What kind of steam engines do you run?

I prefer later steam locos, stuff made after 1930 for the msot part but definatley post WWI. The period I model on my layout is the early 1950-1955, so steam (and diesel) that would have been running then is my thing. 

Dave,

I run the Lionel Vision Line UP "BIG BOY" & "CHALLENGER" on my Layout. It is all legacy controlled Engines, Switches and Accessories! Great fun!!

Fredstrains 

I would say 'late steam' as well. I like some of the streamlined locomotives but have always been enthralled with the movement of all the pieces!

I've got steam from all across the board. In O gauge, I've got an 2-6-6-6, 2-8-0, 0-6-0, 4-4-2, 4-6-4 (C&O Yellowbelly), 4-6-2, 2-8-8-2. I have another 0-6-0 on order. All are MTH Railking Imperial products except the 2-6-6-6 and 4-4-2. 

Obviously I have no particular theme or collection goal. I DO  try to keep my RRs to local RRs...B&O, C&O, WM, PRR. Granted, I've cheated - I've got an BNSF SD70, NY Subways, etc. My 2-8-8-2 is a N&W Y6B. Some engines I don't care for the looks, such as Hiawathas, 49'ers, etc. I've always found switchers to be neat little things and I've always loved huge articulateds. I've also bought things in non-prototypical roadnames. For example, I've got the new MTH Imperial B6 on order, a Pennsy design. I've got the B&O version on order. 

Berkshires and Northerns are my favorite.

Doug

Southern Pacific Consolidation:2-8-0

A variety of steam locomotives from articulates, Berkshires, Northerns, Erie Triplex, GS4, and streamline Hudsons.

All that I have - Love em all

My fetish is streamlined steam engines, and engines with special paint scheme that were at the head of named trains.

Today I am running these engines:

1. Milwaukee Road F7 Hiawatha Hudson;

2. Reading Crusader 4-6-2;

3. C&O Yellow Belly Hudson;

4. Commodore Vanderbilt Hudson;

5. N&W Y6b 2-8-8-2 Mallet;

6. N&W J608 4-8-4;

7. Long Island G53 4-6-0 Camelback.

On the ready track:

8. CNJ Berkshire;

9. CNJ Blue Comet 4-6-2;

10. Pennsy K4;

11. Pennsy 2-8-0;

12. NYC 0-8-0.

Under the bench:

13. Southern Crescent 4-6-2;

14. N&W J612 4-8-4;

15. Long Island 2-8-0;

16. NYC Dreyfus Hudson;

17. Another Long Island 2-8-0;

18. D&RG Ski Train 4-6-2;

19. NYC 4-6-0.

All of these engines are Rail King with PS 2.0.

My O-gauge steam power is mostly small postwar Lionel - whatever has been available and affordable. I got into O-gauge for "toy value"; my scale modelling is in HO.

2-4-2 Lionel prewar #262 - was my dad's train, runs but needs worn squealing bearings replaced.

2-4-2 Lionel Scout #246 - low mileage, runs good for a Scout. I added a Scout smoke unit from a #236 junker.

2-6-2 Lionel #2026 - Train show bargain, needed minor repair. Runs and smokes great.

2-6-4 Lionel #2037 - Gifted from an old family friend. Runs and smokes great, with Magne-Traction.

2-4-2 Lionel Scout #1120 - Die-cast body and metal frame motor with 3-position E-unit, runs great.

0-4-0 Lionel Scout #1061 - Re-engined but needs more work. Cheap forward-only version.

4-8-8-4 MTH PS1 Big Boy - fluke purchase, a bargain that needed minor repair and now runs great. I reworked and expanded my floor layout to accomodate this big engine with suitably long trains.

ALL types.......

I've been lucky enough to have ridden many of the most famous restored locos like 1218, 611, Royal Hudson, all the Shays and Hiesler at Cass and the old Reading 2102. So I enjoy reliving that through the layout. From 0-4-0 Docksides to 2-6-6-6 Allegheny.

Big Boy

4-4-2 Hiawatha

J Class

GWR Hall Class (Hogwarts)

Hudson

Berkshire Jr

PRR E6 Atlantic "Lindbergh Engine"

Ignore the date!

Steam that fits the layout.
Two decapods.





Decapod and an O-6-0 double headed.

Southern 0-6-0s,0-8-0s, 2-8-0s, 4-6-0s, 2-8-2s, 4-6-2s and 4-8-2s

[2-8-8-2 Southern "fantasy engine" occasionally].

Atlantic & Yadkin 2-8-0

N&W "J", "A" and Ys.

CC & O Early Challenger and War Department Challenger.

At times I run my "stinking dismal" diesel: Massey Ferguson and John Deere.

Lionel 736

Lionel 2046

Lionel 675

Lionel 681

Lionel 2026

Lionel 1615, but I don't run that one very often.

Union Pacific Mikado

T&P 0-6-0 switcher

B&O 4-6-2

SP GS-4 Daylight

Grand Trunk 4-6-2

The 4-6-2 is my favorite locomotive.  I also like the Mikado.

A Northern, a Big Boy, A FEF, a 4-8-0, a 2-8-0, 2 Docksiders, The Silver Bullet Special.

I like Super power but not shrouded, streamlined or covered up in general.

The Silver Bullet Special is a special case, I grew up in Colorado....

The only steam I've run in the last few years is a Berkshire.  

I saw the thread title.  I saw that the last response was from Rich.    I *HAD* to see what he had to say.   Hahahahahaha...  well said, Rich.

I run a couple of versions of the PM 1225.  One is Legacy and one came with the PE set.

Hi

 I run My Lionel legacy PRR K-4 It probly has more miles on it than my truck.

  I run it all most every day.

Being more of a collector, I have a variety of steam engines, and they all get run except for 2 that are retired due to age and fragility.  So I run everything from 19th century (Marx Wm. Crooks) to the streamlined locos of the 1930s, e.g. Dreyfus Hudson, Torpedo, Commodore Vanderbilt.  I really like the streamlined models, but my favorite, I think is Lionel 259E.  It's just, well, cute, and one of the best runners of the lot.  No one or two particular road names are favored, obviously.

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

the engine i run is the Santa Fe 5011 2-10-4 as its the only one i have.

the woman who loves the S.F.5011

Tiffany

I like the old tyme engines- the "puffer bellies" if you will. Beautiful and varied engines, and a 5 car train can be prototypical. Here's my 4-4-0 running on the Antebellum Carpet Central.

As a boy my dad bought me Southern Crescent Limited 4-6-4 Hudson for Christmas.  I have kept to running southern engines over the years because of the green paint scheme on the southern engines as well as living in the South for several years.  So I run the following engines:  4-6-2 Pacific - Crescent Limited, 0-6-0 Switcher, 2-8-4 Kanawha and 2-8-2 Mikado. 

However, this past year I bought 4-8-4 Northern - 261, Milwaukee Road because I bought it in remembrance of my dad. He had several books on the Milwaukee Road steam engines and he enjoyed talking about steam engines in general.  He pasted on this past August and this was the engine we looked at together in the hobby shop a few weeks before he pasted on.  Ken

My (very modest) collection is divided sharply into two segments: Postwar steam that I run for fun (2 2025s, a 2026, and a 681, although the last two will be for sale soon-ish) and anything I can kitbash into a scale model of a Reading Company steam locomotive.

Reading T-1 re-numbered 2102, some superdetailing done, much more to go

Lionel USRA 0-8-0 (conventional) heavily modified as a Reading E-5sa

Lionel Dockside heavily modified as Reading B4A #1251 (in progress)

I already have donors on my bench for Reading I-9sa and I-10sa.

Some day I *might* be interested in early diesels, but I'd really prefer to stay all steam.

Some day, hopefully, I'll be in a position where I'm financially and domestically secure enough to build my dream hi-rail layout of Pennsylvania's Anthracite Coal Region, where I was born and raised.

*slow clap*

I only have 3 steam engines, 2 RailKing (0-6-0 Imperial and RK 2-8-0 upgraded to PS2) and 1 hybrid (Weaver G5 4-6-0 chassis and RailKing 2-8-0 shell lengthened to fit the chassis).

I'd like to get a scale N&W J or K2a and of course something else in SAL paint  like these:

Q-3 Mikado

streamlined Pacific

This engine has always been a "looker" to me and if I ever stray from SAl I'd get one:

I'm not a fan of the HUGE steam engines, especially if they're on small radius curves.

I run whatever steam I can get my hands on. From a Big Boy, to a Porter, to a prewar 262E, if it's steam, it's for me.

Mr Delbridge,

i really like that Seaboard streamlined pacific. Now for Lionel to make it with legacy.

Any and all Pennsy (prototypical or fantasy) by Lionel.  As small as the 0-4-0 to the massive 6-4-4-6 S1.  Side by side, or one after the other, Conventional or Legacy, it doesn't matter.

From '46 to the present, I rekon I've got them all.

Pre&Postwar Lionel,MPC,Marx and a couple of oddballs...

1666

1684

224E

225E

671

675

675

736

1615

1666

2037

2046

6110

333

666

999

250

8141

6743(MTH)

746(WBB)

Lionel Post War 726 berk & pre-war 226e

Mike

I have a Lionmaster Challenger, 3 Railking Imperials and my only scale, a S-3 Mill Road 4-8-4 from Lionel.  This engine is worth the price.  Didn't think I would ever say that.  Run some trains.   PS- I have an MTH Imperial Challenger on order, for a long time.

I have a bit of steam; Lionel Postwar, Lionel MPC and modern, and some K-Line and MTH

Lionel Postwar:

736

2065

2029

Lionel MPC:

8303

8206

(new addition to roster) 1982 issue 779 Nickel Plate Berkshire (like a 736 with a metal tender)

Lionel Modern:

1665 switcher

MTH:

PS2 Bantam Turbine

K-Line:

Scale Hudson (my only scale engine to date) cab # 5344

I have a fair amount of steam.

Great question;

I run Western PA  So B&O light Mikes,

P&LE 0-6-0 

Pennsy 2-8-0, 0-8-0 and 0-6-0 (On order K4)

NYC  4-8-2 Lb Mohawk

Thinking of custom paint an 0-6-0 for the Union Railroad

Funny I started out interested in passenger service now I buy mostly freight.  I am attracted to switching duty 1927-1948 are my years of interest.  Hoping to add a steam P&WV  

  I love steam in that setting because it just adds to the pollution and heat of the industrial setting.  

last night i was running just two.

765 pulling a relatively short intermodal train and 267 pulling 7 heavyweights making up the Columbian.  Was running with the lights out, which i usually don't do. lots of whistle blowing. backlit smoke.  was good.

David...me too!!!

Here's a front end shot of one of their Class P Pacifics:

The only color "photo" I've ever seen was a postcard:

But these colors are way off from the "Citrus" paint scheme Seaboard used, but it would have looked like this: