How about the good old MoPac. Here is a major player in the industry until merver with UP in 1983 that very often gets forgotten. Go MoPac.
Ron
Here’s another vote for The Milwaukee Road
I definitively miss the SP and their rusty and dust covered heavy diesels.
I miss the Grande. They were one of the great pioneers of railroading. Their paint shcemes were always sharp, even if not always clean! Those locos worked hard for a living!
I miss the Denver& Rio Grande Western, Baltimore & Ohio, Milwaukee Road, & Rock Island railroads because of their pride and glory & how much fame they had on the beautiful gleaming rails. by:keith bunner joekiddcf@yahoo.com
Southern Pacific I miss… but I forgot ATSF… they are not really gone, just transformed.
Missed PE after they quit running.
I like seeing the SP painted locos on the UP tracks, and SP traincars. Guess I’ll not be finding a N scale SD70 in SP colors. Got two in BNSF pumpkin, but ya know what? I decided I don’t like how they look at home. If I get more BNSF, either red/silver or ATSF decoration.
NYC Lightning Stripe has more of a SP “feel” so I may get more of the pre-conrail locos, maybe more B&O or MP.
I see SP between Rochelle to Clinton, Iowa, but two BNSF lines are closer.
I’m going to add that while I miss the RIo Grande greatly, a part of me misses the Wobbly and Pathetic…er…the Western Pacific. It was built with D&RGW money and drove them into receivership…but I did like seeing the Silver, Black and orange diesels tracking across the Salt Flats between Salt Lake City, UT and Wendover, NV.
I voted for Other. The Mopac, Frisco, and the Katy were not on your list.
Dale B.
Loved all of the wester roads. Each with it’s own uniqness. But, While the UP & SP (formerly Central Pacific) were first on the scene, it was the Santa Fe that set the standard for top notch frieght & passenger service that the customers would compare the other roads to.
For me:
- D&RGW (by far the best for me from a railfan’s point of view)
- Western Pacific
- Southern Pacific
- Nevin
I miss Pacific Electric the most of all !
I grew up in LA.
Burt
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific !!!
The Rock Island line was a mighty fine line !!!
Still is … on my layout !!!
MoPac. Period.
oh look i found one of the poll’s i started with my old User name
I miss all of them! However, I have chosen to model the Northern Pacific, which was the second trans-continental. I think the competition of all the RRs was good for the country. Now we have mega corps., which have manners akin to the proverbial bull in the china shop. Glad to hear folks in the true west have opinions about where west is! Those folks east of the Mississippi, think it starts on the western bank of that river.
The Katy ran close to my old back door. Then we moved and I had the sounds of the Rock Island Line at night. They are now replaced by the BNSF and TRE.
RMax
The Western Pacific.
I voted other, as in none of em!!! [:-,][(-D][:-,][(-D][:-,][(-D][:-,][(-D][:-,][(-D][:-,][(-D]
Long live the east coast roads!!!
I miss ATSF. Those Warbonet and Bluebonet diesels were truly a sight to behold.
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