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List your top ten railroads here rules: 1 you MAY list fictional railroads. 2 you may have a top 3, 5, or 20 if you either just can't part with some railroads or you can't think of 10. 3 you can have multiple lists. 4(optional if you have more than 1 list) you may use the same railroad/company in multiple lists. 5(if you have more than 1 list) your personal favorites must be in a SEPERATE LIST(s) aside from what you think were(are) the most important in a category.
Now that we have our rules here are my top 10 lists(personal favorites(steam era), personal favorites(diesel era), and most modeling potential(like southern pacific's L-window cabs & Pyle lights) list 1(steam era(1930s - 1950s)
#1 southern pacific(cab forwards, daylights, and a wide variety of train types and terrain give the sp/tn&o/ssw number 1 in all category's)
#2 Baltimore & Ohio(class S1 Santa fe's lots of variety in terrain/train/locomotive types not to mention it was the first class 1 railroad to last more then a hundred years give this almost forgotten railroad it's rightful place in #2)
#3 pennsylvania railroad(a railroad that seems to pull more trains in the 21st century as HO, or N scale models than it did in the 1940s/50s the unique squared off fire box area, and other prototype details not seen on other railroads give this almost over-modeled railroad it's almost obvious place in the top three as number 3 just cutting it enough to get in)
#4 (just missing my top 3 but still making the top 5 is that railroad everyone knows the atchison topeka and Santa fe with lots of variety in tegunrrain huge santa fe and Texas type engines gives this well known railroad it's rightful place in my heart)
#5 Denver and rio grand western narrow gauge(let's admit it we have all dreamed of seeing an outside frame narrow gauge engine running and this railroad did it so well that it lasted in mainline steam service until 1974 and about 80% of their roster still runs on the C&TS and D&S)
#6 Norfolk and western(coaling and grades to the extreme and who can forget those great mountains and y3b and A class mallets? I certainly can't) #7
#7 Chesapeake and Ohio(oh come on have you seen those hunky beasts I love all their steam but the articulated mallets and the 2-8-4 engines ooooh baby)
#8 great northern(its great its northern iiiittttttssss---- yeah I'm getting kind of bored and running out of ideas great northern everybody)
#9 New York Central(NUFF said)
#10 Burlington Route
List #2:
#1 southern pacific(1970s - 1990s)
#2 Baltimore & Ohio(1940s - 1960s)
#3 chessie system(1980s)
#4 Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe(1940s - 1970s/1990s)
#5 BNSF(formerly Burlington Northern And Santa Fe)(2000 - this second)
#6 Union Pacific(late-1980s - 1990s/2000 - this second)
#7 Burlington northern(1970s)
#8 Penn Cental(1980s - 1980s)
Now that we have our rules here are my top 10 lists(personal favorites(steam era), personal favorites(diesel era), and most modeling potential(like southern pacific's L-window cabs & Pyle lights) list 1(steam era(1930s - 1950s)
#1 southern pacific(cab forwards, daylights, and a wide variety of train types and terrain give the sp/tn&o/ssw number 1 in all category's)
#2 Baltimore & Ohio(class S1 Santa fe's lots of variety in terrain/train/locomotive types not to mention it was the first class 1 railroad to last more then a hundred years give this almost forgotten railroad it's rightful place in #2)
#3 pennsylvania railroad(a railroad that seems to pull more trains in the 21st century as HO, or N scale models than it did in the 1940s/50s the unique squared off fire box area, and other prototype details not seen on other railroads give this almost over-modeled railroad it's almost obvious place in the top three as number 3 just cutting it enough to get in)
#4 (just missing my top 3 but still making the top 5 is that railroad everyone knows the atchison topeka and Santa fe with lots of variety in tegunrrain huge santa fe and Texas type engines gives this well known railroad it's rightful place in my heart)
#5 Denver and rio grand western narrow gauge(let's admit it we have all dreamed of seeing an outside frame narrow gauge engine running and this railroad did it so well that it lasted in mainline steam service until 1974 and about 80% of their roster still runs on the C&TS and D&S)
#6 Norfolk and western(coaling and grades to the extreme and who can forget those great mountains and y3b and A class mallets? I certainly can't) #7
#7 Chesapeake and Ohio(oh come on have you seen those hunky beasts I love all their steam but the articulated mallets and the 2-8-4 engines ooooh baby)
#8 great northern(its great its northern iiiittttttssss---- yeah I'm getting kind of bored and running out of ideas great northern everybody)
#9 New York Central(NUFF said)
#10 Burlington Route
List #2:
#1 southern pacific(1970s - 1990s)
#2 Baltimore & Ohio(1940s - 1960s)
#3 chessie system(1980s)
#4 Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe(1940s - 1970s/1990s)
#5 BNSF(formerly Burlington Northern And Santa Fe)(2000 - this second)
#6 Union Pacific(late-1980s - 1990s/2000 - this second)
#7 Burlington northern(1970s)
#8 Penn Cental(1980s - 1980s)
