Your Favorite RR's?

How many favorite RR’s do you guys have? Here goes my list.

  1. Absolute Favorite, Burlington Northern Cascade green rules!

  2. Illinois Central

  3. Santa Fe

  4. Conrail

  5. Southern Pacific

  6. Norfolk Southern

  7. CSX

  8. Union Pacific

Well thats my list it is long but those are my favorite roads in order.

  1. Wisconsin Central. Duh!

  2. Soo Line (1960+)

  3. Burlington Northern. I bet your happy to hear that!

  4. Milwaukee Road

After this there not in order.

  1. DMIR. I like there loco’s

  2. Denver and Rio Grande Western (1960+) (You can tell I like 2nd generation Desials)

  3. Northfork and Western, I like there name. And where they where located.

  4. Southern Pacific (1960+) Love the locos and Donner Pass

  5. Southern, I liked the Green and the tux scheam

  6. Great Northern, Big Sky Blue Baby!

  7. Western Maryland, Gottal love there paint scheam

  8. Conrail, I don’t know why.

  9. PennCentral, Are yos serious!

  10. Western Pacific, I liked where they ran through

  11. Frisco, Liked there paint scheam.

My favorite railroads are-

  1. New Haven

  2. New York Central

  3. Lehigh & New England

4.Mass Central

5.Boston & Maine

6.Penn Central

7.Lehigh Valley

8.Millwaukee Road

9.New Hampshire & Vermont

10.Norfolk & Western

11.Mower Lumber Co.

12.Virginia Railway

13.Conrail

14.Pere Marquette

  1. Pennsylvania

  2. Reading

3.Norfolk Southern

4.CSX

5.Erie

Can you tell i like eastern railways.

1.Denver and Rio Grande Western of course

  1. Southern Pacific/Cotten Belt

3.Milwaukee Road

4 Burlingotn Northern

  1. CSX

  2. Amtrak

  3. Winchester & Western

  1. CSXT

  2. NS

  3. Georgia Central

  4. Rio Grande

  5. Santa Fe

  6. Burlington Northern

  7. Union Pacific

  8. BNSF

  9. Lionel Lines

CSX, BNSF

Norfolk & Western(obvious)

Virginian

Southern

Clinchfield

C&O

Pennsy

B&O

D&RGW narrow gauge

Norfolk Southern

Northern Pacific

Great Northern

  1. Southern Pacific

  2. Union Pacific

  3. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe

  4. Burlington Northern (the cascade green paint jobs remind me of our band uniforms)

  5. Every other western railroad

  1. Union Pacific (I model Echo Canyon, love TTG, hate the yellow s**t)

  2. D&RGW (Local Favorite, and I love the mountains)

  3. Burlington Northern (It’s those darn SD70MAC’s)

  4. AT&SF (Love the warbonnets, and their 4-8-4’s)

  5. BNSF (See it everyday)

  6. Southern Pacific (GS-4 and AC-12)

I dislike any RR that is mostly east of the Mississippi.

“I dislike any RR that is mostly east of the Mississippi.”

Just curious, but why? I’m not trying to start a flame war or anything, just wondering.

Mine are:

1:CSX/Chessie/Seaboard/etc…

2:NS/SOU/NW/etc…

3:CNW

4:UP/SP/SSW/DRGW/etc…

5:CN/GTW/IC/etc…

6:BNSF/BN/ATSF/etc…

Mainline

  1. Milwalkee

  2. Spokane Portland & Seattle

  3. Nothern Pacific/Great Northern

  4. BN/BNSF

  5. Southern Pacific/ Rio Grande

Non-mainline

1.Denver RioGrande & Western

2.Sumpter Valley

3.Tacoma Eastern

4.Weyerhouser Co.

5.Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co. (Home colors)

  1. Walla Walla Valley Traction Co.

I see a theme here…

Ya, UP could fall off the fase of the earth for all I care, too many horror stories from crews, the one RR I will never work.

  1. BNSF

  2. NS

  3. UP

  4. MTL

  5. CSXT

  6. CN

  7. KCS

  8. CP

  9. DRGW

  10. Wisconsin Central

NYC

LIRR

PENNSY

it’s a tie between KCS and NS right now

Hands down the Southern Railway. Followed by the N&W, Norfolk Southern, and Atlantic Coast Line.

Cheese

BN, ATSF, CNW, SP, DRGW, UP, MP, and NP.

UP
SP
SSW
KCS
MP
CNW
M&A Missouri and Arkansas
RI
Little Rock and Western
Arkansas Midland
Arkansas Missouri
Missouri and Northern Arkansas(no relation to M&A)
If it ran in Arkansas I like, including Texas and Pacific

  1. Union Pacific

  2. CSX

3.Burlington Northern

4.Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF)

5.Santa Fe