let it go

[Bergie]

I hate to quote myself, but...

Here's what I posted within the Trains.com home page poll thread for favorite modern locomotive. What do you guys think of the march madness idea?

Erik

QUOTE: Originally posted by Bergie

With all the F-unit, GP30, F45, and ALCO chatter, I guess I need to define modern next time. [:D]

I wish I could list every diesel locomotive ever made so we can crown a true champion. Maybe in March we can have a braket just like the NCAA men's basketball tournament. It'll be our own March Madness. Each day we could have a two locomotives going head-to-head in voting, with the winner moving on to the next round. With a bracket of 64 (like the NCAA tourney), we'd have 32 days of voting. We could do only a 32-locomotive bracket, but we'd have to leave out some beloved odd-ball locomotives (CF7, BL20-2, etc.) that might very well pull an upset. What do you think?

Erik

[eolafan]

As far as this foamer is conerned, any running engine (and some that aren't running) is a good engine, regardless of who made it.

[Anonymous]

I still Vote Thomas the Tank Engine, After wathcing the little Engine that could movie, i find it impossible that it could have made it up that around 100% Grade, so i Vote Thomas the Tank Engine

P.S. limited clear: GE... ALL THE WAY!

[Mookie]

If you guys are going to get rid of a topic, you have to think up a really cool one to take it's place! And if it causes a little controversy - so much the better!

Mook

[Anonymous]

GEs are J-U-N-K

LC

[Anonymous]

Hi. I couldn't resist putting your "favorite topic" to the top!!! Now is't below this one! Should have waited a few more days, and it might have fallen of the page.
Still LoL!!! Tim from Wisconsin

[Anonymous]

What we have here is the railroading equivalent of two tribes going to war. Racecar enthusiasts can do it week and and week out when GM and Ford do battle on the race tracks of America - and Australia and New Zealand. Last Sunday I attended the annual GM versus Ford battle when the Aussie Touring Car circus came to New Zealand, along with 80,000 other fans -total population of NZ is 3 million. We all dressed up in our Holden (GM) or Ford gear and for a day played out our battles against our friends and work colleagues as the cars thundered around the track. Then at the end of the day we all went home happy and we put our Holden or Ford corporate gear back into the cupboards for another year. By the way, the overall winner was our local Holden driver. And along the back straight of the racetrack was the main railwayline between New Zealand's largest cities, with a steady parade of trains pulled by - GM and GE locomotives.

[wabash1]

ok how about a emd -vs -ge battle. on second thought it wouldnt work it takes 2 ge to do the work of 1 emd they already pulled up short.

[eolafan]

GREAT IDEA, BUDDY, LET'S START THIS RIGHT NOW. I COMMIT TO NOT CONTINUING THIS DISCUSSION, ANYBODY ELSE?

[dknelson]

Baldwin-Lima-Hamiltons Rule! (lol)
Dave Nelson

[csxengineer98]

can we please let the GE-vs-EMD battle die already.