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[AztecEagle]

If You Could Back In Time and Ride Any Of The Great Old Passenger Trains,Which One's Would You Ride?My Faves(In Order):"The Sunset Limited";"The Pan American";"The 20th Century Limited";"The Texas Cheif";"The Texas Special";"The Texas Eagle";"The Aztec Eagle";"The City of New Orleans";"The Sam Houston/Texas Zephyrs";"The Wabash Cannonball";"The City of San Francisco/Los Angeles/Portland";"The Olympian Hiawatha";"The Twin Star Rocket";"The Sunbeam";"The Valley Eagle/Pioneer"To Name A Few.[:D]Okay Boys&Girls.Which Ones Would You Ride?Let Me Know Pretty Soon So I Can Get Doc Brown To Get The DeLorean Ready!![8)][8D]

[Anonymous]

The Super Chief. That was THE train to experience in it's day.

[Anonymous]

The Idahoan, The Challenger, Daylight, and of course the Super Chief.

[Anonymous]

I long to ride the empore builder- in GN times

[agentatascadero]

Being an old guy, I did ride many of the best. But I'm most sorry I missed these: The Royal Gorge, Panama Limited, Century, Broadway, DZ, Twin Cities Zephyr, North Coast Limited, Olympian Hi, Yellowstone Special, , it may not have a name, but the SP&S train to Bend, Phoebe Snow. Oops, not all of these can be considered great, unless one takes the railfan view that All trains are GREAT.

[Anonymous]

the transcontinental in may of 1869. the road has just been completed and we would get to shoot indians and buffalo from the moving train, experience hanging track because it was laid on the snow and the snow has since melted, traverse trestles with a tendency to collapse under their own weight, experience towns populated with riff raff, climb the sierras through smouldering snowsheds, and descend the sierras in a runaway train because a brakeman had poor judgement, and ultimately arrive in the golden state where golden nuggets the size of hens eggs are just lying around. it does'nt get any better than that.

[trainboyH16-44]

The Canadian, first and foremost, then the Empire Builder, and the Super Cheif, of course. The Twentieth Century Limited is also an old favorite.
Matthew

[fievel]

I'd love to ride the Great Northern Empire Builder,especially through the Pacific Northwest.
Western Pacific's California Zephyr wouldn't be too shabby,either. My grandmother rode it
several times, and never ceased to relate the experience to me. And I loved every word !
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[Noah Hofrichter]

My pick would be "old" CNW 400 train on the line from Chicago to St. Paul Via Elroy and Madison, not the new 400 via the Adams line though. I watch the WSOR creep trains along the Old 400 route all the time, and I wonder what the line was like in it's hayday, when the trains ran faster than a crawl.....

Noah

[cnw4001]

I too would have liked to have ridden the 400 when it was in it's prime. Next the Broadway Limited and 20th Century Limited, GM Aerotrain, Santa Fe Super Chief and the El Cap.

Had the chance to ride NYC"s X-plorer and NYC"s James Whitcomb Riley, L & N"s Hummingbird and C & 0"s George Washington.

[Anonymous]

The Super Chief, without a doubt. Dinner in the Turquoise Room, buy Kachina dolls and turquoise from Native Americans at division stops. And maybe a stopover at Garden City, KS, where so much of Truman Capote's IN COLD BLOOD is set.

Second choice: Panama Limited. My father took the train from Hammond (close to Baton Rouge) to Chicago in the fifties. He ordered "The Kings Dinner" which was so lavi***hey gave him a lapel pin of a crown when he finished it!

Did I understand that the IC also put passengers' names on their compartment doors? Smooth!

[photogeek88]

The Kate Shelley 400. It ran through Rochelle and my hometown, and would have been awsome to ride through the cornfields and prarie right around sunset...plus, it would make trips to Cubs games a lot quicker and more fun!

[mersenne6]

1. The first through train from Omaha to Sacramento on the transcontinental.
2. The Antelope's "mile a minute" run back in the 1840's
3. Death Valley Scotty's 1905 special
4. B&O's first run into Ellicot Station

[Anonymous]

Super Chief
Twentieth Century Limited
Empire Builder
Texas Special
The Meteor
The Firefly

[senshi]

Most any of the CNW "400" or UP-CNW-SP Streamliners. Especially if its behind on of CNW's streamlined steam locos.