Which Canadian railroad do you prefer

[Anonymous]

CN; love those fat 'zebra' stripes

[chrismay]

Ontario Northland here!!!

[Anonymous]

I model CP but I grew up with CN in Souix LookOut. Rather perversly I have a weakness for BNSF because when I first "met it" it was BNML and it and the CN and CP run behind my house! My children call BNSF the Halloween Railroad. My oldest boy bought his first HO locomotive and it wasn't CP it was BNSF!

[chateauricher]

QUOTE: Originally posted by johnblair
Three fallen flag Canadian railroads
Northern Alberta Railways.
Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo.
Algoma Central.

I don't know anything about the first two rail companies; but the Algoma Central still runs (although it has been bought out by CN).

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As for which Canadian railway is my favourite ? I'm torn between four ... Algoma Central (ACR); Hull-Chelsea-Wakefield (HCW); VIA Rail; and Charlevoix RR (CFC, chemin de fer de Charlevoix). I've ridden on the ACR, HCW and VIA. And my house is only a hop-skip-and-a-jump from the CFC so I see about 10 freights a week pass my house.

[Anonymous]

I went CN Railway.
BNSFrailfan.

[Dayliner]

I'm with johncolley and voted E&N (there is no other railway for us islanders).

Yes, tatans, I am modelling the E&N, although my era is 1970s, not 1950s. Just about everything you mentioned was still part of the E&N by then, except, of course, for steam (and there was still steam on the Island in the 70s, mainly in logging operations). The E&N interchanged with steam loggers until 1969. My layout is still mainly Plywood Pacific, and I still haven't made it into the digital camera age, but as those conditions change I'll be happy to share some photos with you.

And, selector, the needed parts have been ordered for the Royal Hudson and work will begin this year, on target for completion next year. The West Coast Railway Asociation is restoring 2860 to full operating condition. Drop by Squamish when you're next on this side of the water and have a look.

[Pruitt]

GN.

Well. it DID go into Canada!

[Fergmiester]

CBNS Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia. Looking at some of their vintage stuff they should be running a museum.

[1train1]

It's gotta be CN -

I model CN in the train room, and have the real thing in 1:1 - at the end of my backyard running all day long. Enjoyng trains on the Toronto to Windsor corridor. So it's hard not to luv'em - It does appear that they are using more and more leased power as of late. So I get the best of both worlds.

[ereimer]

algoma central , ontario northland , BC rail

[trainboyH16-44]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tatans

Anyone out there ever do an Esquimalt and Naniamo(bar) layout,

Mmmmmmmm, naniamo bar. Eat it on the RDCs!
Matthew

[trainboyH16-44]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Brunton

GN.

Well. it DID go into Canada!

For those people who don't know what he's talkin about, J.J.Hill's Vancouver, Victoria, and eastern (Funded by GN) was a main competitor to the Kettle Valley railway (Funded by the CPR) in southern British Columbia. There was fierce competition between the two, but the CPR eventually won, with the GN getting trackage rights across the Coquihalla (Sp.?) pass. They only ever ran one train, and gave up the trackage rights around 1950.
Matthew