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Everyone likes trains and railways. There is and will be no question of this matter. Since trains and, the huge powerful inflexible monsters which are why we all like trains, vary so much I'm just limiting the poll to there main types. Consider the switch between early and late steam to be around the turn of the 19th century. All shall now declare their favor locomotive types.

Personally I first liked trained just for there own sake, now both because I like them and appreciate them even more so because of their importance to military history. The railway being what made modern total war possibul.

Late Steam trains, always something rather romantic about them, that and the fact that you always get the feeling that Basil Rathborne could step off the train at any minute and make some dry comment to what'is'face...

There was one called the "Mikado" I always thought looked cool and sounded cool. I think it was late Steam.

Mine would have to be steam engines (I don't know whether they were early or late steam engines) I saw them at the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology a few years ago, and they were huge. I could almost feel their power standing right next to one of them.

Definately late steam. The Mikado, the articulateds (i.e. "Big Boy", etc.), and all the others, they're just classics, and I swear you can sense the immense power just by looking at those majestic machines.

...I have no clue...?

~ver

I really dig the streamliner facelifts given to some of the steam locomotives in the late thirties. Hell, ALL the streamliners were very, very cool.

But there's something about the early locomotives, as well. If you haven't noticed, I'm a fan of primitive machinery and emergent technologies.

When I decide, I'll vote.

ooh..... tough call... I gotta say I really love the Big Boy 4-8-8-4 steam locomotives. Very Beautiful and immensely impressive machines.

I do love watching the diesel locomotives rolling through town also. Years ago I even got to drive a diesel locomotive along a stretch of track in a train yard 40 minutes north of here. That was absolutely awesome. Very much a dream come true.

So for me it's a tie between late steam and diesel locomotives.

Sea Skimmer wrote:Everyone likes trains and railways.

That, sir, is a bald-faced lie.

Modern high-speed trains are the best. Nostalgia is nice, but extreme velocity is nicer.

Whichever one makes the bigger mess of the cow standing on the tracks.

*wants to sing Starlight Express*

I am electric, resistance is pointless,
Feel my magnetism, you will agree,
You can't ignore me, you must adore me,
I am electric, come closer to me

What about magnetic levitation technology based trains ? There is not an option for them.

CHOO-CHOO enjoy

This is one of many site on train i have in my favorites folders

One of the steams...the ones you see in westerns with all the cool carriages with their own stoves and stuff.

XaLEv wrote:Whichever one makes the bigger mess of the cow standing on the tracks.

I'd think a high speed electric train hitting a cow at 300km/h+ would make a nice mess. If the TGV whacked a cow on its 512km/h test run it would've made the best splatter pattern ever. On the other hand a cow getting dragged and crushed under a 200 ton steam locomotive is pretty cool too.

XaLEv wrote:Whichever one makes the bigger mess of the cow standing on the tracks.

Did your grandfather graduate from Bishop college in 1943?

I took Amtrak once from New Orleans to D.C., and back again. It was a 27 hour trip in coach each way, and boy did it suck. Here in Del Rio, we have no commercial air travel, but the train does stop here. I've looked into some of the prices to travel from here to Los Angeles, and it is about the same for coach on the train as it is coach flying from San Antonio to LAX. However instead of it being a two hour flight, it is a 24 hour trainride. If you book even the smallest sleeper room, the price is four times that it is to fly. And people wonder why Amtrak is losing money, even with government subsisting it.

Late steam looks cool, but I also like modern ones from the Virgin Voyager class trains like the Sir Ernest Shackleton to maglev, gas turbine powered near Mach 1 fucking bullets with commuters in.

The Subway trains!

Why?

Because I am a native born New Yorker and can stand the smell and cluster.

Darth Wong wrote:Modern high-speed trains are the best. Nostalgia is nice, but extreme velocity is nicer.

Hunting down a TGV in a P-38 would be pretty cool, no huge cloud of smoke and steam to let you know you've scored on the locomotive though.

evilcat4000 wrote:What about magnetic levitation technology based trains ? There is not an option for them.

There was suppose to be.... though in reality there so rare I ought to include, wind, dog, horse, mule, man, hydraulic, vacuum powered and a couple as well if its on.

aerius wrote: I'd think a high speed electric train hitting a cow at 300km/h+ would make a nice mess. If the TGV whacked a cow on its 512km/h test run it would've made the best splatter pattern ever.

The thing might be derailed by that, certainly the front of the locomotive is going to be crushed. Course, a train hitting a cow in India combine with bad signals resulted in a wreck that killed over 300. Rear end collisions with thousand plus ton trains going 70mph are not fun.

I like anything Steam, Big, and streamlined

so late steam I guess lol.



this for instance

I'm a big fan of the Pennsylvania, so I love the stuff from the golden age--late steam, early diesel, and of course, the GG1 has a special place in my heart. I love modern equipment though. I'd love to see a Dash 9 in Pennsy livery.

Late-steam, definitely, preferably the modern steam streamliners.

RedImperator wrote:I'm a big fan of the Pennsylvania, so I love the stuff from the golden age--late steam, early diesel, and of course, the GG1 has a special place in my heart.

I don't think I'd call the GG1 my favorite locomotive, but it is in the top five without question. Speed, power, style and longevity, combine into one. Plus where also tough as hell, 4876 lost its breaks coming into the Washington Terminal, crashed into the concourse and fell into the basement. The locomotive was then cut up, with the parts then reassembled in the shop and locomotive then returned to service, its now among the surviving examples.

One thing that always gets me though, is it's actually on the ugly side if you see it broadside on from any distance. Yet its beautiful; from any other angle.