Your Favorite Engine
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Of all the locomotives I have? That would have to be the UP Gas Turbine 
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Who can decide!
Toss up between my 4-6-2 President Washington or this Kitbashed 2-8-4 Berkie. I chose the Berkie due to the theme of our layout(Meat Packing) and just how much this Loco can pull!:thumbsup:
Toss up between my 4-6-2 President Washington or this Kitbashed 2-8-4 Berkie. I chose the Berkie due to the theme of our layout(Meat Packing) and just how much this Loco can pull!:thumbsup:
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My favorite engine? That's like asking which one of my kids is my favorite child!!
For sheer pulling power, it's my Rivarossi 4-8-8-4 Big Boy:
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Close behind is my Bachmann Spectrum 2-10-4:
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It pulls very well, and is it will move at a crawl.
When I have the grey UP passenger cars on the rails, my Bachmann 4-8-4 Northern gets the call:
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My favorite switcher is my IHC 0-8-0:
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Union Pacific had exactly one (1) 0-8-0 switcher, and they had it, quite literally, by accident. Seems one of their 2-8-0 Consolidations got into a fender bender and had it's front pilot demolished. Rather than scrap an otherwise good engine, UP removed the pilot and turned it into a switcher. It was numbered 4500. Gonna have to renumber this engine, one of these days.
For industrial switching jobs, I turn to my Bachmann 0-6-0:
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This engine came with a solid cast on plastic coupler that was totally non functional! Why Bachmann did that to a switch engine is beyond me. My local trainstore owner put a knuckle coupler on the front for me. He did a good job, but it angles up slightly. I'm going to put a shim between the frame and the footboard assembly to bring it down a bit. Works fine as it is, though.
So, depending on the task at hand, I have a lot of favorite engines. Just like I have two favorite kids.
Hopefully, the budget will allow me to build a layout to run these on soon. Putting down EZ-track and taking it up again gets old after awhile!
For sheer pulling power, it's my Rivarossi 4-8-8-4 Big Boy:
Close behind is my Bachmann Spectrum 2-10-4:
It pulls very well, and is it will move at a crawl.
When I have the grey UP passenger cars on the rails, my Bachmann 4-8-4 Northern gets the call:
My favorite switcher is my IHC 0-8-0:
Union Pacific had exactly one (1) 0-8-0 switcher, and they had it, quite literally, by accident. Seems one of their 2-8-0 Consolidations got into a fender bender and had it's front pilot demolished. Rather than scrap an otherwise good engine, UP removed the pilot and turned it into a switcher. It was numbered 4500. Gonna have to renumber this engine, one of these days.
For industrial switching jobs, I turn to my Bachmann 0-6-0:
This engine came with a solid cast on plastic coupler that was totally non functional! Why Bachmann did that to a switch engine is beyond me. My local trainstore owner put a knuckle coupler on the front for me. He did a good job, but it angles up slightly. I'm going to put a shim between the frame and the footboard assembly to bring it down a bit. Works fine as it is, though.
So, depending on the task at hand, I have a lot of favorite engines. Just like I have two favorite kids.
Hopefully, the budget will allow me to build a layout to run these on soon. Putting down EZ-track and taking it up again gets old after awhile!
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You have very good taste Flyboy! :smokin:
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my sante fe BLue and yellow SD-40 5707
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can camras dead AGAIN
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I like the steamer's, you guy's have some cool engines.Most of mine are diesel I like this the best now I have all the cars to go with it.
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That's a cool one. I have a 0-6-0 coming in O scale and can't hardly wait till it gets here.:laugh:
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My favorite engine is my #13 4-truck shay.
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The first time I saw one was in a book from Berhard Stein of 1985 where all H0 models from around the world are listed with pics.
There was a Westside brass 4-truck shay in it and I said to myself, that one day I'll have one of these. As I was unable to get a Westside one for a good price I made one myself by converting a 3-truck shay from Bachmann into a 4-truck shay.
Now I wouldn't give away my version anymore.
So, one of the child-dreams got real.
The first time I saw one was in a book from Berhard Stein of 1985 where all H0 models from around the world are listed with pics.
There was a Westside brass 4-truck shay in it and I said to myself, that one day I'll have one of these. As I was unable to get a Westside one for a good price I made one myself by converting a 3-truck shay from Bachmann into a 4-truck shay.
Now I wouldn't give away my version anymore.
So, one of the child-dreams got real.
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That's cool! I've never seen a 4 truck Shay before. I didn't even know they existed. Ya lives, ya learns!
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Athern two powered centers a dummy I have 2 more A's one powered the other is getting a motor. I have the power trucks just need the right motor.
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