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My first post here!

I like anything that moves on rails.

My first train was a loop of track, a steam outline engine, a couple of freight cars and a caboose. I was between 4 and 5 years old (~1945). The engine was a (long departed) steam engine (possibly Marx, but I'm no historian). I do remember that the loop of track was mounted on a piece of plywood. My father and a couple of guys he worked with liberated the plywood from their aircraft company employer right at the end of WW-2.

I grew up appreciating all kinds of propulsion machinery. Lots of memories of steam, diesel and electric motive power.

Just starting on a new (mostly) On30 layout. First motive power will be steam. It will interchange with a standard gauge line using a single Budd Diesel car. Kind of like the NWP and the California Western RR interchange at Willits, CA, except the Cal Western segment will be narrow gauge.

Rereading the question: I would run what I have or what fits to the modeled era!!

Last edited by Boonter41

I honestly don't know what I would chose if I could only have/run one engine on my layout. I guess I would have to say a steam engine, since I like the look of the steam engines better running than diesels. As to what steam, I guess first choice would be NKP 765, since I have ridden behind that one, second choice would probably be the N&W J 611, since I have that one, then probably the Big Boy by MTH.

Now, if I had to choose one that my wife would want me to have, it would have to be a 19th Century Steam Engine, since that is the only kind she likes.

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