most popular engine & roadname

GG1's! I have 2 penn central and 2 Pennsylvania RR!

I love steamers and about 60% of of engines are steam.  Not really particular regarding road names.  I am more interested in the features.  Started out with Reading and B&O and now I have ones from all over with most road names represented.

Model of a Southern Railway ;Green 'n Gold Ps-4 4-6-2 Crescent Limited Locomotive.

No bias at all.

NYC Hudson, I guess it always will be for me.

Personal favorite would be the AT&SF especially in Warbonnet colors. Like their big steamers too but the sleek E series diesels have to be the prettiest! 

 

We have quite a few Warbonnets on the roster...

New Haven for me

Pennsylvania GG1. Nothing comes even close.

 I love the diesles but my wife loves steamers, so I do have a 4-6-0 MTH with sound and smoke pulling several passneger cars. I would have to admit it's pretty cool watching it go around the track with all those sounds and smoke.

N&W class J

You know me i like the chessie system LOL in the old geeps and the u boats forgot to add the SD 40's etc.

NH & B&O paint, Hudsons, Mallets & Duplexes for steam, F-3's for diesel, EP-5's, E-33's and GG-1's for electric. Simple tastes.

My favorites from my current fleet: NYC Streamlined J3a Hudson and GWR Hall Class 4-6-0.

 

In O gauge, I aim to model 1930's-1940's Northeastern United States (mainly PRR and NYC), but any European trains would be welcome, as well. 

 

Generally speaking (there are exceptions), I tend to focus on Europe and United States (pre-1920 Western, post-1920 Eastern) from the dawn of railroading until about 1960.  After 1960, my interest shifts to Japanese railways.

 

Aaron

WBB Alaska RR GP38. Smooth runner, striking paint scheme, and big enough to be imposing while still looking good on O42.

Delaware LACKAWANNA & Western Railroad

 

Pacific  class N6 4-6-2 #1134

Pocono class Q4 4-8-4 #1643

Fairbanks Morse Trainmaster H-24-66 #860

 

Pittsburgh Shortline railroads.  Atlas SW9's.   Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad.   Montour Railroad.
Independence(1775), Betsy Ross (1776), Oliver Winchester(1866), John Browning (1891). GP7 (357) at one time was painted Dan Wesson.  

I believe surveys have shown AT&SF to be most popular.  It is with me, anyway.   I like the EMD E and F units, as a group, the best.

I'm pretty sure the F3 is the most popular loco and the Santa Fe the most popular RR name.  

Let me get back to you on that...

 

I'm basically repeating what I've posted in the past for these types of questions so here it goes...

 

I *try* to stick to "local" roadnames. Those being B&O, C&O, WM, PRR, Chessie. I've always lived near the B&O Metropolitan Branch, occasionally travel on it (now a heavy CSX line), occasionally photographed it, and whatnot. Many classic B&O stations survive within a 20 mile radius of my home. In addition, many, many years of visiting the B&O museum and riding/seeing the old B&O equipment. As a result, the B&O has long been my primary interest. The C&O, WM, (Chessie) also for obvious reasons in their involvement with the B&O as well as the fact both C&O and WM are relatively nearby as well. Also, I again spent much time seeing/touring/riding the C&O and WM equipment in the B&O Museum. 

 

I travel over a small portion of the former PRR Northeast Corridor everyday for my commute as well as through the PRR areas surrounding the Ivy City yard in Washington DC. PRR isn't my primary interest so I tend to restrict much of my PRR purchases. 

 

Regardless, my "go-to" roadname is B&O. 

 

I do have a number of non-local pieces (i.e. non-B&O/C&O/WM/Chessie/PRR) such as a BNSF SD70, N&W Y6B 2-8-8-2, as well as a NYC MTA Subway set. 

 

I would say my big interest is steam but also have a large collection of first generation diesels, GP9s, AS-616s, F3s, etc. I probably have 8 F3 sets in both O and HO (HO is display only). 

 

Most popular road name and engine, Sante Feb Warbonnet F3, nothing else comes close to it.

 

Personal engine favorite, has to be the ATSF 3000. With all those Vision Line features and a good looking engine and unique tender, to me nothing comes close to it.

Gary,

 

While I prefer steam, I also have both diesel and electric engines.  In steam I have 18 different roadnames, with the largest number in PRR, UP, and SP.  In diesel I have 17 different roadnames with, again, PRR, UP, and SP in greatest number.  In electric I have 4 different roadnames.  So, my preference (or lack of preference) in roadname pretty much stretches coast to coast.  I think the most popular roadnames would include PRR, Santa Fe, UP, along with a few others.

 

George 

I'm gonna have to agree either the Santa Fe F-3's or the New York Central Hudsons are the most popular - though I'd have to say the Southern Crescent PS-4 or any of the SD40-2's are my favorites, mainly since I model mostly the mid-East Industrial or rural land used on such lines as the Wheeling & Lake Erie or the Pennsylvania.

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

 

for me ,it would be Santa Fe "all the way"

 

the woman who loves the S.F.5011,623

Tiffany

My handle speaks for me.  With the exception of a circus engine, Heinz and some postwar engines, I run PRR modern steam and diesel. Over the last 15 years there has been a lot of PRR to choose from.  Santa Fe was definitely the winner for post war Lionel.  I had 2 O-27 Santa Fe engines when I was growing up.  One Lionel and one Marx.

You can probably guess my favorite road. My favorite engine is any first generation diesel, but in particular the Alco PA. A true thing of beauty, especially dressed in a tuxedo.

I model late 1940 - late 1950's all Maryland Class 1 RR's of that time plus Maryland Short lines of that era.  I have both steam and deisel locos of the the B&O ( my favorite road name ... since I grew up on the Washington Branch of that road ), Pennsy, Western Maryland, N&W, and Reading ( who had trackage rights over the Western Maryland in Western Maryland )

 

My favorite road is the B&O.  I grew up in Maryland on the Washington Branch and watched trains regularly as a kid and grown up too.  I got two cab rides from B&O crews when I was a kid.  B&O crews were always nice to me as they did their switching in my hometown of Savage, Maryland.

 

I would say my favorite loco is my Lionel Scale J Class N&W.  Runner up is my Williams scale GG1's .... a powered and a dummy.  Seeing the GG1's on the head end of a long train is awesome!!  Next is my MTH B&0 GP9 in passenger livery.  I think the B&O passenger livery of blue, black and gold is one of the most handsome liveries of any road of the era and ...... of course, the Santa Fe warbonnet scheme really is the most eye catching.  ( I have 2 post war FA deisels by Lionel ) 

Correction:  I meant to say in my previous post the B&O livery of Blue, Gray, Black and Gold is what I feel is the most handsome livery of the late 40's early 50's era.

MILWAUKEE ROAD!!!!!!!

 

NORTHERN PACIFIC!!!!!!!!!!!

 

In reference to what Panagos said above I just found some nice TP that has the B&O logo on it. Man its smoooooooooooooooooooooooooooth! 

I model the Southern Pacific in scale 3-rail, predominantly the 70s-early 90's period.  So that means the scarlet and grey (bloody nose) paint schemes, which I actually like even better than the elegant but over-emphasized and brief black widow paint scheme.

 

The majority of my Espee locomotives are Premier MTH SD45T-2s SD70, & Dash 9s along with a Railking scale MP15AC which was exceptionally done.

 

I also have some UP locomotives, including the MTH S90MAC, Dash 9s, SD70 & 70ACe, and SD40-2.

 

But I also have a fondness for SP steam as well, especially the PFE reefer trains so I also have a bunch of those being pulled by a Lionel scale AC-12, and I also like the Daylight train, so I have a complete scale passenger set from GGD being pulled by an original release Premier GS4 converted to PS2.

I think the popular RR's are the Penna. & Santa Fe.

 

I do have a wide range of RR's in my stable, somewhere around 50 with about 99% of them are Lionel. And mine are pretty much even between steam and diesels and with some electrics.

 

And since I live in Baltimore, I have a fondness for the RR's around me B&O, C&O, Penna., Chessie and Bethlehem Steel. But I also have some favorites in UP, SP, NYC, Mil Rd, GN and WM.

 

My favorite engines are in steam is the Milwaukee Road S-3 and in diesel has to be the CSX heritage B&O AC6000. In electric is the Amtrak Acela and a close runner up to these is the SP AC-12.

It's a tie:

 

Lionel Vision Line 700E Hudson

 

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Lionel Corporation Tinplate green P-2 Brute

Favorite roadname:Maryland & Pennsylvania.  I have 3 switchers:an NW-2, SW-1, and an SW-9.  Also have rolling stock to match.

Everyone has to have a couple of warbonnets.

What does Espee stand for (actual meaning)?   I'm also a big fan of Southern Pacific

Espee is the spelling/sound of the initials of the "S" and the "P" of SOUTHERN PACIFIC. Yes Espee "looks funny" when spelled out, but say it, and it becomes clear. 

The Pennsylvania Railroad. The PRR K-4 is my favorite steamer, followed by any and all other PRR steamers. My favorite diesels are PRR F units. I DO have a set of Santa Fe F3s, as well. Tom

Mike CT above is correct - "Everyone has to have a couple of Warbonnets"

 

 

 

 

Not to upset anyone, but Santa Fe and GG1's will never ride my rails. It's Milwaukee Road all the way. I do have a NS SD70ACe that I bought because I thought it was a great looking diesel and the Milwaukee Road has been dead over 25 years so I have mostly 50's and 60's diesels.

My Warbonnets are HO scale (two Bachmann F9's A Life-Like F7, and an AHM C628).  As I focus on Eastern US in O gauge, HO scale is Western US, though I'm more interested in 19th Century Western equipment.  I try my best not to duplicate themes across scales.