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grumpymnt3985::: Union Pacific ALL THE WAY ALL THE WAY[:D]

[Anonymous]

grumpymnt3985::: Union Pacific ALL THE WAY ALL THE WAY[:D]

[ns_gp60]

NORFOLK SOUTHERN!!!!!

[ns_gp60]

NORFOLK SOUTHERN!!!!!

[NWtoNS24153]

Norfolk Southern or BAR

[NWtoNS24153]

Norfolk Southern or BAR

[Kevin C. Smith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by milwsoocnw

Milwaukee Road, of course!

Or, in it's full flower, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railway. Descriptive-no broken promises or shading the truth. It really did make it to the Pacific and the cities it mentioned were on the main line (unlike, say, the AT&SF or CB&Q or CRI&P). No vague trailing off in "...and Northern" (or "Southern", "Eastern", "Western" or whatever direction the original builders or promoters thought greener traffic pastures lay). Without resort to puffery or prevarication, it said where it went and went where it said-and made a grand show along the way.

I might nominate the name of another, long forgotten, line that committed all the sins listed above. The Saint Paul and Eastern Grand Trunk railroad never got within 200 miles of Saint Paul, much less east of it; It was a branch-never a trunk-and really was never anything approaching grand. It's took four years to simply connect itself to the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western and passed to the C&NW with the latter's acquision. The lines so optimistically laid in the 1880's came up shortly before and after WWII. All that remains is a branch line off the shortline Escanaba & Lake Superior's main from Michigan to Green Bay, WI. Guilty as charged-but a crime of optimisim, and forgivable.

Wasn't it David P. Morgan who once wrote that he always had a soft spot for any road that ended it's name "in the magic words '& Pacific'"?

[Kevin C. Smith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by milwsoocnw

Milwaukee Road, of course!

Or, in it's full flower, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railway. Descriptive-no broken promises or shading the truth. It really did make it to the Pacific and the cities it mentioned were on the main line (unlike, say, the AT&SF or CB&Q or CRI&P). No vague trailing off in "...and Northern" (or "Southern", "Eastern", "Western" or whatever direction the original builders or promoters thought greener traffic pastures lay). Without resort to puffery or prevarication, it said where it went and went where it said-and made a grand show along the way.

I might nominate the name of another, long forgotten, line that committed all the sins listed above. The Saint Paul and Eastern Grand Trunk railroad never got within 200 miles of Saint Paul, much less east of it; It was a branch-never a trunk-and really was never anything approaching grand. It's took four years to simply connect itself to the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western and passed to the C&NW with the latter's acquision. The lines so optimistically laid in the 1880's came up shortly before and after WWII. All that remains is a branch line off the shortline Escanaba & Lake Superior's main from Michigan to Green Bay, WI. Guilty as charged-but a crime of optimisim, and forgivable.

Wasn't it David P. Morgan who once wrote that he always had a soft spot for any road that ended it's name "in the magic words '& Pacific'"?

[Anonymous]

Blue Mountain & Reading RR

[Anonymous]

Blue Mountain & Reading RR

[Anonymous]

My all time favorite, ignore the screen name, is the best of the west, the one, the only, UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.

[Anonymous]

My all time favorite, ignore the screen name, is the best of the west, the one, the only, UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.

[PBenham]

Lehigh Valley![8D] No contest. BUT there is a small part of me that likes the concept of Lehigh & New England, gone but not forgotten. Too bad I couldn't have experienced it, before it was too late! I feel the same way about the Rutland, and the Pre-McGinnis New Haven, not the lump of[censored] he turned it into!

[PBenham]

Lehigh Valley![8D] No contest. BUT there is a small part of me that likes the concept of Lehigh & New England, gone but not forgotten. Too bad I couldn't have experienced it, before it was too late! I feel the same way about the Rutland, and the Pre-McGinnis New Haven, not the lump of[censored] he turned it into!