What made you choose your rr company to model?

[Virginian]

My great Grandaddy helped build the Virginian, and I love N&W steam too, so there was never any question which roads I would model.

[cspmo]

When I join a model railroad club, I was going to model A.T.S.F., but majority
of the members were modeling that R.R..So I pick a railroad that came thru
the town where I live, and one that didn't go bankrupt( Rock Island).
I decided on Chicago & Northwestern.

[Anonymous]

Outside of the USA , Union Pacific is the best known, still retains its original name
and colour scheme, and my grand-daughter prefers the yellow and grey to all others!
kiwi from new zealand

[Anonymous]

I'm a fan of big steam and diesel power from the transition era, so I naturally gravitated to the Union Pacific.

Also when I was young I was extremely impressed when I saw a Santa Fe Warbonnet ABBA with 20 or more passenger cars roar thru Mundelein, Illinois.

Hence, I model the UP & ATSF mainlines. I also am a big fan of John Deere so I run a JD branch line.

[twhite]

I like mountain railroading, and both Rio Grande and Southern Pacific ran through pretty spectacular scenery, and both had pretty spectacular steam locomotives. It was a pretty easy choice when I got serious--even though I live in California, I liked Rio Grande standard gauge steam, and grew up with SP cab-forwards. So I model a fictional California extension of the Rio Grande on which SP has trackage rights and get the best of both of my worlds.
Tom

[Anonymous]

Needed some vintage lines for my '50s layout, my brother (and slightly larger financial contributor) suggested Chicago Burlington & Quincy, Great Northern, and Chicago NorthWestern. So, we model all 3 :) It'll be a farily large layout when complete. A late steam 4-8-4 GN passenger pulling slightly unprototypical Heavyweights in a later Empire Builder Scheme, deisel FT CBQ freight, and a deisel F7 CNW freight. It sure has taught me alot more about these lines, and that is definately part of the fun.

[Javern]

grew up on the Milwaukee Road, still recall the f unit, livestock cars, etc

[Hawks05]

i chose BN mainly because that was the first locomotive i got at a show so i just stuck with it. i have a bunch of different road name freight cars, but most of my loco's are linked back to BN somehow.

my layout will hopefully be mainly BN/BNSF power with some NS. i love the black loco and just the look of the NS locos. i love the BNSF heritage 2 color scheme and BNSF is linked to BN.

[Anonymous]

I gre up near the UP mainline. My dad and grandpa were members of the AOS museum and the bigboy is parked there. I rode a challenger exscursion I have seen the 844 when it was numbered 8444 and I have taken both my children to see the Challenger on both of its trips to Texas.

[FThunder11]

I just thought, since it cam out a few years ago, that the Acela was so awsome looking. And once they got a model of it I knew that I had to do that.

[tstage]

More a victim of circumstance than anything. Three Christmases ago on a whim, I picked up an Athearn 2-8-2 Mike on sale at a LHS. Turned out to be a New York Central model . I didn't really know much about the NYC at that time, although I was familiar with the name. (I know a little more now but still have much to learn.)

Just started my layout this past May and decided to stick with the NYC theme. I only have two locomotives: A Mike and an S1 switcher - both NYC. I'm not entirely stuck on just one railroad. At some point, I may change my mind. That shouldn't change my layout much - other than the paint scheme of my freight house. [:)]

Tom

[fwdguy]

Hello,

I choose the Burlington Northern because for one it ran by my home when I was growing up and still does somewhat( BNSF), always cool to model what you see daily.

And second because it was the first real nice locomotive paint scheme I got as a birthday gift when I was young. Atlas GP 38 High Nose.

And third, because my childhood friend was a Santa Fe modeler so I could not copy him.

He always said how much better Santa Fe was than BN, and then the BN gobbled up the Santa Fe, Im sure that ticked him off.

So is life. But that is what makes model railroading fun, everyone has there own interest.

It would be boring if everyone modeled the same company.

Mark