Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens, abbreviated to CIWL.
Regards
Fred
I buy any line that came into Chicago. My hometown favorites are Milwaukee Road, Chicago Great Western, CB&Q, C&NW and Rock Island.
PRR, C&O/ B&O/Chessie, ATSF, plus a growing collection of LIRR Equipment. No one particular favorite though.
Bob
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My layout spans the late 1950s to the present and is sort of "Midwest"--Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. The roads most represented on my layout are NS (N & W), Penn Central, D T & I, Conrail. But because I like the purple Es and Fs, the Atlantic Coast Line also resides in my layout!
The Reading (pronounced Redding for those outside the northeast).
A humorous story, we lived close the the Reading Tracks and one day my dad and I were at the train station, I asked him why it was called the Reading Railroad - he asked me to look in the windows of the passenger car and tell him what I saw. Everyone of reading the newspaper. That's why.
DaveP posted:New York Central and my favorite short line - Raritan River....
Looking good!
My hometown shortline, Raritan River.
And Black River & Western where I've been volunteering recently.
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I model what I see or fallen flags that made up what I now see. My favorites are:
Western Maryland
Chessie
Conrail
Penn Central
PRR
CSX
NS
I'd say 85 percent of what I own is Western Maryland or CSX.
I grew up close to the C&O line along the James River. I only have a few pieces of rolling stock.
My first house I bought was within 100 yards of the RF&P line. I only have a few boxcars.
My grandfather started as a fireman and ended as an engineer with Southern and had a dozen relatives that made careers out of Southern. I only have a few pieces.
Not doing very well at focusing in on companies that I have a connection with.
Do have N&W, B&O, CSX, and NS.
Model:
Chicago and Northwestern
Chicago Great Western
jstraw124 posted:I grew up close to the C&O line along the James River. I only have a few pieces of rolling stock.
My first house I bought was within 100 yards of the RF&P line. I only have a few boxcars.
My grandfather started as a fireman and ended as an engineer with Southern and had a dozen relatives that made careers out of Southern. I only have a few pieces.
Not doing very well at focusing in on companies that I have a connection with.
Do have N&W, B&O, CSX, and NS.
I've been looking into Southern recently. It has a history here in SC (it acquired SCRR in 1899) and I'd like to at least run one locomotive with rolling stock from a "fallen flag" railroad that ran locally (though I need to see if Southern came through Florence, SC.
Pennsy, pre 1953, when passenger motive power was painted the proper DGLE. Why? Partly because there is a model of virtually every 20th century loco. And, tons of information.
2nd--B&O, the plucky striver against Giganto.
3r--N&W-who doesn't like N&W?
4th--Reading. Bought a Lionel T-1 y'ars ago. Just a cool railroad.
Thank heaven that I'm out of storage space, else I would be bankrupt...
