What RR company would you like to see make a comeback?

[Anonymous]

Southern Pacific
Western Pacific
Northern Pacific

[jdolan]

ATSF, complete with passenger trains.

[cwclark]

SP and the DRG&W...chuck[:D]

[ozzy01]

Chessie System
NYC
EL
SP/SSW
CNW
BN
ATSF
Family Lines SCL/L&N
DT&I
D&RGW
Soo Line
Milwaukee Road
PRR
Reading
Lehigh Valley

[Anonymous]

CNJ: Wouldn't a SD90MAC in the "Red Baron" scheme with the large Statue of Liberty herald look way cool?

[Anonymous]

One Railroad The Rock

[Anonymous]

I would like to see the Central Pacific.

[twhite]

Denver and Rio Grande Western. I'd like to see it back, charging over Tennessee Pass to connect with the MOPAC on their Pueblo-Kansas City line. Never understood why UP decided to abandon that line, since just before that, SP-Rio Grande seemed capable of using it for about twenty to thirty trains per day. But then, I don't understand UP at all. So let's bring back "The Mainline of the Rockies" while Colorado still has some trains running, okay?

[joseph2]

The Erie Lackawanna,with its high speed,wide clearance Chicago to New Jersey mainline. Joe G.

[3railguy]

SP, CB&Q, and GN.

[ericsp]

Southern Pacific and Western Pacific

[Todd McWilliam]

"The Rock" Bankruptcy blue of course

[oryan_dunn]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mustanggt

I'd like to see Amtrak collapse. There would be CSX acela trains, CSX Aem7 locomotives, and CSX sunset limited. out west there would be BNSF Genesis locomotives, and UP superliners. Wouldn't it be beuteful [^]

I personally would like to see a Genesis painted in the BNSF Heritage II scheme. Get two of those locos with some superliners painted in a BNSF scheme. I think that would look incredibly cool (somewhat like the old Great Northern). I know it wouldn't be prototypical, but if I had the spare time and talent, I might undergo a task like that.

[mikebonellisr]

The N Y C ,..Or at least the putnam division of the N Y C .

[Anonymous]

Actually I think people don't really miss the companies as the paint schemes perhaps these mega roads could keep the fallen flag regional ID by running them in their old areas.

Probably the best we could hope for anyway.

[MudHen_462]

Great Northern....

[Anonymous]

Bring back ATSF, BN, and B&O. Keep Amtrak. Kill UP.

[bogeys]

Southern Pacific would be nice, or the Santa Fe. Love those Daylights and Super Chiefs

[88gta350]

PRR!!!! no doubt! Would love to see those colors rounding the horseshoe curve again!!

[Anonymous]

I eould like to see Central Pacific, Georgia, Western of Alabama , Pere Marquette and Michigan Northern come back

[Anonymous]

I would love to see the following passenger operations return:

PRR
NYC
B&O

[Anonymous]

My vote is for the Great Northern. But then, the BNSF new paint scheme is what the GN would look like today.

Stuebsrr

[areibel]

Dougal,
Which Erie don't you like, the city or the RR? They are different, as a matter of fact the Erie RR didn't go to Erie PA.
The Erie is an interesting railroad, always an underdog but they kept trying. And talk about some awesome equipment, how about a steam loco bigger than a Big Boy by 150 tons? (Sorry 4884!) They had 'em- the Triplexes, a 2-8-8-8-2. They were built 25 years before the Big Boys, and didn't have the technology available to make them as successful as they could have been. Too bad, one of the tests they did had one pulling a 600+ car train (untill the forced ripped one car apart- too much stress on the cars directly behind the locomotive).

[Anonymous]

I would vote for the AT&SF Super Chief, classic good looks!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by joekc6nlx

[B)] I guess nobody cared much for the B & O. Even though it was swallowed up by Chessie in 1963, I still remember those beautiful E's and F's in the blue, gold, and black going by my grandmother's house. I guess that kind of makes me an [8].

Naaaaaaaa! I'm with you on the B & O, A lotta class wrapped up in a classy paint scheme. Those E-units were the most.[:)][:)][:)]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by areibel

Jeez! Why the love afair with Conrail?
They were the 80's version of the current day UP, and everyone complains about the UP!
If you knew more of the story, you wouldn't be that impressed with Conrail anymore. Yeah, they ran the trains but they also did a lot to destroy railroading in the northeast.

Please, don't get me started on the UP[}:)][}:)]

[Anonymous]

[B)] I guess nobody cared much for the B & O. Even though it was swallowed up by Chessie in 1963, I still remember those beautiful E's and F's in the blue, gold, and black going by my grandmother's house. I guess that kind of makes me an [8].

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Supermicha

I would like to see New Haven with its nice McGinnis Scheme and Milwaukee on its electric division in montana.

Micha

I'll vote for New Haven, also, but in the Layer Cake Scheme or the Yellow Pin Striped Green, Yaaaaaaaaa, Real Classssssss. in any scheme[:D][:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal

All of UP's predecessors and Conrail!

I'll second UP's predecessors, but CONRAIL!!!!!!!!!, that was just the other side of Amtrash, Buuuuuut, howabout all the Conrail predecessors, Yaaaaa[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]