Confess....what is your railroad fetish!!!

Big Milwaukee Electrics!!!!!!!!!!Don

Funny the names in your post match a similar incident on my layout.

Im a Pennsylvania fan. Not just the PRR but Lackawanna, Erie, Penn Central and pretty much all PA Railroads. Actually Lackawanna is my favorite.

I was at my LHS last year and on display was a Legacy Wabash Train Master. I feel in love with it. I'm not sure if it was the name, color, over all look or the great horn sound.

I bought it.

Its not always on my layout but it makes an appearance quite often.

No matter how dedicated or specific you are with your fetishes, there's always something lurking out there that changes the rules and you go for it. 

Flushing the toilet in the station!!

Seriously, since I rode it as a kid, the Great Northern Empire Builder!

Union Pacific steam era.  Love Challengers and Big Boys pulling coal/reefer cars!

I'm with you Don! I have the Bi-Polar 1919 version and the 1950's Little Joe that was the passenger EF4. I have the 1960's 70's freight EF4 that I plan on running with my SD45s! 

I'm  waiting for Panagos from the National Capital Trackers to pop up and talk about his fetish for fantasy scheme RK hoppers...especially this horrific B & O one! 

http://www.mthtrains.com/content/30-75426

That boy needs counseling!! 

'Nuff said!

Tom

European electrics...I don't know how I got there from diesels. Terry

Penn Central was always a guilty pleasure, and after reading Al Staufer's Thoroughbreds I became a New York Central addict. There will also always be an attraction to big UP steam and the SP Daylight.

I can't seem to say no to a good looking caboose...have way more than I need In roadnames I don't have engines for. I may build a caboose motel on the layout one day.

And I understand how the first line sounds

Mine is Chessie coal trains.  Brings back memories for me when I would watch the real thing.  Amazingly, I don't have any Chessie equipment on our layout.  My son bought me a Chessie caboose which is proudly displayed in our case.  I always find myself acquiring what my son and daughter like to run.  I will get some nice engines some day though.

Mine has to be the Warbonnet:

Laidoffsick,

The Santa Fe color scheme has got to be THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, if not, than ONE of THE MOST BEAUTIFUL.

Very Futuristic, Modernistic!!!!!!!

Ralph

I'm a closet UP guy...

Maine Central.......still learning about it..

I have two: Southern Pacific from the late 60s onward (the local trains from when I was growing up) and British prototypes of almost any era.

My little O gauge collection is pretty limited, but apart from the Polar Express/Polar Railroad stuff posted elsewhere around here, most of my collection is SP (and Cotton Belt) boxcars and such. I prefer diesels of the GP/RS/SD variety. They're not very pretty, but I just love them.

I'm not sure where my love of British prototypes comes from, but I have a bunch of locomotives and rolling stock in N and OO. Love the look of their steam equipment, especially smaller locos like the 57xx.

Fred

Any  O gauge toy train that smokes, and smokes at lot, and the electronic controls. Regular or tin since either will do.

I asked my wife what she thought my fetish was and she came up with Atlas Gunderson sets. That was pretty close. Any modern intermodal will do, but more specifically containers. Atlas, MTH, K-line and the scale Lionel ones in particular, though the Weavers aren't bad either.

I'm so bad, that when I'm driving, I call them out and say "got it" or "need it".

Mine has to be operating cars and accessories. Mostly Lionel followed by K-Line then MTH. And it was all started many years ago by my dad's Lionel milk car set.

Now it would be great for me if they would start making only static trains, ones that don't operate.

I just satisfied one at Christmas. 

For years, I have liked a T.J. Donohue photo that appears in one of Don Ball's early books.  The photo was of an Erie freight train, pulled by an A-B-B-A set of F-3's, rolling westbound at sunset past MQ tower in Campbell Hall, NY.  I loved the way the Erie engines looked in that photo and for years have wanted a set of Erie F-3's.

WBB and Santa Claus finally made that long time wish come true at Christmas! 

Now, I have to find something else to obsess on...

Curt

Intermodal containers….E-8 units….8k tank cars (the "beer cans")

- Mike

Scale N&W Steam. As a side bar, coal fired turbines.

Gilly

The activity to which I am irrationally devoted to is searching all the on-line toy train vendors sights, making lists of "great deals", and ordering trains and accessories that I really do not "need" but which I "want" even though I have an "inventory" that rivals what some hobby shops have. Although I know that this fetish is "abnormal" I try to convince myself otherwise by frequenting on-line forums where others have the same affliction. This creates an illusionary world for me where I pretend this activity is socially acceptable.

Paul Goodness

Southwest Colorado Narrow Guage, in prototype.  In three rail, modeling branch

lines and their rolling stock, cabooses, tea kettle locos, gas electrics, rail cars,

and mixed trains.

My favorite loco when I was young was my HO scale Model Power 0-4-0 dockside switcher. I now have Rivarossi and Varney versions of that loco. Maybe someday I'll build a small layout for them.

In O scale, I have a soft spot for small, inexpensive locos. I also find it hard to resist a basket case loco and the challenges a restoration brings.

Anything NKP gets me excited.

Nostalgia triggered by toy trains may be fetish in itself (mystical feelings associated with inanimate objects).

IDM Industrial Rail freight cars "PRE ATLAS"

These kept me in the hobby with my limited funds.

I bought them on clearance and at shows cheap

I JUST LOVE THOSE BLUE BOX BEAUTIES!

Early diesel. I suspect that I am not alone.

Elephant Ears, I love em!

Watching the side rod action on steam locomotives! I can watch movies of NYC 0-8-0s switching sidings for hours. Sometimes do

Spent most of my life in northern & central N.J. but when I moved out here to Cape Cod,  my interest became railroads of the northeast and New England (not to include Connecticut and the New Haven. Mainly it has centered on the Maine Central due to color scheme, being a pretty efficient operation (until Guilford) and running lots of operations with smaller train consists. On the other hand, and I can't explain why, I have an aversion towards the UP and Santa FE.

That could have ended badly...... 

From the Mirriam-Webster online dictionary:

Let's face it, the whole toy train/model railroading (if you insist) hobby is a fetish, if you go by #1 and/or #3.  Personally, #2 does not apply as far as the trains are concerned!

Pete

MUEagle,

    Mine is O Guage Tin Plate trains run on FasTrack, I am about to add low voltage Command Control Switches & TMCC to my DCS package, for my next layout.

PCRR/Dave

My fethish is Demonstrator models and unique paint scheme trains that roamed the country [usually demo models in themselves as well].

such as

• GM Train of tomorrow
• 4 aces
• Lima #1, etc.

Rio Grand Western

With a touch of Big Steam UP, Gotta Love the Big Boy !

Though I have only two O-gauge cabeese I have four books on caboose history and caboose life. I enjoy the real life stories. While at a local train show I picked up a kit bashed USA G-gauge long caboose made into a 4 axle bobber to run at the end of my Uintah #50, pulling gilsonite loaded flat cars. I added decals to make it Uintah.

Steam era Long Island Rail Road trains. Eastern US named passenger trains. Oh! I like trolley and interurban cars too. Oh! I also like steam engines and electric engines. Hmmmm. This could go on and on, but the above are my top fetishes.