Talk:List of locomotives

message: The purpose of this article is to keep track of the current state of Wikipedia locomotive articles and provide a central jumping-off point to go to other locomotive lists. —Morven 23:34, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: As all of the information on this article is now available at :Category:Locomotives, has this article's purpose become moot?  There are a lot more locomotive articles now than are listed in this article. slambo 02:18, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, I see no need for this article anymore.  It was introduced prior to categories being supported. —Morven 06:55, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
Note for the deletion discussion for this article see Talk:List of locomotives/delete -- Graham  ☺ | Talk 16:34, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Early discussion

message: I don't know my way around WikiProjext Trains well enough to know if there might bev an article on CNR locos, but this I found while looking for an image to illustrate Siska, British Columbia; eventually t here will be Siska CNR Bridge and Siska DCPR Bridge but for now that town is the CNR adn CPR cats.  The picture I've linked has other applications re the history of New Westminster; I think that's a statioon there but if so there's not one there now (highway bridge abutment right there....); but it's a neat shot of the locomotive; ifanyone wants to use it click through to the main image, crop it of the white frame and logo and use .Skookum1 (talk) 02:28, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: neat pic - PD, too

message: Should this list and its sublists try to include, or try to exclude, multiple units and railcars?  I tend to think it should exclude them.--Doncram (talk) 19:12, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Multiple units and railcars

message: For defining sublists of preserved locomotives, what is the meaning of "preserved"? Can it include locomotives in use in heritage railways? Some heritage railways have a mix of locomotives, some listed on a heritage register like the US NRHP, and many not. How old does one have to be? The general guidelines for NRHP listing of buildings and all orher things is that they should be at least 50 years old. 
List of British Rail Class 47 locomotives has color coding that classifies all into four types: in service, stored, scrapped, preserved.  As if "preserved" means on static display, like at a museum. What about a restored, historic locomotive that us operated on a short tourist line?
--Doncram (talk) 20:10, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "preserved" 

message: Should the list be pared down to cover individual locomotives, and not locomotive classes?  I tend to think so, although items that are locomotive classes could be moved to a new List of locomotive classes.  There is weirdness in the related categories, e.g. :Category:Individual locomotives of the United States includes Pennsylvania Railroad class FF1 which is a class and not an individual locomotive.  In the process of developing the lists, the categories should be cleaned up too. --Doncram (talk) 20:15, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Also it has been noted by Mangoe in the ongoing AFD that locomotive classes are not necessarily the same as locomotive models, so if List of locomotives is restricted to individual locomotives, then should it be List of locomotive classes and models split out, or what?  What is the distinction between classes and models, and is it really important? --Doncram (talk) 15:04, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Classes are as a rule specific to individual railroads and most often (but not always) signify locomotives built for the railroad to a single design. At least in the US it's a thing of the steam and early diesel era, but these days the models of locomotive from each builder are how things get described. There were frequently enough single engine classes, typically experiments like that FF1. Mangoe (talk) 04:19, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locomotive classes and models

message: I still believe that this article should be deleted (it has shown little signs of improvement since the AFD), but if it is to kept it must be split. Trying to cover both locomotive classes and individual locomotives of encyclopedic merit is a fool's errand. Eldomtom2 (talk) 20:13, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting proposal