You favorite type of steam engine

[canazar]

Any Cab Forward and the Pennsy's T-1. One is just ugly brute, the other, lines ahead of her time.

[CANADIANPACIFIC2816]

My favorite steam locomotives include the following; the Burlington Route's O-5 class 4-8-4, the S-4 class 4-6-4 from the same road, and the Burlington's M-4 class 2-10-4, all of which were sadly scrapped. I also have a warm spot in my heart for just about anything when it comes to the steam power of the Canadian Pacific Railway. I have gotten pictures of the Southern Pacific G-S 4 #4449 when she was in her American Freedom Train dress, and she is a beautiful machine no matter what paint scheme she is wearing.

I have never seen the two U.P. steamers, 844 and 3985 up close, but I hope that I will eventually get the opportunity to photograph them, and same goes for Milwaukee #261.

Two of my favorite operational locomotives are right here in South Dakota on the Black Hills Central Railroad in the Black Hills; #104, a 2-6-2T, originally built by Baldwin for a logging road, and #110, a 2-6+6-2T, originally built by Baldwin for Weyerhauser Lumber. This is the only steam locomotive of it's type and wheel arrangement in operation anywhere in North America.

I also think that we are extremely fortunate to have a large number of narrow gauge, K-36 and K-28 class locomotives in service on both the Durango & Silverton and the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.

And If I had the chance to see any really BIG articulated steam locomotive restored to operating condition, it would be either a C&0 H8 2-6-6-6, or a DM&IR M-3 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone.

CANADIANPACIFIC2816

[Anonymous]

My late steam era favorite would be 4 - 8 - 4s. My early steam favorite would be the 4 - 4 - 0s.