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blade
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favorite railroad
Posted by blade on Thursday, August 4, 2005 9:36 AM
what is your favorite north american railroad?
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TheS.P.caboose
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Posted by TheS.P.caboose on Thursday, August 4, 2005 11:05 AM
Of all time I'd go with the Southern Pacific.

If currently only then I'd go with Union Pacific.
Regards Gary
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Posted by Eriediamond on Thursday, August 4, 2005 11:27 AM
Take a guess!!![:)][:)]
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TrainFreak409
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Posted by TrainFreak409 on Thursday, August 4, 2005 12:18 PM
Pennsylvania!

The Standard Railroad of the World!

Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern

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Posted by alstom on Thursday, August 4, 2005 12:35 PM
My favorite old timer is "Norfolk & Western"----But my favorite modern railroad is CSX!!!!! [:p][;)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, August 4, 2005 9:56 PM
UP! The Strategic Central Route. Road of the Streamliners. We will deliver. We can handle it. Building America.


Never referred to as the Uncle Pete.
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ragnar
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Posted by ragnar on Saturday, August 6, 2005 7:06 PM
ROCKY RULES!!
The Great Northern Lives!
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joseph2
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Posted by joseph2 on Sunday, August 7, 2005 3:08 PM
It was the Erie Lackawanna,which used to go thru my hometown.Their diesels had a great paint scheme,interesting motive power and they kept trying to succeed when everything was aganst them.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 7, 2005 5:38 PM
My favorite railroad was the Pennsylvania RR. Please check out my Photo Shows on railroading at; //photoshow.comcast.net/richardtrains
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 8, 2005 2:28 PM
BOSTON & MAINE ALL THEY WAY!
Alex
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markn
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Posted by markn on Monday, August 8, 2005 8:51 PM
Norfolk and Western (and by default NS)- they just seem to quietly go about their business and remain profitable ( or at least solvent)
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 8, 2005 9:07 PM
Lest we forget, the Chessie System was an excellent marketing concept with a striking livery. It was a shame that in the CSX Merger the Seaboard influence required the death knell on the Kitten.
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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Tuesday, August 9, 2005 9:07 AM
Maryland and Pennsylvania. But I like others - PRR, Maine 2 footers, B&O, East Broad Top.
Enjoy
Paul
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, August 11, 2005 9:04 PM
Southern serves the South.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 13, 2005 4:29 PM
Santa Fe
Rock Island
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GN-Rick
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Posted by GN-Rick on Tuesday, August 16, 2005 7:19 AM
I agree with ragnar. Need I say more?
Rick Bolger Great Northern Railway Cascade Division-Lines West
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Posted by csmith9474 on Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:42 PM
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient to include Santa Fe ownership.[^][^][:D][:D]

Smitty
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:53 PM
Kansas City Southern!
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Posted by espeefoamer on Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:01 PM
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wd45
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Posted by wd45 on Monday, August 22, 2005 10:45 AM
PC, Monon, Rock Island, Chessie, Southern, L&N, ICG
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broarthur
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Posted by broarthur on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:29 AM
Growing up we lived across from the NYC tracks, I remember that a little after mom would put us to bed, a freight would pass by going out of town. I remember dozing off to sleep listening to the clickity, clack of the wheels on the tracks. So the NYC has a special place in my heart.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 7:56 AM
The Lehigh Valley ran through my hometown (Geneva NY). The LVRR remained serious about passengers to the end...I was young in 1960 but vaguely remember one of the last Black Diamonds (NYC-Buffalo). Moreover, the LVRR had a quaint, weedy branch to Naples, varied motive power and other innovative, gloriously inefficient features. And could they run terrific freights. Nickel Plate and later Norfolk & Western run throughs too...
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 11:57 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by blade

what is your favorite north american railroad?


"Ship IT on the Frisco!"

My favorite railroads are (in order) Frisco; Kansas, Oklahoma, and Gulf with the associated Oklahoma City, Ada, and Atoka; Rock Island; Santa Fe; and the Missouri Pacific.

Least favorite: UP, BNSF, and any of the other by-products of the mega-mergers.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:03 AM
Yesterday: The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. It went through my hometown and my dad actually was a commuter on it. I haven't seen a decent model paint job of the McGinnis red, white and black.

The Southern indeed served the south... and the prettiest EMD product in the world (IMHO) is a green and white E8 undergoing internal rehab in Duluth, Georgia (just outside Atlanta.)

Today: The NS. You can have fried green tomatoes in Birmingham and sit on a covered platform to watch freights go by a few feet away.

Tomorrow: The Big Norfolk Southern Freight Utmost Priority Carloading Superior Xperiment (BNSFUPSCX)....

Erik
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Posted by tstage on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 1:15 PM
NYC is what I model...but I've recently started developing a real affinity for the Erie/Erie Lackawanna.

Tom

https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling

Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.

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espee
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Posted by espee on Monday, September 5, 2005 9:14 PM
Favorite is the Denver & Rio Grande Western, followed by the Southern Pacific.
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 10:18 PM

Santa fe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
all the way
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tsgtbob
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Posted by tsgtbob on Wednesday, September 7, 2005 1:46 PM
The first, and the Greatest
Baltimore and Ohio!!!![:D]
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artpeterson
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Posted by artpeterson on Wednesday, September 7, 2005 2:24 PM
All time: I nominate New Haven (we weren't basing this on financial results)

Today : UP
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John Krug
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Posted by John Krug on Wednesday, September 7, 2005 3:37 PM
It has to be the PRR since I had a branch line running behind my house. Reading runs a close second especially after riding and chasing a number of Iron Horse Rambles.
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