Most Interesting Type of Train to You?

[Bobster]

Greetings,

Mixed freight with a caboose punctuated by the occasional post war streamliner.   Late forties thru the fifties.  I guess growing up when I did a freight train had to have a caboose.  Steam was gone when I was little but I like to mix it in.

Bobster 

[coldriver]

It's probably no surprise to hear that my favorite trains are drag freights heavy with PNW forest products being shoved over PNW mountains by helpers.  Case in point, here's a photo I took of UP train HKLA (Hinkle, Oregon to Los Angeles) at Crooks, OR attacking Telocaset grade on July 2, 1988 with a three unit SD40-2 helper set tucked in about 2/3rds of the way back.

[Angus Shops]

Pretty much any passenger train, any freight with a full crew (including caboose).

[Ike the BN Freak]

It's probably no surprise to hear that my favorite trains are drag freights heavy with PNW forest products being shoved over PNW mountains by helpers.  Case in point, here's a photo I took of UP train HKLA (Hinkle, Oregon to Los Angeles) at Crooks, OR attacking Telocaset grade on July 2, 1988 with a three unit SD40-2 helper set tucked in about 2/3rds of the way back.

Saw the photo earlier today on Facebook, very nice.

I agree, but for me, its BN trains.

Or BN "unit" grain trains, but the mix of railroad owned and coop owned hoppers, the sea of multi colors and styles of hoppers.

[Cajonpassfan]

Wow, well there's some difference of opinion.

It's hard to say what I don't like, but here's some comments:

I like 'em long and longer, and with lots of power, that's the N scale advantage.   Nothing sillier looking than a Class-1 single locomotive with a short unit train consist of a few mixed coal cars or 10 double-stack platforms.
I still can't get used to not having cabooses it's like ending sentences without a
I like almost anything where it's obvious there's been some real research effort involved to get there by the modeler, be it historic passenger consists, a 50+ car modern unit train done up right, a circus train, or a period-accurate steam freight.  Teach me something with your work I didn't know before.   I know 'modelers license' and 'its my railroad', but I do appreciate work to an historic level.
I'm not a big fan of 'special run' cars, foobie MT schemes, billboard beer cars, state cars, and other 'collectable but fantasy' stuff.   It better exist in real life for me to really respect it.

I'm a huge fan of passenger trains where cars have been painted and detailed to match a real consist (you know who you are!!!) to where I don't even question if what I'm looking at is an accurate recreation.

I absolutely love N steam when taken to the accuracy and detail levels it's been show here, switching, passenger, anything.   It's so difficult that it's the N scale equivalent of an Ironman competition.

And whatever it is, I like to see it as it really was, either clean, or weathered to abuse levels.

Well, this pretty much says it for me.
Oh and must love cabooses...
Otto K.

[wm3798]

Slow, rusty rails with a peddler that takes all day.  This about sums it up.

Lee

[John]

For me -- I rode this train in the 60s ..


https://www.ovb-online.de/rosenheim/bad-aibling/erinnerungen-elektrische-4571499.html

[Rossford Yard]

Slow, rusty rails with a peddler that takes all day.  This about sums it up.

Lee

Lee, watched the whole thing (a few FF to speed it up) but that is a great prototype to model.  Switching modern cars with an RS-3!  Whoda Thunkit?  I am trying to capture that feel.  Probably have my industries too packed in.  Hmm, time to close in the balcony to extend the main on my branch line, LOL.

[Jbub]

Lee, watched the whole thing (a few FF to speed it up) but that is a great prototype to model.  Switching modern cars with an RS-3!  Whoda Thunkit?  I am trying to capture that feel.  Probably have my industries too packed in.  Hmm, time to close in the balcony to extend the main on my branch line, LOL.

With a 567 at that.

[rs3freak]

Yard switching. In particular the New Haven Railroad's Hartford, Connecticut classification yard, where I spent a lot of time getting away from a badly dis functional family. There was an access bridge just below the hump with a panoramic (for a 12 year old kid) view of all operations. I'm doing research now to bring that yard, 1958- 1962, back to life on my proposed layout. I've been lurking here, greatly enjoying the energy and skill that you guys have displayed. I really can't hang with you big dogs yet, but the information I've accumulated on this site will help me realize my goal to my satisfaction. Thank you one and all.