I don’t hate any of the railroads in general. I plan on working for one someday. I keep up on everything from the management to running and equipment of the trains. I pay close attention to mostly UP and BNSF… BNSF is right through the heart were i live i fact all I have to do is look across the street to see there transcon line and UP’s Transcon line is an hour north of Galesburg at Clinton, IA
I started this poll…I voted for love all trains, personally!
I wanted to test the waters…no offense to anybody.
The poll choices were based on names mentioned in a topic a few weeks ago.
Again, no hard feelings or “hidden intentions” were meant from this topic.
Wow! I didn’t know you all went at it like this on the Model forum.
I started a poll like this in another forum called “which best describes you”. I was trying to test the waters also, the only thing is it didn’t start any arguments. I like all Trains too.
Trains havnt run in my town for years, and guilford trains are the only freight trains I ever see. Your lucky dougal, you probably see trains more than I do[:(]
I hate NS, Penn Central, CN, and NJT. Be Specific… Love Union Pacific! [:)]
Mention the C.P.R. to any Western Canadian and stand back. C.P.R is always prefixed with 2 expletives!! Numerous books have been written on this subject and ask a grain farmer his feelings toward this institution, strange, after this many years it still incites a red face and bulging veins in the forehead.
Anything Canadian? What’s up with that?
It should have read ‘everything CN’
Just my 2 cents
Gordon
Actually I like CP and CN.
I hate CSX, but only because I used to work for them.
Jeff
I love all trains, but I’m least interested in anything that ran west of the Mississippi.
Dale Latham
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I like all trains - never worked for a railroad, never shipped on a railroad; but I do ride Amtrak when I get the chance. I don’t let the management issues interfere - all types of businesses have good companies and bad companies.
Enjoy
Paul
One of the first times I rode Amtrak was down in the Hudson Valley. My car broke down one day but Amtrak passed through Rhinecliff, the town I lived in back in those days. So I went to the ticket counter to buy a ticket home but had no cash or credit card with me. Just a checkbook. The ticket agent either couldn’t take a check or didn’t have time to sell me a ticket before the train left (can’t remember which) but said the conductor would take my check on board the train and I would have to hurry to the platform to catch it. Got on board and the conductor thought it was the funniest thing he heard all day when I told him what the ticket agent said. Told me he couldn’t take a check and that this fare would just have to be “on Amtrak.”
Needless to say, I love Amtrak. I still bicycle the 60 miles to the nearest station in Port Kent or Westport to take the Adirondack south whenever I can.
Aside: I used to commute on NJ Transit, long ago. It would take more than "ugly " motive power to cause me to ‘hate’ them. Life’s to short to be so shallow.
Wayne
Hey dougal you helped Mikesaw with his NJT questions why do you now trash NJT? NJT rules! BTW There IS NO MORE PHOTO BAN there actualy never was you just needed a permit now you dont even need a permit just I.D. just in case
UP isn’t even close!!! Universally throughout New England ( and beyond in some cases ) it is GUILFORD !!! They made a mess out a great RR, the B&M !!! I have heard this from Railfans, Modelers, and long time LHS owners. NEVER, have I heard one GOOD thing about GUILFORD…Now they call themselves PanAM…ya that’s good, a former airline…nice !
For you to “hate” a railroad… methinks thous dost have too much time on your hands…
I do not mean this to be taken as a slam, put down, rebuke, whatever. I would like it known that I hate only one thing, and that is hate, itself. Hate is odious, limiting, myopic, and has ignorance for a mother.
I love, on the other hand, all things about all railroads. They represent people at work, trying their best. Even the inept or myopic leaders and managers in some cases.
I love railroading and think it is pretty hard to hate part of it, but I just cant stand UP!!! But I have no problem at all with Guilford (I dont see how you can hate it, it isn’t that it is my favorite railroad I just dont dislike it).
I like the part about PanAm lol. I only really see Guilfords, The MBTA, a few NS, a CSX like once a month, a few P&Ws out here. I have a few Guilford engines but I prefer say the MEC and B&M I hate guilford for getting rid of them!
Hey, I’m western Canuckian, former farmer AND a big CPR fan.
A lot of western farmers growl because of the loss of the “Crow” rate, which forced CP to ship grain for large companies like Cargill and Pool at 1890s pricing, right through well into the 1990s. The grain companies didn’t really care, since they pass all of those costs on to the farmers. Farmers flipped when the railroads finally managed to get the government to allow them to charge a reasonable freight rate (ie: one at which they were no longer losing money). I still think that the freight they charge is a heck of a lot cheaper than the alternative; trucking it costs two to three times as much up front, and beats the snot out of the roads. You want to be mad about the loss of the crow rate, get mad at the Agricores and Cargills. What other business could get away with forcing its suppliers, who are only permitted to sell to them, to pay all the freight and charge them a handling fee on top of that? In every other business I’ve been involved with the customer pays the freight costs, not the supplier.
As for CN, they’ve gone from an organization that sucked up millions of government dollars every year in operating subsidies to one of the most efficient (if not THE most efficient) railroads in North America. You’ve gotta respect that.
One of the biggest complaints is about them shutting down, or wanting to shut down very marginal branch lines. As someone said, they’re out there to operate profitably, and shutting down those kind of lines makes a bunch of sense from a business perspective. With a salvage value of $110 a FOOT for 100 lb
HEY!!! Pay attention to when this thread took place. Some one just dug it up from the grave.