What's Your Favorite Style of Diesel?

jbaakko

Active Member
CRed said:
Even going 5000HP and up it's still a pretty limited list isn't it.Now if you went from 4000HP and up you'd have a ton of choices to choose from for models.

I know there's Kato models of the SD80/90 and BLI does the AC6000CW while Athearn does a BB model of the DDA40X,but does anyone have models of the others?I'm guessing Athearn might have BB models of a couple of them atleast,they have models of practically everything in their BB line.

Chris
Athearns is a DD40 which was never built, I mistakenly put DD40, but the prototype should be a DD35.
Bachmann has the DDA40X, RPP the SD80, Kato the SD80/90, BLI the AC6000, and OMI all...
 

Herc Driver

Active Member
1. Southern GP30 (which isn't made in Nscale and therefore a horrible oversight on the part of every train manufacturer that need to be rectified right away).

2. Any other diesel...espicially the ones I don't own yet.
 

Cannonball

More Trains Than Brains
CRed said:

Nope.
Mine has a longer nose.

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DaveC

New Member
i really love the old reliable SD-40-2 But many of the new modern diesels are really starting to grow on me.
 

toptrain1

Well-Known Member
My favorite is

The Baldwin BABY FACE is my favorite. The b truck version. DR-4-4-1500 the CNJ ran this locomotive. It is a shark nose in a different body. It would be nice if someone like Atlas would produce it. The photo is of the Double ended 6 axel CNJ engine The DR-6-4-20 baby face.
 

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My favorites as a railfan:
1. F7/9 and GP7/9 equally
2. Baldwin Centipede
3. SDL39
4. SD40/40-2

My favorites as an engineer:
1. SD40-2
2. Everything else post 1990
3. Everything else NON-GE pre 1990

Dave
 
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lester perry

high hood GP7 & 9 also SD40 with big porch, one year at my open house I put a man sleeping on a lounge chair on the front of a double header just to see what th reactions would be.
Les
 

MadHatter

Charging at full tilt.
I'm diplomatic:

ALL SOUTH AFRICAN
ALL AMERICAN
ALL BRITISH
AAHH HELL, THE WHOLE WORLDS, same for steam and electric.

I'm a hardcore rail fan!!!!!

But I love, them SD40-2's, especially the ones with a "snoot nose".
 

nkp174

Active Member
Diesel is a bad word in my household...but I do have a favorite honorary steam locomotive :mrgreen: A model of one is hiding in this picture of the old HO yards...
 

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Relic

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I like pretty much any high hood early diesel,oh yeah and F's,in black and orange,with CN painted on it.
 

kf4jqd

Active Member
Anything of Rock Island of course. They had many coloriful schemes! Nothing beats the EMD's F7 or F8's. Ride the Rock Island Rocket!!! I even like the GP7's.
 

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