Rdrr New Haven had such an eclectic array of motive power, as Linemanram would say, "suck neatly panted diesals!" Indeed...wouldn't that look great on aT-shirt?
New Haven had such an eclectic array of motive power, as Linemanram would say, "suck neatly panted diesals!" Indeed...wouldn't that look great on aT-shirt?
Poor guy has one small episode of fat fingers and not reading what he typed, and he's forever immortalized in forum folklore!
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
I would have to say CSX,for over 20 years I worked right next to the CSX main going east out of my hometown,but because of that I am a fan of Canadian Pacific because for a lot of those years CP had trackage rights,
I also like NS as once Conrail was gone NS was here,even though there yard seemed to have more cars stored for a local shortline.Not much of a Conrail fan even though they were here for many years.
There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.....
Santa Fe in Chicago, from Alton Junction at 21st Street to Dearborn Station at 8th Street.
That 13 block stretch remains my Dream Layout.
It has everything, a downtown passenger station, four track main line, a coach yard, turntable and round house, engine servicing facility, a freight yard, two bascule bridges, a lift bridge, and a 22 diamond crossing.
Rich
Alton Junction
I grew up in Jersey City close to the ERIE terminal and for some reason the ERIE captured my imagination. My grandfather worked for the NYS&W aka Suquehanna so I also have an interest in that RR as well. My current, no where near finished, layout is ERIE with an NYS&W interchange that includes some extensive trackage rights.
Mark
I've always had an affinity for New England roads, particularly the Boston and Maine. What little modeling I do seems to lean that way. I grew up in a house overlooking the NYNH&HRR main line and witnessed its final days before briefly becoming Penn Central and then Conrail. I wish I had my digital camera back then! I remember seemingly endless lines of rumbling freight cars roll by as I dried the evening dishes for my mother.
Very easy. ATSF, Santa Fe, on and on. Why? They provided my dad a job as a locomotive engineer for almost 50 years, they provided me summer work in the yards in Oklahoma while I went to college and seminary, they provided me a job at the Topeka HQ in the new data processing section, sent me to IBM school, and gave me a second career to finance my first career as a minister.
So I owe the major part of my life to Santa Fe and I model them in the basement still at age 75.
Bob
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Why?
"Through the Rockies"
Narrowgauge
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Grew up near Pot Yard with Penn Central, RF&P, B&O, SCL and Southern and played on the Washington and Old Dominion ROW, but I honor my Grandpa and model the Grand Trunk Western in 1953. I also honor my wife’s Grandpa and have a some Frisco sitting around the house.
Steve
UP, cause SP doesn't exist anymore. I still have road numbers to change.
I've got two...Burlington Northern and CN.
Burlington Northern because of the type of traffic it had..and CN, well, because of the way that the CN mainline cuts through the Beachville Limestone quarry complex....
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Great Northern. Everything about it. Don't know why it was the one that stuck, Maybe because it was in my backyard while growing up and Grandpa would take me down to watch their trains
jacon12 On the favorite prototype question, that would be Southern/Norfolk Southern... which shows how conflicted I am about the era I want to model. Jarrell
On the favorite prototype question, that would be Southern/Norfolk Southern... which shows how conflicted I am about the era I want to model.
Jarrell
Oh I shoulda mentioned them. To bad I forgot.
"Mess with the best, die like the rest" -U.S. Marine Corp
MINRail (Minessota Rail Transportaion Corp.) - "If they got rid of the weeds what would hold the rails down?"
And yes I am 17.
NP2626 It would seem most of us are attracted to hometown rails and this certainly makes some sense!
It would seem most of us are attracted to hometown rails and this certainly makes some sense!
Kind of. I grew up in State College Pennsylvania, which is Pennsy territory (then Penn Central, then Contrail).
Now I model the New Haven, which is the home road of my adopted home town. Although I'm a big fan of byth NYC and Pennsy, I wanted to model the tourist line across the river from my home in the days before it was a tourist line.
"Linemanram, what is "suck neat panted diesals"?"
Lol.... I'm going to take a wild guess on this and say 'such neatly painted diesels'.
That's why I model April 1, 1950... give or take 40 years.
For me it is the Southern RWY and the L&N as they both ran past my house as a child .
The Denver and Rio Grande Western. Like Tom says, mountain railroads have some of the best scenery on the Moffat Line.
Being born and raised in and around Denver. The black, silver and gold is a gorgeous paint scheme.
I also love that UP has the steam preservation program with the Challenger and UP 844. So I can run steam on my modern era layout.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
I grew up in Brooklyn NY so the only trains I ever saw besides the subway was the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal(BEDT).My Grandmother lived three blocks from their yard.As alittle kid I would walk down there and watch the steam engines and Alco S-1s moving cars around.And of course there was the tugboats.What a fantastic place.Only wish I had a camera
Mine would be Santa Fe. I always liked the color of the engines. I rode the Santa Fe Chief as a kid from Pasadena, CA to Barstow, Ca in 1962.
NP2626 I like S.P. and Rio Grande Steam also. I think N.P. had some wonderful looking steam locos, also. But then I like: Camel Backs, Shays, Climaxes and Heislers, too!
I like S.P. and Rio Grande Steam also. I think N.P. had some wonderful looking steam locos, also. But then I like: Camel Backs, Shays, Climaxes and Heislers, too!
I think that those Northern Pacific Z-series Challengers were one of the handsomest steam locomotives ever built.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Born in Westminster, raised in Union Bridge, Married into Hancock--All on the Western Maryland Mainline...Guess that is a good reason to have 31 WM diesels, 7 WM steamers, 17 passenger/ mail/baggage/combine cars, and 98 of my 140 freight cars, plus all 10 cabooses in my 208 pieces of rolling stock in "Wild Mary" colors. Even worked "on", but not "for" the old WM after the CSX organization. It was a Rwy with a little bit of everything, in the day. JWH
BN, right after the merger so I can run NP, GN ,CB&Q and BN equipment. Can't pick just one!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Oh lets see..
First I have to say i like the Lake State Railway because they run through my town
The Carolina Coastal Railway for its weeds all over its tracks
Really anything with lots of weeds interest me
The colorado narrow gauge railroads, specifically the Gilipin Tram
Wait on second thought, I love em all.
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
The CNJ. This is somewhat sacrilegious in my family as Grandpa worked for the PRR. But when growing up in Jersey City, the CNJ operations were only a short bicycle ride from my front door, and I would spend many hours watching the action on the West Side sub of the N&NY branch. PRR is a close second place.
Pete
I dont have any one favorite but prefer the mountain railroads. Of course, thats probably from growing up in Colorado.
One of my first rail books I read as a young teenager was "The Moffat Road". As a family, we made many trips into the mountains, tracing old rail lines, and ghost towns including Corona Pass. The Denver and Salt Lake for me still holds a fascination, a standard gauge line climbing over timberline over Corona Pass (Rollins Pass) is just plain cool. The 2-6-6-0 mallets are neat engines and were the only ones capable of handling the 4% and curves.
Denver and Rio Grande Western and Southern Pacific for me. I grew up around Donner Pass during the late SP steam era--I was in my 'teens before I realized that most articulateds ran with the cab in BACK, LOL!--and I always thought that SP fielded some of the best-looking steam power imaginable.
Then I discovered Rio Grande standard-gauge steam via photographs and I was amazed at the variety of handsome, BIG locomotives that this mid-sized Rocky mountain bridge line offered.
Two mountain railroads with extremely good-looking steam power. When I started building my MR, I decided to combine them. After all, why not get the best of both worlds?
Nihon Kokutetsu, aka Japan National Railways, which was a government monopoly during my modeling month. 1067mm (3 foot 6 inch) gauge. Unbelievable traffic density (only two stopping locals and one express passenger train per hour - in each direction - plus freight.)
Kiso Rintetsu, aka Kiso Forest Railway, 762mm (30 inch) gauge logger - recently dieselized with a motley collection of `critters' ranging from handsome to butt-ugly, pulling about a gazillion disconnects. Closed in 1975, done in by self-loading log trucks.
Kurobe Gorge Railway, 762mm gauge, built to assist in construction and support of a massive hydroelectric development in inaccessible country. Runs amusement park ride passenger equipment and utilitarian freight cars behind steeple cab electrics. Would you believe a train elevator inside a mountain? Still operating as of 2011.
The first two are native to my modeling area, while the third was/is about three mountain ranges to the north. As for why, my wife is Japanese, I lived under the Rising Sun for a dozen years and the Upper Kiso Valley is one of my very favorite places. Having a copy of the September, 1964, master timetable sealed the deal.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Reading Company for me.....
Ran thru my old hometown of Birdsboro PA.
Also the old Wilmington & Northern ran next to my grandparents house.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad