Your favorite railroad era.

[Anonymous]

End of Steam begining of Diesel era for me. Have to say I do like the present too.

[Randy_Stahl]

I pride myself on being a competant locomotive electrician. It is difficult with the various models of EMD locomotives, different wireing, parts etc. Any how ,knowing how tough it can be learning locomotives, MY favorite era is when electricians had to learn locomotives from 5 to 7 different builders… WOW…WOW
Randy

[cpbloom]

Is 1982 to 1999. Since that time Chessie System is gone, MKT is gone, CNW is gone, P & LE is gone, Southern Pacific is gone, BN is gone, Cabooses are rarely seen AND THE WORST OF ALL, my beloved Conrail and Santa Fe are gone… but railroads live on and I’m thankful and contiue to be a fan.

[Modelcar]

…And to continue just a bit of living on for railroads…Conrail has /had a double track main line…[ex. NYC], east / west through Muncie here and with Conrail it was many trains passing through with consistent engine lashups of bright blue and white units all pretty new and now CSX operates same with the most reechoed looking power and all different and it seem the flow of trains is less than before although I don’t really know the actual numbers of trains per day now…It’s just such a rag tag looking fleet.

[Anonymous]

the Conrail era

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by traingeek087

What photo library?

If they don’t have one, they should[2c]

[cstaats]

1930-1960 Steam had reaches its Zenith and diesel was becoming king of the rails. Small town America had passenger service and you had a choice of services.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

Since we are talking about favorite railroad era let me “plug” my Favorite Railroad Decade" Poll in the Classic Trains forums. Here is a link to it. Please stop by and vote for your favorite railroad decade. I started the poll last August and over 200 votes have been registered. Please stop by and add your vote and post some comments.

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http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=1&TOPIC_ID=6512

Just another “plug” for my Favorite Railroad Decade Poll.

Please stop by and vote if you have not done so. [;)]

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[ATSFCLIFF]

I like the era from the early 70’s to the present. I just like the big diesels.

[Isambard]

The last glorious days of CPR steam in the 1940’s!
I have vivid memories of riding in the cab of a 2800 series 4-6-4 Royal Hudson on the prairies, between Moose Jaw and Swift Current, the cab of 5400 series 2-8-2 Mikado from Banff down to Field and back in the cab of a late model 5900 series 2-10-4 Selkirk. The heat, sound and hot oily smell in the cab of the Selkirk while working up the Big Hill and in the Spiral Tunnels are not something one forgets.