I may lean towards a certain road. ;-)
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D T & I • GP-38
I like local road names, this is a MTH Premier Detroit Toledo & Ironton. 2016 MTH Catalog Vol. 2. I saw this local on the main lines back in 1976. D T & I only painted one local this color, for freight service. Now it is back in service on my layout.
Gary
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I'm much too weak. If it has wheels and runs on rails, I like it!
D&M = Detroit and Mackinac Railway = Local Road Name
RailKing Imperial K-4.
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I would have liked to but there haven't been any MTH releases of Ontario Northland diesels since my son and I entered the hobby. So we stick to roads we see locally. Which is CN and CP.
That helped keep things within budget until we recently saw a CP freight train headed by a UP locomotive and another MU consist with a NS locomotive....
Not just one railroad, but all the railroads of the southeast,i.e. Southern, L&N, Seaboard, ACL etc.
Traindiesel posted:I'm much too weak. If it has wheels and runs on rails, I like it!
As a friend of mine says... I have tons of will power, because I've never used any of it! He also tells me that anything worth doing, is worth over doing! Words to live by. 
While most of my collection is the Pennsylvania, I also have some New York Central and Lehigh Valley, no Penn Central or Conrail yet, they all ran through my hometown of Geneva, NY and my current home of Phelps, NY, both in the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York. Someday I would like to try repainting to have some local short line Finger Lakes Railway that uses parts of the New York Central and Lehigh Valley remaining tracks. But for now still working on getting a small layout back up and running in the one end of the living room.
I wasn't aware there were other railroads than the Milwaukee Road. Don
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scale rail posted:I wasn't aware there were other railroads than the Milwaukee Road. Don
boin106 posted:scale rail posted:I wasn't aware there were other railroads than the Milwaukee Road. Don
Don, I know you found paradise in The Islands...but I sure do miss your Marin layout! Matt
Nice "line up" Matt. Don
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I am partial to NYC Central, Erie and NS, pretty much due to the color schemes and design.
The only one I don't like is Santa Fe, as that's all I could afford around when I was 10 years old from Kay-b-toys. I remember walking to the local Lionel store in amazement, but couldn't afford to buy anything, but still enjoyed it. Still can't afford a lot that I get today, but I try...
ATSF was a road I respected, but never really liked or get myself into. Really do not know why. Guess i grew up around the Friendly SP.
Sorry for the delay in replying, on my part, it's not about the ATSF rail line itself (could be any line really), but it's with the memories of it growing up, as that was the only choice I could afford back then. Bought two sets around 11-12 yo, and have no idea what happened to them now, but it was the fact that the price range I could afford with my given allowance, Santa Fe HO was all I could get, every other set was priced 3x+ higher at KB Toys, and forget about Lionel back then...if I saved months worth of allowances, I could probably afford to get a single non-lit, used, C-6 or less, rolling stock item.
Virtually all of my two-rail O scale trains (I have no three-rail) have been repainted and relettered for the MEXICAN RAILROADS that existed around 1980 and earlier. Since all five companies that existed at this time were merged into the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico (FNM) by the late '80's, this is sort of like saying that I model only the Union Pacific, but have MP, SP, WP freight cars with UP reporting marks and UP numbers, but the former heralds still show.
Since any Mexican freight cars are rarely modeled, I enjoy filling a train with NdeM (National Railways of Mexico). FCP (Ferrocarril del Pacifico), ChP (Chihuahua al Pacific), Ferrocarril Unidos del Sureste) and S-BC (Sonora-Baja California) boxcars. A couple of recent additions include single cars each for SD&AE (San Diego and Arizona Eastern) and SPdeM (Southern Pacific of Mexico. The fleet is mainly 40-foot cars, that continued to be built in Mexico into the 1980's, and cattle cars, that remained plentiful a decade longer in Mexico that in the United States.
I haven't been to Mexico since 1984, and have little interest in modelling today's scene.
Gil Hulin
Gil in Oregon posted:Virtually all of my two-rail O scale trains (I have no three-rail) have been repainted and relettered for the MEXICAN RAILROADS that existed around 1980 and earlier. Since all five companies that existed at this time were merged into the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico (FNM) by the late '80's, this is sort of like saying that I model only the Union Pacific, but have MP, SP, WP freight cars with UP reporting marks and UP numbers, but the former heralds still show.
Since any Mexican freight cars are rarely modeled, I enjoy filling a train with NdeM (National Railways of Mexico). FCP (Ferrocarril del Pacifico), ChP (Chihuahua al Pacific), Ferrocarril Unidos del Sureste) and S-BC (Sonora-Baja California) boxcars. A couple of recent additions include single cars each for SD&AE (San Diego and Arizona Eastern) and SPdeM (Southern Pacific of Mexico. The fleet is mainly 40-foot cars, that continued to be built in Mexico into the 1980's, and cattle cars, that remained plentiful a decade longer in Mexico that in the United States.
I haven't been to Mexico since 1984, and have little interest in modelling today's scene.
Gil Hulin
Don't forget the Corpus Christi to Laredo Texas-Mexican. Long story, but before the KCS bought it, it had an odd connection with the roads in Mexico.
NEW YORK CENTRAL, with a smattering of Pennsy.
