Just got my "dream" Locomotive, what is yours?

The Lionel Big Boy. Can't wait until December. 

Either a U.P. Challenger in grey or a pair of Iowa Interstate GP-38's (both powered). PS3 if available or PS2 if not.

A really good ATSF Super Chief: I have several good ones now but want world class.  A Vision quality set of F3s, ABA or ABBA: every unit with smoke and sound, etc.,  and at least nine very detailed 18" cars: full interiors, lots of people, LED lighting, good bellows between the cars, etc., maybe some animation - moving people inside the cars, etc.  That is about the only thing remaining on my "price will not be a consideration" list.  

A NYC J3a hudson, with legacy, IF Lionel ever makes one.

 

Somewhere in china..... or North Carolina...... theres a shelf with fairly accurate tooling for two J3as, just waiting to be "re run"....... even an optional PT tender.

 

Lionel has already "reissued" most of theirother TMCC steamers with legacy. One could only hope..........

An Atlas Western Maryland SD40 (1513-1 or 1513-2).

 

 

Same here.  But I'd also be in to an A-B-B-A with matching passenger car set like Lee wants, just not with the people in them.  And a VL PRR 6110, as delivered.

My Legacy Pere Marquette 1225.   My favorite in O Scale and 1foot to 12 inch scale!

 

I got it about a year ago and had to sell two scale size RS5.0 Berks to pay for it but it is well worth it.  Best sound and whistle from those two fat boy speakers in O scale.  

 

Now I wish my 990 set would come back from Lionel repairs shop so I can hear that quilling whistle again!

Mine arrived last April:

 

 

Rusty

My Milwaukee Road box cabs. Don

I already have most of my favorite engines - the Milwaukee Road Northern (Lionel and Weaver), the Hiawatha 4-6-4 Baltic (Weaver and MTH), the Milwaukee Road unstreamlined 4-6-4 (Weaver), and the Olympian Hiawatha F-M Erie Built with the stainless nose trim (Atlas). 

 

My "Dream" engine would be one of the large Beyer-Garratt locomotives built for East Africa or Australia. I have a little one from ETS, but it's tinplate and only a 2-6-0+0-6-2. The biggest ones in East Africa were 4-8-2+2-8-4.

 

 

 

Or, perhaps even better, the streamlined passenger Garratt built for Algeria. 

 

 

 

Two more "dream" engines would be the USRA Heavy Mikado and the Milwaukee Road 2-6-2 Prairie. There's a rumor floating around that Lionel plans to do the Heavy, so maybe one of my wishes will be fulfilled. 

 

 

The beautiful Lionel Legacy Texas Special E7 set.

 

Steve, Lady and Tex

 

 

I guess I don't really fit in here but about 2 months ago I picked a Lionel Post-war Norfolk & Western Class J Northern.  This was an engine I loved as a little boy and finally stumbled on one in incredibly good shape at an incredibly good price. 

600e.

 

rat

I purchased a Morristown and Erie RS1 from the same production run. Some of the first offerings of TAS Engineer On Board (EOB) speed control where part of this group of RS-1's.

Wow, 10 years ago.  How time flies.
Mike CT

Steve, why is the TS combo not a surprise? Hmmm. 

Here is mine.

 

 

MTH Spokane Portland & Seattle Z-6

 

My Lionel Legacy Southern Pacific GS-4 Daylight! Matt 

3rd Rail Union Pacific (Fetters) "Early Challenger"

 

I just rebuilt mine a Lionel Hudson. Just ordered a few more parts to get it 

finished.

 

Tin 

There is only loco left from my wish list.

But it would have to be a MTH so can "lash-up" to other MTH Southern and NS OCS F's Locos.

 

But have a feeling that Lionel may beat MTH to the punch.

For me it would have to be K-Line's scale J1e Hudson tooling modified to accommodate a more powerful motor and the latest Legacy electronics. Lionel already did this with the K-Line Berkshires.

 

Gregg,

   I was lucky enough to have been given my fathers 1st birthday gift, his pre-production Lionel 263E Tin Plate work train, and when MTH reproduced it in P2 I pre-ordered it from Frank at the Iron Horse before MTH even had one fully made.  These trains are my Christmas family memories, recently I made a deal on a Lionel Legacy Shay, I have waited for a Shay for a long time, because my Great Grandfather drove one in the Pa mountains as they logged the Pa Grand Canyon, I have always wanted one.   I am glad that I waited as long as I did, really looking forward to picking it up.

PCRR/Dave

 

My Grandfather told me as a little boy some day my dream of running the 263E with remote control would come true, some times I run them both at the same time on the same track with my DCS.  Little boys toys, you got to love them.

One that works right out of the box and doesn't deprecate by 70% five minutes after I get it home.

I decided this morning, that my dream loco is a LionMaster Challenger, with LionChief Plus and Whistlesteam.   My dream may be one bridge too far, but its my dream.

Brian,

    That 3000 is one serious big time beautiful engine & tender!  Congrats on owning one.

PCRR/Dave

 

One nice locomotive Brian, with all the goodies on-board also.

 

Steve, Lady and Tex

when I got into o scale 12 yeas ago I didn't have a lot of extra cash for engines and such and at the time it was something like 1000 for a Chessie steam special and at the time only the 1980 model was out. fast forward 12 years of trains being packed up in the attic. last summer they came out and of course the Chessie was still on my list. well I know have it.   

This would be mine:

Lionel's Reading T-1, customized by Reading Steam Guru and Wowak

 

I'll second Southwest Hiawatha's East African Railway Class 59 Beyer-Garratt

Reading & Northern 425 is another favorite of mine. TrainsRMe posted a picture of "The Four and a Quarter" in black. I'll add two photos of her in blue. I like her that way.

 

My favorite steam engine is the production PRR T-1.  I have the Lionel version and it is my favorite engine, especially since gunrunnerjohn upgraded the sounds and added cruise.

 

 

 

My favorite diesel is the Weaver PRR passenger Sharks.  Alex M. completely rebuilt them for me with ERR electronics and they run great.

 

 

 

Ron

ATSF 1800 clas 2-6-2 (specifically #1880).  Come on, Lionel (or MTH)!

 

For sure on the Garratts. I love them all. The "smart" articulated locomotive.

Mine is the Williams Brass J611. Not because it's a Williams engine. I know a number of other manufacturers make this engine and some are much better examples. But this engine was available and affordable. It's my dream engine, because as a boy I saw these engines in person in Bluefield, WV, on many occasions. I've seen the 611 several times at Roanoke, but I was never able to see it in operation after it was restored. (Maybe I'll get another chance, from what I'm reading.)

For a long time, my biggest want in O has been for one of the manufacturers to offer the GM Train of Tomorrow.  3rd Rail has stepped up to the plate and is now taking orders for the set.  I'm in.  So that is my dream locomotive and passenger set.

Well since no manufacture had made a Southern Ms4 class mike or a highhood SD40-2 or GP30 I guess I'll still be dreaming just a little bit longer.

 

Oh golly -  there are several. I'd like to have a Legacy PRR T1 unskirted but with portholes, a Legacy N&W Class A, a match for Lee's A.T.& S.F. F3's and also some matching E6's. 

Still like the D&H PA's.  Am starting to think about the Northern Pacific too..   Hmmmm...

Still dreamin'

 

 

This would do it for me. My hope is that Joe and the team over at Weaver will get around to doing this one. However, if Scott over at 3rd Rail would finally give in and do some Milwaukee Road steam that would work too.

 

I'd prefer a copy with the shroud on the front but the version would work also.

 

Milwrd