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jokestre
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Posted by jokestre on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:42 PM
DRGW first and foremost.......the little railroad that could and did!
ATSF Can't beat the sight of the Super Chief climbing up the 3% grade at Raton Pass..........way back in the day
PRR
Milwaukee Road
GN
SP- before Phillip Anshultz ran the company into the ground
UP- yada yada yada

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:28 PM
Fallen Flag: Milwaukee Road

Current: Montana Rail Link
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techguy57
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Posted by techguy57 on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:30 AM
Gotta admit that the Union Pacific( I know, I know), The Indiana Harbor Belt, The EJ&E and the Indiana Rail Road are some of my favorite current roads. Favorite fallen flags are Grand Trunk, Rock Island, and Monon. But truthfully I like just about any train no matter how the engines are painted.

Mike
techguy "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick it once and you suck forever." - Anonymous
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:52 AM
Definitely the B&O. I was raised in Bethesda MD on the Georgetown Branch and did plenty of train watching at Kensington, Silver Spring and other locations on the Metropolitan Branch.

The PRR was a close second, but I didn't see as much of it because it was further away.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 8, 2004 8:41 PM
Got too many to say...

Definitely NOT the NS...

LC
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rf16a
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Posted by rf16a on Thursday, January 8, 2004 7:06 PM
My Top 5 favorite:
Pennsylvania RR
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
Reading
Conrail
Jersey Central
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 8, 2004 5:42 AM
UNION PACIFIC

Yeah, I like yellow, red and gray !!!
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daveklepper
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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, January 8, 2004 5:37 AM
1. D&RGW The Narrow Gauge, all of it, the main line scenery, Castle Gate, Gore Canyon, Ruby Canyon, Emerald Canyon, the gung ho work force NOT badmouthing the company but always pitching in, Rocky Mountain Trout in the diner, the immaculate condition of its own trains, including the Prospector, and after 1971 still putting its best foot forward "never on Wednesday," even while loosing money doing it and then giving Amtrak as much cooperation as it could possibly do.

2. The NYNH&H before Pat Mcginnis. The Comet. The postwar coaches with lounge areas for smoking on one end (also adopted by PRR for the Congressional and Senator cars, but the NH had them first.) The beautiful Shoreline I-5 Hudsons. The Alco passenger diesels. Open platform AC-DC steel mu cars! The Hell Gate Bridge and its spectacular view of Manhattan. Kind people, in general. First class dining car service for those who could afford it and a grill car on the same train for eocnomical meals and then a "news butcher" with his traveling cart. "GHHETT Your SWEET CASSSHEW NUTS." The Maybrook with the Pougheepsie Bridge and the long Alco-headed freights. Changing engines in four minutes, arrival to departure, at New Haven on the Merchants Limited and Yankee Clipper. 100 mph operation from "Boston Switch" north of Providence right to Reading Junction north of what is now route 128 Station. With an I-5 in steam. Does anyone really think a GG1 is prettier than the same mechanicals/electricals under a sleek New Haven EP-4 with its decent and comfortable engineer's cab? Wooden baggage cars into Grand Central Terminal as late as 1951. (New England: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.)

3. & 4. The North Shore, the very best interurban; & Lehigh Valley Transit, all I could ever experience of a real midwest interurban like the Indiana Railway or Cincinnati and Lake Erie, which went before I could visit.

Modern Light Rail? The East Line of San Diego's system, and Baltimore's system.

Foreign: The Swiss Furka Oberalp and Ratian Railway narrow gauge, really one system. Spectacular mountains and spectacular operations, and was easy to get a cab ride. Dave
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 8, 2004 1:30 AM
Always been a fan of the Ann Arbor.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 8, 2004 1:26 AM
Jersey Central

"The BIG Little Railroad"
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 1, 2004 11:48 AM
Burlington Northern been a hugh BN fan All my life scince I was a kid
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locomutt
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Posted by locomutt on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 8:36 AM
BY ALL MEANS!!!!!!!!

THECHESAPEAKE & OHIO!! I really wasn't
aware that there were any other roads out there

locomutt

p.s. just because I live in Louisville,has nothing
to do with the L & N.

Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!

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GDRMCo
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Posted by GDRMCo on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 7:39 AM
AT&SF, SP and D&RGW

ML

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tree68
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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 7:06 AM
A little C&O, a little NKP. C&O because they ran through my old hometown; Nickle Plate Fast Freight.

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 6:17 AM
Reading Company. Always was friendly and helpful to me.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 4:14 AM
[bow][angel][bow] The Fox River Valley Railroad, hands down.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:23 PM
Canadian Pacific and Burlington Northern and a little Rock Island
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jeaton
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Posted by jeaton on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:43 PM
I've got to go with The Milwaukee Road. Streamlined steam, 100 MPH track, electric... What could one want?

"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:20 PM
If I say B&O, you can say N&W! (hey, you planning on going to the new O. Winston link Museum, I heard it opens Jan. 10, but I can't make it, and probably won't any time soon)
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Train Guy 3
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Posted by Train Guy 3 on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:10 PM
N&W was the best................ I guess I'm gonna have to go with NS now.

TG3 LOOK ! LISTEN ! LIVE ! Remember the 3.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:51 PM
PRR!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:34 PM
She should have earned immortality at the age of 125, but she died!
The good ol' B&O!
Big mean chessie ate her up, then got gobbled up!
By the huge coperate structured CSX!

(heh heh- its a poem, I realized it rhymed after the second line)
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Mikeygaw
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Posted by Mikeygaw on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:27 PM
Conrail Forever!!!
Conrail Forever!
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dharmon
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Posted by dharmon on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:50 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by railpac

Manufacturers Railway Co. Owned by Anheuser-Busch St. Louis, MO.



Good One!!!!

I'd like to join their spill response team when I get out of the navy![:p][:p]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:43 PM
Manufacturers Railway Co. Owned by Anheuser-Busch St. Louis, MO.
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JoeKoh
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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:34 PM
Bulkhead
welcome to the forums.Yes the B&O.
stay safe
Joe

Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").

 

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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 1:14 PM
B&O
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METRO
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Posted by METRO on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 1:08 PM
GO Transit of Toronto
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AlcoRS11Nut
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Posted by AlcoRS11Nut on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:44 PM
UNION PACIFIC!!!!!!
I love the smell of ALCo smoke in the Morning. "Long live the 251!!!" I miss the GBW and my favorite uncle is Uncle Pete. Uncle Pete eats Space Noodles for breakfast.
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