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favorite railroad
Posted by blade on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 1:44 PM

what is your favorite railroad?

a)class one

b)shorlines

c)reginals

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Posted by St. JRR #1 on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 9:44 PM
Class 1 Union Pacific Class 2 FEC Class 3 Lancaster & Chester
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Posted by Ulrich on Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:21 PM

Class 1: It's a tie between Canadian Pacific and Canadian National

Regional: Montreal, Maine & Atlantic

Shortline: Ulrich's Train Service (hahaha...I'm not sure) 

 

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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:31 PM

1.Southern Pacific

2.Sierra(Not sure about this one.)

3.Chicago South Shore & South Bend

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Posted by Lord Atmo on Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:28 PM

 

class 1: KCS and NS

class 2: RBMN and WSOR 

class 3: not a fan of any. they dont have any 6-axle power 

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Posted by Ster1 on Friday, January 11, 2008 1:34 PM

A) CSX

B) Ohio Central Ry.

C) Union RR

CSX 2507 East on 2 Slow-App-Slow Sterling and Restricting at the top of the Wye entering Ster1 Block Q354 is OUT!
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Posted by espee481 on Friday, January 11, 2008 6:52 PM
 Lord Atmo wrote:

 

class 1: KCS and NS

class 2: RBMN and WSOR 

class 3: not a fan of any. they dont have any 6-axle power 

Class I:  Southern Pacific

Class II:  FEC

And our regional railroad the Central Oregon and Pacific has a couple old SP tunnel motors.  Not bad for 6 axle power

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Posted by Lord Atmo on Friday, January 11, 2008 10:32 PM
 espee481 wrote:
 Lord Atmo wrote:

 

class 1: KCS and NS

class 2: RBMN and WSOR 

class 3: not a fan of any. they dont have any 6-axle power 


And our regional railroad the Central Oregon and Pacific has a couple old SP tunnel motors.  Not bad for 6 axle power

yeah that's a regional, not a shortline. they're too small to require the need for 6-axle power 

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Posted by chefjavier on Saturday, January 12, 2008 4:52 PM

Class 1: Santa Fe

Regional: FEC

Shortline: CONRAIL

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Posted by RunningRails on Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:37 AM

              

              1) GENESEE & WYOMING  ( RUN'EM 501!!)

            2) NORFOLK SOUTHERN   ( GO BIG MIKE 2174 )

            3) ?  ONLY TWO RAILROADS I WORKED FOR !!

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Posted by marodude on Monday, January 28, 2008 9:10 PM
UNION PACIFIC ALL THE WAY. EASTERN IDAHO RAILROAD. NO CLASS 3
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Posted by wisandsouthernkid on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:43 AM

favorite class one is NS

Class 2 the WSOR!!!!

Class 3 Ann Arbor

 

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Posted by cnwfan51 on Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:38 AM
   Chicago Northwestren   Nobles and Rock Raulroad and     DMand E
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Posted by Virginian on Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:43 PM
VIRGINIAN.  Could you tell before?  I'm also pretty fond of N&W.
What could have happened.... did.
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Posted by J. Edgar on Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:23 PM

 

 PRR

 Ann Arbor

 Great Lakes Central....side note ive been modeling in HO now N a freelanced RR set in the late 30's since 1990 and this RR is part of an imaginary system known since 1990 as the Great Lakes Central System.....the TSBY stole my RR name Sign - Dots [#dots]Sad [:(]

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