Favorite Fallen Flag Railroad

Chessie System (B&O,C&O, Western Maryland)

Southern Pacific.

Mikey

This depot was saved and made into a very well done museum.

This one was torn down by BN, Inc. in the dark of night.

Anymore I have about six railroads that I'm seriously interested in, and they are all fallen flags.

C&O

Wabash

NYC

Grand Trunk

Ann Arbor

Delaware & Hudson

Years ago D&H was my clear favorite, but as time goes by the others (all roads that ran in Michigan)are catching up fast. Oddly enough, I'm also starting to be attached to the early 1970's era Burlington Northern, which makes very little sense even to me...

Jeff C

NYO&W and ERIE

PRR/RDG/NYC.

Can't narrow it down to just one.

I have 3 railroads in the 15 years I have been into the hobby.

1. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad: 1972–1988

2. Kansas City Southern Railroad

3. Southern Pacific Railroad

Chicago North Western, YEAH BUDDY!!!!

Detroit & Mackinac Railway • A Fallen Flag

• Chesapeake & Ohio
• Pere Marquette

I second the Chicago & Northwestern AKA

Cheap & Nothing Wasted

I second the Chicago & Northwestern AKA

Cheap & Nothing Wasted

Please excuse the "triple post", us C&NW get overly enthusiastic or more honestly - s screwed-up a reply.

CB & Q

I'll second that!

Erie and Erie-Lackawanna

New York Central

Pennsylvania

Southern

GB&W

Great Northern

CB&Q

C&NW

Southern Pacific, the railroad that made the Pennsy look like a spur line.

I live in Illinois and rode the Illinois Central (commuter line to Chicago) and I moved to Indiana and live on a spur of the Monon. Monon is a tuft one to find in the hobby, especially in steam.

That's the ones I miss.  I hated the Grand Trunk, I was stopped too many times by a stopped train.

My Faves:

• Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
• Chicago & NorthWestern
• Southern Pacific
• Harbor Belt Line (a local branch line serving the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach jointly owned by Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Santa Fe and Pacific Electric). Sold off to Anacostia & Pacific (owns several branch lines) when UP took over SP, which had taken PE's share back in the early 1960's.

Mine would have to be the Nickel Plate Road.  Love the Berks, born and still live in North East Ohio, ride behind the 765 whenever she comes through town.

Most of my time and effort are spent on the NKP and the Union Pacific.  However, anything that ran through the Rockies, the Tetons, or the Wasatch Range seems to be growing in appeal.  The scenery and the history are just to tough to ignore.  And I love visiting out West.

CB&Q, NP, GN!

...keep the rails polished...

Hard to pick one favorite......

NYC

NH

NYO&W

Conrail

PC

Peter

Boston and Maine

Maine Central

Bangor and Aroostook

Hands Down

PRR; the late, great Standard Railroad of the World.

Curt

The PRR, the earlier steam engines were beautiful

Scotie

The Wild Mary. 

Southern serves the South!!!

Norfolk and Western

Gilly

Chicago Great Western

Chicago and North Western

Minneapolis and St. Louis

The ROCK

The Maryland and Pennsylvania (Ma&Pa).  Ran down at the end of my Grandfather' street.  Grandpa would walk the kids (my mother & uncle) down the street to see the train and wave to the engineer.

This stone pier is all that's left of where the Ma & Pa crossed the north end of Loch Raven Blvd.  The Baltimore Beltway now passes overhead right behind me as I took this picture.

This is a picture of York Road a good bit South and West of the previous picture where the Ma & Pa crossed.  You can still see the tracks where they paved over them.

Way too many to list, sadly.  Not only the ones in western Pa. but the Colorado narrow gauge, and all the rest.