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Favorite Rail Road ?

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:24 PM
WOW how could I forget Lionel Lines!!![bow] ....been watching this line run for more than 20 years [tup].. Thanks for mentioning it [^]
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Posted by twaldie on Saturday, January 14, 2006 9:48 AM
I like all of the lines I've lived close to...... (and a lot I haven't lived close to)
As a kid in Michigan it was the Pere Marquette (later C&O)
I've also lived within a mile or two of the following:
South Kohala Sugar (small steam line, their engine now sits in the bottom of Mahukona Harbor, Island of Hawaii)
Northwestern Pacific (Petaluma, CA)
Escanaba & Lake Superior, CNW/UP (Marinette, WI)
UP/SP/BNSF (Klamath Falls, OR)
Providence & Worcester, New England Central (Ledyard, CT)
Norfolk Southern, CSX (Chesapeake, VA)

It's all a matter of buying the right house in the right town!

Tim
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Posted by Canondale61 on Saturday, January 14, 2006 1:37 PM
Have to be the Pennsy. We would visit my grandmother in Altoona and her house was 5 miles below the Horseshoe Curve. I would lay in bed and listen to the trains going around the mountain. My grandfather was a sign painter for the Pennsy. And he actual painted the K4 that went to the Worlds Fair. Have a pic of him in a suit standing in front of his work. Basically all of my grand parents worked for the PRR at one time or another.
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Posted by LL675 on Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:03 PM
I remember watching my Uncle's 2020 Turbine running around the Christmas Tree. Just thought the look of the Keystone on the boiler front was great. Also like the Nickel Plate and the NYC.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:45 PM
hello guys. if i had to pick a favorite rail road. i would have to pick two of them.

my first pick have to be norfolk southern. because it's the only tran that runs through my home town of baxley,ga.

my second pick will have to be csx, because it's one of the few other trains that i see in south carolina besides norfolksouthern.

these are my top two picks for my favorite rail road.
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Posted by FJ and G on Sunday, January 15, 2006 2:12 PM
same as my cognomen (FJ&G).
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 15, 2006 5:54 PM
Speaking of living close to the tracks, a 1/4 mile away the LIRR runs past, love to hear the rumble and the 5am wake up call in the morning as it streaks past, only wish it was steam......[:)]
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Posted by BMRR on Sunday, January 15, 2006 6:38 PM
Southern Railway.

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Posted by gizmodawg_55 on Sunday, January 15, 2006 6:55 PM
My favorite railroad NYC because my grandfather worked for them out of Ashtabula,Ohio. Haven't had much luck trying to get on the N&S or CSX though.

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