My all-time favorite locomotives are UP's Big Boy and their DDa40X Centennial. I can't help it, I just love those monsters! I'm heartbroken that steam was gone before the DD's were introduced. Can't be prototypical and run them together on my layout! LOL
As for models, I'm a sucker for Bachmann's 4-8-4. Don't understand it. None of them run all that well, even the newer ones. But I'm constantly bidding on them on eBay, looking to pick them up cheap. I have about half a dozen in pieces in a cigar box. Future projects, you know! LOL I have 4 or 5 more in more or less running condition. Just can't help myself!
I'm almost as bad with Atlas' old 0-4-0 slope back switcher. I think I have about 6 of them, most in running condition, a few for rebuild projects. Bachmann made the same loco, but it's nowhere near what the Atlas models are!
Darrell, quiet...for now