Whats your favorite peice of railroad equipment?

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Littlefoot14

Littlefoot14

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Id like to hear about you favorite type of Prototype railroad equipment. Please be really specific. Pictures would be great too!

Mine? Well i really like Jordan Spreaders
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Union Pacific 1989 has a special place in my heart as well. Along with the DD40AX's as well.
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*i dont own any of the photos
 
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Gotta be my Sunset N&W "M" class 4-8-0's. I have 2 now. Both run smooth as silk. In the "Real World" I'd have to say the N&W Y5's and Y6's.
 
Favorite piece eh? Wow, tough one.
I guess if the house were burning down and I had just enough time to save something it would have to be my Genesis F45 and a hand full of coal cars.
Okay if I had time to go back in for one more grab... the rest of the coal cars.
 


this is my first post on this site and i just have to answer this question...

my favorite piece of prototype equipment is probably the grand trunk line car ferries that were used in the great lakes, this is because i happen to be interested in ships as well but if that doesnt count as prototype equipment then i would have to say that my next favorite piece of equipment is probably the GS4 daylight #4449 locomotive in real life and in model term my favorite are KATOs n scale budd RDCs
 
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also i am still trying to figure out all of the model railroading terms and i am also still young so please take it easy on me if i post something stupid or incorrect
 
I would have to say 1920's-1930's boxcab locomotives! I had no real intrest in them until I needed a good n scale industial switcher for the 1930's era. It Forced me to study the era I was modeling and I found the rarely modeled switcher. http://sbiii.com/jfcageir/ageir5.html

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Next would have to be the UP's Gas Turbines and U50's!
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What can I say I like odd locomotives!:D
 


Neat stuff so far guys, keep the pics coming!

CaseyJones- Dont worry about age, im only 14 and theres a few more members here about 15-18. Just one tip though: try not to type like youd send a text message, the older members seem to appreciate it.
 
I'd have to say mine would be CP's 9515 AC4400CW

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Then it would be CPR's Frieghtliner boom truck. I actually got to operate this in the Detroit/Windsor tunnel when I had to replace a bunch of 8'' pump discharge piping after a double stack that was too high went through when it was supposed to go over at Sarnia. CPR's guys were cool shit, they gave me a tour of the tunnel and took me over to the Detroit side.

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My all time favorite just has to be the little tooter caboose...

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It was a pristine 57 year old all cast metal kit that, oddly enough, was manufactured in a local town not far from where I live today. :)


Greg
 
I have had a thing for Interlocking towers for quite sometime now. Kind of breaks my heart they have been dissappearing since the early 90s.
 


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