what is your favorite RR company

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Anonymous

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April 2003
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 5:09 PM

B&O! of course Pennsy comes close second, but I have lived near former B&O tracks most of my life, and love hearing stories of the early B&O, and the B&O in its glory days. In fact, Brunswick Maryland (Where I am now) was pretty much started by the B&O, and is said to have held the B&O's largest yard complex (possably the largest owned by a single company in the world at the time) for a while, back near 1900. Around 1987, CSX ripped out the 8 mile yards and built a smaller one, then tore down the old Roundhouse in '96. It was a sad day when the roundhouse came down....

Well, I guess I went off too far, so to put it shorter, B&O!

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prewardude

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January 2002
From: Western Pennsylvania
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Posted by prewardude on Sunday, October 12, 2003 11:59 PM

Just about any of the Eastern roads before WWII. I guess if I had to choose only one, it would be the Pennsy.

Mikeygaw

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From: Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Posted by Mikeygaw on Sunday, October 12, 2003 10:42 PM

I always liked Conrail, problably because I grew up watching Conrail.

Conrail Forever!

yellowducky

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From: along the B&O in INDIANA
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Posted by yellowducky on Saturday, October 11, 2003 6:17 PM

How about before CSX? How about even before Chessie System? How about before most any other railroad? Well, I'm not that old, but I did work for the B&O while it was still: The Baltimore & Ohio.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 11, 2003 4:49 PM

ANY ONE that was around BEFORE the MEGA MERGERS took place. NOT BNSF, and NOT UPSP. This would have to be before 1980 and before that would be even better.