Does anyone have a FAVORITE O gauge diesel or steam and small electric switchers ?

If someone would make this loco I would call it my favorite, Milwaukee SDL39.

Dick

For me the Fairbanks Morse H10-44.  As pictured here in the forefront.

Ron

Glad you got your engine fixed Tiffany. I'm happy for you! 

CBQer posted:

If someone would make this loco I would call it my favorite, Milwaukee SDL39.

Dick

Hello Dick

is the SDL-39 a short wheel base 6 axle road diesel ? Perhaps you can start with a Lionel SD-18 shell and use mth motors and trucks,and electronics, make home made 1/64 or thicker brass frame for it, using a thick frame for weight so it can pull good size train. Use a GP-9 short fuel tank too.  Just a thought.

Tiffany

chessie1971 posted:

Glad you got your engine fixed Tiffany. I'm happy for you! 

Chessie1971........

Thank you, I am really happy with it now. It is a great little engine !!!

Tiffany

Williams U33C

My 1988 Williams Chessie System Train Master.

I really like the Lionel NYC S-1. Its a fugly little grunt of a locomotive. But it has a great whistle / horn and looks like no other!

For me, it's always hard to pick a favorite piece. I like all of my trains, otherwise I wouldn't have them .

In the small switcher category, I guess I'd have to pick the Postwar Lionel #51 Navy Yard switcher. I just like it's appearance, and the way that it runs. Yes they are noisy, but I don't mind.

Many of the used ones that have passed through my hands needed to have the worm wheel (gear) replaced. They tend to strip their teeth.

On my last layout I tried to run all my engines.  All the engines ran well (after some to a lot of tinkering), but when I wanted to do some switching my go to engine at that time was a RailKing Scale VO-1000.  Good slow speed performance and the couplers worked well (I have to hand it to MTH here, I believe at that time their couplers worked better than Lionel's).

I've since purchased several more engines that have only been test run because I don't have an operating layout.  Maybe my favorite engine is just waiting to be discovered (those Legacy engines look like they will be really nice).

Your welcome Tiffany!

I couldn't pick any one item as 'favorite' because variety is what makes them interesting to me.

What is my favorite one day, is superseded by another on a different day!

CAPPilot posted:

On my last layout I tried to run all my engines.  All the engines ran well (after some to a lot of tinkering), but when I wanted to do some switching my go to engine at that time was a RailKing Scale VO-1000.  Good slow speed performance and the couplers worked well (I have to hand it to MTH here, I believe at that time their couplers worked better than Lionel's).

I've since purchased several more engines that have only been test run because I don't have an operating layout.  Maybe my favorite engine is just waiting to be discovered (those Legacy engines look like they will be really nice).

I'm with you on the VO-1000, a great runner and my main engine for pulling consists slowly around the layout.   I have the Great Northern version (really like the color scheme), and the GN ran a couple of hundred miles south of my location many years ago, so it has relevance for me.

http://mthtrains.com/30-2752-1

Now if we talk Electrics!

Then there are these.

Better stop there!

Ron

True CW! I like all my engines!  

   I like all switchers in general, more so than regular road power.  Forced to make a choice, then I go right along with Ron. 

Bruce

My favorite locomotive is my latest purchase, the Weaver scale Boston & Maine 4-6-2 Pacific type steamer based upon the locomotive currently being brought back to usability at Steamtown in Pennsylvania.

My favorite switcher is my Lionel Legacy Pennsylvania B6.  It has great detail, sound, smoke and slow speed operation.

J Daddy posted:

I really like the Lionel NYC S-1. Its a fugly little grunt of a locomotive. But it has a great whistle / horn and looks like no other!

I'll second that motion, JDaddy.  The Lionel S1 is absolutely unique!  And so is its horn -- it sounds like a tugboat.

My current favorite is my Lionel GP30...or my heavly modded atlas SD35....man its a hard choice.

I like all switchers!  If one switcher inches out as tops for me, it would be the EMD  BL-2. Interesting design IMHO and most of the paint schemes for this locomotive are great!   I own a MTH Premier BL-2 in Western Maryland livery ( black )  ... which in my opinion is an ugly livery, however, since I partially model Western Maryland and they owned two BL-2 locos, I have one..... good runner especially at slow speeds. 

I'd like to see one of the manufactures make an Alco Hammerhead diesel switcher.  That would be cool!

lots of great switchers here each week.join in!

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Steamer posted:

lots of great switchers here each week.join in!

 

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Switchers?  Somebody say Switchers????

Favorite?  I unfortunately go back & forth all the time, though I seem to favor steam vs. diesel a little bit...

I also have a RailKing NW2 but in Seaboard Air Line Red and black:

but my favorite is my Railking Imperial USRA 0-6-0:

It ran nice and slow with PS2 and runs the same way using BPRC, very good gearing MTH

I have a PS2 MTH VO1000 that rates as very good across the board. Good puller, sounds, and slow speed operation.

Tiffany posted:

CBQer posted:

If someone would make this loco I would call it my favorite, Milwaukee SDL39.

Dick

Hello Dick

is the SDL-39 a short wheel base 6 axle road diesel ? Perhaps you can start with a Lionel SD-18 shell and use mth motors and trucks,and electronics, make home made 1/64 or thicker brass frame for it, using a thick frame for weight so it can pull good size train. Use a GP-9 short fuel tank too.  Just a thought.

 

Tiffany

The only proble has to do with the wheel sets as they are not equidistant.The inside wheel pair is about a foot longer than the lead and middle set. I have custom  made side frames but the gentleman who was going to build the trucks died last year. 

Dick

Mine would be the Lionchief NW2. I have the Burlington Northern, which in real life was the rebuild of the first produced when they were known as TR2. As for none steam engines it is in real life one of my favorites.

This was a $100.00 dollar loco from York.  I gutted it and put in a rebuilt PS2 board from GGG and used wiring I had on hand.  Speaker is MTH and an exact fit into the fuel tank.  LED headlight and backup worked off the board.  LED strobe on cab roof powered from the board.  LED markers from track power as well as operating couplers.

This is mine

Tiffany,

     My favorite switcher and possibly locomotive would be the Lionel Legacy  B6, great sound, smoke, whistle and can run at speed step 1 all day. Here is a video that was previously posted but no harm posting again:

JohnB

JohnB posted:

Tiffany,

     My favorite switcher and possibly locomotive would be the Lionel Legacy  B6, great sound, smoke, whistle and can run at speed step 1 all day. Here is a video that was previously posted but no harm posting again:

 

 

JohnB

Hello JOHN B

LOVED your video !!! I am Military buff too (WWll, Europe) as I have uncle that did the hard fighting ( pushing Nazis out of France into Germany in Dec 1944, 1945).  My other uncle was prime minstier of England at that time too and we all hated Hitler (still do to this day)

Tiffany

My favorites are Lionel's Pennsy prewar steam switchers. Why? Back in their day, they represented the technology of their time, they had a decent level of detail, they were made in the USA and the craftsmanship was excellent like a fine German watch. Most of my locomotives are 77ish years old and properly maintained can go another 80-100 years, easily. What's not to love? 

Tom 

My Texas & Pacific 0-6-0 and my Western Pacific VO-1000.  Matt

One of my favorites is this Lionel PRR 0-4-0 switcher. Although it is a conventionally powered engine it has the overall look of the classic A-5.

I'm kind of partial to this little engine that I finished off a few weeks ago....

Tiffany posted:

JohnB posted:

Tiffany,

     My favorite switcher and possibly locomotive would be the Lionel Legacy  B6, great sound, smoke, whistle and can run at speed step 1 all day. Here is a video that was previously posted but no harm posting again:

 

 

JohnB

Hello JOHN B

LOVED your video !!! I am Military buff too (WWll, Europe) as I have uncle that did the hard fighting ( pushing Nazis out of France into Germany in Dec 1944, 1945).  My other uncle was prime minstier of England at that time too and we all hated Hitler (still do to this day)

Tiffany

Tiffany,

    If you liked the B6 video you will enjoy the full train video:

  My father served with Patton from Normandy to the end of WWII. My Military Train was a way of honoring his memory. He passed away in 1970.

JohnB

pro hobby posted:

One of my favorites is this Lionel PRR 0-4-0 switcher. Although it is a conventionally powered engine it has the overall look of the classic A-5.

Pro Hobby,

It is a nice one!  I have the K-Line TMCC version, and love it!

On the Glacier Line:  My (John) favorite is my MTH PS3 GN #192 steam switcher.  Chris' favorite is his: MT VO 1000 GN switcher and Gregg's future favorite will be a GE 44 Ton Switcher custom painted into Great Northern traditional (Glacier Green and Omaha Orange) colors.

Still waiting on a PS3 version....wish MTH would make all their rolling stock available completely UNDECORATED as an option.  I personally, face-to-face, requested that to Mr. Mike Wolfe.