Share Your Real Life Favorite - Rail Locomotives

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By: Gustavo - The RailWorker

 

Conrail's SD80MAC

 

Got to be the 700

 

For glamour and luxury, the 103-hauled Bundesbahn TEEs:



But for nostalgia, the Oberammergau Special with its funky, ancient little E 69s

 

Class 360’s, they are my childhood train and I can vividly remember becoming excited when I saw one. Really miss them in Anglia, Just a shame tocs didn’t give them the love they deserved.

 

Has to be this beast, the class 58

(Not my picture)

 

SBB RE421 Cargo: (photo from internet)

 

I love a nice 60!

 

Indian Railways WAP 5 in AMUL livery is my all time favorite not because it looks good or anything but this was the very first custom livery loco I saw and I absolutely loved it.

 

This has got to be one of the coolest train I've been on – the narrow gauge from Durango to Silverton – complete with specatular mountain scenery and actors in period costume talking about their lives on the railroad.

They've had a turbulent time over the last few years, not least because one of their trains caused a huge forest fire in the area, but they seem to be getting back on their feet again now.

 

I suspect I'd be tarred and feathered if I linked my video again but it's the Deltics (Class 55) for me.

The preserved Class 55 Deltics plus the distinctly different prototype lined up on the apron at Locomotion in Shildon.​

The Prototype began trials in the '50s and proved beyond all doubt that Diesel could take over heavy main line express passenger trains from steam. I never even saw one until my first visit to Durham in 1980 (IIRC) when they had already seceded their rule of the East Coast Main Line to the IC125s and the first couple had been scrapped. We moved to Durham City in 1981 into a house with a fine view of the ECML from the station south into Red Hills cutting where we saw their last six months in BR service and they made an immediate and lasting impression. South bound trains face an uphill start from the station and no loco' lets you know that it's working hard quite like a Deltic. I rarely got to sleep before the 11.20 Deltic, a Trans-Pennine mail train with at least twenty on, had announced its departure. There's no "I think I can" about that noise- it's more, "I bloody well know I can and everyone else is going to know it too!"

On the evening of 2 January 1982 it was far too foggy to see the line from the house so my dad and I, and a couple of hundred other people who'd had the same idea, went up to Wharton Park by the station to see 55022 Royal Scots Grey (the first production Deltic but, by a quirk of the TOPS system, the highest numbered) take BR's last Class 55 hauled train south. Thanks to the fog she was out of sight before getting half way across the viaduct but nobody moved until that familiar howl was gone. Enthusiasts were trackside all along the ECML as well as in stations and the story of their retirement featured on the national TV news. Apart from the last day of steam I can't think of any railway story that would have gained this much attention. Any positive railway story anyway.

Mmm... Deltics.

 

I thought it was the Cumbres and Toltec that had that happen.
Does some DuckDuckGo searching.
Huh. Guess I thought wrong.

Well I guess I'll give what my favorites are. These two locomtives in a photograph I took in 2019 are the two most meaningful to me because if it weren't for them, I'd probably not be a railfan. Yes the photo's also my profile pic.


I'm also a sucker for anything from the American Southern Railway due to having grown up along a former Southern main line.

 

Ludmilla 232 254-3

 

Arrow III My favorite Train because it's what introduce me to the world off United States Northeast commuter electric trail built from 1977-1979. Making them the same age as a Frankfurt Am Main München Stuttgart Köln S-Bahn DB BR420 1977-1980 batch.

 

Here's my local commuter train in Spain it's a class 446 EMU built in the 80s . This is the first train i saw and rode in real life.

 

Do EMUs count? Because if so, then it's the JR's 205 series, obviously!


Love the way it looks, drove the hell out of it in Densha de GO. And an important, iconic rolling stock of the japanese railways. Not as iconic and beautiful as the 103 series, but I just love it.

 

For me it’s gotta be the class 700 and 800.

 

The Belgian type 20. Which was the most powerful direct current loco in the word when it was introduced

 

3801

Not Pacifics, not 38-class locos in particular, 3801 itself. Quite possibly Australia's most famous locomotive, and fresh off a 12-year-long overhaul

 

The fantastic class 25,Makes an absolute racket.

 

GM F3 but with the full set and on Santa Fe colors!

 

The class 319 is my absolute favourite!
I love the design, I adore the sound! And it's got one of my favourite cabs!
Even more now the 769s (319s with a diesel engine) are popping up around the network!

 

The mighty BR103, pretty much the face of classic German locos!

 

They've desalized with newly replaced engines from the White Pass line in Alaska and Canada

 

I prefer the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific's (Milwaukee Road) F-7 Hudson

 

Mine is the class 2774473828475747

 

Google says I'd doesn't exist.

 

Oh how strange...

 

Do you have a picture of it?

 

Norfolk & Western No. 611. The N&W J-class were the last and arguably the greatest of the steam express locos:

 

Yes

Yes

 

I ironically saw one of these painted on the back of an RV at an intersection with I road, and I kid you not, numbered 611.

 

Nice and have you seen 800 321 that one is unique because it has a mask paint.

 

It's got to be the GS-4 in Daylight livery - there is one at the Portland rail museum near me and it's lovely. TSW desperately needs some variety in their locos, some beautiful stock from the good days of US rail

 

I can't wait until we have beautiful locos like these in TSW - sleek and stylish

 

I have but have never managed to get a good pic of it always speeding past everytime I see it

 

100 percent the class 18789426!

 

EMD SD50, SD60.

 

Sorry if it's a bit dull but it's this one. ALe501 EMU (A.K.A. Minuetto), with this livery, the new one is meh.

I still remember when I was a kid in the early 2000s were I lived these trains seemed like they were Sci-Fi level stuff lol.

 

Provided one works out a mutually beneficial solution to the whole issue of the VMT having a trademark either on the likeness of the J's in their streamlined form or JUST the 611's streamlined form. Do forgive me though, for I cannot remember which one it is.

 

Nice choice and these look like a DB BR641 SNCF X73900 due to them sharing the same slanted windscreen therefore an Electric railbus. Pantograph is a 1.45m copper strip 3kv DC in tube posts. In some cases, these might run to Domodossola from Milano Cle where these poles become 15kv 16.7 Hz 1.45m pantograph Carbon strip FFS or Chiasso where Italian FS 3kv poles meet FFS 15kv 16.7hz poles.

 

Mines got to be the DM/D English Electric, sadly left service in 2012 but they had been in service for 74 years.

 

1. EH 500



In my eyes, this thing combines little elements of the iconic 1990s Japanese retro styling of square shapes with modern capability. I particularly love the attention to detail and quality in body styling - in the video you can see that figures and characters on the body are actually shaped, instead of simply being stickers, and the Kanji character on the side near the front edge gives it an accent representing the place of its origin. The bright red-painted pantograph tips complete the look beautifully.

2. EL 18



A great-looking Norwegian national railways (NSB, now Vy)-operated loco, designed by the famed Italian Pininfarina bureau, here in a dark red and black livery that just fits beautifully in picturesque Norwegian scenery. Classic 1990s shapes, massive body with little opening for wheels that creates a contrast with most other locos, nice accent of yellow - simply a beauty.

3. Stadler Eurodual



From the ultra modern-looking rolling stock, this is a striking machine that radiates the vibes of mecha robots from science fiction media productions. You take one look at it, and instantly feel like it's going to set its own headlights on, speak in an automated voice, and spin up its whirring electric motors (or its humming diesel). It also comes with some of the best liveries I've seen on today's locomotives.

 

Don't have an image but my favourite steam train is 45596 Bahamas, my favourite diesel is a Class 67.

 

In order of appearance.....

Class 411 favourite emu. Some might call it nostalgia but the seats where actually big and comfortable. The toilets always worked! First class was first class and not what they pass off as first class these days. You could go and have a smoke in the guards car. A person would walk up and down the train selling food and drinks! If you was running late you could chase the train down the platform and still get on it.

Class 207 favourite demu. The noise!!!!

Class 37 favourite diesel electric.
They look mean they sound mean. Was once the backbone of rail freight. There used to be a spot in folkestone where you could often see them with the taps wide open running at speed.

And the Class 73.
Strange looking but they can run on diesel or third rail. Can't say I've seen many locos that can do this.

 

Western, Warship (D600 & D800), Hymek. Anything GWR steam.

 

Despite I have posted that locomotive... I have to add a new and latest technology one.

This one!


This is due to, in my country - Uruguay- , it will be the new locomotive for an also new private freight company!

It is a Stadler 4000, which it has the same look as the Eurodual, but in this case it is diesel powered only.

The training and operation of these trains, will be done by DB (The german railroad company).
The route also is is being completely renewed from zero, with the latest technology.

 

Te obvious pattern: Nothing can replace 6 axles.