Are You a Steam or Diesel Person?

Steam. I can see diesels in real life easily, steam not so much.

that is like asking, "Who is you favorite child?".

Steam has precedence, then electric locomotives and last are first generation diesels on my railroad. Second generation and subsequent diesels all look to be the same boxes on wheels to me.

Firewood - It appears Dr. Frankenstein got into the locomotive business!!

I would have to say steam in full scale but, in S gauge now with all the TMCC and Legacy they run neck and neck. I love them both but like Train Room Gary I am toy train.

Ray

Steam is were its at no matter the scale, real or model

I'm really groovin' on that Cummins Ten Wheeler !

Steam for sure! I would tolerate an old ALCo though... They were often smokers, and had a distinct chugging sound, but nothing can compare to the sight, sound, smell, power of an "almost alive" steam locomotive...

Not to hijack the thread, but I have ZERO photoshop skills, . The Swiss steam electrics were adapted to cheap hydro power vs. expensive imported coal. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ric-steam_locomotive

 

There were a lot of old 10-wheelers with the firebox-fitting gap between the two rear axles, not just Sierra #3. Connecting a diesel mechanical transmission to a steam chassis would be no big deal to a good master mechanic. Somewhere out west there was a Shay converted to a diesel center-cab. Is that a Shay-sel?

 

Then there was this one - 4 steam cylinders, 4 diesel cylinders. 

http://www.douglas-self.com/MU.../kitson/kitsonst.htm

 

But yeah, I agree......big trucks on rails.

Although I like steam and have a Milwaukee 261 and a CBQ O5 i probably like diesel the best. I prefer 1st and 2 generation and usually EMD.

 

Dick

Here 'tis:

Then there's this:

And finally, the ex-CPR 0-6-0 converted to diesel operation by Calgary's Heritiage Park when they were first starting out:

 

Rusty

The fellows behind converting Shays, Heislers, and ten-wheelers to internal cumbustion should be on trial at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, for crimes against humanity!

That's it!   My trusty, crusty Rivarossi Heisler is going into the shop for conversion.  She will come out with the hood from an Alco S1 filling in where the boiler used to be and the cylinders will go by the board.  Modernize the lights and we'll be unleashing the first " Heisel".   Dynamic brakes may not be available on this chooch !

Didn't say you photoshopped it...someone did!

 

That's definitely Sierra No. 3.

I seriously doubt it's #3 Photoshopped, the angles, shadows, details and textures are too consistent.  If it is a Photoshop job, someone went though a lot of trouble for no reward.

 

Who knows what evils lie in the backwoods railroads of America?

 

Rusty

Maybe so. I can't find any photos of No. 3 with spoked pilot wheels.

I would agree with you, Rusty. The finish is too consistent. Also, the mechanical layout looks consistent too. The engine is connected to a transmission of sorts, with a logically-placed control stand beside it (probably needing massive upper body strength to operate), and the final gearing looks like somebody raided a steam turbine plant or mine machinery for the reduction gears. The backwoods machine shop would have been able to manufacture a suitable axle for the final drive and shrink the wheels back on. I wonder if it ever had a cab?

Notice I have expressed no steam or diesel preference with this monstrosity.

Steam of course!   

 

 

 

 

I can't wait 'till the WMSR brings in 1309, that'll be really cool.

I like really like both, but if I had to pick just one, I'd go with steam.