What is Your Rarest Newer Locomotive?

I ended my 5 year search for a Vision Line Santa Fe 2-10-10-2 that I stumbled upon by accident at York in April.  I couldn't be happier.  I literally stand and stare at it in my display case almost every night.  

Nice engine, but wow, what a trestle!

I added a SDIV Rail America MTH Premier Genset During Christmas. SDIV Currently has 2 unfortunately I did not have the passion to ask MTH to make a 701 for 3-rail because I have 702.

Several Atlas SW's that are custom paints.

And a set of Weaver BP 20's

Don:  Nice choice for a rare but newer engine, the FM Erie builts.  I also bought that set, although mine is the A-B-A combo.  Love it and regularly run it at the head end of a string of MTH 18" Milw Rd streamlined, post war, Olympian-Hiawatha cars.  I do  prefer 21" cars on my layout but none were available in the 1948 colors.  The K-Line cars are actually models of the Hiawathas that only ran between Chgo and Mpls, rather than the Oly-Hi which ran all the way to the west coast.

But I also have an Atlas FM Erie built C&NW "A" unit.  Doesn't see a lot of service but I'd be willing to bet that this engine is even more rare than the Brooks Stevens styled Oly-Hi FM's.

Another "rarey" might be Weaver's Milwaukee Rd F6a, conventional Baltics (Hudsons)   Mine is another favorite of mine.

Unfortunately, living in the Cleveland area with a bunch of eastern road fans, I don't get a lot of appreciative comments on my Milw Rd stuff!

Paul Fischer

A Union Pacific FEF-1 I'm building.  #809, coal burner, early life cycle (1937).

It'll be one of a kind with my sweat, blood and fabricating skills.

Its one of these 3. I bet its the GG1, but I have no way of knowing for sure. 

This one (part of a set).

I havn't seen many of these in my travels

Here's a rare one. This is the only one made.

Car and Locomotive Shop VGN trainmaster....   only 15 made.

Ours is a MTH SD-40-2 in Wisconsin Central colors, custom painted for the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad at Pat's trains in Wheeling. 

For ME, it is SO RARE, I haven't even gotten it yet, it is a New Locomotive with all the Extravagant Electronics and Features, that Works, Right Out of the Box

Doug

p.s. Sorry, I couldn't Resist, that was just too Good of an Opening

Don

Your pictures and videos introduced me to these Erie Builts with the "chrome moustache."  What a beautiful set.  I was lucky enough to find an ABA set from a forum member. 

As you know, the horn sounds like a "Fog Horn."  My train buddies all crack up when I blow it!

Bob

I guess this guy since it is only a couple days old and it is uncataloged and exclusive to only Pats Trains in Wheeling, WV. Only a handful manufactured by MTH for Pats Trains.

   Bill T

This is a set I would love to find. I have admired them since you first posted pictures of them many years ago.

It took almost 2 1/2 years of constant searching to locate an Overland brass 2-rail SP MP15ac. I had almost given up all hope of finding one when Bill Davis of American Brass recently listed one on evil bay and my prayers were answered. Surprisingly no one else bid on it so I get it for a reasonable price. I would have even bought an Atlas version but none surfaced during my search.

My rarest are my SMR "Texas", SMR "Yonah", and 3rd Rail 4449 in AFT colors.  All are brass and had low production runs.  Don't know which was the lowest, though.

Andy

Officially, it is the Lionel Vision Line 700E Hudson. It's still a marvel to me, and I consider myself lucky to have one.

Unofficially, it is the MTH Premier Light Mikado currently undergoing custom painting.

I would have to say it's my Erie Triplex with a Gloor Craft caboose trailing.

Manufactured one would be a Weaver custom painted Pacific, lettered for the Colorado

and Southern, one of five done.   My really rare one is the kitbashed Lionel 0-8-0,

now 2-8-0 Great Western #60.  I doubt if #60 has been done in O scale brass, and

maybe not in HO brass.  In fact, I don't know if GW #90, the decapod now on the Strasburg, has been done in scale O or HO brass?  I have seen neither.

I've got one of the Lionel Centennial Pacific's, cab number 2000, in Lionel colors.  Not sure how many of those they made.

They only thing new and rare I have are the burgers in the fridge

must be white castle burgers or crystals?

My rarest diesel(+passenger set) is the Lionel Spirit of the Century...

My rarest steam is the Lionel 777 Vandy in red lettered Lionel Lines...250 made... 

I don't really consider my trains "rare" but....

I guess my Railking B&O Caboose is rare as Mike Wolf signed it in 2005 when I first met him. I doubt there are any others signed by him or at least, very few!

I had a large collection of HO engines from the 70s and 80s. One of which was the remnants of 4-6-4 made by American Flyer/Gilbert. It was junk and I threw it out but always kind of wondered how common it is today. 

Here's my set of Milwaukee Road Erie Builts, displayed with K-Line passenger cars.I have an ABA set, and for reasons that now seem a bit silly I went to the trouble of upgrading the trailing A unit to powered. 

On the shelf above it is a very scarce Pride Lines tinplate Hiawatha set with separate, non-articulated cars, a proper Beaver Tail observation car, and a more or less prototypical paint job on the locomotive. Pride Lines also made a copy of the original Lionel 0 gauge tinplate Hiawatha, which is fairly common, but I've seen very few of the ones with the nice paint jobs and more-prototypical cars. The top shelf is the 1988 Lionel repro of the tinplate Hiawatha. The cars are actually the same as Lionel's UP articulated streamliner.

The bottom shelf contains a K-Line Milwaukee passenger set in UP yellow, with 15" cars. This set is also fairly scarce. It was sold only as a complete set with an ABA and 6 cars; there were no add-on cars or separate sale engines. 

Click on photos for better view. 

Any of you with the Milw Erie Builts ever considered painting some passenger in the short-lived matching livery?

i think it would look awesome. 

No Forrest because I pull the same cars with Joes in my electrified section. Don

Our rarest locomotive, and yet still new to our roster is the Die-cast 2010 BSA ES44AC UP Diesel.  We bought our 2010 from a forum member, along with the matching BSA Rolling Stock.  Only have photos of the Locomotive at this time.  Best part is, we didn't even pay anywhere near the gouging price people ask for the Die-cast Diesels. (Happy Dance)

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I dont know how rare it is. I have been told its pretty rare my Vision Line Clinchfield Challenger

Just like Andy posted above,it would be my 3 SMR Civil War era locomotives.

I think that there were less than 20 of each built.

Norm

I'm not sure.  I have several scratch-built or heavily bashed, unique locos, but I understand that isn't really the question.

I suppose my 3rd Rail Train of Tomorrow, or my 3rd Rail ATSF Northern.  I think there were fewer than 100 of each made.