Tell me your favorite railroads Past or present, I’d love to hear them.
My personal favorite is the Cotton Belt.
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home of the blue streak
when I moved to defiance became facinated with the B&O’chessie then CSX.
I still like the NKP(nickel plate)too even though ns runs on it.If they ran on it like like the old days it work better for their customers.
joe
I have to say, my all-time favorite is the Chicago & Northwestern. For the past 10 years I’ve lived within five blocks of the frieght cutoff from Proviso to Milwaukee (UP, ex-C&NW), and across town from the former C&NW (now UP/Metra) commuter operation to Harvard. Sorry to the fans of Uncle Pete, but armour yellow will never hold the same place in my heart as the old yellow-and-green!
My favorite is the Reading and Northern, its nice to see them continualy grow in an areawhere Conrail failed miserably, they have great paint schemes, run excellent excursions and really practice customer service not just talk about it like most class ones. If Norfolk Southern, UP CSX and BNSF ran their railroads as well as Reading and Northern, Railroading would be a booming industry again in the states. This company builds new track, not rip it up and cutting back service. You’ve gotta like that.
My favorite “big” railroad would be the Chesapeake and Ohio. I wish I could have seen their 2-10-4’s and 2-6-6-6’s moving coal to the docks at Toledo. However watching the loading of the car ferries at Ludington was an experience. Such a neat part of Michigan history.
My favorite small railroad would be the Detroit, Toleo and Iornton. DT & I had a couple of personalities. Big time player in moving auto traffic from Detroit, MI to Springfield, OH. The stories of moving the Ford Motor per diem traffic to Delta , OH are legendary with the "old heads’ at Flat Rock, MI.
From Springfield to Jackson and Ironton, OH the DT&I turned into a down home branch line type operation especially from Jackson, to Ironton.
My two favorites are the Richmond, Fredricksburg and Potomac and the Southern. To this day, black diesels look the best to me, especially with a white stripe along the bottom. A distant third is the Norfolk and Western. Norfolk Southern, therefore, is probably my favorite current road. Miss the steam excursions, though.
Dad Howe
dad howe
I do too!
stay safe
joe
Wisconsin Central. I live in N. Fond du Lac, so I’ve watched the property go from Soo Line to WC to CN. Even started taking pictures at start-up of WC of the locos in old paint, then a week later in WC paint. Got roughly half the fleet, but lost track after the 17 GP 40’s were bought.[;)]
Second favorite would be Wisconsin & Southern. Classy outfit operating vintage diesels over branchline track. [8D]
My other favorites are The KATY, Kansas City Sothern, Missouri and Pacific, Arkansas and Missouri, Texas & Pacific,and the Santa Fe.
THE LATE GREAT LEHIGH VALLEY. THE NKP WOULD BE RIGHT UP THERE.
Got to love the DT&I and Ann Arbor. Worked for the NS but like Wabash and NKP better even if I am only 22.
My favorite is the BNSF. In Nebraska, where I live, I see more of their trains then I do Union Pacific.
My favorites are the Delaware and Hudson and the Soo Line.
Conrail and the Lehigh Valley, not necessarily in that order… Norfolk Southern is my least favorite…
me being from canada not seen much of the trains of the world i would have to go with CP rail
I have more than one - I like the Pennsy, The New York Central (combine both and you get the Penn Central which is also on my list), the CNJ, the LV, and the Rahway Valley, and Conrail all in that order.
Personally my favorites are the Boston & Maine (grew up north of Boston and still have fond memories of seeing a GP-7 Bluebird pulling a local through the woods near Canobie Lake NH in the late 70’s. Sadly that line has been pulled up but I do hear that that route is being considered for the Boston-Montreal Higher Speed corridor if anything ever comes of that.) and having moved down to Cape Cod the New Haven. Have since relocated to FL and am taking an interest in the Florida East Coast due to it’s presence in the city I live in, especially the curve and draw over the St. Lucie river.
The Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway on Vancouver Island. Where else can you see VIA Rail Canada RDC’s working passenger trains and GP38’s hauling mainline freights?? The E&N Railway is a former Canadian Pacific operation that was spun off to Rail America in 1999.
Grand Trunk - Port Huron to Chicago…Ahhhhh Home!!!
Great Northern