What's y'alls favorite steam locomotives?

Question

I like the 2-8-2 Mikados, 2-8-4 Berkerises, 4-8-2 Mountains, 4-8-4 Northerns, and 4-8-8-4 Big Boys. I like eninge #611 and #1218 from Norflok & Western too. I also like the Iron Horses of the 4-4-0's. Y'all gotta favorite steam locomotive(s)?

Answer 1

4884 Bigboy.  But also very partial to the various steam streamliners, esp the Hudsons used by the NYC.

Answer 2

I am a British rail enthusiast and my tastes in steam locomotives are pretty catholic, but I do have a soft spot for the Somerset & Dorset Railway 7F 2-8-0, also Peckett industrial locomotives which were mainly 0-6-0 and 0-4-0 saddle tanks.

I also like European steam locos, the German class 38 4-6-0 and 01 4-6-2s being particular favourites, along with narrow gauge types like the Austrian Krauss U1 0-6-2T and the heavy 10-coupled types common on the metre gauge in Germany.

Favourite US locos are the outside-framed narrow gauge 2-8-2s ex- Denver & Rio Grande Western which still run on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railway, and the Pennsy K4 Pacifics.

Answer 3

4-6-2 Atlantic.  Makes me think of a Pennsy passenger train between Phila and Pittsburgh.

Answer 4

I'm a fan of the diesels myself, but I am partial to shays and the small dock engines

Answer 5

I like them all, but N&W 611 is a beauty. To bad they stop running her.

Hoghead some Hustson are ugly, but this one isn't http://www.cnwhs.org/memberphotos/albums...

Answer 6

To me, any under steam are my favorites, but I must admit, if I were to hit one of those $300 million lottery jackpots, the SP cab forward, class AC-12  #4294 currently sitting in the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento would be restored operative, and I would be behind the throttle for its maiden voyage, returned to service.

I'm a very lucky person as I have had the pleasure of serving on both the UP 844 (though it was carrying the number 8444 in 1981) and the UP 3985, in 1981 when they wre en route from Cheyenne to Sacramento for the grand opening of the rail museum there.  I served as a fireman "pilot."  There are two pictures of this event on my 360, one holding my little girl, the other in the gangway of the 8444 after our arrival at Roseville.  I have also served on the SPs  #4449.  This was all done when I worked for the Southern Pacific.

Living in Mt. Shasta, I had an opportunity to run the McCloud River Rail Road's # 25, a small Prarie type engine.  Geat stuff and some of the most fun I've ever had on the rails.

The one type I don't care for is the Hudson class.  Just ugly to me, but I'd get on one under steam given the opportunity.

Answer 7

y'alls? is that a legal word?