What RR company would you like to see make a comeback?

[areibel]

Erie Lackawanna! Lets just forget about Big Blue!
But you all need a reality check! Bringing them back now wouldn't bring back everything mentioned. Steam locomotives would still be museum pieces.
And no freight hauler would ever think of running a passenger train- That's why Amtrack was formed, none of the big roads wanted to keep losing money on hauling people!

[SOTATRR]

Denver and Rio Grande Western, Southern Pacific, and the DM & IR

[Anonymous]

$oo Line, C&NW, WC, Milwaukee Road, Santa Fe, Denver & Rio Grande Western , Southern Pacific, & Burlington Northern.....................PS. I've clicked my heels together 3 times & then...................."Nothing".....................Oh well...........................Wishful thinking.

[Supermicha]

I would like to see New Haven with its nice McGinnis Scheme and Milwaukee on its electric division in montana.

Micha

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by areibel

Erie Lackawanna! Lets just forget about Big Blue!
But you all need a reality check! Bringing them back now wouldn't bring back everything mentioned. Steam locomotives would still be museum pieces.
And no freight hauler would ever think of running a passenger train- That's why Amtrack was formed, none of the big roads wanted to keep losing money on hauling people!

Big Blue! Lets just forget about Erie (I don't like Erie, I do like the Lackawanna).

[JeremyB]

I would like to see Conrail comback

[Anonymous]

[:D][:D][:D] Chessie[:D][:D][:D]

[areibel]

Jeez! Why the love afair with Conrail?
They were the 80's version of the current day UP, and everyone complains about the UP!
If you knew more of the story, you wouldn't be that impressed with Conrail anymore. Yeah, they ran the trains but they also did a lot to destroy railroading in the northeast.

[Anonymous]

Something with a lotta class, New York Central,,,Yaaaaaaaaa![bow][bow][bow][:D][:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CBQ_Guy

Hell, bring 'em all back!
(and lose Amtrash! while you're at it)

I'll second that[:D][:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal

All of UP's predecessors and Conrail!

I'll second UP's predecessors, but CONRAIL!!!!!!!!!, that was just the other side of Amtrash, Buuuuuut, howabout all the Conrail predecessors, Yaaaaa[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Supermicha

I would like to see New Haven with its nice McGinnis Scheme and Milwaukee on its electric division in montana.

Micha

I'll vote for New Haven, also, but in the Layer Cake Scheme or the Yellow Pin Striped Green, Yaaaaaaaaa, Real Classssssss. in any scheme[:D][:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

[B)] I guess nobody cared much for the B & O. Even though it was swallowed up by Chessie in 1963, I still remember those beautiful E's and F's in the blue, gold, and black going by my grandmother's house. I guess that kind of makes me an [8].

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by areibel

Jeez! Why the love afair with Conrail?
They were the 80's version of the current day UP, and everyone complains about the UP!
If you knew more of the story, you wouldn't be that impressed with Conrail anymore. Yeah, they ran the trains but they also did a lot to destroy railroading in the northeast.

Please, don't get me started on the UP[}:)][}:)]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by joekc6nlx

[B)] I guess nobody cared much for the B & O. Even though it was swallowed up by Chessie in 1963, I still remember those beautiful E's and F's in the blue, gold, and black going by my grandmother's house. I guess that kind of makes me an [8].

Naaaaaaaa! I'm with you on the B & O, A lotta class wrapped up in a classy paint scheme. Those E-units were the most.[:)][:)][:)]

[Anonymous]

I would vote for the AT&SF Super Chief, classic good looks!

[areibel]

Dougal,
Which Erie don't you like, the city or the RR? They are different, as a matter of fact the Erie RR didn't go to Erie PA.
The Erie is an interesting railroad, always an underdog but they kept trying. And talk about some awesome equipment, how about a steam loco bigger than a Big Boy by 150 tons? (Sorry 4884!) They had 'em- the Triplexes, a 2-8-8-8-2. They were built 25 years before the Big Boys, and didn't have the technology available to make them as successful as they could have been. Too bad, one of the tests they did had one pulling a 600+ car train (untill the forced ripped one car apart- too much stress on the cars directly behind the locomotive).

[Anonymous]

My vote is for the Great Northern. But then, the BNSF new paint scheme is what the GN would look like today.

Stuebsrr

[Anonymous]

I would love to see the following passenger operations return:

PRR
NYC
B&O

[Anonymous]

I eould like to see Central Pacific, Georgia, Western of Alabama , Pere Marquette and Michigan Northern come back

[88gta350]

PRR!!!! no doubt! Would love to see those colors rounding the horseshoe curve again!!

[bogeys]

Southern Pacific would be nice, or the Santa Fe. Love those Daylights and Super Chiefs

[Anonymous]

Bring back ATSF, BN, and B&O. Keep Amtrak. Kill UP.

[MudHen_462]

Great Northern....

[Anonymous]

Actually I think people don't really miss the companies as the paint schemes perhaps these mega roads could keep the fallen flag regional ID by running them in their old areas.

Probably the best we could hope for anyway.

[mikebonellisr]

The N Y C ,..Or at least the putnam division of the N Y C .

[oryan_dunn]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mustanggt

I'd like to see Amtrak collapse. There would be CSX acela trains, CSX Aem7 locomotives, and CSX sunset limited. out west there would be BNSF Genesis locomotives, and UP superliners. Wouldn't it be beuteful [^]

I personally would like to see a Genesis painted in the BNSF Heritage II scheme. Get two of those locos with some superliners painted in a BNSF scheme. I think that would look incredibly cool (somewhat like the old Great Northern). I know it wouldn't be prototypical, but if I had the spare time and talent, I might undergo a task like that.

[Todd McWilliam]

"The Rock" Bankruptcy blue of course

[ericsp]

Southern Pacific and Western Pacific

[3railguy]

SP, CB&Q, and GN.