Your Favorite RR's?

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mines BNSF

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RRC (Respondek Railroad Corporation)
ATSF
CPR
Illinois Terminal
Nickel Plate Road
Frisco
MKT
All others

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My “favorites” have changed with age. As a kid it seemed like everything I had was Burlington Northern or Sante Fe. Looking back it was mostly because those were the easiest things to get for my train set.

My favorites today are:

1: Missouri Pacific (I grew up near their yard in Spring, TX.)

2: Burlington Northern (specifically remembering the SD-40-2’s rumbling through the Iowa countryside.)

3: Union Pacific (They run the old MOPAC lines and I still live in the same area.)

I generally favor the railroads around me. Southern Pacific came through here as did MKT.

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1.Southeastern Continental Rwy. (my freelanced RR)

  1. Southern Rwy. (Serves the South)

  2. Southern Pacific Rwy.

  3. Norfolk southern

  4. Atchison, topeka, and Santa Fe

6.BNSF

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As a Chicagoian it’s hard to choose but here it goes.

1 ICG, Grew up along the Iowa Division, also gotta love the orange/white and orange/gray paint schemes and Paducah rebuilds

2 C&NW,Also lived within walking distance of Proviso Yard (SD40-2’s)

3 BN My Grandparents lived in Brookfield within walking distance of the station.

4 IHB Who doesn’t love a good belt line, also photographed it alot on the early 90’s

5 CSX lots of cool paint schemes in the early 90’s

6 KCS got hooked on a trip to Kansas City in '94 or '95

7 Grand Trunk, Geeps and Auto parts

8 Belt Railway of Chicago, Chicago’s only Alcos and an MP-15 thats been wearing a bicentennial paint scheme for 30 years

9 Chicago Central, short lived but knew how to make an intresting lash-up

10 CGW before my time really but ran two blocks from my house would have loved to see the great F unit lash-ups in person

11 On some level really any railroad that does business in Chicago and some that don’t

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1.PRR. RAN THROUGH MY AREA

2.CR…railroad I grew up watching

3.D&RGW(narrow gague one)

4.THE EAST.BROAD.TOP.

  1. Funny but AMTRAK

6WESTERN MARYLAND

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  1. Delaware & Hudson

  2. Soo Line

  3. Pennsylvania

  4. New York, New Haven, & Hartford

  5. Norfolk & Western

  6. Canadian Pacific

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  1. Santa Fe

  2. Southern Pacific

  3. Union Pacific

  4. Burlington Northern

  5. Rio Grande

  6. Pennsylvania

  7. Present-day Canadian National