re:favorite fallin flag

[poneykeg]

None other than the MONON.

[Stevo3751]

Santa Fe or SP

[Anonymous]

OK, here's my list:

Rock Island

Penn Central (NYC, PRR)

Missouri Pacific

 

Had some great railroading moments with these railroads as a kid growing up, so these stand out for me...

 

Steve 

 

 

 

[awalker1829]

My favorites are these five railroads:

 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad

Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad

 Cincinnati Southern Railway

Western and Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia

 Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway

[Yooper Foamer]

Michigan Northern- Report Markings :MIGN

Taken over a good section of the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay RR/ GR&I / Pennsy From Grand Rapids to Mackinaw City, Michigan.

Power went like this..

GP7's

GP9's

2) RF-16 ( D&H 1205 1216) Dident last long

RS-12

RS32- Leased

S4- Leased

RS-2

RS-3

Start up date- 4/1/1976 to 9/30/1986 (last run) rails pulled shortly after.

 

[Lawton_Anime]

Rock Island! *two of my essays from my sophmore year in college (small 12 pagers' each) were over its liquidation, one of the worst occurences in railroading history in my mind*

[Snoq. Pass RR]

1. Milwaukee Road

2. Spokane, Portland & Seattle

3. Seattle, Lakeshore & Eastern (Gotta love it.  Seattle to 3 miles past North Bend, about 34 miles total, and then SLS&E went Broke.)

[cr6479]

NYC

EL

LHV

conrail

[railzfan]

 

For me its the Denver & Rio Grande Western, Long Live the Grande!!! There was no other railroad as truly as amazing as the Rio Grande: Mineline Thru the Rockies!

 My second favorite is the Southern Pacific and C&NW.

[tomikawaTT]

The (pre-privatization) Japan National Railways.

They chopped it up, sold it off and confused the issue totally!

For U.S. rails, make mine the pre-Stuart Sanders N&W.

Chuck

[spokyone]

N&W. I rode a train from Cincinatti to Norfolk in 1958. It was pulled by a J. We met those huge Ys pulling coal drags. I was too poor to own a camera then.

[eolafan]

For me, personally they would be (in order):

Milwaukee Road

C&NW

SOO Line

New York Central

Pennsylvania RR

[Blackhat35]

  It would be my grandpa's railroad, the Erie.

Actually I have an office window looking at the Erie in Bergen County, NJ. Plenty of Transit trains. 

Also have a soft spot for the Delaware and Hudson and the Chicago & North Western

[SOU Fan]

Mine would be Southern Railway, in the real world.  They are still alive in my world.

[Duo]

My favorite fallin Flags are between three railroads.

The New York Central.

The New York, New Haven & Harford.

And the Lehigh And New England.

[stocksj]

I remember the Seaboard Coast Line logos from the mid-1060's.

[SD60M]

Burlington Northern! Long Live The BN!!

[NH_railnut]

Howdy!

  I grew up in upstate NY and the Erie L was 1st on the list. We moved to Eastern Massachusetts and I was and still am, a New Haven nut.

[bb4884]

My local RR, the DRGW

[WCfan]

The Milwaukee road for me. If it wasn't for them then it would be the NP

The Greatest SD they ever built unless the SDL39 comes into play.

Happy railroading

James

Yep the good old SDL39, had tractions problums. That's what I've heard. Too bad they got shiped to chile. Shame Shame on CN, could of donated them to a Meseum.

I think you might be able to guess what my Fallen Flag is.

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[rstaller]

    

          The NKP

[Kurn]

 The B&O. The "Railroadman's Railroad".

[Ishmael]

It should be obvious what my favorite is.

I would normally take the Frisco as second, as they run past my house, but when they changed their colors from black and gold to Mandarin orange and white they lost me. So when BN absorbed them, I didn't miss them.

GM&O is second because I rode them to Chicago often and had many good times in their club cars. They always seemed to have easy-going onboard personnel also.

[doghouse]

 

The Missouri Pacific. Not so much as a favorite, but as a RR that I would have liked to have seen more of.  The MoPac didn't have much of a presence in El Paso, but still I would make my dad take me to their yard as often as we could.  Their sawblade emblum was unique.  

[Anonymous]

growing up in Richmond Ca, in the 50s,furthermost western point of the Santa Fe made me a Santa fe fan. I'd ride my bike down to Point Richmond to the Plunge and watch them switch the huge yard there. There was still a working ferry dock operation there untill 1971.

The branch to Oakland ran a block away from my house. They were still running the Chief through there in those days. They'd have locals and transfer runs too. I remember hopping a few freights for several blocks 

There was a great place out in Pinole where the SP and the SF ran close together for a mile by the Bay. You see this in many Will Whittaker and Doug Richter photos. I'd ride my bike out there and sit in the grass and watch  a whole parade of SF and SP going by right at the end of SP steam. I still go  out there, its near Point Pinole Park, and watch BNSF and UP there sometimes when I'm down that way.

I miss the SP too, it dominated California. It's hard to tell which was my favorite, the War bonnet or the Daylight colors. The good news is that there's still War bonnets in Richmond and a few Blue and Yellow SF switchers there too--even a GP30. Still see a green BN GP there too

I live in OR near Eugene now and its UP --still can't get used to  that Armour yellow and Grey. But there's BNSF in Portland and Willammette and Pacific and CORP and other short lines to watch also.

[TheS.P.caboose]

Southern Pacific

[IRONROOSTER]

The Ma&Pa.

Enjoy

Paul 

[sarahd]

   

           SANTA FE  ALL THE WAY!!   

           LONG LIVE CHICO!!!!

[joseph2]

The Erie Lackawanna,the Cloverleaf,and the G.R.&I. division of the PRR.All three used to go thru my hometown.The Erie used E8's,Alcos,and SD45-2's,really impressive. The G.R.&I. once ran from Richmond,IN. to Mackinaw Michigan.