-3s & F-7s in red and silver warbonette scheme, Canadian National Mikado (my version of it at least), Nickel Plate Road Berkshire, Amtrak P-42s in any scheme, Western Maryland Consolidation, Southern Pacific light mountain, etc, etc, etc...
Tracklayer
Any steam that N&W made.. More specifically the Js,Y6bs and the As. The K locomotives are pretty cool too.
Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.
Daniel G.
Early EMD passenger locomotives especially the E5.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
My favorite locomotives? Any steam engine that is Southern. Of those my absolute favorite is a little 4-6-0 #949.
My Dad was the fireman on this loco for 4 years in the 1930's.
Carey
Keep it between the Rails
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NMRA &SER Life member
My favorite is The famous PRR T1 4-4-4-4 steamer. as my nickname states: PRRT1MAN!
Great Northern:
Steam - P2 Mountain and O8 Mikado
Diesel - SD7s and 9s
I love early ALCO diesels, particularly the 6-axle versions (RSD 4&5; RSD 12and RSD 15 alligators). PAs and FA cabs.
RicZ
PRR M1b 4-8-2 Mountain