IF YOU COULD BRING BACK ANY FALLEN FLAG...

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If you could bring back any fallen flag railroad, which would it be? And, what do you think they would be like today???

Among others, I wi***he BN, SP and C&NW were still around!
[banghead]

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I wish Penn Central was still around, with how they were doing in the 1970’s, it would probably be a shortline today[:D].

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SOUTHERN PACIFIC!

[:)] [:D] [8D] [:p]

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Clinchfield!!!

uspscsx

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Great Northern

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SOO Line and WC! Then CNW if i had another chance.

Alec

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Western Maryland (“The Wild Mary” ) – Fast Freight Service
Lehigh Valley – “The Black Diamond Road”

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Southern Pacific Lines

As for the question of what would it be like today…it would be an EMPIRE!! [:D][:)][bow]

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I have a feeling that if PC was still around…they would have sold or abandoned most (if not all) of the duplicate trackage/facilities and become profitable…just like Conrail eventually did. I still find it interesting that black diesels now roam the former CR lines around Pittsburgh.

With that said, having PC, P&LE, the Montour, MGA et al, would be a nice change from all the CSX and NS power around Pittsburgh :slight_smile:

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GREEN BAY & WESTERN!!! IN ALL THEIR ALCO GLORY!!!

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Southern. I hope they would still purchase high-hoods.

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B&M
with sd40’s and intermodel

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I would have to bring back the PRR. Especially those GG1s on excursion service, or even the t1s. After the PRR, i would bring back the Lehigh Valley, because of all of the C420s they owned, and then the Reading.

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I Wi***he old Frisco Railways were still around

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Let me add to that: Clinchfield and The Chessie System.

uspscsx

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  1. Southern Pacific!! They had lots of COFC, Stack Trains and TOFC traffic.

  2. DRGW - Lots of coal trains.

  3. BN - I liked trains like train 110.

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CNW, no doubt. UP oughta give back some of that track…

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Chicago and Northwestern, my childhood was spent playing around their freight yards and locomotives. I miss the yellow and green.

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I’m truly amazed that the Greatest Railroad that ever existed has not been named. The Baltimore and Ohio!!!
Also, I would LOVE to see the Western Maryland’s tracks re-laid over Saulisbury Viaduct! [soapbox] Bike trail now [tdn]

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Reading, B&O, CNJ together - in terms of mutual share ownership, freight interchange, through routing and layout of key routes, they offered a lot of action and a legacy preserved in several key routes that are still in operation today (under CSX or NS).

Paul F.
Northern NJ