What is the most popular locomotive?

What is the most famous diesel locomotive in the history of railroading? Arguably, the classic Electro-Motive “F-unit” can lay claim to the title. The Electro-Motive “F-unit”: Born in the autumn of 1939, it would be produced, in eight different models, until 1960 and would number more than 7,500 strong.



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Flying Scotsman started life as just another of Sir Nigel Gresley's A1 class of locomotives, but is now considered the most famous locomotive in the world.

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The Union Pacific Centennial is the largest and most powerful diesel locomotive ever built.

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Alco PA Locomotives Arguably the most beautiful diesel locomotive ever built, sadly no Alco PAs were originally preserved. Today, one is under restoration.

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Arguably the most famous train ever to grace the track, the Flying Scotsman was a pioneer of the late 1800s and put Great Britain on the map in terms of engineering. During its heyday, it would shoot up the East Coast Main Line connecting London Kings Cross with Edinburgh Waverley station.

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As wireless technologies advanced in the 1960s, freight railroads began adding extra locomotives to the rear of trains to give them enough power to climb steep hills. This is how distributed power was born.

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The Fairy Queen is the oldest running train in the world. As the Guinness Book of Records documented, the Fairy Queen in India is the steam locomotive with the oldest running history worldwide.

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One of the most beautiful steam locomotives ever built, the S1 was designed by Raymond Loewe. Poor balancing caused wheel-spin and only one was ever built, for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1939.

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The locomotive, as its ownership changed, remained in Darlington from 1857, in later years on display at the Head of Steam museum in Darlington, in the same building as Darlington's North Road station.

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The Royal Scotsman is one of the most luxurious trains in the world attracting passengers from near and far.

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The most spectacular railway stations in the UK
  • Corfe Castle Railway Station, Dorset. ...
  • Wemyss Bay Station, Inverclyde. ...
  • Berwyn Station, Denbighshire. ...
  • St Pancras International, London. ...
  • Bristol Temple Meads, Bristol. ...
  • Cromford Station, Derbyshire. ...
  • Dawlish Station, Devon. ...
  • Norwich Station, Norfolk.


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The oldest surviving steam railway locomotive in the world is Puffing Billy, which was built in 1813/14 for Christopher Blackett, owner of Wylam Colliery, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In 1805 Blackett had held talks with Trevithick, who supplied him with drawings of a steam locomotive.

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In 1934, Flying Scotsman achieved the first authenticated 100 mph (161 km/h) by a steam locomotive.

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The world's first diesel-powered locomotive was operated in the summer of 1912 on the same line from Winterthur, but was not a commercial success.

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The world's first diesel-powered locomotive was operated in the summer of 1912 on the same line from Winterthur, but was not a commercial success.

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- YouTube. The Worlds largest diesel locomotive the Union Pacific DD40X #6936 is turned on the old turntable in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The locomotive was built in 1971, weighs 270 tons, and is rated at 6,600 horsepower. This is a active locomotive mostly pulling excursion trains with the Union Pacific #844.

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