Love at first sight

Matt,

The first unit!


I could never see myself having a Canadian prime minsters name on one of my boys. Nah!

Excellent colours etc. on the Bush project, though.


Kane

For me it's definatly the New York Central M-497 Jet rail car they realesed in 2010. Great looker and amazing sounds

For me it was my Lionel Century Club II New York Central 4-8-4 Niagara.



~Jeffrey

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Jim,

My 11'x11' bedroom makes for less than ideal conditions, for some of my monsters to operate in. That's what I like, though, so I made them, sort-of, fit.

I don't even have that! Lol. I don't even have a loop (except for the Post War 2046 train that runs around the Christmas tree each year). I have a 30" wide switching layout against one 14' wall in my home office. Luckily, even in HO, hands-off switching is what I like to do most in model railroading.

Believe me, I wrestled with my conscience over selling the AC6000's. In the end, I decided that having two 77ft engines tied together doing switching duty in a small yard ... just wouldn't work. Lol.

Jim

Jim,


The biggest units I have are my 80 and 9043MACs. King size, mean sounding, scale motive power. They're even bigger than my AC6000CW.

When I bought the MACs, a few years ago, I bought three(two 80's and a 9043). The CSX 80 had to go back, though. That was the first time I bought three units from one catalog page. It just wouldn't be the same, for me, without my big stuff.


Kane

Lionel EVO GEVO ES44AC.
And as a bonus, it worked.

Eliot

Santa Fe Blue Goose


Cheryl

Premier 3GS21B Genset in NS paint....niiiice.

SP AC-9 by Lionel, was great, is great, I run it every day.

Mike

Lionel Legacy M1b.

If I could keep only one that would be it....

I love the look of pilot. The tender is elegant and beautifully lettered.

I have others I really, really like, but that one is special to me.

Ben

For me, well, my first train was a bowser model trains pacific painted in the Erie railroad scheme, but that's not my favorite. My favorite is 11:00 on my lionel train wall clock. Milwaukee Road F-7 Baltic #101

Love at first sight was the Weaver Milwaukee Road F6a 4-6-4 Baltic. One of the most detailed brass engines ever made in 3-rail, one of the most beautifully proportioned unstreamlined steam engines ever made, and a speed record holder besides. A perfect trifecta. 

hello guys and gals...........

its the S.F.5011 Texan my favorite and long time love at first sight (45 years) and second love in sight is NW-2 switcher (50 years). I never out grew it.

 

the woman who loves the S.F.5011,623

Tiffany

 

This has happened many times and, with trains, I can keep each one I "love at first sight".  When I was 10, I went insane over the 210-211 AA's.  Dad got them, I still have them.  The latest episode of this was Tuesday when I saw the postings for that uncatalogued MTH ES44 Demonstrator.  Peer pressure, weak minded, or savvy train guy (definitely not), I don't know, but I hadn't planned on that engine and fell hard for it. I think it's just stupid gorgeous (watch Lionel come out with a die-cast Vision Line version of it).

JLC Allegheny

 

Yesterday, I got my new scale wheels 3.0 Canadian Pacific H24-66 Train master... a great looking locomotive; but, the EMD SD70ACe DEMO unit, that I spoke of in my opening post, in this thread, still holds the top spot...

 

 

Rick

 

 

 

Talk about zombie thread lol!

 

For me it would have to be the 1937 20th Century Limited. There's just no beating the early days of the train when all the streamlining and passenger cars were fully and perfectly matched. After that, little by little as a matter of practicality the streamlining was removed and the cars not so stringently matched up.

 

Re: MTH's Premier EMD DEMO SD70ACe - The pictures I have of the prototypes(GM72 & 73) have blue front pilots; MTH's has a white pilot.

 

Some might take issue with that, but I like the look... better than the originals. MTH's version gives the cab, a long distinctive face.

 

 

Rick

When I saw the thread title, I thought that might be interesting; then, I saw the original posters name, Kane. I thought - there's another Kane? I had forgotten about the thread...

 

Read the opening post and I was looking in the mirror...

 

Rick

MTH EMD SD70ACe Bush 41. That would have been my first scale-wheeled locomotive had it been available that way. I'm going to carefully convert it. There was no way on the planet I could have afforded the Overland Model. Seeing Overland's model, I immediately fell in love with that design, bought the Demonstrator, the Bush 41, the CNW/UP Heritage, the Katy/UP Heritage, and the ATSF "Heritage" (actually, Isle of Denial) version -- the "heritage" units all have scale wheels.

 

Ever since I was about 5 or 6, I always wanted the Chesapeake & Ohio streamlined Yellowbelly Hudson that appeared on the Tom Snyder Show in December 1995. It's gorgeous paint scheme and amazing Lionel sound system (at least for its time) was an instant favorite.

 

It took me about 10 years, but my grandpa was fortunate enough to get it for me for Christmas and it is still one of my most beloved trains in my collection and a great moment in my life.

Two locos have done it for me:

 

- 3rd Rail ATSF Northern 2929 - the Santa Fe 2900 cloass is my favorite loco and this model was breathtakingly beautiful out of the box.  I have it on display in my office at work where I can look at it all the time during the day.  Among locos I run a lot here at home, the Vision Challenger would be tops but it didn't come quite up to that level.

 

- Your original posting basically asked about when you first saw the loco, but the greatest "Wow!" I have ever had on any new loco was when I heard the Legacy U30C for the first time.  As it fired up into idle I could hear the tappet noises or something d a rich complexity of mechanical background sounds in addition to that deep exhaust rumble that just blew me away.  It's a great quality model visually - don't get me wrong - but I expected that.  But the sound.  WOW!  

The ATSF E8m that got me back into model trains back around 1998 floored me with its detail and the PS2.  It was either the first or one of the very first PS2 engines, and the sounds and tricks were way more than I had ever expected in 3-rail O gauge.  

 

Today, it is still a fine engine and a strong runner, but the bar has been raised higher.  Even so, that engine had such an effect on me that I have 32 diesel units, 4 steam engines, 175 freight cars and 50 passenger cars. 

Mine would be the 2-8-8-8-2 Erie Triplex.  Something about that blue metal gives it such a unique look.  In terms of subways it would have to be the R-36 Worlds Fair cars. Almost for the same reason just really enjoy looking at that unique blue color. 

This one!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Southern's streamlined 4-6-2  "Tennessean".

 

 

My focus is and remains all N&W, all scale Steam. That said; when I saw the UP Bush 4141, I absolutely had to get it. In my opinion, it has the best looking paint job I've ever seen. This purchase was completely out of character. It was very nice that Lionel produced a matching caboose for my MTH Premier engine.

 

Gilly

 

What really got me to kick up my interest was the first Lionel "scale" Santa Fe F3.  It was nearly perfect and 3 rail product has only improved since 2002.

 

The picture below is a highly modified version of the same engine.

Marker:

 

One of the nicest photos of this engine I have ever seen. I remember attending the TCA Museum presentations when this engine was first announced. This engine has a special place on my layout and gets run regularly. Thanks for posting this terrific picture. I am a big Sante Fe fan.

My rock island northern.  it brought back so many memories of my childhood.  

I can respect the love for ATSF, I was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and some of my happiest memories are of my dad taking me to a Santa Fe railyard.

This is a great Topic.  I love to read what Forum members feel about Love at first sight when it comes to motive power.  For me it is the Lionel Spirit Of The Century F-3.  Lionel has produced many beautiful engines, the Spirit Of The Century is hard to beat.

 

Many thanks,

 

Billy C

Passenger Train Collector - Thank You,  I also enjoy your pictures.

Billy C:

 

My Rhode Island buddy, I agree, this engine is hard to beat. I also have it on our railroad and we ran it under our Christmas Tree this year.

All of the ones I own. If I didn't "love" it I would not have bought it.

And another streamlined Southern engine pulling the Golden Arrow. 

For me, I also love all of my engines but the one that really struck me out of the box was my Lionel SP Cab Forward 4-8-8-2 AC-12. One great looking and sounding steam engine which is good runner.

Nicole,

 

Do you model British Railways?

Well, if you mean do I have any, then no, but I would love the Lionel Hogwarts Express, Olton Hall is my favorite British locomotive.

 

Gilly,

 

Great looking engine!

 

Link,

 

You'll understand my question, when you open something like... Gilly's ACe; the attraction is unmistakable.

 

I'm a bit surprised nobody has mentioned a Vision line GEVO; maybe, I missed seeing it?

 

 

Rick