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Posted by Railfan1 on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:38 PM
The SD70ACe or any of the GEVO series
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Posted by cudaken on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:37 PM

 My favorite that I have.

 M1a, BLI has a great look and sounds great. Pulls very well for a smaller engine.

 

 My first steam engines, GS-4's. Cheap Bachmann's but with a little work pull 21 hand picked cars.

 My Monon BL2's, to date run them more than any of my other diesals. Funny think I bought the first one and was going to use it for parts. I now have 4 BL2's

 

 E-6, have 3 of them and pull like a bear.

 If any of you folks have PIC it great to add a face's to the name of the engine.

 Want list, BIG BOY, but after I up grade the DCC unit.

 

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Posted by selector on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:36 PM

Steam, toss-up between Northern Class and Texas type.  Specifically, S1b Niagara and the PRR J1.

Diesel, SD70/90 MAC and similar style, or the wonderful F7.

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Posted by NSlover92 on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:26 PM

Tom,

I was refering more to the prototype I guess.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:07 PM

My favorite locos?

The EMD E series, the ALCO PA's,  the EMD FT, F3, F7, F9, the GP40, the SD40-2.

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Posted by tstage on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:03 PM

Michael,

Clarification: Are you confining the "favorite" preference to the prototype, the model, or both?

Tom 

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Posted by scubaterry on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 1:59 PM

Well I guess my favorite Diesel would be the GP-7 or 9.  I have
a bunch of them.  They just look nice and squared away rolling
down the track.  As far as Steam every since I ran my neighbors
Big Boy around my layout I have been wanting an articulated steam
loco.  So when my b-day rolled around I got a PCM 2-8-8-2. 
Awesome looking loco and heavy too.  It can pull a stump i'm
sure.  And the cool thing is that it is Decaled for the NYC? 
Who Knew???

Terry 

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Favorite Locomotive
Posted by NSlover92 on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 1:52 PM
There are tons of favorite railroad threads well there wouldnt be railroads with out locomotives so lets do a thread of your favorite locomotives. For me I have to say either the GG-1 or F-M H16-44
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