Do you own a pink engine and why

I have the original Lionel 1957 pink and otherwise multi-colored set.  

I do not own a pink engine. I actually want one for several reasons. It does have a lore all it's own.  Every time I come close to pulling the trigger I buy something else.  

I am considering air brushing an older engine, 2037, in pink just to do it.  

Yes, I own a Williams 2-6-4 Girls Set.  My user name should explain the reason.

I have the original 1587S set. Why? Because it helps to complete my collection and it's the most fantastic conversation piece when non-train folks see it.

If I could only afford it...I would dearly love to have the recent MTH tinplate O gauge girls set & all the matching cars as well as the boys set & all available extra cars.

Have spent way too much on diesels, rolling stock and layout stuff last 2 years and train funds are more than depleted.  If they are still available in a year or two when I get caught up, I might very well be in the market for them then.

My LHS currently has the Williams girls set in stock which is much more affordable and is very tempting, but it's conventional and I am set up for command control only...still pondering that one.  I would much rather have the tinplate versions though.  

I have the Conventional Classics set. While the whole engine is not pink, I would like to see one of the manufacturers make the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Pink Ribbon UP ES44AC.

While I didn't go pink....I did go purple!

My niece's daughter was completely enthralled with the ACL F7's from Williams. I added lots of purple freight cars...but still needed a purple caboose. Thanks to the folks here, I was pointed to the perfect MTH purple ACL caboose!

I guess it does take a 'village' to make a purple train. 

My daughter loves her Williams GG-1 girls set.  Pat's trains had irt at such a deal that I had to get it.  Now when we run it it makes her feel special.  I am all in favor of anything that expands the hobby! Don't like it?  Don't buy it. IF Walter gets the complete cancer train in stock again I will probably buy that as well as my Mom is a cancer survivor. 

While I don't own a pink locomotive and am not likely to get one, I'm not repulsed by them.  I sort of find them interesting.

What I really find facinating is how a 1957 dud has been given a second life 40-50 years later and has even grown beyond the original concept.  I wonder how soon it will be before we see something along the lines a pink SD70ACe and contemporary freight cars in "fashion right"(as Lionel called them) colors.

Perhaps, we're all getting in touch with our feminine side?

Rusty

I have the RMT pink cancer set with four pieces.  I am a prostate cancer survivor. 

I have an RMT Beep I needed the bottom half for but I bought the pink cancer Beep beacause RMT shares some of the profits to cancer research. It would be nice if all the big guy's did that with every pink train they sell!

The 1957 set emerged as a "collectible" in the mid- to late-'60s.  So the "feminine" thing has been around a long time!  LOL!  

Pink? No. Never felt the need. My children are grown and were adults when I re entered the hobby.

Maybe is I get a grand daughter, there is a bun in the oven, no telling which version yet.

As bigo426 said, it's a great attention-getter. I have the K-Line complete set, still under cellohane. Depending on which way I'm leaning, I may take it to York in October(?).

Wally

I have two of these.  I decaled my granddaughter's baby pics on them.  Matt

I bought the K Line girls set for my little girl when she was about 2 or 3.  She just turned 12.  We run it every year at the Thanksgiving luncheon at her school along with my son's Polar Express.  Then they run under the Christmas tree.  It is a terrific set with lavender telephone poles, lighted buildings and a lot of extras like people and billboards.

I bought my Girl's Train set (the 1991 version) in 2011 to go along with the Boy's train set (2002).

I also have several other colorful steam train sets including...

This green and black with yellow-trimmed Reading 4-6-2 by K-Line.

A RailKing Dreyfuss Hudson in gray.

Lionel tinplate steam in a Christmassy red.

K-Line Hershey's Centennial 4-6-2 in chocolate and cream.

 and finally, the VERY colorful Lincoln Funeral train engine.

When steam engines are black they are a lot of fun, but color is cool too.

Just as a side note - as I came to understand it, somewhere, somehow, long ago, pink became associated (far back in history) with females, and blue became associated with males for this reason: women were seen as part of the fertility of the earth, with the productivity of the land (tans; browns; beiges.) Males were known for havng their heads up in the clouds, with wandering and wondering, adventures, creativity (head upward, imagining, thinking about what could be next.)

Please. Don't shoot this messenger. I'm just relating what I had heard quite some time ago, folks.

So, I never took pink as a pejorative, somehow as anti-male, but just as a color I wasn't personally partial to. And pink locomtives and pink army-gear would not have occurred to me, due to social customs.

No, put I will pending granddaughter.

Funny that this would come up now.  I never owned one, but my daughter Caroline has seen the Lionel and Williams pink "Girls" trains at the local Greenberg train shows and kept asking me to get her one.  Well, Wednesday was her birthday, and guess what she got for her birthday?  A Williams pink GG-1 freight set!  I meant to post photos on weekend photo fun, but have not yet had a chance to do so.  Would I have ever bought one for myself?  Well, what do you think?  But for my little girl, of course!

not as far back as you'd think.  here is a source i would trust as i know the Smithsonian does a great deal of research about clothes and clothing styles...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...rt-Wearing-Pink.html

cheers...gary

Maybe, you guys in the states dressed like girls, until you were 6 or 7; but, up here, past the 49th parallel, we were already wearing Mack jackets and lumberjack shirts, at that age; and, we knew how to fall a Douglas fir...

Rick

Oh, ya... young Franklin had cute Mary Jane shoes; not us - we wore Dayton biker boots.

Rick

Cheers is right, Gary; it's good to have that information, of course. Do you suppose such a color-bias/preference/predisposition is relevant/held outside the USA, too?

Oh man, RickB, if you knew how to fall ("fell"?) a Douglas Fir at that age (or any age, if ya' ask me,) I'd tip my hat (of any color) to you and stand back where you told me to stand! What a cool kid you must have been, cuttin' down trees and wearing suitable clothing for the act. (As a kid in Pittsburgh, PA, during the 50's, for recreation and tree cuttin', we just wore what had become too worn out for school-wear or Sunday-best, and occasionally slipped a piece of cardboard into our shoes if a hole had appeared.)

FrankM

Precisely.

Murph,

It was the floors of our Igloo's that could mess you up... those Dayton heals and soles might as well have been CCM ice skates. You learned balance real quick.

BTW, did you guys ever go "tree riding": you find yourself a nicely branched, tall fir; and climb to the top, on a windy day. That baby will be swaying to and fro, with you riding er.

That we started doing, tree riding, in our first year.

Rick

I almost forgot - what's with young Franklin's clean shaven face; by two, we all wore full beards; you'd get punched out for anything less.

Rick

Interesting you should ask me that, RickB. (I have a feeling Frank53 might have his jaw drop open on this li'l story of mine.) We - my fellow teenaged wilder friends/nutcases, during the early 60's - and I would go to a "woods" (as we called a large stand of trees back then) that was gradually being professionally cleared, to get our exercise for the day by chopping a selected older, larger and very tall tree ourselves, until it was ready to fall. Then, one of us would get to have the fun of climbing the tree to approx 2/3 its height and hold on, facing the direction the tree had been determined by us to fall. The guys on the ground would complete the cutting. Once the tree began its fall, the guy up in the tree - usually me - would simply (!) hold onto the trunk and as the tree fell, would extend his arms and gradually stand up, keeping his face close to the trunk. The felled tree's larger branches always smashed any standing trees foliage out of our way as we road the felled-tree down to the ground. Quite the thrill-ride. We never got hurt, but ohboyohboy,what a rush!!!

I thought of modeling this on a corner of my layout, once, but decided people would think it was unrealistic.

P.S. We never told our parents of this lame-brained stunt of ours.
P.P.S. Interestingly enough, one of the guys who used to do this "tree riding" with us (he has model trains, too, nowadays) had occasion to perform an heroic act while serving in Vietnam a few years later, climbing a pole to attach equipment and scope out the enemy. Go figger!

Life is good.

FrankM

Murph,

After reading that... I take it you didn't/don't have a pink engine, either.

BTW, not bad - your version of tree riding; a sort of Slim Picken's version(Dr. Strangelove... the bomb riding scene).

WARNING: "tree riding" can be hazardous...

Rick

Because this movie was a rip of a foreign film and Pink did not matter.

I decided to buy my girlfriend a Pink Standard gauge set to run when she participates at our shows.

Never heard that before.  I've heard that the director got inspiration from the 1956 film "The Killing" by Stanley Kubrick, who in turn was inspired by the novel "Clean Break" by American author Lionel White.

City on Fire is a Chinese film that came out 5 years before Reservoir Dogs and bears an uncanny resemblance 

I thought the post with the picture was really funny.

Oh yeah, you're right. Good analogy! Exactly like that, including the "Yaaahhhhoooooo" whoopin' and hollerin' on the waaaaaaaayyy down.

FrankM

OK, late as usual...but I was always one of those "Pink? Yeah, right - next thing you know

they'll be painting little foreign locos BLUE and selling them!".

Anyway, how is a pink loco much worse than a colorful General? (OK, the General, et al,

actually existed looking that way, at least some of them.)

No, no Pinkos here - but wait! I could paint my old Marx 4-6-4 pink and truly create

a Marxist Pinko! Must do that, one day - then add Kadee couplers to it and post

a photo on the 3RS Forum. Har.

Would a pink UP Big Boy become a Big Girl?

Operation Petticoat... i was wondering if anyone would recall that movie/ boat.

though speaking of petticoats... wasn't it Betty Joe Bradley who was often at the throttle of the Hooterville Cannonball?  i believe the thought of a pink locomotive would have made that girl puke.

i'll take one!

Uh, no.  Mainly because Seaboard Air Line and the other RRs I model didn't own any.

I wonder if we'll ever see a hot pink 765?

Rick