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promote your town
Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, December 28, 2003 6:48 PM
While driving through LIma Ohio they were promoting there town with a sp daylight engine on a bilboard.I know the daylights were built by the lima locomotive works so what train would you use to promote your town???
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 28, 2003 7:22 PM
Probably a B&O Pacific or American type, both ran through Brunswick, and are well known common locomotives.
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Posted by louisnash on Sunday, December 28, 2003 11:14 PM
Gotta be an M-1 Steam Loco from the great L&N railroad. My grandfather can you tell you quite a bit about them. He has told me they were grand.

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Posted by eolafan on Monday, December 29, 2003 7:35 AM
To promote Aurora, IL you would likely have either one of the very many steamers built in the shops here over the many decades, but most likely a picture of the original "Pattern Dome" built in those same shops right after WWII and at the beginning of the sreamliner era. Jim
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 29, 2003 9:09 AM
In Woodstock Ontario, A good ol' CPR GP9u!
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 29, 2003 9:10 AM
Wilmington Delaware was the home for the GG1 shops and is now the home for Amtrak Electric shops. We also have the Acela training simulator, just off the NEC.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 29, 2003 9:23 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by FireDragonLightning

In Woodstock Ontario, A good ol' CPR GP9u!


That would probably be the same for my town, too. I live in Langenburg, Saskatchewan with a population of about 1000 (and shrinking). We actually almost were a railroad town. A roundhouse was built here in 1886 by the Manitoba & Northwestern Ry. (they leased the line to CP for 999 years in 1900), but was moved to the town of Bredenbury (about a 15 minute drive away) due to a lack of water. Bredenbury now has a large CP yard (I wish we had it).

While not related to trains, something Langenburg is famous for is UFO sightings (really). I think there's some stuff about it on the net.
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Posted by CShaveRR on Monday, December 29, 2003 10:38 AM
Our town would probably best be promoted with a scoot. The freights are more impressive to me, but are an incidental inconvenience to most of the people around here.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:42 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

While driving through LIma Ohio they were promoting there town with a sp daylight engine on a bilboard.I know the daylights were built by the lima locomotive works so what train would you use to promote your town???
stay safe
Joe


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Posted by Mookie on Friday, January 16, 2004 6:20 AM
Big Red Line - which we have right now!

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Posted by Modelcar on Friday, January 16, 2004 8:43 AM
....Well we could say: The route of "High Speed Service" via Nickle Plate...and "The New York Cenrtal System"....double track route. And we can add "The Chessie System"....and we must mention the Pennsylvania Railroad too. Our town was very much a smoke stack industrial area and used these routes extensively. Muncie, In. in Central Indiana.

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Posted by vsmith on Friday, January 16, 2004 9:23 AM
I believe the Super Chief went thru Pasadena up till the day it ceased operation.

So a Warbonneted F3 would represent the city quite well.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 16, 2004 9:56 AM
In Hudson, Quebec,

A BIG CPR EMD 90 MAC!
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Posted by CBQ_Guy on Friday, January 16, 2004 1:21 PM
I live in Peru, IL and both the Burlington AND Rock Island had a presence here in the past history of the town.

And the adjoining town of LaSalle had the infamous LaSalle & Bureau County RR, the LSBC of "Let's Steal Box Cars" noteriety.
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Posted by Willy2 on Friday, January 16, 2004 3:56 PM
I would promote the either the UP 3985 or the 844. The reason is that UPs headquarters are in Omaha.

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Posted by enr2099 on Friday, January 16, 2004 5:22 PM
Victoria,BC. A VIA Rail Budd RDC or an E&N Railfreight GP38.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 17, 2004 2:37 PM
I live in Lombard, Illinois just a hop, skip and a jump from one of the best train watching grade crossings in the land. I suppose for Lombard, it would have to be anything marked Chicago and Northwestern although the system is now Metra, it is the C.NW green and gold I remember best.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 17, 2004 3:33 PM
IC & GM&O was the only rr's in jackson for a long time then they sold their east to west line to MSRC Midsouth rail corp their line went from Bossier city La to Merridian Miss & from Jackson to gulfport Via ICG to Hattiesburg Ms
today CN owns IC Former Illnois central System then Illnois Central Gulf
After the IC GM&O Merger Then in 1988 Back to Illnois central
Black To Orange To Orange & white To Orange & grey Then Back to black
now KCS owns MSRC and CCR help take them to Tenn
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Posted by kschmidt on Saturday, January 17, 2004 3:39 PM
Well I can only think of one thing the would come to mind to promote, Milwaukee. That would be beer and brats, (OOPPS !! Wrong forum). That would have to be the Streamline Milwaukee Road steam locomotives that used to pull the "Hiawatha" trains at over 100 mph. They are "Milwaukee".

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 17, 2004 3:49 PM
On a couple of our ex-WC overpasses in town, there are small billboards of a WC SD45 pulling a flat car advertising for the United Way.[8D]

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