If you could bring a fallen flag back?

[Andrew Hamblyn]

The Rock Island and the SP share equal top place status with me...

It would be fantastic to see the Rock Island red and yellow big letter scheme appled to an IAIS ES44!!

Andrew

[chico]

Ah, excuse me, has anybody mentioned...

The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe?

[Mgoldman]

Ah - this is a trick question.
There is no possible way to single out just one fallen flag

I'd vote for BN if it meant that AT&SF was the natural by product!

Milwaukee Road to the Pacific would be hard to beat though bringing back the PRR would be fascinating to see!

/Mitch

Southern Pacific too. And the Rock. And by all means, BC Rail. Oh, and WP. DRG&W. And the Reading. And the C&O. Ah, why not, B&O and N&W. And I suppose the Southern as well. Jersey Central would be cool. With all that being said, I couldn't leave out NYC.

MONON!!!!! LOL.

Though, GM&O would be cool. As would IC. And CB&Q. NP and GN, too. And SP&S. The Rock was cool too.

[Mgoldman]

I just realized I mentioned the Rock twice, so instead, make one of those the Virginian instead.

Thanks.

/Mitch

[Mgoldman]

Hmm... y'know, with N&W, C&O, and the B&O returning, it just wouldn't be the same without the WM. Add them too.

/Mitch

[Joe the Photog]

I'd like to go back to an 80s system map in the south east -- Southern, N&W, Seaboard, Chessie.....

[NYC Nick]

I'd have to vote either for the New York Central or for Conrail.
You'll have to excuse me for being biased with a grandpa who for both roads.

[Dennis A. Livesey]

The New Haven, the New York Ontario & Western, the Sandy River, the Rio Grande Southern, the Yosemite Valley, the Carson & Colorado, the Midland, the Milwaukee, the DL&W, and the North Shore.

[nikos1]

GM&O would be a good choice, one of the best paint schemes out there, some very scenic trackage: plenty of bridges and probably neck and neck with the Monon (another good choice) for the amount of streetrunning trackage it had.
Oh not to mention that ICG sent the whole railroad to hell when they merged.

[TrainFanNZ]

I'll jump on the band wagon & say Milwaukee Road along the Pacific Extension, and the D&RGW.

I would also put in CNW and the Cowboy Line.

[Greg P]

1.) Boston and Maine in the glory days.

2.) Mass Central in it's full Boston-Northampton Run

3.) New York/New Haven

4.) Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad (just because it would make life so much easier in Baltimore)

5.) Northern Central

6.) Grand Canyon

7.) Yosemite

[Frederick]

I'll bite.

1. SOO
2. ATSF
3. MILW
4. BCOL
5. GN
6. BN
7. NP
8. SP
9. DRGW
10. DMIR
11. WC

[Cristiano Oliveira]

Probably Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western and Chessie System.

[TrainFanNZ]

here's a couple I think are worth a mention;

1 = SCL
2 = SAL
3 = ACL
4 = WABASH
5 = CS
6 = D&RGW Narrow Gauge - The entire Route!
7 = CP - NO NOT CANADIAN PACIFIC! Central Pacific!
8 = CNJ
9 = FRISCO
10 = NS (The original)

[milwman]

Originally Posted by nikos1

GM&O would be a good choice, one of the best paint schemes out there, some very scenic trackage: plenty of bridges and probably neck and neck with the Monon (another good choice) for the amount of streetrunning trackage it had.
Oh not to mention that ICG sent the whole railroad to hell when they merged.

The ICG was a Rail Road That ICI need to milk to get cash to buy other non rail corp's They didn't want to railroad and both suffered but with out it the CC&P would never been.
I vote to see the MILW

[Trains n Airplanes]

The Burlington Northern, followed by the Milwaukee Road.

[=SPETER=]

1. Wisconsin Central

Next would be:
2. A Milwaukee Road that didn't go bankrupt.... I wonder who they would have merged with and if they would have still kicked the crap out of BN in the Northwest like they did in the early 1970s.

[SDavey]

Conrail still exists in Detroit and New Jersey in the form of the Shared Assets.

[WisconsinCentral]

Wisconsin Central for recent railroads, and for something a bit farther back we'll go with....The Rock Island. That would be followed closely by Seaboard System.

Alec(It's too unreasonable to only list one!)

[scrappy19784]

for us Canadians TH&B,NS&T,lake Erie northern and yes NYC(Canada southern line)O and can't forget the walbash

[DAKIBSRR]

I would go with the Wisconsin Central and SOO.
Being from this area I feel obligated to lines from my hometown area.

[ClinchValley]

Clinchfield

[khalucha]

Originally Posted by Joe the Photog

I'd like to go back to an 80s system map in the south east -- Southern, N&W, Seaboard, Chessie.....

Joe I have a link to Maps for New Jersey from the 1800's to 1940's.

http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/HISTORIC...Railroads.html

I would like to see the CRNJ, Penn Central, Pensy, NYC, and a few others that turned into Conrail in the end.

Nothing more, nothing less. The B&O.

[lock4244]

Eire Lackawanna
Western Pacific
Denver and Rio Grande Western
Milwaukee Road
Louisville & Nashville
Delaware & Hudson
Maine Central
Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo
Algoma Central