if you were an engine...

I would be a Lionel Reading Consolidation, and those Arttista Chicks from another thread would be piloting me!

How very OMAX/VOX this thread is... 

I would like to be a streamlined express passenger locomotive from the golden years of steam.  But them reality steps in and reminds me that I would be at best a well worn branch line tank engine, and with the years on my pipes and boiler, probably due for the scrapyard shortly.  As for a crew, well, anyone who has the skill and the patience to get this old boiler's steam up with a nice even fire will do. 

If I were an engine ?

Anything on Nicole's layout....

I see the way she takes care of her engines,

what a life that would be..

 

Ah, so many magnificent models to choose from; with many ultra cool features.

 

GE 4400hp prime movers, are mean soundings machines... that would suit me fine, voice-wise.

 

Maybe, an older GE masterpiece, with a sound all it's own, a massive turbine... a GETL.

 

My EMD side - might prefer a flat black, long-hood forward, menacing, SD45 low rider.

 

I'll let you pick the crew.

 

 

Rick

 

 

 

I'd have to be the beautiful Pere Marquette 1225.  When I swap tenders to Polar Express, those crazy guys in the movie can have the controls.

 

 

I'd want to be Reading T-1 2124

 

For engineer and fireman, I'd want Nicole and Tiffany.

 

I'd like to have Rich and Hotwater and Reading Steam Guru in the cab to help keep me running well.

 

My wife, Beverly, would probably make a good conductor. I wish I could have steered her to the Reading & Northern or maybe to the Norfolk Southern. She knows what she's doing and she can boss people around when circumstances warrant.

 

I'd want Marty Fitzhenry on my crew as well. After a hard day he could tell me about his layout and what Ralph has been up to lately.

 

Given all the fuss about Big Boy 4014, the icing on the cake would be hearing that the NS had contacted Steamtown about restoring me for the steam program. As rumors flew on the Forum, somebody posts that the Reading & Northern was ALSO planning to restore me to drum up some excitement among customers and shippers with restored Jersey Central 0-6-0 113 at Minersville, PA - two anthracite road iron horses in harness again! We'd have the NS and the R&N and Steamtown and assorted Forumites all firing foamer fireworks. I'd hope that some guys would set up a laptop near me to keep up with the latest developments.

 

Rich would probably long for the days when his biggest headache had been someone posting l****p  once too often.

kind of a dumb question, but "Big Boy"?  Sure as heck wouldn't want to be a Switcher....

I would be in the repair shop.....bad wheelss....

I would want to be a fast sleek streamliner, covering lots of mileage every day.

 

 

Other trains would take the sidings to let me speed past.

chinatrain99,

 

Great response; I laughed at that.

 

BTW, a SD60M, the first 710 wide-cab models, really appeal to me... I think I'd make a great SD60M.

 

 

Rick

Ace,

 

The silver knight.

 

 

Rick

A Pennsy GG1.  Beautiful from any angle, sleek, powerful, massive, efficient.  Can easily wear many different looks.  Impressive coming or going.

While it wouldbe nice to be a mainline speed demon or a nicely decorated passenger puller, I'd have to go with being a yard engine-- specifically Florida East Coast 0-8-0 # 253--- the ONLY surviving FEC steam engine. This way, I get to see everything coming and going, even if I don't really go anywhere.

Easy!

NYC Niagara pulling the Twentieth Century Limited back and forth from Harmon to Chicago.

Crew, those Artista figures from the other thread. I don't mind that their hats don't fit. Lol!!

Mike R

Speaking of the 253... Any word on that engine lately?

Wish one of FEC's 4-8-2's had survived. Seeing one run at speed on the "Speedway" would be a thrill!

What?

Yet again, Killian shows that he is a gentleman with style and exquisite taste. 

I was thinking more like how Barbara Walterish it is!

That being said, as for a real train the Southern Pacific 4449 and as for a model train I'd probably go with Lionels 675, no matter how old and banged up I just keep keeping on! As for crew that is just a little too weird a question to answer.

 

Jerry

Commodore Vanderbilt

The slobbering Pennsy freak in my wants to take on the mantle of the great M1s, but I am a fan of the great B&O EM-1. Standing still, they look like they're moving. Someone on this board once said they have great lines...like a Ferrari, I have to agree. Just a well proportioned locomotive. If my layout we're permanently sequestered in boxes in my basement (until I buy a bigger house), I'd own one of the Lionels.

I'd have to be an EP-5 in the McGinnis color scheme.  

EMD - GP49

 

Big plow - extra shields for snow - Extra lights.

 

Oh probably a old clinchfield steam. But my crew how about this group?

 

 

 

 

Like RK, I'd have a big plow, too!

 

A shrink would probably have a field-day, with our picks.

 

 

Rick

I'm with Killian.

Running the Wasatch under full steam.

And Johnny Cash can alternate with Willie.

Good Times.

I would be a SD-24ACe. A new built locomotive that looked like the EMD SD-24 but have a new 710 engine of 3000Hp and AC traction motors.  Painted in the Santa Fe  black and silver Zebra strip colors.  My "little-me" would be a NW-2 genset with 2 700Hp gensets and in the Santa Fe Zebra colors.

My wife could answer this best for me. Prone to let off steam, clantankerous, and always puffing to get up the hills.

Nicole, very funny, but, I disagree. You are at least Duchess Class.