Is there any type of rolling stock you don't like ?...

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I find single axle bobber cabooses very annoying during an operating session!

I've never seen one of those   I think they would have a big problem teeter-totering all over place. 

I think he meant single truck.

[Jason-Train]

I really could do without the ones that derail!

QFT

I like boxcars, lots and lots of box cars :)

[Texas Zepher]

I find single axle bobber cabooses very annoying during an operating session!

I've never seen one of those   I think they would have a big problem teeter-totering all over place. 

[tomikawaTT]

Anything military - guns and tanks etc are only manufactured for the purpose of killing and maiming people; so they are therefore inherintly evil. I will not have them in my house, let alone on the layout!

If we lived in a perfect world where everyone would allow everyone else to live in peace, it sure would be nice.  Unfortunately, when we have a world with people like Adolf Hitler, Josip Stalin, Usamu binLaden and (fill in your favorite would-be world conqueror here,) the choice is, defend yourself or bow down and be fitted with shackles (or a coffin.)

When I see drivel like this, I wonder why I spent the best years of my life protecting and defending this country (and the rest of the Free World,) "From all enemies, without and within."  Then I think of my own kids and grandkids.  Yes, I did it for them.  You got to come along for the ride, and didn't even have to pay US taxes to support my efforts.  Aren't you lucky!

Chuck [MSgt(ret) USAF]

[cutting]

Anything military - guns and tanks etc are only manufactured for the purpose of killing and maiming people; so they are therefore inherintly evil. I will not have them in my house, let alone on the layout!

[Texas Zepher]

Autoracks do absolutely nothing for me, and I don't really know why.

The old ones or the new ones?  I used to like to watch the new cars go by on the train - and then they enclosed them.  sigh.

[Bill H.]

Glow-in-the-dark rolling stock?  Pickle Cars?  Why not combine them?  This one's a dilly...

 

It was a yard-sale gift from my sister, so I have to be able to run it when she shows up.  The rest of the time it's in a dark cardboard box under the layout, along with the orange Toys 'R' Us car.

It could have been worse...

 

[METRO]

Autoracks do absolutely nothing for me, and I don't really know why.

Baldwin switchers after the first two phases of the VO-series look like bricks with cabs.

Unit coal trains are more fun in real life than in model form, nothing beats the sound of one of those going by at speed.

 

Cheers!

~METRO 

[jasperofzeal]

Just to add another:  I don't like the "galloping goose" thing.  I know it's not a freight car, but still, I don't like the way it looks.

[Anonymous]

Personnally, I hate those steel cabooses with no cupola. They look downright stupid if you ask me. They may as well be boxcars for what they look like.

[BRJN]

I live within a block of some track.  So anything leaky or explodable can go directly to the nearest RIP track (do not pass GO do not collect $200), and be made fixed again.

Oddly, though, my fondest memory of rolling stock was some not-rolling stock - a line of rusty old NYC 'cigar' logo PS-1 boxcars (I think) that probably did not budge an inch during the entire lifetime of the Penn Central railroad.  If I could see those, we were going to visit Dad at work. <g>

On my layout I am doing 1900 so I really do not need anything AAR, USRA, or more modern than that.

I do like watching a mixed-merchandise train more than I like watching a unit train of anything - RoadRailers, coal, autoracks, 89' hi-cube, piggyback, containers.

[ABaileyIAm]

I just checked out the link that Bill H. put in his post about Front Runners and I couldn't stand to look at it any longer. Can that really be classified as a train?

[Anonymous]

Hello,
yes it is great to be in control of our hopbby and only do what we wish to do to please ourselves. I was born in the late forties. They were still running steam into the fifties. I like the old cars and I love the old passenger cars. Back at one time people didn't thinkl of taking a plane anywhere. One went by boat or train and the train cars were beautiful with first class accomodations. I do like the old passenger cars and don't like the spartan newbies that were made for those with not enough money to go by plane. I love the old ore cars and have been personally in the old mining towns in colorado, Idaho, Washington and all the others. I have camped in old ghost towns up past stibnite in the Idaho wilderness area and gone inside the old sheds and schools and even the mines. When one combines knowledge of the history and having been there with a little imagination then looks take on a different perspective I think. I love steam better then diesel, but I don't dislike diesels. A diesel is much prettier then a stinky smoking steam gushing boiler on wheels, but there is beauty in that ugliness. There is a lot of memory in hearing that whistle in the middle of the night out in the mountains that more then makes up for it's ugliness. The ore cars remind me of a time long ago when things were alot different then they are today. Back then men could be men and not worry about offending anyone because they were. They showed respect for one another because the code of conduct was that you either did or you got to show your ability to defend yourself. Things didn't build up till you had someone bringing a gun to school, they fought and then became friends afterward. Life was alot tougher then. There were no antibiotics. Two of my classmates got polio.
T.B. Was like aids, there was no cure. Alot of the things we take for granted today were unheard of back then. At one time no one had electricity, no one had refridgerators, no one had a stove you just turned on with a switch. At one time people cut ice in the winter and stored it under piles of straw, There was a guy who brought ice to your house and you put it in your ice box to keep your milk cold. People had coal bins in their basements and they would heat their houses with wood or coal. People used candles and lanterns to light up their houses at night. The gossip pages in the newspaper had articles on Baby Doe Tabor the second wife of one of the largest gold magnets in the central city area of Colorado. For me, model railroading is a way to re enact another era. So, I love most of the rail road equipment available as long as it was used before 1957.
Have a great day, Hoppie

[last mountain & eastern hogger]

Steamers sure do not look right pulling a string of Boxes with no roof walks...

I am anti anything longer than 72 Ft.

My Zephyr is all 72 Footers and so are my DRG&W pass. cars.

Do not particularly like the short high cubes either.

Keep smiling, It looks good on you.

Long lives the "Wobbly"

James:1  Verse:5 

[MisterBeasley]

Glow-in-the-dark rolling stock?  Pickle Cars?  Why not combine them?  This one's a dilly...

 

It was a yard-sale gift from my sister, so I have to be able to run it when she shows up.  The rest of the time it's in a dark cardboard box under the layout, along with the orange Toys 'R' Us car.

Seriously, I love old roof-walk cars, and now that I'm planning to dual-era my 60's layout back to the 30's, I think I'll pick up a couple with the top-mounted, horizontally-rotating brake wheel.  Walthers has some stock cars on sale in the latest catalog.

[Anonymous]

I don't like intermodal. The wells and flats are boring. I don't care for passenger trains. I model 1978 so you can imagine the options I have. I like the 50' Airslide covered hoppers. They are the most unusual looking I have seen.

[scottychaos]

I cant stand the O-scale diesels with the "swinging pilots"..

where the pilot is seperate from the body and swings out with the trucks on curves..ugh.

probably my least-favorite thing in the entire universe of model railroading.

I also cant stand 3-rail track, and "tinplate" style layouts in general..you can tell my first layout as a kid was HO scale and not Lionel! ;)

Scot

[IRONROOSTER]

In the era that I model (WWII) I like 'em all.  Even those silly-looking Heinz pickle cars!

Tom

I love pickle cars.

Enjoy

Paul 

[conrail92]

The one thing i dislike haft too be... gondolas... although i dont hate them there my lease favorite.

[Beowulf]

I find single axle bobber cabooses very annoying during an operating session!

[hardcoalcase]

I really could do without the ones that derail!

[Brian In Arkansas]

ACK!

I was just thrown back to the AHM 99 cent sale days in the 70's

Putrid at best!

Brian 

 

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Remember those cheap HO F7's with thick, shiney chrome paint? You can include that on your list.

Or how about those rocket launcher cars?   Or glow in the dark rolling stock?

Enough of that.

[coborn35]

I don't know what they're called, but I've never been a fan of those "self-propelled" passenger cars - half Pullman, half subway engine. Yuck!

Are you referring to doodlebugs or RDCs. I would agree with you on RDCs. They don't have a lot of character. But doodlebugs are another matter. They will be serving my branchline if and when I ever get it built. RMC even has a story about converting the Bachmann doodlebug to two way operation. Doodlebugs can serve as single car passenger trains on lightly traveled branclines and can even haul a coach or two and or freight cars. Typically they had a combine configuration with passenger seats in the rear, the baggage section up front. The would handle mail and express shipments as well. I think they are one of the most interesting pieces of equipment we can run and a great choice for small layouts.

From an operating standpoint, a locomotive has nothing on them anyday! RDC's have more character than regular passenger cars if you ask me.

[Brian In Arkansas]

For some reason, the tiny ore cars look fake to me just as the 34' cars and small tank cars.

At the other end of the spectrum - those 86' flat cars and high cube box cars do not "flip my switch"

Brian

[vsmith]

Circus painted steam locomotives, by any manufacturer, any model, they simply look retarded!

Now I'm hardly a rivet counter, but no circus ever 'owned' there own custom painted locomotives, they owned their own freight and passenger cars that made up their trains but never owned any locomotives, they were always-always-always pulled by the locos of which ever road they were traveling on, just like an extra passenger train. The roads crew and conductors were in control of the train and the circus troop were just passengers.

The circus locomotive is a gimmick by manufacturers to simply sell more sets, and as such just make me cringe whenever I see them.

[GAPPLEG]

I have no idea why, but I hate tankers. Rolling Molotov cocktails if you ask me

Awww bb4884. Come on man... Tankers are among my favorites.

Tracklayer

I love tank cars , Not enough of the type I like are available though.

[AltoonaRailroader]

Thanks Jeffery that is a good idea. I told my wife that we'd have to find some kits we could use to make a small attached buidling behind it and a sign of somekind for on top, I doubt that will be too much of a chore. And since I'll be breaking it down any how maybe we'll put lights in it.

[jasperofzeal]

However, that doesn't mean I don't quesition the purpose of some of them.  For example, ore cars, with their small size, I don't see the purpose if a larger car can have more capacity than the smaller car.  I guess it has something to do with weight limitation along the lines they serve on, but still, not that I don't like them, they're just my least favorite.

The problem is really with the people, not the cars or track.  Ore is usually much denser than the lading larger hoppers are designed around: coal.  If coal hoppers were used for ore (and this has been tried) in short order the operators start filling the hoppers to the maximum volume rather than the rated load capacity, resulting in damage to the cars and track.

KL

Thank you for clarifying, makes sense and now I can see the purpose for the car in a whole new light.  They're still my least favorite, I think that they are too small compared to most other equipment, toy-like.