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[DRGWfan]

DRGW, SP , Cotton Belt andMilwaukee Road

[Trainmaster.Curt]

Canadian Pacific Railway bar none, has retained it's independence since 1881, and still Spans The World. Second would be CEMR (Central Manitoba Railway) which is a local Manitoba shortline owned by Cando Contracting, they own the Carman and Pine Falls subdivisions. Third would be CN, though since privatization they have become too American for my liking, but it's still Canadian National Railways.

[PBenham]

Lehigh Valley! Route of the Black Diamond, with props to the Rutland, Central Vermont, Nickel Plate, DL&W and New Haven!

[CrazyDelmar]

WABASH!

[Snoq. Pass RR]

Good old Spokane, Portland, and Seattle.  Followed very closely by the Milwaukee Road.

[Lord Atmo]

CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN
i will eternally miss them

also

Gotta agree, the UP is as american as apple pie and baseball and the largest of the american railroads that has not changed its name, plus, you gotta love Steve and 844/3985. Also, the UP has not changed its color scheme once, the yellow, grey, red trim, and blue wings have not changed since it was fasioned in the 50's. Tell that to the BNSF who has heritage paint schemes galore! I despise the BNSF because I loved the ATSF's red warbonnet scheme and since they merged with the BN they formed the ugliest paint scheme ever to adorn a respectable American diesel locomotive. I read in a Motor Trend magazine article about the Ford (my favorite car make, chevy corvette is include!!) F-350 pick up and the author said "Watching the F-250 pull the trailer up the hill is similar to a Union Pacific Locomotive!" Truley, the UP Big Boy (my favorite steamer, along with the Y6b, berkshire, and J class) was featured on the cover of Times magazine in the 40's.  I also love the UP because they have a strong connection with their past and

maybe you're just sick and tired of seeing BNSF so much?  you prefer ATSF's scheme to BNSF's much like i prefer CNW's to UP's. that said, i dont think BNSF's scheme is the ugliest ever. but to each his own.

myself? i'm a fan of those eastern schemes. CSX and NS. awesome

[Railfan1]

CSX

 

[doghouse]

The SP(UP) out of El Paso.  You've got  the Sunset Route and the Golden State Route.  Can't beat that with a stick!

[Anonymous]

SOUTHERN & CENTRAL OF GEORGIA

[tomikawaTT]

Nihon Kokutetsu, aka JNR

Chuck (modeling what I saw in 1964)

[cr6479]

C   O  N  R  A  I  L

[KCSfan]

The "old" Illinois Central. Not todays CN/IC and definitely not the ICG, but the IC when it still was "The Main Line of Mid-America". The name I use in these forums might give you a clue as to my favorite road today. 

Mark

[Ishmael]

I'll go with the "old" Frisco, especially the River Line. I've been over almost all of it from St. Louis to Memphis. I miss the old semaphore signals every mile, and the gray wooden stations.

Second, of course, is the B&O.

[enr2099]

Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway/Southern Railway of Vancouver Island.

http://www.sryraillink.com/vancouver_isl_service.htm#

[Limitedclear]

Lehigh Valley