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

Gentlemen,

  So much great stuff owned and dreamed of by the OGR foum members, just fantastic.

PCRR/Dave

I've always wanted to have 3-rail O gauge examples of the major types of geared locomotives.  With the recent release of the MTH PS3 Climax, I now have two of those models along with several Lionel and K-Line Shays and Heislers.  My dreams have been pretty much fulfilled, at least as far as toy trains are concerned.

My Dream Locomotive is the 1946 Lionel 221 Dreyfuss Hudson.

This is my 221 & 221W tender.

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Happy Rails!

Dave

For me,

My dream loco is the UP 3 Piece Gas Turbine if Lionel ever does it with RS and Legacy/TMCC

CNJ GP40P (Overland HO brass model shown):

 

I don't necessarily need an O scale version. I'd be perfectly happy with the Overland HO model if I can find it.

 

Bob

 

here is mine smoking up the main line.

I never thought I'd get anything Vision Line related, let alone the classic 700E Hudson, so I think this one was my dream locomotive. Pretty much perfect inside and out. I was lucky enough to purchase one in the Spring of 2012 at a very good price, and I'm never letting it go.

 

Although, the MTH Premier Blue Comet is one I always wanted, too...

my dream locomotive would be any of the locomotives that

my father-in-law had running on his layout.

he died last year in June. he got me started in this Hobby.

I miss him and am getting teary eyed as I write this.

 

Miss You Papa!!

Sorry to hear about your father in law....

 

My dream Loco changes on to the next loco after I get my "dream loco"....LOL!

Now that I got my self in financial trouble and ordered the VL BB (and I have a few months to pay for it after selling my HO stuff), I am looking for the future to get an AC9 with Legacy or PS3, an AC12 also with Legacy or PS3, a Garrett, with, yes you guessed it; Legacy or PS3...IF they ever make them!

I like trains too much. I have my favorites and them my wants... right now I am looking for Legacy H-7 ... and looking and looking...

But one of the nicer engines that I really liked the sounds, run ability, and great looks are:

 

Yes, I'm also in for a TMCC/Legacy big Garrett.

 

Thought on the PRR T-1; there are some of us that like the full skirted as delivered to the stripped as operated versions.  Would it be possible for someone to make a model that has all the skirting, but removable?  This way we buy the locomotive and then if we want it on, leave it, but if we don't we can remove it?  It could be held on with screws, or maybe even strong magnets?  This way they can make one T-1, but have all T-1 buyers happy.

for me it's still an 8801 blue comet engine, there's just nothing like the MPC one for me, maybe since it's the first 0 gauge blue comet that wasn't tin plate, the scale ones are nice but there's nothing like MPC for me when it comes to passenger trains.

Dave

Popi,

   I understand my Christmas memories are half the reason I appreciate my Tin Plate 263E so much, hope you finally acquire your father inlaws original trains.

PCRR/Dave

Of course they can, they can do EVERYTHING we customers want. The problem is not the Engineers, it is the marketing people. They make the decisions of what to release to the market, Well also the cost of things comes onto play too...Me thinks anyway

3rd Rail Super Hudson.

 

UPS is delivering mine Monday. Scott Mann had a 3 rail super Hudson in his warehouse and has installed all new electronics and I hope, blackened the drivers.

Wasn't cheap, but I am really excited to get it.

 

 

I have had trains since 1956. It is amazing that in the last 25 years all the models you use to see in brass and dream about have been made. I still remember seeing my first Max Gray Y6b in the window at Toy Craft in the 1960s and asking Mr plant "what is that?".Today I have no dream engine. It is just. When will Lionel make the engine I am ready to buy. I would like a Vision Line C&O Mountain (4-8-4). And/or a C&O Vision Line Allegheny in American Flyer S scale. I have been running both gages for the last ten years

That "Hudson" is missing a set of wheels! 

I have said this before:  (and don't agree that they have all been made....in HO, maybe, or even O scale brass, but not in three rail).  !. The Little River Logging Co.

2-4-4-2   2/3. A couple of different style/tonnage small two truck Heislers  4.  An

F-19 or similar C&O Mikado, with coal Vanderbilt, flying pumps, and a brow-mounted

Elesco.   I have been saving for these for years, and, periodically, with none forthcoming, I go blow the money on a car or vacaction.  "If you don't build it, they

won't come"

Already got mine last year. If I only had one engine, this would be it...

 

 

 

Only the first two T1's (no hyphen in PRR locomotive classes) #6110 and #6111 had full skirting.  They also had different (more elongated) noses than the rest of the T1 class and a very distinctive lettering scheme on the tender.  Their skirting could be made removable since it was removed from the prototypes eventually, but when the skirting was removed the tender lettering was simplified.  None of the regular production T1's had full skirting. 

 

So for T1 buyers who are happy with a prototypically correct locomotive, there is no use for removable skirts.

Hi,

   I just added a picture to my post on page one of the Hudson.

 

Tin 

Two of my most cherished locomotives thanks to a good friend

 

 

I hate to say it but it always is the next one that seems to be my "dream" locomotive. I suppose in my livery now that I could say it was my EM-1, or maybe my G-4, or perhaps the RS-3.

 

Seriously (and I am somewhat above) I would love to get a 3rd Rail Brass Steamer of just about any type in NYC or PRR. The more detail the better....

 

This is not a hobby, it is an addiction........

After 20 years still waiting on the Southern Ms-4 Heavy Mikado. At my age time may be running out.

[photo from TIES]

hello guys and gals..........

 

My dream locomotive has been the Santa Fe 5011 class Texan as I waited for long time for a "O" scale version (with corrected boiler) for 35 years.   I had least 3 PFM versions (brass H.O.) and just doesn't cut it until Sunset 3rd rail had one for sale in the "boneyard" section back in Sept 2012.  We pick it up in Dec 2012 after making 4 monthly payments on it as it NOT easy doing that on fixed income.   I am still not used to its massive size of the 2-10-4 engine when it sits side by side of one of my scale MTH preimer 70 foot (17 inches long) Madison heavyweight baggage car !!!!

 

the woman who loves the S.F.5011,2678

Tiffany

The L&N heavy mikado in the new Lionel catalog is my dream engine since finding  out about it. That is if it looks the part without something wrong like a silver smokebox.

first would be BLI comming out with PRR S2 turbine this year in HO!!..Im getting one...for O I really want this one badly if i can get the cash when one goes up for sale...got one of  my favorite s1 thats my baby..Just need to get the Q1 and T1 duplex and the santa fe F3 war bonet ..then my colection will be complete...Then i'm  done buying trains.

Yes, that one too!

 

I love All the Duplex engines: Q1, Q2, T1. Also the S1 and the S2...any others I missed?

Hard to just pick one. But if I did....of locos I now own......

 

Bought from a fellow OGR member.....I really like her........

A close 2nd..........

 

Favorite I do not own.....yet.........

 

Big Jawn is still a dream loco in my collection.....

Dave did you run you S1 yet?..I did a quick video of mine to show its a smooth runner by its got the blower belt whine to it..my S1.. ..my fleet...

I am not familiar with the N&W Cab #2300! Looks really interesting to me...Who made a model of it?

For some strange reason, I have a passion for the simple SW9.  The railroad my father worked for had them, he worked on them as a mechanic/machinist.  I ride bike on the Montour trail, and, yes,  the Montour also had SW9, so a few more undecorated SW9's from Atlas.


Ugly but beautiful.



A short video of the Shawmut Line consist.  Red and Yellow are as the units came from EMD.  The Bicentenial paint was 1976 until the Shawmut became part of the Buffalo and Pittsburgh RR (Genesee and Wyoming).

One of these days I am going to pick up a prewar Lionel City of Denver in the brown/yellow paint scheme. No restorations.

I don't care about the boxes, they would be nice to have, but I am not interested in paying the premium they bring.

Perhaps I am a simple man in my tastes, but my dream locomotive has always been the 5344 scale Hudson. I could never justify spending the big bucks for an original that was too valuable to run on a layout, that had questionable metallurgy, didn't run great, had no smoke unit and for all practical purposes would just become a rare conversation piece/shelf queen. In 1990 that all changed with the reissue 5340 that is nearly identical. I have two, one Pulling seven 20th Century limited cars that fits perfectly on my layout (that runs the fallen flag Eastern railroads), and the other as a back up that sits in the freight yard. Add in a few F diesels, a couple of switchers, GG1 electrics and my layout is just about complete in motive power,  

My dream engine a got a few years ago, the Western Maryland 4-6-6-4 Challenger!

 

3rd Rail. I have posted the link. There's still a few available. My Dad was with this engine from 1954 until it was scrapped in 1957. It was the subject of Rails Remembered Volume 4 "The Tale of a Turbine" by Louis M. Newton. 

 

3rd Rail N&W 2300

 

I consider myself as being very fortunate to have one of these models. 

 

Gilly

Still waiting on an as built N&W Class A - Mercedes of Steam.

Whenever I bring a new engine home, it's my favorite ... for awhile.  Then I look at my inventory and the MTH RF&P original Premier run 2-8-4 always wins out.

 

 

 

2nd place would go to my C & O Kanawha.

 

As for diesel, the winner would be the MTH B&O F7's.

 

 

 

But, the FM Trainmaster is a very close 2nd.

 

 

My days of big bucks for motive power are dwindling, so I'm happy with what I have ... until I go to my LHS again.

Lionel Niagara, with all glitches fixed, a more track-worthy PT tender, Legacy.

Unpainted Pilot Loco version would be sweet, too...

 

(Let me say that I would LOVE a Southern Rwy High-Nose GP30; I have seen one at

the Tennessee Valley RR Museum - running - and I never thought that I would want a GP30 very much, but the high-nose and black paint work really well. It reminds me of

a huge bison.)

 

The 3rd Rail 2007 issue of the C&O Allegheny would be high on my favorites list.

 

Rod