What Do You Enjoy Running The Most?

I really enjoy running my Army train lately. I can drop off certain flat with tank or truck at sidings and pick up new Army flats with loads elsewhere. It's fun.



TEX
Steve

I enjoy running my Lionel Legacy,3rd Rail and MTH PS2 steam locomotives.

Ricky

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I really enjoy running my Army train lately. I can drop off certain flat with tank or truck at sidings and pick up new Army flats with loads elsewhere. It's fun.

..Ooh-rah..

Passenger trains of course. I particularly like the two sets running now on the elevated tracks which are Alaska Lionel ABBA scale F3s with the 18" matching bi-level cars and the Western Pacific F3 ABAs pulling 21" K-Line CZ cars.

I like to run whatever I have most recently rescued from the junk bin or built up from parts.
These items are always going to be electro-mechanically controlled (e-unit), because I don't keep parts or junkers on hand for the electonically controlled trains (with the exception of some early Sound of steam).

I go in cycles. My tastes will vary from Post-war to MPC to TMCC motive power. I will admit though for quite sometime I've been running almost exclusively Post-war. I'm addicted to ozone.

I have a few Lionel legacy steamers and a few MTH
steamers and my favorite engine is the Lionel vision
line Hudson can't beat the sound and the smoke output.

THANKS ALEX

Workhorse steam, mostly short freights behind weaver 2-8-0 now that I am on a small layout. Four or five car passenger consist behind a Ps-4 occasionally.
Nothing right now due to rail painting and ballasting.

mostly postwar

Tony Sincius
TCA# 97-45101

I thought I would be a freight guy forever, but ever since I got my 2 OK Engines Seaboard passenger cars I sure enjoy seeing them going round the layout, along with the 2 K-Line cars and the All-nation OBS I have. They'll look even better being pulled by the 3rd Rail E7 that's coming soon.

I enjoy them so much that I've been thinking of expanding the layout thru the entire upstairs and making wide enough curves so I can get a few more passenger cars, especially if GGD or Atlas sees fit to make a 5-car Silver Meteor set.

Oh, as far as freight, my RailKing imperial 0-6-0 is a blast to run.

Another thing...I've turned off the Locosounds in my RK 2-8-0 and I like it much better now and run it more often.

A l-o-n-g string of freight cars. Unfotunately my layout is not that big and that means maybe 15 cars.

give me an open frame motor steamer, like a 736 or 665 & a long string of coal hoppers!

I started off as a postwar only guy with both freight and passenger sets. Now I am currently loving subway sets besides those poswar items.

My new Lionel Milw Rd S-3 is getting a lot of mileage put on it lately. I'm just enamored with that "quillable whistle" feature. I use this engine, #265, for freight service. I have a Weaver S-3 #261 for passenger work.

Mean time, for passenger service, my new MTH F-7 Hiawatha Baltic is getting it's share of mileage, too. I was surprised to check the DOD mileage indicator on a set of FM C-Liners and found that I've put nearly 2,000 miles on this engine set, too. Must like it pretty well too.

Paul Fischer

Lately it has been Protosound 2 tinplate.






Scott Smith

Without question, the new Lionel MR S-3. Runs smooth as silk with sounds so good, IMO everything else, even recent Lionel engines I've heard including the Hudson pale in comparison.
This engine is a 10++++.. Simply spectacular..
Don't see how it could get any better.
Joe

BIG Turbines and long trains. I tried pulling a long train with my UP #80 Turbine and ended up throwing every traction tire on both powered units. It still pulled 40+ cars with no traction tires... Waiting patiently now for a case of traction tires from MTH.

I have a mix of postwar, modern conventional and modern TMCC/Legacy. I go through phases when it comes to running. Sometimes conventional, sometimes command. I like it all.

My favorite command engines right now are my Legacy SD80's and my JLC GG1.

Favorite postwar? My 736, 2055 and 2037.

My favorites right now is modern diesels like the AC6000 and the ES44AC, also dash8's and SD70ACe's. Nothing like seeing big, hulking modern diesels pulling a string of freight.


Dave

Any of my Williams diesels pulling/shunting freight loads... simple & incredibly trouble-free operation.
TomB

Scott, I gotta hand it to you. The tinplate are spectacular looking.

That is an easy answer. Any MTH electric under live wire.

Postwar locomotives exclusively. Lately I've been giving my 2046 and its string of seven 1989 027 NYC passenger cars a workout.

I run all kinds of trains from all eras. Nothing is louder than post war F3s with horizontal motors on FasTrack.

Long passenger trains pulled by Williams locomotives, smoothly and quietly navigating my layout.

Right now Williams F3 Western Pacific A B A's are pulling a 9 car California Zephyr consist by Lionel.

i will run whatever catches my eye that day. i will walk into my train room look on the wall off trains pick one or two and run it.

What do I enjoy running the most?

Old Electric Trains!!!

of course i love the mth ps2 and lionel's tmcc engines.but lately i've been running a lot of post war steamers as well as mpc diesels.

the old lionel diesel's with the single pullmor are one of my many favorites.they dont pull a lot of the heavier car's but they do pull a lot of the lighter cars with the plastic trucks.

just won a lionel 4-6-4 on the bay so i'll be running it a lot also as soon as it gets here.



thop..........

I had bought some Williams E-7's and converted them to TMCC along with a Lionel baby mikado and a railking scale switcher to keep the miles off my more expensive engines.
I've been having a blast .They're fun ,reliable and I didn't break the bank with any of them.

David

I alternate between my Imperial Railking Big Boy pulling a long freight and the 4-6-2 K4s pulling a Rio Grande MOW consist or a mid sized freight consist.

The MOW runs regularly as it contains my track cleaning cars. This is also pulled by the old workhorse 2-8-0.

You know as to all the complaints from people about the old lionel scale K-4, I am have a blast running it. I think it looks fine...

Having fun with this right now.

that k4 ls a beauty! when was lt made?
l have one MTH M1a w/proto 2.0. not sure lf l'd want any more wlth sounds.
mostly l get a kick out of my Pre&Postwar Lionel & Marx.
l had a train under the tree made up totaly of junk box rebuilds. just put a good feeling ln me seeing them on the track.

I've been keeping a rough, rough tally here and it appears that we're almost evenly divided between old and modern toy trains. I'm including in the old ones re-productions from tinplate to Williams and so on and so forth.

Traction tire models appear to edge out very narrowly non traction tire entries.

And almost every conceivable type of loco has been named as a favorite.

Having given a bit more thought to my favorites, the old F3s, I realize other things I like about them. The non traction tires for me is "steel wheels on steel rails". I find that meaningful. And being "diesels" I rather like to pretend that the Pullmors are prototype traction motors, albeit the wrong number. I also kinda like the way when you push it you feel those motors turning over. Makes it feel like it has a kind of "connect" with the track. And I like the fact it doesn't really need a simulated diesel roar sound. And of course if push came to shove I could work on it myself or easily find someone locally who can.

This.

That's another nice one. Maybe it's the art deco look or something, but the tinplate just may be the most attractive of them all. And I don't even own any...

Boy, that's a tough one. I like running my Williams PRR K-4 or my Lionel Alco S-2 in Weirton Steel livery. The K-4 gives me that high speed look with smoke, while the S-2 does its slow-speed switching with realistic sound. Both are pretty cool.

George

My two favorite and best running engines are:

The Proto 2.0 Brute - awesome and powerful!

The Legacy Vision Line 5344 Hudson - absolutely, and without any qualifications, the very BEST Lionel scale engine I have ever owned, period!

(And that includes ALL my JLC steam and other Lionel scale steam!)

No real favorite here. Like 'em all. All are MTH Railking PS2. I would say that my one of the ones I enjoy the most is my Railking Scale F3 ABA. Then again I like my Imperial K4 a lot, and my Imperial SD70, and my AS-616 and my C&O Hud.....