Post your Favorite Road/s

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riverotter

Midwest Alliance Rail Sys
Jun 9, 2005
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Near Kansas City, MO
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City Southern
Canadian Pacific
BC Rail
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
BNSF
Wisconsin Central
Escanaba & Lake Superior
 
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puddlejumper

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Dec 7, 2007
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Southern Maryland
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The PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD of course! Please forgive my ignorance, I was unaware there were any other railroads...:rolleyes:

PJ
 
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GS4

World's Greatest Hobby
Jul 7, 2008
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Here's a foreigner's list:-

BNSF
BN
GN
SP (used to be #1)
ATSF
CB & Q
SP & S
MRL
WC
AMTRAK

Cheers, Simon :thumb:
 
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lester perry

Well I must be the odd man here, C&O for progress. Only 2 others even mentioned it. Any way I doubt if this is a surprise to anyone. my second would be J&S Short line. It is the short line that ties with the C&O on my layout. It runs on its last dollar all the time. Sometimes (most of the time) that dollar is borrowed.
Les
 
nkp174

nkp174

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Oct 10, 2006
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Cincinnati, O.
Denver, South Park, and Pacific
Colorado Central (ng)
Nickel Plate Road
East Broad Top
Colorado & Southern (ng)
Rio Grande Southern
Chesapeake and Ohio
Florence & Cripple Creek
Denver & Rio Grande
Silverton Railroad (not the tourist line)
Silverton Northern
Denver & Rio Grande Western
Norfolk & Western
Virginian
Utah & Nothern
Gilpin Gold Tram
Zillertalbahn
London Northeastern Railway
Great Western Railway
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
White Pass and Yukon
Oahu Railway and Land Co.
Virginian and Truckee
US Military Railroads
Southern Pacific (cab normal stuff only)
 
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CSXect

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Dec 31, 2007
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CSXect why???:confused:

CSX
Chessie
C&O
B&O
and all the others that were merged

Other roads

PRR
Erie
Conrail
PennCentral
N&W
NS
Algoma Central

Model railroads(freelanced by others)

Appalachain & Ohio
V&O
Utah Belt
Crooked Mountain lines:cool:
 
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UP SD40-2

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Apr 29, 2006
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INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS SO FAR...

But first, i should add, the Rail Roads i was looking for were all REAL RAIL ROADS, NOT freelanced model RR's:toug: , but i didn't clarify that from the start, my bad:119: .

WHAT I HAVE NOTICED...
1- We are a very diverse group here, there is a big span of what roads people on here like.
2- not many "current" Class 1 roads are on the tops of you folks lists.
3- i see big support for shortlines and regionals, thats kinda neat:thumb: .
4- with as many Canadians & Canadian friends we have here, NOT ONE Canadian road is listed on top of a list:eeki: , VERY surprising, and VERY puzzling:confused: .
5- currently, there seems to be more "Eastern" roads listed, then Midwestern or Western roads.

**If you haven't posted to this list yet, PLEASE DO SO!, show support for your FAVORITE Road/s. lets see what the outcome of this is a little further down the line:winki: .
 
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Cannonball

More Trains Than Brains
Dec 4, 2006
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St. Joseph, MO
I pretty much stick to the entire history of the BNSF starting back with CB&Q. I also love the Rock Island Line.

However, I'm planning on starting over in Z scale and it's not likely I will find much in any of those. :(
 
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CSXect

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Dec 31, 2007
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Forgot to list Ohio Central and Camp Chase(small industrial Railroad in Columbus Ohio)

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Triplex

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Aug 24, 2005
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
4- with as many Canadians & Canadian friends we have here, NOT ONE Canadian road is listed on top of a list , VERY surprising, and VERY puzzling .
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I have noticed that US modellers tend to ignore Canadian roads, and Canadian modellers focus on their own. This tends to annoy me, because I see US and Canadian railroads as a unit. (Can't yet make myself think of Mexican roads in the same breath - but that doesn't mean I totally ignore them. I think of them more with the "foreign" - non-North American - roads, though.) So there are Canadian roads high on my list, but not on top, because that's how it just happens to be.

5- currently, there seems to be more "Eastern" roads listed, then Midwestern or Western roads.
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That reminds me: I've heard many times that Japanese, when they model US roads, prefer western prototypes. I think the same might be true to some extent in much of Europe. But we haven't got many non-North Americans voting yet.
 
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seanm

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Oct 11, 2004
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Sunny CA
www.pegnsean.net
UP
SP
SanteFe
Amtrak

Grew up on SF pre BN/SF in Point Richmond CA. They had a nice yard down there (still do but it has changed a lot).... But lately I seem to be looking at UP more.. I guess moving to Sacramento CA would do that to ya. :thumb:
 
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RobertInOntario

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Mar 22, 2006
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I expect I'm really mixing things up here, as many of my favourite railways are British. In approximate order, they are:
-- Somerset & Dorset line (Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway)
-- British Railways ( 1948-66 )
-- London, Midland & Scottish Railway ( 1923-48 )
-- Great Western Railway (1923-48 )
-- Southern Railway ( 1923-48 )
-- London North Eastern Railway ( 1923-48 ).

For this side of the pond, I also like Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway (1950s). Santa Fe and Pennsylvania are others that I'm interested in.

I more or less model all of these, especially the S&D and British Railways.

Rob
 
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