Classic: SD40T-2 (Snoot Nose) - Sorry I'm an SP boy :)
Contemporary: SD70ACe
Hi!
Lots of answers here, and I suspect one's age plays a big part in the choice..........
While I like pretty much all of the first generation EMDs, my choice would be an E unit - probably an E7 or so.
As a kid I watched them fly thru southern Illinois, while sitting on my Grandmother's porch in Anna. The speed limit there - as I understand - was 100 mph, and the City of New Orleans and Panama Limited would likely be pegging that mark.
WOW!
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
I may have posted this before, but here goes again, a three-way tie:
The E-5 for stainless steel good looks, the GP-7 because I got to run B&M 1567 and 1568, and the GP-9. because I made a small construbtion to its design.
E3
http://www.railwayclassics.com/images/MP01/E3%207000%20Color%20Art.jpg
'Nuff said.
The F7, probably because of the multitude of ads showing the F7 pulling the Super Chief when I was a kid.
- Harry
Let me add to my list the EMD E9.
BN Coal Train III Three Burlington Northern SD40-2's on the point of a 110 car unit coal train, headed through East Dubuque, Illinois, with a green, wide-vision caboose on the end.
Three Burlington Northern SD40-2's on the point of a 110 car unit coal train, headed through East Dubuque, Illinois, with a green, wide-vision caboose on the end.
For me, it would be awesome if there were a 110 car coal train with two SD80MAC's on the point, two SD40-2's in the middle and one SD70ACE on the end.
SD70M
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Top three have to be:
1. the SD45 non -2. With 20 cylanders it was the push for superpower.
2. the one off (sorta) SD75I for Santa Fe. I have a soft spot for locomotive one offs like the GP60M but that model has bad ride montra. And the &%I looked AWESOME in Warbonnet livery.
3. the SD9. Cadilliac says it all.
The EMD SD70ACE, the EMD SD80MAC, The EMD SD90MAC and the SD40-2.
It would HAVE to be the SD70ACe, the modern era SD40-2 and GP9.
I'm also a fan of the F40PH.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
That would be the GP-9, then GP-18 and following up with GP-7
None of the above.
(Kind of like asking, `Who's your favorite enemy general.')
Incidentally, why was this dredged out of the landfill? Look at the post dates!
Chuck
B&O EMD E8 or E9 (in solid blue with yellow 'B&O', early 60's scheme) racing through Kensington, MD with the Shenandoah or Capitol Limited!
SD70ACe!!!!!
This topic needs a poll so you can see a bar chart of all the loco's listed and which bars are the longest. Otherwise it's hard to tell what is most popular.
For me its a hard choice, I can't make up my mind so I'll break it up by era when the EMD loco was being manufactured:
1950's: F7
1960's: SD45
1970's: SD40T-2
1980's: SD50
1990's: GP60
Thats it for me.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
For some reason, I love the SW-1500's for the sound, and she SW-1's because it was the first locomotive I got to get up on!
Clyde Engineering's AT26C. CL Class locomotive. Maroon and Silver livery. Beautiful, majestic locomotive. By far my favourite Australian built loco.
expanding to my list.
UP SD70ACEs
NS SD70M-2s
all SD70s
UP SD70Ms (yes, even 5177)
CNW anything
all SD60s
all SD50s
CR SD80MACs
i could go on and on and on. there's not much with trains i DONT like. and the stuff i dont like i made too obvious anyway.
Your friendly neighborhood CNW fan.
My two favorite EMD locomotives are:
1. SD40-2. Well-built, very reliable and every major Class I railroad bought them in huge quantities. The railroads preferred the SD40-2 over the SD45 series because EMD had a lot of trouble with the 16-cylinder 645-series engine early on and also the SD40-2 used a lot less fuel than the SD45, too.
2. GP7. Also well-built and very reliable, the GP7 was very difficult to damage the traction motors and this was the locomotive--NOT the F-series "covered wagons"--that finally made the railroads phase out steam power on a large scale.
1: SD70MAC
2: SD45
3: SD40-2
4: GP30
5: E-9
6: SD80MAC
7: SD60M
8: SD70M
9: SW1500
10: GP38-2
What *list*? I didn't see a list anywhere.
My favorite: SD45.
2nd: SD9 or SD24 - depends on which one I can get. Highnose, bell on the nose, C&O-style. :) But those new SD70M-2's with the SD45-style radiators are moving up my list...
Adam
you are right on track. sd40
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you are on the right track. SD40 2 is my favorite to. from jeanjaio. 08/06/06.
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