Allegheny posted:The Allegheny 1600, 1602, 1603, 1605 , 1607, 1608.1609, 1610
Why would you want to bring back anything else???
Why would anyone want a model of one of the ugliest, most ill-proportioned engines to ever ride American rails?
Kirk R posted:As a newcomer to the hobby I'm a bit confused by the OP's posting and some of the responses. Maybe there should be a separate thread, but if there were to be a top ten it might make more sense to be road name agnostic and just look at the engine and how it helped U.S. commerce, transportation, passengers, the war effort etc. in general. There are a lot of cool looking trains but many duds (I have the S2 turbine PW, caterpillar and Pennsy T1... all fell short but look awesome).
From a historical perspective I would put a higher priority on those engines that made a difference.
You're not confused. A lot of this thread has made little to no sense....at all.
Allegheny posted:The Allegheny 1600, 1602, 1603, 1605 , 1607, 1608.1609, 1610
Why would you want to bring back anything else???
Haha Great locomotive. I've got some other ones I'd like to post here but one would be a Virginian AG and Virginian MB
Berkshire President posted:Kirk R posted:As a newcomer to the hobby I'm a bit confused by the OP's posting and some of the responses. Maybe there should be a separate thread, but if there were to be a top ten it might make more sense to be road name agnostic and just look at the engine and how it helped U.S. commerce, transportation, passengers, the war effort etc. in general. There are a lot of cool looking trains but many duds (I have the S2 turbine PW, caterpillar and Pennsy T1... all fell short but look awesome).
From a historical perspective I would put a higher priority on those engines that made a difference.
You're not confused. A lot of this thread has made little to no sense....at all.
It is not supposed to make sense, a thread like this is a flight of fancy, what people would love to save if they could. Looked at in the cold light of day (or with an accountant's or banker's heart) restoring and saving old engines is a fools errand, whether it was a big boy, a T1, whatever, since there is no profit in it, no practical reason to do so, the engines that have been saved have been saved because people wanted to save them for purely emotional reasons......even the corporate steam program at UP is driven by emotions, the public relations they get out of the steam program is all about people's emotions around steam engines, and likely if people at UP weren't emotionally invested in it to some extent it likely wouldn't exist, given that the PR value of doing that is not easy to measure *shrug*.
Again, we'll have to agree to disagree....respectfully.
Virginian AE 2-10-10-2
Virginian PA 4-6-2
Great Northern S-1 4-8-4
Great Northern O-8 2-8-2
Northern Pacific Z-5 2-8-8-4
Northern Pacific Z-6 4-6-6-4
Baltimore & Ohio EM-1 2-8-8-4
Rio Grande L-131 2-8-8-2
Rio Grande M-75 4-8-2
Rio GRande M-64 4-8-4
Stuart
I like to have seen a m2 mountain type steam locomotive Seaboard Air Line.And an r1 2-6-6-4 steam locomotive also Seaboard Air Line.These locomotives ran through my home town of monroe n.c.
smd4 posted:Allegheny posted:The Allegheny 1600, 1602, 1603, 1605 , 1607, 1608.1609, 1610
Why would you want to bring back anything else???
Why would anyone want a model of one of the ugliest, most ill-proportioned engines to ever ride American rails?
SMD4, You must have misread my posting, I wasn't speaking about the Big Boy or an EMD SD40!
Berkshirelover726 posted:Allegheny posted:The Allegheny 1600, 1602, 1603, 1605 , 1607, 1608.1609, 1610
Why would you want to bring back anything else???
Haha Great locomotive. I've got some other ones I'd like to post here but one would be a Virginian AG and Virginian MB
Agreed I'll drop the 1610 and pick up the Virginian AG 900, Same locomotive different paint job.
NYC J3A
NYC Niagara
Pennsylvania Q2
Norfolk and Western Y6b
Union Pacific 119
Central Pacific Jupiter
Pennsylvania T1
Norfolk and Western Jawn Henry
Erie Triplex
Western Maryland Potomac
Allegheny posted:Berkshirelover726 posted:Allegheny posted:The Allegheny 1600, 1602, 1603, 1605 , 1607, 1608.1609, 1610
Why would you want to bring back anything else???
Haha Great locomotive. I've got some other ones I'd like to post here but one would be a Virginian AG and Virginian MB
Agreed I'll drop the 1610 and pick up the Virginian AG 900, Same locomotive different paint job.
Actually, the C&O H-8 and the VGN AG did have some differences. The sand boxes were different, with the H-8 having larger ones than the AG, and the AG had more water capacity in the tender (26,500 gals vs 25,000 gals).
Stuart
Just 2.
Milwaukee 261
CB&Q O5
CBQer posted:Just 2.
Milwaukee 261
CB&Q O5
Isn’t 261 already saved and in operation?
NS6770Fan posted:CBQer posted:Just 2.
Milwaukee 261
CB&Q O5
Isn’t 261 already saved and in operation?
there is no place for actual reality in this thread.......
CBQer posted:Just 2.
Milwaukee 261
CB&Q O5
In reality four CB&Q O5s are saved: 5614 in Missouri, 5629 in Colorado, 5631 and 5633 in Wyoming.
Now that I am better at this stuff, here are some personal opinions regarding more than 10 engines:
- Southern Pacific MT-4 #4354: Portland, OR
- Southern Pacific AC-11 #4274: Golden Gate Railroad Museum
- Louisville & Nashville M-1 #1985: Operational out of the Southeastern Railway Museum
Here's another 10:
1. C&O K-3 2-8-2
2. L&N Big Emma 2-8-4
3. SOU Ts-1 4-8-2
4. IC 4-6-4 #1
5. NYC Dreyfuss Hudson
6. N&W E2a 4-6-2
7. CNW E2a 4-6-2
8. CNW J-4 2-8-4
9. N&W Streamlined K2 4-8-2
10. Erie S-3 2-8-4
Harizon posted:Here's another 10:
1. C&O K-3 2-8-2
2. L&N Big Emma 2-8-4
3. SOU Ts-1 4-8-2
4. IC 4-6-4 #1
5. NYC Dreyfuss Hudson
6. N&W E2a 4-6-2
7. CNW E2a 4-6-2
8. CNW J-4 2-8-4
9. N&W Streamlined K2 4-8-2
10. Erie S-3 2-8-4
Glad to see I'm not the only one who wishes an Erie 2-8-4 had been preserved.
Now when I started this thread it was really meant as a hypothetical "What would you save/bring back if you could?" sort of this. I'm pretty surprised my topic has been "bumped," so many times over the last year.
A few of my own:
1. DRGW M-68 4-8-4
2. DRGW L-105 4-6-6-4
3. DRGW L-132 2-8-8-2
4. D&SL Class 76 2-6-6-0
5. UP CSA-1 4-6-6-4
6. UP MT-1 4-8-2
7. NP Z-8 4-6-6-4
8. C&S E-5-A 2-10-2
9. C&S 70
10. SP AM-2 4-6-6-2
Any PRR K4 preservation effort should return the loco to its pre “beauty treatment” arrangement. Slatted pilot, no chin strap, lowered headlight, raised dynamo...
Jon 
