Traditionally I am a big fan of BNSF and UP’s California mainlines and so most of the DVD’s I have are around California. But as I am getting interested in CSX now, I decide to get a few DVD’s and check it out and to my amazement, what a difference in railroading experience! I was amazed to see the cSX trains zooming in and out of streets around the Kentucky shortlines! I think one day I would love to model the CSX system in more detail rather than just as visitors through my BNSF/UP Mojave lines.
Iceman–
Like you, I model California (Sierra Nevada), but I’ve seen some videos and DVD’s of railroading on the ex C&O/N&W mainlines through West Virginia that just blow me away–OMYGAW, what beautiful country, and OMYGAW, what rail-pounding mainline action!
Count me in, LOL!
Tom
A common epiphany. Most westerners have no concept of what Big railroading is. For me it was a trip a few years ago (on the train) from Denver to Philidelphia to NY and back. I got to roll through impressive railroad scenery. Even then, long after the rail industry had been gutted from its former glory, there was more train stuff per square mile than I immagined was possible. I came back from that trip with a totally new perspective on trains. Out here in the west we have only a few ribbons of rail breaking through the desolate country. Even today the east has double, triple, and 4 track mains every where. Massive junctions with both grade and elevated to crossings. I can only imagine back in the 1930s and 1940s that one couldn’t turn around back east without tripping over a railroad siding.