Whats you favorite fallen flag

[Anonymous]

Milwaukee Road, no question about it.

I grew up in uptown Mpls along MILW's west mainline to NoDak and west. The area in uptown was abandoned by CP late last year, I still have a hard time accepting that the tracks are gone and won't come back. The city is planning on putting in light rail or a trolley to use the vacated rails. A friggin trolley?? WTF, I'm still bitter.

It's a dam shame that SOO painted over all the MILW marks on the engines and cabs. Makes me wish I would have taken more pics. Bandits are still alive and well at Humboldt and St. Paul yards though.

[locomutt]

My fovorite FALLEN FLAG: Whats left?

C&O,B&O,Morehead&Northfork,Frankfort&Cincinnatti,Eastern Kentucky

[locomutt]

My fovorite FALLEN FLAG: Whats left?

C&O,B&O,Morehead&Northfork,Frankfort&Cincinnatti,Eastern Kentucky

[mike-65]

WP-Feather River Route, or ATSF
Per Marquette, Rutland, Southern - I imagined a lotta places thru those names/marques...

[mike-65]

WP-Feather River Route, or ATSF
Per Marquette, Rutland, Southern - I imagined a lotta places thru those names/marques...

[Anonymous]

As any good Jersey boy would say PRSL

[Anonymous]

As any good Jersey boy would say PRSL

[Anonymous]

Atlantic Coast Line - My Granddaddy went from wood to coal to diesel with that line and was the first engineer of The Champion with the ACL's first diesel engines, E3-500 and E3-501, in November of 1939. The day he retired I sat in his lap in the cab and he took me for a little ride and I got to pull the horn lanyard, 3 longs-one short- and one long for a crossing.

E3-500 was wrecked and rebuilt as an E8 but E3-501 is still alive in Salisbury, NC at the Spencer Shops museum. It was retired with 6,250,212 passenger miles, most of any passenger engine ever built; or so I was told. I visited it with my Mother, daughters and my grandson two years ago.

They brought it out of the roundhouse for us and I sat in the engineer's chair with my grandson on my lap 50 years after My Granddaddy had done the same with me.

[Anonymous]

Atlantic Coast Line - My Granddaddy went from wood to coal to diesel with that line and was the first engineer of The Champion with the ACL's first diesel engines, E3-500 and E3-501, in November of 1939. The day he retired I sat in his lap in the cab and he took me for a little ride and I got to pull the horn lanyard, 3 longs-one short- and one long for a crossing.

E3-500 was wrecked and rebuilt as an E8 but E3-501 is still alive in Salisbury, NC at the Spencer Shops museum. It was retired with 6,250,212 passenger miles, most of any passenger engine ever built; or so I was told. I visited it with my Mother, daughters and my grandson two years ago.

They brought it out of the roundhouse for us and I sat in the engineer's chair with my grandson on my lap 50 years after My Granddaddy had done the same with me.

[Anonymous]

The Wabash because of five now dear departed relatives who were employed by the WAB and I don't want to rile their ghosts,

The C & E I because they purposely painted their pax units in the school colors of my alma mater, the University of Illinois.

[Anonymous]

The Wabash because of five now dear departed relatives who were employed by the WAB and I don't want to rile their ghosts,

The C & E I because they purposely painted their pax units in the school colors of my alma mater, the University of Illinois.

[Anonymous]

I miss the old Seaboard Coastline Logo on some of the cars,and engines. They were the closet to me, living only 300 feet from the CSX North & south Bound Main Line.

[Anonymous]

I miss the old Seaboard Coastline Logo on some of the cars,and engines. They were the closet to me, living only 300 feet from the CSX North & south Bound Main Line.

[Jetrock]

Sacramento Northern, or Arcata & Mad River Railroad...

[Jetrock]

Sacramento Northern, or Arcata & Mad River Railroad...

[Anonymous]

RIO-GRANDE
BURLINGTON ROUTE

[Anonymous]

RIO-GRANDE
BURLINGTON ROUTE

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

My favorite is Erie Lackawanna. Lots of Alcos, passenger trains with more mail than passengers and a terminal road entry into Chicago. All were signs of a road with a marginal bottom line but the SD45's, SDP45's and big GE's presented a bigtime image that belied the bottom line.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

My favorite is Erie Lackawanna. Lots of Alcos, passenger trains with more mail than passengers and a terminal road entry into Chicago. All were signs of a road with a marginal bottom line but the SD45's, SDP45's and big GE's presented a bigtime image that belied the bottom line.

[JanekKoz]

Erie Lackawanna Rwy.

[JanekKoz]

Erie Lackawanna Rwy.

[Anonymous]

The "Q" -- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. I sort of grew up with the Twin Cities Zephyr, being born in 1935. In late '40's and early '50's, it was to the TCZ the day after school ended to East Dubuque and the Grandparents' farm in NE Iowa. Also rode the Builder and the NC Limited. Actually, I liked them all: a fine Saturday was spent visiting Central, Dearborn, LaSalle St., Grand Central, C A&E, Union, C & NW, and Randolph stations in Chicago. A special feeling exists for G B & W where I watched the steam engines in Independence, WI in early 40's.

[Anonymous]

The "Q" -- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. I sort of grew up with the Twin Cities Zephyr, being born in 1935. In late '40's and early '50's, it was to the TCZ the day after school ended to East Dubuque and the Grandparents' farm in NE Iowa. Also rode the Builder and the NC Limited. Actually, I liked them all: a fine Saturday was spent visiting Central, Dearborn, LaSalle St., Grand Central, C A&E, Union, C & NW, and Randolph stations in Chicago. A special feeling exists for G B & W where I watched the steam engines in Independence, WI in early 40's.

[VerMontanan]

Great Northern! A fallen flag, but not gone! Not when one can look at the chosen paint scheme of successor BNSF! Not when one can go to Montana's goregous Glacier National Park and stay in numerous GN-built hotels and inns, many decorated with much GN memorabilia. Not when one can go to Waterton Lakes National Park and stay in the GN-built Prince of Wales Hotel and still ride (on Upper Waterton Lake to Goathaunt, Montana) the M.V. "International (built in 1926 by GN). Not when one can still (after nearly 75 years) ride the train named after the creator of the GN, "The Empire Builder", which is the second longest continuously operated passenger train in the United States. There are literally thousands of museums across the country that feature railroad items...some quite extensive. Yet, the Great Northern is the best example of a fallen flag that you can still very much experience outside the museum. It's still very much alive.

[VerMontanan]

Great Northern! A fallen flag, but not gone! Not when one can look at the chosen paint scheme of successor BNSF! Not when one can go to Montana's goregous Glacier National Park and stay in numerous GN-built hotels and inns, many decorated with much GN memorabilia. Not when one can go to Waterton Lakes National Park and stay in the GN-built Prince of Wales Hotel and still ride (on Upper Waterton Lake to Goathaunt, Montana) the M.V. "International (built in 1926 by GN). Not when one can still (after nearly 75 years) ride the train named after the creator of the GN, "The Empire Builder", which is the second longest continuously operated passenger train in the United States. There are literally thousands of museums across the country that feature railroad items...some quite extensive. Yet, the Great Northern is the best example of a fallen flag that you can still very much experience outside the museum. It's still very much alive.

[Anonymous]

I have to say NKP even tho the NYC also ran through my home town

[Anonymous]

I have to say NKP even tho the NYC also ran through my home town

[Anonymous]

Western Maryland

[Anonymous]

Western Maryland

[okiechoochoo]

I voted for the NP which is what I model but truthfully I miss them all. I just read about all of them and try to remember the 1950s as they were. I was raised in Santa Fe, Rock Island, Katy, MoPac and Frisco territory.