BNSF Fans: What is your favorite predecessor road?

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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This one is for my fellow BNSF fans. What is your favorite predecessor road and why?

  • Great Northern
  • Northern Pacific
  • Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
  • Spokane, Portland & Seattle
  • Fort Worth & Denver
  • Colorado & Southern
  • Frisco (SLSF)
  • Burlington Northern
  • ATSF
  • Some other smaller road I’ve forgotten (!)

My first model train (Tyco) set had Burlington Northern freight cars and a locomotive so I was a BN fan from age 6 onwards. I was also a CB&Q fan even though they were gone by the time I showed up on this Earth. I love the silver F units and the Budd Zephyr cars to this day.

I love passenger trains, historic and modern. So when BNSF comprises the railroads that brought us the Empire Builder, North Coast Limited, California Zephyr, and Chiefs, how could the modern railroad not be my favorite?

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Burlington Northern.
I realy can’t explain why I like the BN. Mabe it had something to do with time era that I was born in. Other than I realy have no clue. Mabe it’s the rich history from the Burlington Route. Allan.

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BN.

I grew up along the BN Aurora Sub but a year after I moved to Polo the BN/ATSF merger happened so I only was able to see pure BN trains for a year.I did still see mostly BN engines for the next vew years after the merger anyway.

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AT&SF!

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GREAT NORTHERN IN THE BEST EVER!!!
The NP would have to be my second, with CB&Q and BN third.

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  1. ATSF
  2. Great Northern
  3. BN
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  1. Colorado & Southern, got to represent Colorado![tup][tup][tup]

  2. ATSF, just because of the paint schemes, best out there
    besides DRGW[;)][tup][tup]

  3. Fort Worth & Denver[?], never even heard of it, did it make it to Denver[?]

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1.) ATSF

2.)Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf RR
(corailfan: you have a lot to learn bubba…FW&DC managed to control C&S more than once over the years and you also have no clue who General Grenville Dodge was?)

3.)Dodge City & Cimmarron Valley

4.) Denver Circle RR

5.) Rocky Mountain & Eastern/ Santa Fe Rocky Mountain & Pacific

Least Favorite: BN…overated with all the speed, style and grace of a slug

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BN - Because when I was little it was my favorite color, had my initials in the logo (N. B.), and would pass on the line where my dad and I would “check the crossing.” I love that cascade green [:)]

GN comes in a close second, due to the excellent use of a goat in its logo [8D]

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Long before the Burlington Northern was cobbled together, there was only one railroad that ran from Chicago to California.
Jay

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  1. ATSF
  2. BN
  3. CBQ

Always had ATSF trainsets as a child, though I have a large fondness for the BN color scheme.

Not sure how I feel about the many different BNSF schemes, wi***hey would choose one and stick with it, then I could decide [:)]

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My favorite would be Burlington Northern. I was born in Joliet, IL where the BN is. [:)]

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I have BN, and ATSF trains in my model train collection. [:)]

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i think that BN rates first, GN a close second.

BN because I love Cascade Green, grew up in Tacoma, WA where BN has a huge yard

GN because of their excellent use of orange on their diesels, and because JJ Hill was a pretty cool guy

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BNSF now has 980 miles of the former Milwaukee road, and also has 320 miles of track that the Milwaukee had rights on. Does that make CMSP&P eligible ?

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Santa Fe followed by Frisco. My Uncle Pete worked for SLSF at Wichita as a brkmn for 35 yrs. I was only seven when he retired in 1970 but up until he passed away in 1994 there wasn’t a day that went by that he enjoyed talking about the Frisco. Lots of stories he related about the good ole SLSF.

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AT&SF because of their terrific passenger service and friendly crews.
CB&Q a close second for similar reasons and for the Zephyr fleet, really beautiful trains

But of all the fallen flags, not limited to those of BNSF, my two favorites are D&RGW and NYNH&H. And for various reasons, I’d have to put the Pennsy and the Central and the Southern and the N&W up with the AT&SF and CB&Q. But there is hardly a railroad that had some passenger service that didn’t tug at my heart at one time or another, including the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific.

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No doubt Santa Fe!

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Northern Pacific. For a field trip in grade school we went down to Union Station and toured the North Coast Limited when it had the Lowey 2 tone geen paint scheme. It became my favorite racetrack passenger train until the Q mixed them all together.

NP steam doesn’t get as much attention as some other roads, but their Northerns, Challengers, and Yellowstones were really good looking engines IMO.

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The ATSF war bonnets were the best IMHO. [:o)][:p][:)]

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