Favourite Locomotives?

[Steamdemon]

A tea making class 17? Cool.

I like diesels that are unique, Like BHP D20 from Austrailia.

JACKSHAAAAFTS! (cause that's what those outside driving rods are called on a diesel locomotive)

and OBB 2095

And yes, this came from a train simulator that I used to play on called Trainz: A New Era. Creator of this lovely Austrian diesel was 
Michael Heussler (michael-h on the AURAN Trainz Forums.)

One of my favourite Italian Steam tank locomotives is this:

MPW57 is credited for this photo.

This is the Italian State Railways class 940, or FS Class (Grupo) 940. It's a Baby Mikado steam tank (Yes, Baby Mikado is the term I use for any tank locomotive which has the wheel formation of 2-8-2).

And yes, I actually think Italy was a master of building Franco-Crosti Locomotives, but that's my own personal opinion, despite being from the UK.

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm

The above link is full of really cool information about unique and unusual locomotives. (Hope I'm not going off the rails here.)

[ColletArrow]

18 hours ago, xzanfr said:

The class 08

These BR Class 08s come up a lot in this thread... which is good, I quite like them.

14 hours ago, Steamdemon said:

I like diesels that are unique, Like BHP D20 from Austrailia.
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JACKSHAAAAFTS! (cause that's what those outside driving rods are called on a diesel locomotive)

I like connecting rods and jackshafts on a diesel too... mainly why I really quite like the BR Class 04 and 14.
(Although, they're a pain - on my ancient Bachmann OO gauge model of an 04, I took them off because they added too much friction. They were behind a grille anyway, so not too visible, and the connecting rod still extends as if they were there.)

Edited February 4, 2018 by ColletArrow
Fixed messed-up quotes

[Steamdemon]

I think you messed up the quote there. One of my favourite Narrow Gauge locomotives is Edward Thomas of the Tallylyn Railway. The reason I say this is because her brother from the fictional Skarloey Railway, Peter Sam, has a Giesl Ejector. I can relate to that, as I'm Dyspraxic and have ADHD...

[Mechbuilds]

I like trains..



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Steam_Locomotive_Class_A5

[MxWinters]

On 11/21/2017 at 4:40 PM, Steamdemon said:

I prefer the Maunsell shunter, aka D3/12

Didn't some of the class 08s have air whistles instead of a regular horn? I can't remember.

 

All the class 08's I've seen/driven/riden on have air whistles. I believe they are powered from the exhaust system.

I'm also a huge train fan. I have a few models in my display cases, see below. I love the proper Great Western Railway locos like the City class, Castle class, Pannier and Prairie Tanks.
I also love British Railways diesels like the type 2, 3, 4 and some type 5's. I also love the GWR Railcar and the British Railways first and third generation DMU's (diesel multiple units) like the class 108, 121, 124 and the class 150, 153, 158 and the 159. I have also driven a couple of class 08's and a class 50 Hoover.



From left to right: HS4000 Kestrel (limited edition), Class 47, Class 43 HST.


From left to right, Class 52 Western, Class 33, Class 24 (limited edition).


Right to left, Class 20 Moose, GWR Pannier Tank 67XX Class, LSWR 0298 Class Beattie Well Tank and a LEGO model of the Napier Deltic engine.
The LSWR Beattie Well Tank above is a model of same loco that the Bodmin and Wenford Railway has and is one of the oldest British locos still in steam and it still pulls fair paying passengers, although on a preserved railway and is not main line certificated use.
The LEGO Napier Deltic engine is a reverse engineered copy of MOC-Pages user "Lego Stalwart" (see here http://www.moc-pages.com/moc.php/247991). The real Deltic engine has 3 banks of 6 cyliders each (total of 18 cylinders) with 2 pistons on each cylinder (total of 36 pistons), these 3 bank were then arrange in a triangle or deltic configuration and coupled together with gearing. The engine was then supercharged to increase its power output up to 1650hp for railway use. The Class 55 Deltic locomotive had 2 of these engines to give 3300hp. Due the the configuration of this engine, I has a very unique sound to it considering it is a 2 stroke engine.

Edited September 30, 2018 by MxWinters