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What's your favorite locomotive?
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Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:45:19 GMT
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What's your favorite locomotive and livery, and have you made a LEGO version?
Mine would be an EMD SD40-2 in UP livery. I made a 7 wide version 10 years ago.
Wish I could find the photos.
Which is funny, because of two things. Growing up in the early years of my dad
being a train engineer I played with HO scale trains and my favorite was Chessie
System (I liked the cat and the color scheme). Eventually I started liking the
Mo-Pac screaming eagle because Dad worked for Mo-Pac. In HO terms in the late
80's I used to love finding UP colored locos with Missouri Pacific lettering on
them after the merger of UP and Mo-Pac.
Dad still works at UP and still drives a train. He usually drives an EMD
SD90mac these days. Heh, I bet he still has a brake key from one of the old
locos laying around somewhere... And, we seemed to always have plently of UP
yellow flashlights lying around back then.
He retires next year. I need to find out what his favorite loco is and make him
one from LEGO parts as a retirement gift. Maybe I should get one of you guys to
build it since your skills took a completely different path than mine. I hardly
build anything anymore, but I sure could light it up! ;)
-R
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| (...) Alco PA in ATSF Warbonnet. I've made an FA (2 axle trucks, shorter nose) a few (too many) years back, It is on Brickshelf... (URL) and MOCPages ... (URL) along with the rest of the consist. Unfortunately the whole train is a trailer queen, (...) (13 years ago, 28-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: What's your favorite locomotive?
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| (...) My favorite locomotive is the classic western style "American" class 4-4-0 and the later evolution, the 4-6-0 in the classic black (sometimes with red highlights) and yes I have attempted to build a few examples of the type (and I have plans (...) (13 years ago, 28-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: What's your favorite locomotive?
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| (...) My favorite locomotive is Green Mountain Railroad's #405, an old Alco RS1 that used to belong to the Rutland Railroad. It doesn't have a particularly nice livery (it's green with a yellow stripe), and it's not particularly nice to look at (...) (13 years ago, 28-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: What's your favorite locomotive?
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| (...) I have two favorite locomotives. The first one is Maryland & Pennsylvania #6. A classic 4-4-0 on what is one of the best little shortline railroads ever. #6 served the Ma & Pa for over 50 years and was one of the last 4-4-0s operating in the (...) (13 years ago, 30-Oct-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: What's your favorite locomotive?
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| (...) Oh, there are so many fantastic locomotives and great paint jobs (I love the color explosion that came with the streamliners). Heck, I even like the chunky F40. Probably my favorite is the E5, the last of the one-off E units. Shiny chrome, (...) (13 years ago, 3-Nov-11, to lugnet.trains)
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