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is there any doubt as to the best!!!
Favorite RR: Southern Railway of Vancouver Island
Fallen Flags: Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway and BC Rail.
Favorite Fallen Flags:
Southern Railway
Louisville & Nashville
Chicago & Eastern Illinios (before the MP merger)
Monon
Louisville , New Albany & Corydon ( not a fallen flag yet )
What more needs to be said?
Although I like the Everett & Monte Cristo Railway too.
AMEN! THE PRR WILL BEAT ANY CURRENT OR FALLEN RAILROAD! YEE-HAW! Mike
E&N for me as well (grew up on the Island, my first railfaning was the E&N. Even got one of the Baldwin switchers at Welcox, 1980 or so), BC Rail a close second. Also like CP Rail a lot.
What more needs to be said?
Although I like the Everett & Monte Cristo Railway too.
I liked them as well , I walked the old main line many times and even hiked althrough Monte Cristo , I remember seeing many old buildings as well as the old turn table .
For me it would have to be the Maine Central RR
PS. the PRR will definatly beat any railroad in unique homebuilt locomotives catagory. but not in maintence and profit.
COTTON BELT
Maryland & Pennsylvania.
Enjoy
Paul
Lackawanna The route of the Phoebe Snow.
For those who do not know, the Lackawanna Rail Road ran from Hoboken, NJ to Buffalo, NY via Scranton, PA, Binghamton, NY and Emira, NY. It existed primarily to move anthracite coal from Scranton and Carbondale to the Atlantic ocean in NJ and the Great Lakes in Buffalo.
Coal fired steam engines produced dark smoke and lots of soot. Passenger cars were not airconditioned, so the windows were open all summer. Passengers got very dirty riding trains.
Lackawanna used anthracite coal. It is very hard, bluish in color, and burns very clean. To promote that, they created a ficticious lady named Phoebe Snow, who dressed in white, and they named their premier passenger train after her. Every car had her portrait hanging in it. She was featured in all of their advertising.
Through a couple of mergers, Lackawanna became the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad (DL&W), and then the Erie Lackawanna. Erie Lackawanna extended the Phoebe to Chicago.
I actually rode the Phoebe Snow from Binghamton to Chicago just before it was discontinued in 1966.
in 1946 the Pennsy posted its first net loss in 100 years…100 years of making profits and paying dividends to the stock holders…and up untill 1960 Pennsy engines and trains were maintained in the best condition…old school managment and changing economies crippled the railroad not net losses and poor maintaince
My fav. is the Burlington Northern! Long Live Cascade Green!
The late, great GM&O . .
Favorite fictional railroad:
Madison and Northeastern (Operating from Madison, WI to Fond Du Lac, WI)[8D]
[:D]Coming from NW Indiana,just outside of chicago i have a lot of favorites!B&O,C&O,CSS,NYC,Monon but always loved the Chessie system.
I have two favorites; guess it’s because of what I remember seeing most as a kid. PRR ran the Vandalia line and I can remember going to sleep outside in the summer listening to the whistles crossing Mill Creek 4 mile south when the weather was right.
The NYC ran the Cairo line and I had family that lived along the tracks, so when we were visiting, we would sit on the porch and watch the coal drags go by.
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I’m going with the Iowa Central.
My favourite current roads (it’s a tie) are Canadian Pacific and Canadian National, and my favourite fallen flag is Quebec Central.