Guys when it comes to motive power do you have diesel or steam?

Mostly steam since that's the era I model and the trains I most marvel of.

ogaugeguy posted:

Mostly steam since that's the era I model and the trains I most marvel of.

Very cool choice.

Both.

Steam, diesel and electric - I'm not fussy.

Both, but more Steam but trying to even it out

I'm pretty sure I have an A5 at one end, and a 4000 at the other. Plus a few Berks, a Hudson and  Northern in-between.

But mostly diesel, with a significant showing by electrics. Even some traction.

---PCJ

My railroad is all about diesel. I have a few steam engines, but they just pull excursion trains. I wasn't around for the steam era, so it really shouldn't come as much of a shock. Even as a kid, I didn't like my Lionel steam engines. They were always derailing. Too complicated, too many moving parts and no nostalgic value. The perfect storm.

Only diesels in my fleet. I can see why steam is so appealing with it being so intricate, but a millennial I just can't relate to it. The only steam engines I saw growing up was Thomas on VHS and that hardly counts for anything. I do have a super back burner low priority task where I might get a VL Big Boy later on but that's only because UP is restoring the 4014 and will pull the excursion cars with it, but it's something I can live without with no regrets.

On the other hand, the layout I'm helping build is all about steam and passengers and conventional. 100% opposite of me, but it's still fun working on it despite the difference in taste and age. We get good laughs debating the superiority of the two types of motive powers. 

80% diesel.  12% electric.  7% steam.

1% TurboTrain (requires mules to pull them)

I don't have too many, but it is about half and half, with one electric thrown in to keep it interesting. The next one, if I can find it, will be steam.

80% Diesel.  20% Electric on the main layout.   The MPC 2-4-0 and Polar Express only get run around the tree in December.   Steam was before my time.    

All steam for now.  I do have a project to convert a MTH PS1 F3 ABA to PS3 with fixed pilots and the like but I'm a long way off from getting that project done but that will be my only diesel and I have no desires for any more.

Yes.

Rusty

Yes - and electrics (GG1for example)

Steam on layout, with even a steam coach almost completed, but a fleet of gas electrics and rail buses. Do have a couple of diesel sets, as historical collectibles.

I'm too young to have seen steam in mainline service, BUT:  I won't allow a diseasel on my layout except for right around Christmas, and then only because my first Lionel was an Alco FA.  I see diseasels everyday:  they are ugly and boring, and therefore I want little to do with them.  I model the first part of the 20th century in an area where no one had yet insulted the rails and the scenery with them.

I have both. I run both on my layout. Even though I was born too late to see mainline steam, I have seen a lot of them in the various excursion programs, so I have had some experience with them.

Steam, electrics and first generation diesel. I model the Pennsylvania Railroad.

If it will pull cars its for me. Steam and Diesel share the line. All 027 curves so its switchers and small road switchers. Couple of ALCOs and a post war 2-6-4 out of the shot too.

Since I model the Penn Central there are no steam locomotives.  Only first and second generation diesels.  No new stuff either.

Tom

YES.......

Steam, diesel, electric and turbine. 

From 1800's early steam...

to modern diesels......

I like them all........

I've been fascinated since I was a kid by the thought that those massive machines were powered by fire. So only steam for me.

Tom Densel posted:

Since I model the Penn Central there are no steam locomotives.  ...

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Tom McGriel posted:

I've been fascinated since I was a kid by the thought that those massive machines were powered by fire. ...

steam is the thing... over 3 tons being moved by a volume about the size of a soda can...

I buy and run whatever engines/rolling stock that I like the looks of.  Most of them i have never seen in real life.  But to me they are toys to have fun with.  I like GG-1s, diesels, and steam.  I dont care much for box cab electrics, most switchers, and most motorized units.  Also, to much delicate detail on engines makes them a pain to handle and easy to break.

I don't model cause I have never found the correct granular scale of dirt to use.  

I don't weather anything cause I want it to stay looking nice.

When I need to see something weathered I step outside and look at my car.

I model the Western Maryland during the transition era so you'll find both steam and diesel on my layout.  Because the Pennsy ran close to my house I saw GG1's daily so to honor them they share the WM tracks.

Steam! I love steam with all the moving mechanisms, but also those beautiful diesel streamline passenger sets, diesel switchers, electrics are great, gas electric is wonderful, from any era. I guess if it has flanges on the wheels I would run it.

Ray

Yes!  Both.

Almost all diesel, love the different colors. Only have one steam, a MTH y6 just to have one.

Both

My layout's time frame is 1949, in the middle of the transition period.  Basically, I buy whatever the PRR had on the rails at that time. So I have about the same number of steam and diesel engines, with a few electrics. 

99.5% steam. I have one electric to pull some prewar American Flyer passenger cars, but other than that all my O gauge is steam. Even the one turbine loco I have is a steamer (Lionel 2020). Born in '63 so I have never seen steam on the mainlines, just in tourist duty. Plus there aren't too many prewar tinplate diesels, but someday I will probably pick up a Marx tin diesel or two.

I've always been fascinated by steam power, be it tractors (traction engines), Stanley Steamers and other steam cars and anything else powered by steam.

Currently all diesels.

The majority I have are modern diesels with only one , an MTH 3 truck Shay, being steam.

Larry

artyoung posted:

Steam, diesel and electric - I'm not fussy.

Same here. I like them all.

My primary interest is still the 'transition' era but I appreciate some of the modern large diesels too - the Santa Fe AC6000 is a favorite. Personally don't particularly care for the SD70's for some reason, purely aesthetic however. I like all PAs, F units, E series, and some of the variants as well as the DL109/110 and the RF16 Sharks. Some early road diesels and switchers too.

Steam overall is my favorite although I only have a few at present - NYC Hudson, MR S3 #261, Allegheny 2-6-6-6, N&W 611, and two early Lionel Generals plus a MTH 10-Wheeler so my diesels currently outnumber my steam.

Just received a beautiful Green JLC 5 stripe GG1 to pull my Williams 5 stripe 'Blackjack' dummy as a double header which is my sole electric locomotive.

Love 'em all!

Both. My first Lionels were F-units, which were in use on the RRs when I was a kid, and I grew up when steam was still in general use in Chicago, so I grew to love them, also. I never had model steam locos as a kid, although my best friend did, so I ran those. We lived on the same block, and used to cart our trains back and forth to each other's layouts.

I like steam best, but I do have a few first generation diesels.  

I run both on my layout.  I would run more steam, but steam locomotives tend to be more expensive that diesel locomotives.