The B and O. It is a fallen flag but covered in glory. Along with the WM, and the C and O. There is a small railroad called the Maryland and Pennsylvania that connected York Pa with Baltimore’s Northern areas.
I like em all, but these are close to my heart.
The Erie-Lackawanna…It had to be the PAINT!. I grew up in Lackawanna near Seneca Yard ( CSX closed it this year ), after watching boring PC black and N&W black go by the E-L just stuck out… not to mention a GREAT LOOKING paint scheme.
Dad worked for CP from the late 50s to the early 90s, so I was a fan of that railway since my youth. Althouth Canadian Pacific does operate in my area (Niagara), I get to see more CN action. I don’t know much about US roads, but I enjoy seeing NS execising its trackage rights around here.
Oh, well thanks for the info detting![:D] I just assumed they were still around because I saw a Conrail SD-40 yesterday and I think they still opperate SP units out west.[:p]
The “Chicago and Alton Railway” because my Great Grandfather worked on this Railway. He was a Bridgebuilder for the railway and as he died in 1947 and I wasn’t born until 1953, it helps me understand him and know him a little better. It’s a family thing…
I model FEC and CSX and AMTRAK that run on the US east coast . I am interested in them due to the way some can handle the low clearances and challenges posed by being near such vast area and the fact that it is a hurricane coastline.
I dont model Modern.I model fallen flag mainline and a mining shortline(DM&IR)If i were to model modern i would most likely model BNSF Or the CN with DW&P SD’s(a CN Subsidiary) running ore and grain unit trains.And a little Boise lumber and paper traffic thrown in for spice!!
Steam,Sweat and Milk runs,the way a railroad was meant to operate!!
Now if UP ever acquires Canadian Pacific, it’ll be nice for them to retain its Canadian feel by keeping Pacific in the name…Union Pacific, Canada’s first transcontinental road…
Good question !!
I live in Germany - And I like Union Pacific and BNSF but in the first line UP - 6 or 7.000 miles away…
Why ? I like California, special Southern California and there is my 1. place Cajon. So it´s possible that a railfan will come logical to UP, SP and ATSF!
Dalreada National Railways; Because I’m building it.
I model the old blue Route Rock but modernized. I came up with a new paint scheme and put it on modern locos like a SD90mac,SD75m,Dash 9’s and the like. So my favorite railroad is the Route Rock. It being a long gone fallen flag allows me to do anything I want without the constraints of having to be prototypical.
I like the BNSF because I live near its mainline in Galesburg, IL. I live with in a couple of blocks of where the Chilli Sub and the Mendota sub pass over one another. Which I plan on modelling someday.
Other reasons why. I love the H2 color scheme and they also give me many option of trains that I can model. Intermodal and heavy coal and grain trains. There is just something about 2 SD70MAC’s pulling a 16000 ton coal train or 4 C44-9W’s pulling an intermodal train(insert best tim the tool man grunt here)
There is only one answer.
I am a train addict plain and simple. Good thing my girlfriend is to. We can go train chasing and call it a date! 
James
ATSF-All I can say is the War bonnet design was great and I have been along some of its orginal rail. I remember seeing when I was a kind. I has just stuck from then. Now that I’m in Iowa I get to watch the Main lines of BNSF and UP so I have it pretty good.
Holry
Jason
The first train trip I remember was taking the GO Transit train into downtown Toronto to see a Bluejays game with my dad, There was just something about the big FP7 (I was 4 and wow trains look huge when you’re that small) and how fast it flew through the city.
It’s kind of funny how “UNCLE PETE” didn’t give up anything.[:D]
Although growing up on the Westside of Saint John, NB,Canada(CP country), I believe my affection for CN comes from the many summers spent on Prince Edward Island; as far as I know a CN only province. I stayed in the small town of Montague mostly; the terminus of the Brudnell Sub including light maintenance, small station, and an armstrong turntable I’ve pushed around a few times. Charlottetown, Souris, Kensington, Summerside also busy centres. Also the rail/passenger ferries at Borden,PEI and Cape Tourmentine,NB were superb highlights of my many trips; many because my parents both came from PEI.
Bringing Up The Markers,
Ken Morrison
Hi neighbor! I live north of Galesburg, too, though I suspect a bit more north than you did (LaSalle/Peru area). My protolance layout will be modeling part of the CB&Q double track main “somewhere” in a rural area between Chicago and Galesburg. I’ve played around with trying to more accurately place it by looking at the Railroad Atlas map book and my fictional branch off the main seems to fit nicely around the area between Neponset and Buda. Picked the rural location because I thought it would be a nice counterpoint to growing up in Chicago and the big city railroading I saw there, and because I can hop in the car and in literally two or three minutes after crossing the Illinois River bridge, be out in an actual rural area to see first hand what the scenery, structures, etc. should look like for the layout. Pretty convenient!
Take care,
What qualities about your favorite railroad appeal to you? Is it the location, operations, equipment, paint scheme, etc?
I grew up watching the CP marshalling yard in Agincourt, Ont.