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I operate Gulf, Mobile & Ohio and the Chicago & Alton. Love the color scheme and remember watching them traveling on SB I-55 from Chicago to St. Louis. BTW both cities offer great train watching!  Also like BNSF and BN especially the merger era. You can mix GN, NP, and Seattle RRs! Saw alot of Burlington in my youth and lived close to Milwaukee Rd main line! First and last encounter with a Milwaukee Road "cinder dick" complete with Irish Accent!!!!!

 

Dave,

Are you doing this because you like to see people excited? Or, are you one that likes to feel testosterone in the air? Either way here's my picks:

West                       Mid-West                       Eastern

Santa Fe                 D & RG W                     Norfolk Southern

Nor. Pacific             BNSF                           New York Central

Sou. Pacific             Union Pacific               Pennsylvania RR

Wes. Pacific            KC Southern                Milwaukee Road

 

My Goodness, Dave.. I'll allow you to pick the final three. It's going to be a very hard choice to make. I think that you deserve to be squeezed real tight.

           

 

                                                                       

Suspect Pennsy, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, New York Central and Santa Fe show up most frequently here because they show up most frequently everywhere! All are big railroads which covered large geography and touched the most people. Now a huge railroad in terms of mileage that doesn't get anywhere near as much attention in the steam/diesel Era was the Canadian National..........but Canada had a very thin population, spread over enormous geography.

 

 

 

 

 

Originally Posted by rgross:
I see Pennsylvania, NYC, & Santa Fe quite often even though I like C&O

I like the grouping

 

But I have to extend it to four. 

I bet the order varies slightly over periods really.

But PRR or SF I feel get the most attention. PRR more for history, SF more for visual.

NYC- Its New York, 'nuff said.

 UP-??.....lets see.. Because it just wont go away?

 

 

Where are you going with this Dave?  I hope you're not forsaking all the rest of us for the BIG FOUR

 

Not my favorites, but I'd still say PRR, UP. ATSF, NYC, in that order.  This forum is heavily populated with folks from Pennsylvania, New York, and California.

 

You can even view a map of where the OGR members are located:

 

https://ogrforum.com/members?sort=VIEW_AS_MAP

 

Now if you want to start another poll of the least represented RRs...SAL, ACL, L&N, CofG are my picks.

In my time here since joining last year, the three RR's that I see pop up the most in the forums are:

 

1. Pennsylvania Railroad

2. Santa Fe

3. Toss up between New York Central and Union Pacific.

 

The one I hardly see anything about on here is Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBQ). Other than Eric's video review of the Burlington Atlas O Phase II F3 units several months ago, I hardly see the railroad mentioned here. 

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