What’s your favorite cars?

My favorite rail car is a custom painted Pollerni Steel #9968 coil car from the AWVR #1206 consist from the movie Unstoppable.

My favorite would be my post-war silver series aluminum Passenger cars.

hello my standard gauge blue comet

kevin

"What's your favorite cars?".....might be a better title on your post.......

Just got these last week, haven’t even put them on the track yet. They need a little work, but dang, they are cool.

Another vote for the Postwar 2500 series - can't beat the classics!

My favorite car is any caboose.  This is the one that started it all. My dad took me to see a fellas layout when I was 3 yrs old. He asked me which was my favorite car and I said, “the caboose.”  He reached under the table and hand me this one and I’ve had it for 67 years. The caboose is still my favorite car and I miss them still.

Any operating milk car. For some reason I love launching those milk cans.

I spent a 40 year career in grain, fertilizer and chemical transportation. I’m not at all ashamed to admit I have a certain affection for covered hoppers and tank cars.

Curt

Covered hoppers and coal hoppers are my favorite!!!

postwar Madison cars

My Lionel Hood's Milk cars and my custom Hood's tinplate car....My Grandfather designed the Hood's Milk Bottle Logo.

Anything that I could put behind a PRR Steam or 1st Generation Diesel. That being said the PW 2500 Series passenger cars and all the extruded  painted cars by MTH PRR and N&W . Then boxcars, tanker cars and my favorite freight car is the Cabin Car or commonly known as the caboose.

Although I model in 3 rail scale, I purchase a lot of 2 rail rolling stock (yes, they can run on 3 rail track). I have many favorite cars, but some of my absolute favorites are my brass n&w H2a hoppers.

In second place are my I Love New England & New York Lionel Cars.

Malcolm, awesome memory, and the fact you still have that caboose is pretty cool. For me, I’m a boxcar kind of guy. I have quite a few standard gauge boxcars, but I really like the traditional sized ones. MPC, Lti. To Menards cars, I like having them look new, but I also enjoy weathering them, and sometimes even adding graffiti to some. I know, I know, shame on me for defacing those collector items, but I usually have a brand new one as well as a weathered one. Just depends on how I feel that day, makes the decision as to running a weathered consist, or a “new” consist.

Post War 6414 Auto Loaders are #1 for me.

6464 box cars next

Then "Mint" bullion cars

Lastly, as in trains, cabeese

Ditto to Brother Love.  I like cabooses...might be hereditary, since my grandfather, furniture-class carpenter, put interiors in L&N cabooses in the Louisville, Ky. shops.  When 8? years old, my dad's buddy gave me a ride on a Southern caboose rear platform as they switched coal hoppers around on a dealer siding.   My favorite would be the two types of Colorado Midland sidedoors, but l have none in O  (just HO). Any sidedoor, combine, or drover caboose l like.  The Missouri Pacific seems to have had the wildest variety, but the CB&Q also warranted a book devoted to cabooses.

First thought was passenger cars as always look nice especially night runs.  Lately for me it’s been creating consists.  Military, all black SP overnight, pacemaker, nuclear flat cars with the lights all flashing, k line tank or hopper car consists etc.