What’s your favorite cars?

My favorite rail car is a custom painted Pollerni Steel #9968 coil car from the AWVR #1206 consist from the movie Unstoppable.

My favorite would be my post-war silver series aluminum Passenger cars.

hello my standard gauge blue comet

kevin

"What's your favorite cars?".....might be a better title on your post.......

Just got these last week, haven’t even put them on the track yet. They need a little work, but dang, they are cool.

Another vote for the Postwar 2500 series - can't beat the classics!

My favorite car is any caboose.  This is the one that started it all. My dad took me to see a fellas layout when I was 3 yrs old. He asked me which was my favorite car and I said, “the caboose.”  He reached under the table and hand me this one and I’ve had it for 67 years. The caboose is still my favorite car and I miss them still.

Any operating milk car. For some reason I love launching those milk cans.

I spent a 40 year career in grain, fertilizer and chemical transportation. I’m not at all ashamed to admit I have a certain affection for covered hoppers and tank cars.

Curt

Covered hoppers and coal hoppers are my favorite!!!

postwar Madison cars

My Lionel Hood's Milk cars and my custom Hood's tinplate car....My Grandfather designed the Hood's Milk Bottle Logo.

Anything that I could put behind a PRR Steam or 1st Generation Diesel. That being said the PW 2500 Series passenger cars and all the extruded  painted cars by MTH PRR and N&W . Then boxcars, tanker cars and my favorite freight car is the Cabin Car or commonly known as the caboose.

Although I model in 3 rail scale, I purchase a lot of 2 rail rolling stock (yes, they can run on 3 rail track). I have many favorite cars, but some of my absolute favorites are my brass n&w H2a hoppers.

In second place are my I Love New England & New York Lionel Cars.

Malcolm, awesome memory, and the fact you still have that caboose is pretty cool. For me, I’m a boxcar kind of guy. I have quite a few standard gauge boxcars, but I really like the traditional sized ones. MPC, Lti. To Menards cars, I like having them look new, but I also enjoy weathering them, and sometimes even adding graffiti to some. I know, I know, shame on me for defacing those collector items, but I usually have a brand new one as well as a weathered one. Just depends on how I feel that day, makes the decision as to running a weathered consist, or a “new” consist.

Post War 6414 Auto Loaders are #1 for me.

6464 box cars next

Then "Mint" bullion cars

Lastly, as in trains, cabeese

Ditto to Brother Love.  I like cabooses...might be hereditary, since my grandfather, furniture-class carpenter, put interiors in L&N cabooses in the Louisville, Ky. shops.  When 8? years old, my dad's buddy gave me a ride on a Southern caboose rear platform as they switched coal hoppers around on a dealer siding.   My favorite would be the two types of Colorado Midland sidedoors, but l have none in O  (just HO). Any sidedoor, combine, or drover caboose l like.  The Missouri Pacific seems to have had the wildest variety, but the CB&Q also warranted a book devoted to cabooses.

First thought was passenger cars as always look nice especially night runs.  Lately for me it’s been creating consists.  Military, all black SP overnight, pacemaker, nuclear flat cars with the lights all flashing, k line tank or hopper car consists etc.  

Used to be the BATMAN Signal searchlight. And now, It shines into the night signalling The Masked Man ! "Fighting Crime and Suppressing Evil." (Autographed edition) Postwar, Traditional, Heavy, and KEWL.

Definitely my Vision Reefers. I also have a limited edition boxcar from the Nevada Southern Railway Train Museum in Boulder City, Nevada. The car is just a Lionel semi-scale car painted for the museum's passenger train, but I love it because it is a limited-run car, and the paint matches the paint on the walls of my room.

For me it's traditional sized tank cars and Railking beer cars.  I can't seem to get enough of either.

Runner up is the MPC 9576-9580 aluminum Burlington passenger set.

Don

Prewar favorite:  Lionel O-Gauge Blue Comet

Postwar favorite: Lionel 2500-series "Super Speedliner" Lionel Lines aluminum passenger cars

Modern favorite: Phoenix Railways Southern Pacific Daylight aluminum passenger cars

Unfortunately I have no photos yet but the Lionel four-truck depressed-center flatcar is a favorite. I have five; one stock as Lionel built it with the transformer (it needs the bushings to be complete although transformers are usually shipped with the bushings packed separately for protection and clearance issues), one with four two-axle trucks (the inner pair Andrews and the outer pair Bettendorf or Dahlman), one with two three-axle sprung Buckeye trucks, one with two four-axle Lobaugh Buckeye trucks, and one with four-axle Lobaugh Commonwealth trucks. All except the stock Lionel are two-rail and have KD couplers.

Note that as a kid I wanted one (every Christmas  put it on my list ) but my parents could not afford one. My Dad worked at Sears hardware and would get my trains after Christmas, either customer returns or unsold stock that Lionel would not take back so my train Christmas would show up around New Years. One major exception was the C&O SW7 switcher, that showed up on Christmas day one year and was a favorite. Still is in a way, I have several All Nation two-rail ones now. Another oddity, one year I got three of the white milk cars and an American Flyer S scale tanker. Dad took one of the milk cars and removed everything from the floor up and mounted the AF tank body on it; it did not look to bad to a twelve year-old and I had a one-of-a-kind car that none of my friends had. Oh, and the road name on it was either GULF or SUNOCO that matched my Lionel tankers.

I have a weakness for covered hoppers -- ACF Centerflow, ACF 70-ton, PS2, PS4427 (Low-side and High Side), PS4750, and (now that I have BNSF equipment) the Trinity ACF look-alike. Have too may to post photos of everything, but here are a couple.

"What ARE you favorite cars?"  would be even better.

My favorite car has always been the 6468 double-door box that came with my original set. I recently picked up a second one. I just think its cool, and I always liked the color.

My favorites...

1. #60 Trolley

2. 3618 - Helicopter Recon Car - last piece my dad bought me.

3. 3424 - Wabash Operating Brakeman car.

4. Budd 1977 Service Station Set - was my last purchase from Madison Hardware before they closed in NYC.

If we are judging by quantity it looks like this:

1) LTI era 6464 remakes.  I have almost all of them including club cars

2) MTH RailKing cylindrical hoppers in Canadian liveries.  At last count I have 35 of these.

3) Lionel Post War small milk cars both operating and non operating.  I have one of most variations including the first one with the brass mechanism.

The cars I operate most are MTH Premier 18" passenger cars.  I have these in many road names and just love the way they look snaking through the curves.

As usual, judging a "favorite" is not as easy as it sounds.

Rolland

@jjwyatt posted:

First thought was passenger cars as always look nice especially night runs.  Lately for me it’s been creating consists.  Military, all black SP overnight, pacemaker, nuclear flat cars with the lights all flashing, k line tank or hopper car consists etc.  

I agree.

Chris S.

I love 6464 boxcars. So many roadnames that nowadays you wouldn't necessarily expect to have been offered at the time. As far as scale stuff, I love my GGD Super Dome, and the few K-Line Surfliner cars I have.

There's so many but I'd have to say my set of K-Lines original run of Santa Fe slogan boxcars . I like the simple look of the string of them being pulled by a steam locomotive, has an almost timeless steam era look about it.

Jerry

For me  it's my latest acquisition: these Lionel Heavyweight 18 inch passenger cars (in the video below) that glide through my 031 curves after unscrewing the steps at the ends of each car:

These passenger cars are the correct color and style to be good models, IMO, of the passenger cars that ran on the Put, which is the theme of my layout. They also work for other NY Central divisions and the Boston & Albany, which is another favorite railroad of mine.

I am so pleased that Lionel made these cars so that the steps can be unscrewed; otherwise, I would need 054 curves or wider to run them. Arnold

Passenger trains and trolley cars are my favorites.

@Jim Berger posted:

"What's your favorite cars?".....might be a better title on your post.......

btw, mine are the atlas 4750 3-bay covered hopper....i have all the roadnames made till now

My favorite is the TMCC crane:

Followed by any PRR/PC cabin:

Tom

My Soo Line boxcars and my Wyandotte Chemical tank cars.

John

Dave, where ever did you find Moxie equipment? I love Moxie, but I’ve never seen any cars or locos? Are they custom?

Joel