Whats your favorite peice of railroad equipment?

[UP2CSX]

Those big hooks are mighty tempting but my favorite is still a PFE 40' ice reefer. There's just something about the color scheme and longevity of the cars that I like. My second choice would be something like this:

 

[Chris Roy]

Here are my two favorite pieces of equipment - Praxair's fleet of liquid hydrogen tank cars, and the venerable switch stand. Praxair has a fleet of 16 of these cars, and a batch of a dozen are my next scratch building project (they're almost always run in back-to-back pairs, so it's really more like 6). I especially like the little enclosures at the filling ends of the cars.
And here's my collection of switch stands, awaiting some restoration.

 

[Rico]

Well if we're talking 1/1 scale goodies then I'm changing my druthers.
This is my favorite little critter, a diesel/mechanical Plymouth 10 tonner I hope to restore next year.
I'm working on getting a GE 35 tonner that I used to run when I worked at a coal plant next.

 

[KCSRailfan]

I would have to Say KCS SD40-2 #682

KCS SD40X #700

KCS SD70ACe #4037

and KCS FP9,1,2,FP9B,3
And all of the rest of the KCS Units

 

[Gary B]

Well, not really being a Railroader, either by occupation or disposition. (I'm a modeler and my current project happens to by a railroad.) That said, I love dome cars and pointy observation cars! Favorite loco - E-units.

 

[Chris Roy]

Well if we're talking 1/1 scale goodies then I'm changing my druthers.
This is my favorite little critter, a diesel/mechanical Plymouth 10 tonner I hope to restore next year.
I'm working on getting a GE 35 tonner that I used to run when I worked at a coal plant next.

That is just too cool!!!! I can just imagine the jaw drop when someone walks out with you to check out your Plymouth restoration, and see this...

 

[CSXPAID]

I love Allegheny type steam engines 2-6-6-6!! #1601 at the henry ford has a special place in my heart because i proposed to my wife next to her!!!!

I also like the ugly duck the BL-2

 

[ianacole]

The D&RGW iteration of the California Zephyr.

 

[BN8002]

I like the MRL sd45 in the background

 

[diburning]

I like how some of those are now owned by Pan Am Railways and are now BLUE

 

[dgwinup]

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

 

[tooter]

Besides the tooter caboose, my totally favorite piece of real railroad equipment is this...

 

[KCSRailfan]

I like how some of those are now owned by Pan Am Railways and are now BLUE

Oh no thats the worst thing i dont want to see happen to older KCS units getting sold off of scrapped. Looks better in Grey any ways