Great question! And lots of great answers too! At this moment in time, I would have to go with #6414, a B23-7 that I did some detail work to. I love how the roof is covered with "stuff" and ooohhh those AAR-B trucks! But like Gary said, ask me in a year, by then I should have a ATSF SD40-2 detailed up and painted in the Kodachrome scheme, my personal favorite. Mike
I was going to right away say, Oh, I'd keep an Atlas GP-7! But then I realized I couldn't possibly part with my H16-44, an zebra-stripe ATSF by Atlas. Everything about it makes me happy. It's so beautiful that it never gets to run on my layout, and won't until the scenicking is close enough to finished that it can't possibly get dirty.
A totally improper thread. But, apparently not for some. It's not a fun hypothetical. A fun hypothetical is how you would answer the question- "Does my locomotive look fat in this paint scheme, honey"? (BTW the answer is, "No honey, now move over to the sink so when I scrape off your dry transfers you don't leave flakes all over the floor".) Ah, romance. Oh- uh, paint-wait, uh Loco, yeah. Yes. Loco. GG-1SD-45GP30C-630C-424GP-35GP-7GP-18/20SD-35FP-7RF-16GP-40FA1FB1FA2FB2andothers. No particular order but all at once. Mark Apologies for getting off track but it happens in these threads.
No hard desition here, it would be one of my Conrail Quality C30-7As. I spent three years on the kitbash. They certainly are not perfect, but they are good enough. Conrail's C30-7A. An engine I used to see daily when I was a teenager. I always wondered where they would end up, going to far off strange places. In reality, they never really left the Boston line, well untill retired and sent to the eatern block!
Oh, well, in that case, for sentimental reasons I'd probably ask one of the amazing locomotive detailers on here to superdetail me up a Geep or an SD in the old Chessie System colors. Not sure I care exactly which Geep. Heck, if I can get Caleb's layout to go with it, I'll even pass on the superdetailing: I love me some steam, don't get me wrong, but I grew up watching those blue, orange and gold monsters drag coal up and down the Kanawha river, so if I can only have one...
For me,the appropriate question would be more like:"if you could only model one RAILROAD..."...But..If I hadda narrow it to one loco for that RR,the Lehigh Valley,it would be a red C420,GP38-2, or C628...Can I only have one caboose?
My GS-4. It's what got me started in this hobby! Of course, I wouldn't want to depart with those wonderful new BLI E8s, or the Kato PAs, or....
After much crying and wringing of hands, I would have to keep my GG-1. I waited forever for a quality model to come out in N Scale.
hahhah.. Yeah, Im glad this is an internet forum and not a real brick and morar clubhouse, because if this question was raised in a real clubhouse it would sound like a daycare center and all the kids had to go to timeout.. lol
My heads gonna explode trying to pick one! I'll be driving along today, if you don't actually hear it from wherever you are, you will read about a NJ man whose head unexpectedly popped at a red light... I cant settle on a continent, much less a country, much less an era, much less a train classification (elec diesel steam), much less a road name. You want me to pick a loco, or go loco?
A-Men Brother! (I've actually put myself in time out since this thread was started to make the decision...and I still haven't!!!)
