Author Topic: Steam or Diesel? (Read 27014 times)

Amtrak · « **Reply #15 on:** February 14, 2015, 10:07:15 am »

I like steam engines & all of the intricate moving parts....BUT....I don't live for yesterday.

I have to go with diesel.

trainut61701 · « **Reply #16 on:** April 27, 2016, 03:15:22 pm »

I think I have about 16 diesels and 6 steamers. I love them both. I like Wabash and there's not a lot of selection for steam but have several different Wabash diesels. I grew up listening to diesels late at night going out of town and then into transition (I think that's the correct term). I always thought they were shifting gears. I have steam probably because I like steam power in general. It's much more "alive" than diesel-electric.

Hiker 39 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 21, 2017, 03:24:37 pm »

Diesel! Because I like the roar of the engines. I think I only have two steam engines in my collection.

mtfrizzell · « **Reply #18 on:** April 15, 2017, 10:22:22 pm »

Steam forever. I love the sound and the memories of my youth. Born '46. I have 5 locomotives., one Diesel, a gang car and a trolley. I just need more layout space.

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weberwabash · « **Reply #19 on:** November 04, 2017, 09:09:22 pm »

I'm a new Lionel hobbiest and I much prefer steam. When I was 7 yrs. in 1952 (yep, I'm pretty old), I lived in Ogden, Utah, the town of my birth. One day, as my family was diving the highway past Ogden, I noticed several HUUGE locomotives parked together on a siding. Over the years, I wrote the experience down to a child's imagination. Only lately have I come to realize that those locos were "Big Boys" put out to pasture. If I could only go back for one more quick look.

weberwabash · « **Reply #20 on:** November 04, 2017, 09:14:27 pm »

Addendum: My maternal grandfather retired with a pension from Union Pacific after a lifetime with UP in Wyoming and Utah.

My great grandfather retired from UP as well, but I don't know if they had a pension back then. He was later a sheriff in Wyoming.

lioneldude05 · « **Reply #21 on:** December 30, 2017, 08:23:08 pm »

I think steam is cool in real life and in Lionel because there is something really cool about how it smokes, I don't know why, it's just cool. I still like diesels, but not as much

Qckslvr · « **Reply #22 on:** March 01, 2020, 01:32:48 am »

My HO and G scale were steam, my Lionel so far is both steam and diesel. I think steam trains are fun especially the old Shay locomotives. But I do like the older diesels such as the EMD F-7 and F3

pjdog350 · « **Reply #23 on:** June 26, 2020, 07:00:15 am »

Steam. Born in NJ in 1941. PRR went near house and as a kid I use to go to the train tracks and was the steamers thunder down the tracks.

durban · « **Reply #24 on:** October 06, 2021, 09:39:20 am »

Steam hands down, also I just bought a new Reading T1 Rambles #2100 and I was wondering what the part inside the box was for, it has 4 little screws and a metal plate with 2 little nubs on it.

kars2026at10 · « **Reply #25 on:** October 22, 2021, 09:07:22 pm »

I like steam, there is just more action with a steam loco.

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