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[Anonymous]

In order:

The Trans-Siberian Express
The Flying Scotsman
The Indian-Pacific

[Anonymous]

Something like - starting from New york - The Century to Chicago, then a Hiawatha to the twin cities and back to chicago on on of the twin cities Zephyrs, next the Super Chief to LA, after that the Sunset Limited to New Orleans, and the Panama Limited back to Chicago. to fini***he trip, a ride on the Broadway Ltd to Ny.
The reasons to choose are a mix of speed and comfort. Hiawathas, Zephyrs, Super Chief and Panama Limited were trains that currently rolled very fast, tipically 90 to 100 mph speeds were common. the Broadway and Centrury were less fast, maybe 80 mph (If anyone has an Official guide from the 50s, just divide the distance between 2 points per 60 and the multiply the value per the number of minutes, one gets good surprises )

[Anonymous]

Any of the UP's City express trains

[espeefoamer]

Golden State
Olympian Hiawatha
North Coast Limited
Super Cheif
Twin Star Rocket
Sunset Limited when it ran from San Francisco to N'awlans
Broadway Limited
20th Century Limited
Texas Special
Overland Limited
Shasta Daylight

[ironhorseman]

Super Chief
California Zephyer on the DRGW
Empire Builder
The Daylight
The 20th Century Limited
The Hiawatha

But I'd also like to have ridden a Doodlebug or a local. The big lines can be recreated via the American Orient Express or other special excursions like the Daylight, but the locals, although not glamorus, and at times maybe gritty, are never going to experienced again. All that remains are memories and old photos getting fewer all the time.

Somehow everyday life gets forgotton to history.

The latest trend is what they call revisionist history which is writing history from the private citizen point of view. We can thank Trains Magazine for the Railroad Reading section of personal experiences from everyday ordinary people.

[Anonymous]

The Phoebe Snow, The Black Diamond, The Erie Limited, The 20th Century Limited, the Buffalo Day Express and Baltimore Day Express, Nickel Plate Road's City of Chicago and City of Cleveland, B&O's Buffalo Division locals all are among the trains I would have loved to have ridden. Erie Lackawanna' Train 28 out of Cleveland, during the railroad's final days, given the consist, was as close to the Phoebe Snow as I ever got for the three coaches were used on that train at one time or another as were E8s 825 and 833.I also would have loved to ride the Delaware and Hudson from Binghamton to Rouses Point and back.

[Anonymous]

Many years ago I saw a PBS special on the South African Blue Train. That would have been a neat trip.

Here in North America I would have loved to take a Hiawatha, just to feel what it was like to do 100 mph behind a steam locomotive.

The Super Chief; and of course, the 20th Century.

I still dream of taking the Sunset Limited cross country, and then transferring to the Coastal Starlight in LA, going to Seattle. The Sunset might not be a class act, but the Starlight sure is.

If my Canadian brethren were not so far north, I'd dearly love to take a VIA rail excursion from Halifax to Vancouver. Is that still possible?

Erik

[vsmith]

I would have loved to have taken the Ghan to Alice Springs in Oz back before they rebuilt the line in the 80's, when it moved barely faster and lurched more than a druken Roo cause the dam termites kept eating the crossties. By all accounts every trip was an major adventure. Gone now, the trains still there but they rebuilt it with concrete ties, so now it runs faster than a scared Roo.

[Anonymous]

The Twentieth Century Limited, City of San Francisco, Lark, Arizona Limited, Golden State Limited, Capitol Limited, Southwestern Limited, Spirit of St Louis, Panama Limited, The Crescent, North Coast Limited, The Chief (circa 1952), The Cascade, The Canadian, The Ocean Limited, Empire State Express, Coast Daylight, San Francisco Overland Limited

[locomatt63]

1. 20th Centurny Limited
2. Super Chief
3. Broadway Limited
4. ANY of SP's Daylight trains (behind a GS class loco) of course!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5. George Washington
6. Sportsman

[Anonymous]

USA/Canada/Mexico:
1. Sunset Limited in the early 50ies
2. Super Chief in 1953
3. North Coast Limited around 1955
4. Super Continental in 1965
5. San Francisco Chief
6. Empire Builder in 1956
7. Olympian Hiawatha in the mid 50ies
9. Trans Canada Limited in 1929
10. Sunset Limited in the late 20ies
11. North Coast Limited in 1900
12. Soo Spokane Train De Luxe around 1910
13. The Canadian
14. Texas Special
15. The Cascade in September 1950
16. Aztec Eagle in the 50ies
17. first Southern Pacific transcontinental trains from New Orleans to San Francisco around 1883
18. West Coast Express in the late 40ies
19. a Southern Railway train before the Civil War around 1859

South America:
Pan American Express from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to La Paz, Bolivia

Europe:
1. Orient Express (London-Istanbul) around 1910
2. Alpen Express (Stockholm-Napoli) in the 50ies
3. TEE Rheingold (Geneva-Amsterdam) around 1970

Asia:
1.Transsiberian Railway in the 50ies
2. Maharadsha Express

Africa:
Rovos Rail (Pride of Africa)

[cnw4001]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jdtoronto

In order:

The Trans-Siberian Express
The Flying Scotsman
The Indian-Pacific

Add the Gahn and put me down for the above[:)]

[waltersrails]

The Royal Blue B&O and The Southern Cresent