If you could go back in time...

Illinois Central 4-6-0 382

B&O 0-4-0T Dockside 98

Santa Fe "Blue Goose" 4-6-4 3460

Rusty

1) Southern Pacific MT-4/MT-5 4-8-2

2) Southern Pacific AC-9 2-8-8-4 (NOT a cab forward)

3) NYC Niagara 4-8-4

4) NYC Hudson

PRR J1a 2-10-4

PRR t1 4-4-6-4

PRR Q2 4-4-6-4

NYC J-3

Milwaukee Road streamlined F-7 hudson

PRR S-2 Turbine

Ok, I will play:

CB&Q Elesco FWH M4a 2-10-4

Canadian National 4-6-4

D&RGW M68 4-8-4

D&RGW L105 4-6-6-4

This should keep whoever will be doing this work quite busy for a while !!

PRR 9669, aka OR&W 5 (I think it was Second 5, anyway)

B&O EM-1 7600

A NYC Hudson, not sure which one would be best

Reading K-1 2-10-2

Record-setting Atlantic City Railroad Camelback 4-4-2 No. 1027

CNJ Camelback 4-6-0 No. 774

A NYC Hudson has been mentioned so I'll add the first Niagara, No. 6000

as long as we're just talking about steam engines...

the one George Corliss built for the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.  seventy feet tall with a 56 ton flywheel, its 1400 hp output powered the entire exhibition hall continuously for six months.  George Pullman eventually bought it and shipped it to his factory where it ran for the next 30 years until sold for scrap at $8/ton.

NYC Dreyfuss Hudson (20th Century Limited)

NYC Dreyfuss Hudson (Empire State Express)

NYC Hudson J3a

As many Mason Bogies as possible.

B&O EM1 2-8-8-4

Western Maryland Class I-2 2-10-0 OR Class H-9 2-8-0

Cumberland & Pennsylvania  2-8-0 #32, built 1910 at C&Ps Mt. Savage,MD. shops, sold to the Winchester & Western in Gore,VA,in 1945, scrapped 1953. Could have been only survivor of over 30 built by that shop for the C&P.

Niagara

J-3A Hudson

J-3A Dreyfuss Hudson

J-1 Hudson

B&O EM-1

PRR T1 4-4-4-4

PRR Q2 4-4-6-4

I carefully considered this, and then I got carried away and went to seven....they are in order

I think that the western roads made out fairly well in terms of notable designs that were saved, especially UP and ATSF. So my list is oriented to eastern steam.

Any reasonable list has to include these!

The B&O EM1 is a must...and would have been saved but for a beaurocratic snafu !  Next up is the always popular PRR J1, a mill that would have been saved if the museum in Worthington , Ohio had possessed a larger facility.  And the all time champ for engines that should have been saved....NYCS Hudson 5344 J1e !   Sad truth is we could have had any of a large number of Central Hudsons, but failed to act collectively.  I can also appreciate a large number of the other choices listed above, but we are limited to three chooches !

I'll throw my hat in the ring for a NYC J3a.

Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes 24

One of the small Pere Marquette Belpaire firebox steamers from the early 1900's.

Jeff C

Overland Flyer:  That Corliss Engine reminds me of one of the Gilbert Erector set models from way back - probably where they got the inspiration. I would have loved seeing it in operation. I wonder if there could have been any film made of it in the  1890's?

Here's my three four: the PRR S-1 6-4-4-6 Duplex, the PRR S-2 Turbine, the NYC Hudson #5433 (of course), and just for fun, another vote for the B&O Docksider.

There were six J-1 Hudsons scrapped in Erie, PA. I was told by the yard manager at Luria brothers that the price paid for ALL SIX engines was $10,000. Who among us wouldn't pony up the $1600, even inflated to todays dollars, for a NYC Hudson. The engines were scrapped in 1956.

I once had a conversation with a Civil Engineering guy who worked for NYC and was a "steam man". He was told upon visiting Airline Junction (Toledo) that an operable J-3A could be bought for $8,000.

Anything Lehigh Valley

Crusader

J3a

C&O M-1 turbine

Heres my picks a sal 4-8-2 m2 mountain oil burner steamer.The rf&p 4-8-4 steamer and a ic 4-8-2.

I know there are a few already saved, but the more the merrier:

1)PRR B6 steam switcher

2)PRR A5 steam switcher

Tie for #3)PRR GG1/New York Central S motor

Tom 

Here are my 3 choo choo picks:

B&O  EM - 1

B&O  0-8-8-0  ( Old Maude ) 

NYC Dreyfus Hudson 

ATSF 3460

PRR 6200 (S2 Turbine for you non-SPF's)

CNW 3018 (H1 Northern) Was going back and forth between this one and a Yellow Jacket Pacific.

1. NYC Dreyfuss

2. RFP Berkshire

3. Milwaukee Road Hiawatha Hudson

Honorable Mention: 1 of Each Pennsylvania Railroad Steamers for the Pennsylvania guys

NYO&W Light or Heavy 4-8-2 Mountains

Southern Pacific MT4 or MT5 4-8-2

NYC Niagara 4-8-4

My 3

Cincinnati Lebanon and Northern no.17

a Southern Rwy PS-4 pacific

Nickle Plate Hudson 

The last version of the New York Central Hudson, the light UP challenger( only the heavy version has survived), old Maude the first big 0-6-6-0 articulated steamer, The Seagulls (Edward from the Railway series), and the Ghost the first engine built in the UK to run on subways lines.

Southern Ry Ms-4...Heavy Mikado.

Southern Ry 4-6-0..Tenwheeler.

Southern Ry Ls-2....Mallet 2-8-8-2. 

Old Maude was an 0-6-6-0...the first Mallet in the US.   As for the Hudson info posted by "Hudson",  That lines up nearly to the nickel to what I've heard....talk about infamy!  Same short-sighted (or worse) #@$%^*& !  stuff still goes on today, thanks to the lack of commitment, and above all - communication !

Reading Crusader

PRR GG-1(operational, not a static museum piece)

If I could yurn back time, I would go back to July 1, 1989 as the center gun on the Mighty Mo!

Larry

Overland Flyer's Corliss machine brings to mind that 3 Corliss steam engines have been preserved at the Old Threshers Reunion facilities in Mt. Pleasant, IA. They functioned for long periods of time as municipal water pumps. As I recall, the big flywheels made them semi-perpetual motion machines, perfect for constant demand utility work.

#1 has does live here (well, a B4 anyways).....

Personally, I wish they saved a couple more PRR K4's so we could actually see one running today!

Nice looking locomotive. Thanks for posting that. I was not aware of it.

Tom

Hmmn...

1) Western Maryland I-2 2-10-0.

2) Chesapeake & Ohio T-1 2-10-4.

3) Reading G-3 4-6-2.

WM M2 4-6-6-4  1204

WM K2 4-6-2    208

WM I2  2-10-0 1111

Anything from the DL&W, as there is just one little steam engine left, to my knowledge - at Steamtown the last I knew.

N&W K2a Cab#137

N&W Y6b Cab#2200

N&W S1a Cab#244

This really isn't a fair question. If you asked for "30", great locomotives would still be left off the list. I only picked these three because they were the final of each class and none of their class survived. (Yes, I know about the 2156 Y6a, but it ain't a "b")

PRR J1a 2-10-4

PRR T1 4-4-4-4

PRR I1s 2-10-0

Honorable mention to the N2sa 2-10-2

George

We have a Hippo (I1sa)  up in Hamburg, NY.  This locomotive stood for many years at the Westinghouse plant in Wilmerding, Pa.  As a fan trip engine, you could do a lot worse.  Especially if you mated her to the 210F75 tank not far away.

Thanks, jaygee!  I vaguely remembered at least 1 Hippo was in existence, but wasn't sure.  Would have been a real shame not to have one of these preserved.

And I know where Wilmerding is.  In fact, back in the 1980s I did some VAX-11 realtime work for WABCO (Westinghouse Air Brake Company) near by.

George

ET&WNC # 11. When the RR pulled up it's 3-foot tracks after 1950, they had two locomotives sitting around. # 12 got sold to some people building a RR park in Virginia (which lasted less than a year) and 11 was supposedly offered to the city of Johnson City, TN as a display. The story goes that the city turned the RR down and out came the torches soon afterward.

Using the N&W theme that Gilly put up, I'd agree on most...but would pull the 137 K2, and substitute Class A # 1242....with roller bearings on every thing including the engineer's lunch box !

ORIGINALLY POSTED BY TRAINS4ME:

 

Anything from the DL&W, as there is just one little steam engine left, to my knowledge - at Steamtown the last I knew.

 Actually the St. Louis Museum cosmetically restored a 4-4-0 Lackawanna cammelback.

any of the non streamlined NYC 4-6-4 J1e

Seaboard R-1 Articulated

UP 4-6-2 49er Streamlined

An NYO&W 4-6-0, #225.

First and foremost:  Southern Mikado #4526 (my dad fired that loco during WWII)

Then, as cited above, D&RGW power such as 4-8-2's, and 4-8-4, and their 16

driver articulateds.  Also, as cited above examples of all the three foot gauge locos,

including the Mason-Bogies of the "South Park", that ran in Colorado.  (fortunaely,

much of the later big Rio Grande three foot power has been saved)

1. Delaware Lackawanna & Western 1500-series 4-8-4.  In my opinion the "cleanest" non-streamlined Northern ever built.

2. DL&W 2-8-0 #799 or 736.  Nothing unusual, just a workhorse freight loco, but it handled the tri-weekly "drill" on the Gladstone Branch when I was a kid.  Nostalgia trip.

3. NYC Hudson.