GandyDancer
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If you figure it out let me know. I've yet to be able to choose.I am curious how you picked the line you chose. ... I know that may have to be my first decision here and I am curious how others made theirs.
1. Santa Fe because it was next to my grandparents farm - ooops the streamlined passenger cars are all boring stainless steel.
2. CB&Q because they were the first to dieselize - ooops same issue as Santa Fe stainless steel ...
3. Great Northern because of the big sky blue paint scheme - ooops it was only around for a couple years.
4. Older Great Northern - James Hill was a real hero in RR history. ooops GN steam locos are screwy with their Belpair fire box, the GN only had two Challenger class locos, the GN had zero Alco PAs.....
5. Northern Pacific - cool Lowey two town green passenger scheme - ooops same issue on the lack of Alco PAs as the GN.
6. Missouri Pacific - walked past their head quarters every morning on my way to work. Had some really cool looking Alco rebuilds running all over the branches in Kansas.
7. Minneapolis & St. Louis - interesting smaller class 1 RR that not many people model. Cool paint scheme of the week diesels.
8. Rock Island - love the black winged paint scheme on early diesels.
9. Denver Rio Grande & Western - can't be a Colorado person and not want to model the Grande.
10. Louisville & Wadley - great 10 mile short line that one could model. Petticoat Junction style.
11. Belfast & Moose Lake - another short line with a rich history.
12. Norfolk & Western - the last steam railroad in the U.S. Way cool Abingdon branch.
13. Milwaukee - Electrified branch, Hiawatha's
14. NYC - BIG Eastern Mainline railroading.
15. Hoboken Shore Railroad - Another short line railroad that one could really model in a relatively small space.
16. ...
Need I continue ... 30 years later - 100 railroads later ..... how does one choose?
I can say the ones I will never model - Union Pacific (nasty yellow paint scheme), Southern Pacific (bloody nose paint scheme - cringe).
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