NC&StL Rwy.
Mine would be the Pennsy and the Western Alleghany
erie/e-lack. lived next to erie track. Used to hand notess to engineer on a stick with string. For a kid it was fun. And he gave me answers on the next days trip back. Should have listened to him and hired on later to learn engineering. Got into airplanes instead. Model trains now. Bernt T.
Grew up in upstate NY. First ride ever on a passenger train was on the LVRR. Later grew to appreicate features like the picturesque curve near the LVRR Geneva depot, a quaint weed infested branch to Naples and the Leaky Valley’s revival of a Cornell red locomotive paint scheme.
I like the New York and Boston
I like the New York, Westchester and Boston. A correction from my previous vote.
Hey Guys What happened to the Lackawanna. My Father worked for them, I also run the Lackawanna on my R.R.
THE READING COMPANY !!
I grew up on the NYC but, without question, I miss Conrail the most for a myriad of reasons.
I voted for Milwaukee Road, but where is the GBW Soo and Wisconsin Central?
We miss them all !!. Each of us for our own reasons, but they all beat today’s sterilized Class 1’s, with their “monkey see-monkey do” attitude. They have all turned their backs on the most important people, the employees-but again that’s corporate America ca. 21st century!
Santa Fe all the way
As my name indicates Western Maryland hands down. Classy paint (in steam), great locos and freindly to railfans.
being a good old southern boy, i can well remember the great Green steam pasenger locomotives that ran into my town of Bristol, Tennessee where they were replaced by the Stream lined Norforkand Western loco’s. loved to go down town to watch them.
My “other” vote is for the Grand Trunk Western. My earliest railfan experiences were watching trains on GTW in and around Pontiac, MI in the early '60’s. Trips from Pontiac to Chicago (where I was born and have lived 90% of my life) took me into Dearborn Station where I appreciated the other tenant roads and got starry-eyed about the Santa Fe, which I had only seen in the form of Lionel F3’s and the layout at the Museum of Science and Industry before. ATSF would be second, followed by PRR (on account of an old Lionel GG1 I wish I still had so I can retire).
Here’s an enthusistic vote for…New York Ontario & Western! (Followed closely by New York Central!). Really too bad the Central didn’t have the forsight to save at least one Niagara and a Hudson…
My favorite is NYC. Second place would be the New Haven.
Lackawanna! The Road of Anthracite and the Route of Phoebe Snow! The 1500’s were the handsomest 4-8-4’s ever built! The yellow and maroon livry was the classiest ever conceived.
Frisco of the 50’s with those black and yellow diesals growling on the upgrade heading south from Kansas City thru Johnson County. Toss in the Katy because they had track rights to Paola Kansas.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Short Line Fallen Flag favorite is the “Washington & Old Dominion” that used to serve northern Virginia.