Train - that's an easy one, the Quarry Hunslets, the locos I'm most familiar with and I've driven six of them on 3 different railways.
In the late 1950s/early 1960s with a schoolmate we used to spend the summer school holidays exploring railways in North Wales and sometimes these included slate quarries such as Penrhyn and Dinorwic which still had working steam locomotives including several Hunslets. In those days nobody seemed to mind a couple of schoolboys wandering about the premises unaccompanied, although at Penrhyn after descending two levels into the pit via vertical ladders we were told we shouldn't be down there, but we did get a ride back up in one of the DeWinton water balances. Penrhyn and Dinorwic were visited fairly regularly until steam finished in the mid 1960s.
In 1970 a friend got the job as Manager of the new Llanberis Lake Railway and invited me to come on a Sunday and "bring your overalls". After initially helping in the workshop and with tracklaying, as soon as public services began in 1971 I started driving one of the three Hunslets on Sundays and continued to do that regularly for the next 26 years.
Of the three Hunslets, ELIDIR was probably the favourite, named after the mountain where Dinorwic Quarry is situated. DOLBADARN had a stiff regulator - in the central dome instead of the raised firebox on the other two locos - and WILD ASTER was painted blue and ran with the name THOMAS BACH ("Little Thomas"), 'nuff said !
On several occasions when the Bala Lake Railway were short of footplate crew I used to spend a day there driving either MAID MARIAN or HOLY WAR.
That's me on the footplate of MAID MARIAN at Llanuwchllyn in 1987.
At the Festiniog Railway's "Hunslet Hundred" event in 1993 I had charge of the Welsh Slate Museum's Hunslet UNA for a day, spent mainly shunting at Minffordd Yard with trips before and after along the line to/from Boston Lodge in convoy with two other Hunslets. Back in the late 1950s on a visit to Pen-yr-Orsedd Slate Quarry we were shown into a small shed containing two redundant steam locos which had been replaced by a diesel loco, these were UNA and BRITOMART. Little did we realise that some 35 years later on the Festiniog Railway at Minffordd I would be driving UNA and my schoolmate, who works as a volunteer guard on the FR, would be guard on the shuttle train between Minffordd Station and Minffordd Yard behind BRITOMART.
When I started with model live steam locos the choice was obvious, and one wasn't enough !
Vehicle - I suppose it must be this:
I've had it for nearly 38 years from new so I suppose I must like it !
Since I acquired my first car in 1965 I've only had 5 in total and I've still got two of them.
If there ever is another car, maybe a Mustang now they do RHD.
Planes/Boats - no interest, but if pressed I'll go for Spitfire and paddle steamer.