For now Athearn's new SDP45 just arrrived yesterday and running on my layout.
The picture in my above post is a BQ23-7.
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.
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!
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....
For me, my favorite steam are the Western Maryland's 4-8-4 Potomacs
Favorite diseasel?
Maryland Midland GP-9
Karl
NCE über alles!
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.
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 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
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 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
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
PRR K4s and RS1
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
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."
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
narrow gauge nuclearbut 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....
But I agree 100%. When I rode the Durango & Silverton in 2012, I lucked into 478, a K-28. I'm super happy to see 463 is back in action, though I'll be even happier when I manage to see the 315 in real life instead of youtube. When I rode the Cumbres & Toltec in 2013, it was really cool too (the scenery was much greater than I expected, though I preferred the D&S), but looking at my photos of K-36 487 from that trip, it looks like a mid-sized standard gauge mikado, albeit with the inside frame. It just looked so big compared to the narrow track and old-fashioned rolling stock. The smaller mikados and consolidations are where it's at, for me.
N&W Js As and Ys
My favorite trains would be in steam era are the NYC Hudson J3a, Mikado
The early diesel era is the F3-7,E7-9
Modern diesel era are the GP38-2, SD40-2, C44-9CW, ES44AC.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
I hope this is the right area to post.
For diesels, GP-30s and tunnel motors are my hands down favorites. Although I also like GP-7/9s, DD-35s.
For steam, most UP SP locomotives, Pennsy I-1s, C&S 2-6-0s, 2-8-0s.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
FT, E7, GP7/9, Baldwin VO 1000 early, Reading Company P7 Atlantic.
EMD GP7/9, Alco Ss,
Guy
Modeling CNR in the 50's
Bershires! Just the name sounds awesome. Big UP Steam. Big Boys, Challengers, and FEF"s
Joe C
If you are talking kerosene burners RS-1, 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....
Richard
If I can't fix it, I can fix it so it can't be fixed
Mantua Pacific kitbashed into a Boston & Maine class P4.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
i'm fond of camelbacks -- Philadelphia and Reading I-5
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading