what type of steam locomotives you like best?The early steam locomotives or the modern steam locomotives.

Any of the Articulated Locos

Mark me down for Streamline Steam passenger trains.

Usually a Pacific or Hudson type with large (80-84) inch drivers.

After the Streamliners I my interest goes toward the unshrouded passenger Pacific's and Hudson's.

Charlie

If it burns coal I like it! 

-Greg 

The oldest locomotives that I will model are those at the start of the USRA guidelines, along with any newer steam locomotives.

Streamlined steam is my favorite.

Actually, I like almost every steam loco except for the ones with elephant ear smoke deflectors.

I model late 30 s to the end of steam in the West and N & W steam.

Mikey

RoyBoy posted:

Streamlined steam is my favorite.

Actually, I like almost every steam loco except for the ones with elephant ear smoke deflectors.

The elephant ears thing was more in europe thing.There a few here in america but not many.

mikey posted:

I model late 30 s to the end of steam in the West and N & W steam.

Mikey

I had a coworker who was from wv.She was a little girl and her dad was a coal miner.Any way she saw N&W and C&O steam.In fact she and her sisters would help clean the house.Only to have another coal train come by and dirty every thing up.So that would have to start all over again.

seaboardm2 posted:

RoyBoy posted:

Streamlined steam is my favorite.

Actually, I like almost every steam loco except for the ones with elephant ear smoke deflectors.

The elephant ears thing was more in europe thing.There a few here in america but not many.

Like UP 844!

20th century N&W Steam. Designed, built, run, and maintained in Roanoke, Virginia. 

I like the later steam locos from the 1930s onward.  Particularly the streamlined versions.  

Dominic Mazoch posted:

seaboardm2 posted:

RoyBoy posted:

Streamlined steam is my favorite.

Actually, I like almost every steam loco except for the ones with elephant ear smoke deflectors.

The elephant ears thing was more in europe thing.There a few here in america but not many.

Like UP 844!

Yep!!

Dan Padova posted:

I like the later steam locos from the 1930s onward.  Particularly the streamlined versions.  

They must have been a sight to see.

Just about anything with New York Central lettering or with a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement.

I like all steam, but especially late 1800's and 1900 - 1930 or so. 

Modern Superpower Steam late 1920's or newer. 

Any and all!

i enjoy seeing a variety on my layout.

I've got a hankerin' for a "stack" of steamed onions and cabbage to fill my psgetti bowl with.

My wife likes the 19th Century Steam Engines, or ones around when Abraham Lincoln was alive and president, she has been reading a lot of books about Abraham Lincoln. Me I like pretty much any steam engine, since I have the NKP 765, the N&W 611 J class, and the Big Boy, as well as the UP 8444.

Also, LOVE anything with NYC on it. I like the bigger 40 and 50 decades engines. It is FUNNY, but when I started this hobby I wanted only early transition diesels in PRR or PC. My tastes have changed so much - broadened a bit. I have an RS-1, RS-3, E-3 A-B-A, GG-1, Mohawk, GS-4, and numerous other NYC steamers in all scales. I don't really prefer "older steam" engines but am having a 14.5" x 36" all metal cut out of an American class made to put on the wall of my train room. I did see a layout in Freedom, PA with a Civil War theme that I thought was excellent.....

I like 'em all.

I really like the LGB G Gauge European products......always have. Seeing LGB in action brings back lots of very, very fond memories.

As for O Gauge, I try to stick to steamers with 6 drivers or fewer. I think they look a bit better on my small layout. Not to say I don't have anything bigger...got some articulated steam, large 4-8-4s, etc.

RoyBoy posted:

Streamlined steam is my favorite.

Actually, I like almost every steam loco except for the ones with elephant ear smoke deflectors.

Just picked up a Mohawk with elephant ears. I wonder how those things work? Anyway, I didn't think I would like them but they make the engine look bigger. I am leaving them on. You know its funny, our quirks. I don't like the really big articulated engines that have the leading wheels on the separate little platform. I mean they are OK, but I kind of prefer the steamer that is always seen at the opening of old Superman shows. What was that anyway? 

Smoke deflectors (aka Elephant Ears) were not needed when stacks were tall. The smoke would be high enough to rarely ever be a visible issue for the cab. As locomotives grew in size and weight, bridges needed to be stronger and that necessated that stacks needed to be shorter. There were times when the smoke from the stack made its way into and around the cab. Smoke deflectors were designed to reduce that effect.

Gee, I always thought the deflectors on a Niagara for deflecting snow!!

Dick

I like the 4-6-0 steam engines from MTH.

If you have to light a fire to heat water to make it go, I love it.

As for this hobby, I really want to see a lot more scale small steam, that can go on O36 curves.  The older American class colorful and similar era locomotives, as well as early all black locomotives.  We've had plenty of the big and powerful steam.  You can get DCC with sound in N gauge, so there must be a way to get Legacy control and sound in a scale 4-4-0.

These are all MTH Rail King:

Michael Hokkanen posted:

I don't like the really big articulated engines that have the leading wheels on the separate little platform. I mean they are OK, but I kind of prefer the steamer that is always seen at the opening of old Superman shows. What was that anyway? 

Southern Pacific GS-2 daylight. This is a 4-8-4 semi-streamlined loco.

The Reading T1s have always been a favorite of mine.  But I like most steam engines, except the shrouded type - they loose their character.

I do like all steam, but I've always had a thing for 19th century trains! Sadly not a lot is made in o gauge. Also love 1920-1930 era as well! 

I like many era steam engines this one i would like to see mth make .

The rear wheel centered under the cab .

I just like steam engines.

Balloon stacks to turbines.

Special favorites are:

N&W steam. Had an uncle that worked for the N&W in Columbus Ohio. Learned about N&W steam from him.

Streamlined steam. Art Deco and Airflow designs are super cool in trains or cars

Having grown up in West Central Ohio, gotta like Lima built steam.

I prefer 20th century steam this is echoed in my HO layout and certainly my 3 rail O which is predominantly post war Lionel and some dear to my heart Marx. I also run transition era diesel but that took me some time to grow into.

As a kid I was a steam guy while my brother was into diesel. At an age too young to know about locomotive economics I was devastated when my father told me that steam was obsolete and would all be replaced by diesel in a few years. I think back to that day and that remark and it still brings great sadness to me, "How could they? It's such a beautiful machine." I exclaimed!

Bogie

I prefer steam from the USRA to the end. I like the bulky look of later steam locomotives. Not dainty or even clean-lined. Muscular; maybe even Gloriously Ugly.

Probably my tastes are influenced by my toys: Postwar Lionel steamers more or less resembled late steam engines because that's what was, or had most recently been, on the rails. Also, those were the sort of engines you'd see in mainline excursion service. By contrast, the 4-4-0 American Standards ran on theme park railroads, which somehow subtracted from their status as "real" trains.

nickaix posted:

By contrast, the 4-4-0 American Standards ran on theme park railroads, which somehow subtracted from their status as "real" trains.

The 4-4-0 was the backbone of early railroading and deserves respect.  Any 4-4-0 still operating today (including the Leviathan and York) is just as "real" as 844 or 765, regardless of where it's running.

Rusty

Rusty Traque posted:

nickaix posted:

By contrast, the 4-4-0 American Standards ran on theme park railroads, which somehow subtracted from their status as "real" trains.

The 4-4-0 was the backbone of early railroading and deserves respect.  Any 4-4-0 still operating today (including the Leviathan and York) is just as "real" as 844 or 765, regardless of where it's running.

Rusty

Well, I know that NOW, but when I was a little kid forming my preferences and prejudices, that's just not the way it seemed!

Transition era steam (lets me run diesels too).  For my late 40s PRR layout I can run steamers from an 0-4-0 to a large 4-4-6-4 duplex.  By this time most of PRR's steamers made prior to 1910 were gone.

I find that for operations I lean more to the smaller, older steamers in my stable.  My wife also likes small steamers, especially the 4-4-2 and early 2-8-0.

This is my favorite steam engine right now.  Western Maryland shay #6 was built in 1945.  I also like the N&W j class.  I would have to say that I prefer modern steam.

Some of my steam models.