What your most favorite R.R. flag of all time.(fallen or current)?

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[SALfan]

The Seaboard Air Line - "Thru the Heart of the South".

[passengerfan]

Actually had three favorite fallen flags

1 Great Northern

2 Santa Fe

3 CB&Q

All were pro passenger and did not compromise service or equipment on there trains.

[CNW 6000]

No doubt...the C&NW!  Followed by the FRVR and...the WC.  Can I count the DME/ICE as they're on the block so to speak?

[Anonymous]

well first of all  hello  my name is darryl and this is my first post on this thread.

my favorite flags are fallen , but they had some great heritage and still will be rideing the rails in my layout===========

the IC and the GM&O along with the southern and the CNW

the IC would be my most favorite .the old southerns and ic's highhoods resembled each other

with their nononsense paint schemes gotta love plainjane

[GLENMARY]

The Southern serves the South.

[EJE818]

My favorite non-fallen flag railroad is the EJ&E, but that is going to be a fallen flag most likely by next year. Once that happens, Iowa Interstate would probably be next. I am a huge fan of the EJ&E, and I know quite a bit about its engines, past and present, from the centercabs to the SD38-2s. EJ&E is a fascinating operation and most people overlook it when they visit the Chicago area, which really is too bad because once you see it, it is hard to forget. It is too bad CN is coming in next year, but the EJ&E won't be forgotten anytime soon. My favorite fallen flags, at least until EJ&E joins that list, are probably the Wisconsin Central and the DM&IR, both which had similar and very neat looking maroon and gold paint paint schemes, and I feel tjose colors go together perfectly on a engine.

[rstaller]

 The NKP. of course, Berkshires, and Bluebirds.  Randy

[sfrailfan]

My fav. is the Burlington Northern! Long Live Cascade Green!

DITTO!

Again don't let the screenname fool you. -I should change that. I like SF and BNSF (believe it or not) too but but at 7 years old BN was it for me!

[ModelTrainLover]

You must of had a great childhood.

Maine Central

Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic

Bangor & Aroostook

Santa Fe

Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes

all Maine Narrow Gauge railroads.

New York Central.

[Anonymous]

#1)  Chicago & North Western - probably my favorite because my Dad worked for this railroad.  I was lucky enough to ride on C&NW commuter trains in Chicago when I was a (very) little kid in the late 60's & early 70's.

#2)  Fox River Valley Railroad (a short-lived shortline located in Northeastern Wisconsin)

 

[espeefoamer]

Favorite railroads

1.Read my username!

2.Santa Fe.

3.Pensylvania Railroad.

[J. Edgar]

Favorite fictional railroad:

Madison and Northeastern (Operating from Madison, WI to Fond Du Lac, WI)

well FICTIONAL.......is the Great Lakes Central System....class 1 operating from Chicago to New York....funny thing...this line started in my mind in 1990....the current Michigan Division (as modeled in Nscale) is nothing like the the new GLC (former AA\TSBY)....someone stole my reporting marks

[tomikawaTT]

The late, great Japan National Railway System, a government-owned monopoly in 1964, since fragmented and privatized.

Chuck

[Ulrich]

My favourite current roads (it's a tie) are Canadian Pacific and Canadian National, and my favourite fallen flag is Quebec Central.  

[Anonymous]

I'm going with the Iowa Central.

[inch53]

I have two favorites; guess it's because of what I remember seeing most as a kid.  PRR ran the Vandalia line and I can remember going to sleep outside in the summer listening to the whistles crossing Mill Creek 4 mile south when the weather was right.

The NYC ran the Cairo line and I had family that lived along the tracks, so when we were visiting, we would sit on the porch and watch the coal drags go by.

inch

[LM&I engineer]

Coming from NW Indiana,just outside of chicago i have a lot of favorites!B&O,C&O,CSS,NYC,Monon but always loved the Chessie system.

[WSOR 4025]

Favorite fictional railroad:

Madison and Northeastern (Operating from Madison, WI to Fond Du Lac, WI)

[Anonymous]

The late, great  GM&O . .

[SD60M]

My fav. is the Burlington Northern! Long Live Cascade Green!

[J. Edgar]

For me it would have to be the Maine Central RR

PS. the PRR will definatly beat any railroad in unique homebuilt locomotives catagory. but not in maintence and profit.

in 1946 the Pennsy posted its first net loss in 100 years.....100 years of making profits and paying dividends to the stock holders.......and up untill 1960 Pennsy engines and trains were maintained in the best condition...............old school managment and changing economies crippled the railroad not net losses and poor maintaince

[Phoebe Vet]

Lackawanna    The route of the Phoebe Snow.

For those who do not know, the Lackawanna Rail Road ran from Hoboken, NJ to Buffalo, NY via Scranton, PA, Binghamton, NY and Emira, NY.  It existed primarily to move anthracite coal from Scranton and Carbondale to the Atlantic ocean in NJ and the Great Lakes in Buffalo.

Coal fired steam engines produced dark smoke and lots of soot.  Passenger cars were not airconditioned, so the windows were open all summer.  Passengers got very dirty riding trains.

Lackawanna used anthracite coal. It is very hard, bluish in color, and burns very clean.  To promote that, they created a ficticious lady named Phoebe Snow, who dressed in white, and they named their premier passenger train after her.  Every car had her portrait hanging in it. She was featured in all of their advertising.

Through a couple of mergers, Lackawanna became the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad (DL&W), and then the Erie Lackawanna.  Erie Lackawanna extended the Phoebe to Chicago.

I actually rode the Phoebe Snow from Binghamton to Chicago just before it was discontinued in 1966.

[IRONROOSTER]

Maryland & Pennsylvania.

Enjoy

Paul 

[SSW9389]

COTTON BELT

[ModelTrainLover]

For me it would have to be the Maine Central RR

PS. the PRR will definatly beat any railroad in unique homebuilt locomotives catagory. but not in maintence and profit.

[carknocker1]

What more needs to be said?
Although I like the Everett & Monte Cristo Railway too.

I liked them as well , I walked the old main line many times and even hiked althrough Monte Cristo , I remember seeing many old buildings as well as the old turn table .

[Pathfinder]

 

Favorite RR: Southern Railway of Vancouver Island

Fallen Flags: Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway and BC Rail.

 

E&N for me as well (grew up on the Island, my first railfaning was the E&N.  Even got one of the Baldwin switchers at Welcox, 1980 or so), BC Rail a close second.  Also like CP Rail a lot.

 

[NSlover92]

 is there any doubt as to the best!!!

AMEN! THE PRR WILL BEAT ANY CURRENT OR FALLEN RAILROAD! YEE-HAW! Mike

[GN-Rick]

What more needs to be said?
Although I like the Everett & Monte Cristo Railway too.