What’s your favorite cars?

@Bigboyrich posted:

Great set, love it……I want to get one. What is the set number?

Thank you, rich. I won't be home until later in the day and will have to look at the set box under the layout and get back atcha.

Like Brother Love, the caboose. Two of mine are favorites; the classic Lionel 6457, and a custom built DL&W caboose made by Brother Love.

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Thank you, rich. I won't be home until later in the day and will have to look at the set box under the layout and get back atcha.

Fairly certain the Santa Fe passenger cars are the following:

15312 Santa Fe 4 pack, 2003 Vol 1

29152 Santa Fe 2 pack, 2003 Vol 2

Lionel website has info on them.

@turtle7 posted:

............. I am in reverse of Lionelski---#1 for me are the 6464s-including all the modern/ club ones with metal door guides top and bottom...........

Turtle7,

I also love 6464's and have all of the PostWar issues (not the variations) and run all of them. Here is a pic of some of them:

I had all, including the over stamp issues, of the remake 6464's, but sold all of them to make room for more PostWar of every ilk. I did keep these three because I love WestPac:

As to 6414 Auto Loaders, this train speaks for itself:

@ed h posted:

Fairly certain the Santa Fe passenger cars are the following:

15312 Santa Fe 4 pack, 2003 Vol 1

29152 Santa Fe 2 pack, 2003 Vol 2

Lionel website has info on them.

Thank you, ed h!

So there you go, Bigboyrich. I recall that they're rare and hard to find, as they were made only one year.

@Bigboyrich posted:

I am partial to Caboose variations

Me too Bigboyrich

Check out my "One of a Kind Caboose" post on my website.

Great, rare and hard to find are the items I always seem to like!

My favorite's at this time are my MTH cylindrical map car hoppers. I only have 5 currently, so the hunt continues.

So far it's my "industrial" cars and my Sunoco Tankers. Hope to add a crane car,  any car with a genset on it and a 2 dome Sunoco.

One of my favorite cars!

One of my favorites is my Homemade NASA 6413 Mercury Capsule Transporting car with crane ready capsules to add to the fun.

Charlie

The cars/engines  that are not made/painted by the toy train companies....

Nice Keith, 3D printed?

Sorry if I've already responded, but I have several, but maybe this is my favorite?

Picture of me reenlisting in Jan 1988 in front of Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin Germany (personalized Lionel 6-84557):

I've been more into freight recently so I'll stick to that-My favorite cars to run generally have the following characteristics:  o scale, made by Atlas or Weaver, usually boxcars. I especially love any rolling stock that is "stamped" with reporting marks for a different railroad-such as a southern pacific boxcar with SP reporting mark but formerly from Railbox and still has the Railbox paint scheme. Also a big fan of leasing companies and Hy-cubes

Love my 50' Railbox boxcars, have 2 of the "alternate history" atlas Trainman on the way. Hereare the five I currently own, from left to right: Lionel Railbox small logo, Weaver SP(ex-Railbox), Atlas Tman two  Santa Fe(ex-Railbox), Atlas Trainman  Railbox. Closer shots below

2 Santa Fe ex-Railbox & one Railbox large logo

Railbox Small Logo Weaver SP ex-Railbox

I know they're a niche, but love these 40' hy-cubes by Atlas!(First ATSF is 1975 repaint, second ATSF is original)

Closer/clearer picture

Have loved Conrail since I was a kid. Vacation with family often in St. Augustine which has brought on a strong liking for the FEC . The Conrail  is technically a CSX boxcar, it's got the NYC stamp! , but it's also a Berwick 60' Hy-cube

These are the cars that "get me going" and "grind my gears"- luckily not my locomotives gears!!(corny but so be it)

@Lionelski posted:

Nice Keith, 3D printed?

No, just parts of parts of parts and glue.

@StevefromPA posted:

Have loved Conrail since I was a kid. Vacation with family often in St. Augustine which has brought on a strong liking for the FEC . The Conrail  is technically a CSX boxcar, it's got the NYC stamp! , but it's also a Berwick 60' Hy-cube.

@StevefromPA--Steve where did you get that nice looking tower from and can you post a better picture?

Tom

Here's my favorites

Another one of my favorite cars!

My 3 B&O Wagontop boxcars are among several of my favorite freight cars.

Looks like a nice layout

My favorite car would be the NYC MCRR outside braced boxcar.   An early 20th century car that was part of a set of six by MTH years ago. .   Its a perfect companion for the Lionel MCRR Berk (another favorite) that is difficult to find these days.

Here is a photo of a homemade short Vanderbilt tender from a junk Lionel tender and a mailing tube for the water tank.  It was an easy project and details are on another post on Homemade cars.

Charlie

Here’s mine.  A cream and maroon prewar standard gauge 513 cattle car and 517 coal set caboose that completes my collection of every color scheme of the 500 freights.

@PRR8976 Hey Tom-thanks for the compliment! Which tower are you referring to specifically? I assume it’s one of the 4 taller ones or the Tinplate one in the front(6 o’clock position) of the picture. Starting clockwise at midnight(far back corner):

12:00-Menards American Materials

2 or 3 o’clock- Lionel Cell Tower

6:00- Bing Yard Tower(actually a prewar transformer in disguise)

8:00ish- in front MTH rotating radar tower, behind is a LIOnel Amtrak water tower

Or is it something else?

let me know and I’ll gladly post a better picture of it for you!

Steve

@StevefromPA - Steve, thanks, 6 o'clock = Bing!

Tom

Here is my homemade Lionel Style Life Savers Tank Car with double domes.  It is my prettiest homemade car and is a one of the kind.

Charlie

Here are a few of my favorite cars, the Lionel 3376 Bronx Zoo ducking giraffe car.

The picture below shows 5 ducking giraffe cars weaving through 5 Marx switches and a new Wye, to get from the inside loop, then to the outside loop of the main train board to the outside loop of the new train board all the while reversing the train.

A string of Lionel 3376 giraffe cars has be my grand kids favorite cars for years as I have several bridges for them to duck through one car at a time.

Charlie