A) Freight you like vs freight you don’t like… B) Road names you like vs roads you don’t like…

[Iron Horseman]

I've always liked the old billboard reefers. Illegal, obsolete, but colorful. My layout can't support running the long beasts so stick to smaller boxcars, hoppers and a few tank cars. Partial to the CB&Q, CNW and the GM&O. There doesn't seem to be a lot of models of GM&Os equipment out there.

Agree GM&O is one of the under appreciated and under modeled railroads. I am certain there are more, but off the top of my head I can only think of a GP30, GP35, and Alco FA-B locomotives painted for GM&O.

 

[RhB Michael]

GM&O, IIRC, used a hi-nose locomotive of some kind. Maybe a GP-20 or GP-7 or-9. I wasn't crazy about the GM&O and Illinois Central merger. I like the green diamond Illinois Central paint, and that went away for that ugly orange and white paint after the merger.

 

[Gary B]

I just remember their Alco switchers doing the Glenn yard down my street as a kid. That and their equally ancient E powered passenger trains.

 

[BigJakeJ1s]

Generally, whatever I want or catches my fancy.

Diesel, no steam.

Intermodal, most any freight but coal.

ATSF/BNSF, CP/CPKC.

--Andy

 

[Bruette]

Even picky old me was able to come up with something.

I'm not picky.

Maybe not "don't like" but like least.

If I had to pick the one, I like the least it would be the C&O.

Many years ago, I was a Coal Sampler at the Baltimore piers. The Norfolk office looked down on Baltimore. The C&O served Norfolk, guilt by association.

@BigJakeJ1s Welcome to the Forums Andy, we are glad to have you with us!

 

[SD40 Jim]

Favorite freight cars ▪︎
3 & 4-bay hoppers, flats,
depressed centers, gons,
petro/chemical tanks
Cars I dislike ▪︎ none

Favorite roads ▪︎
Bessemer & Lake Erie,
Pennsy, CSX and their
forerunners, Norfolk &
Western
Roads I dislike ▪︎ none

 

[J.Albert]

I prefer the roads I got to run freight locomotives over...
- Conrail
- New York Central
- Erie
- New Haven
- New York, Ontario & Western
- Lehigh and New England
- Lehigh and Hudson River
- Pennsylvania
- Lehigh Valley

 

[Iron Horseman]

I prefer the roads I got to run freight locomotives over...
- Conrail
- New York Central
- Erie
- New Haven
- New York, Ontario & Western
- Lehigh and New England
- Lehigh and Hudson River
- Pennsylvania
- Lehigh Valley

heheheh, that would make you an old timer if you pulled a throttle on an NYC. I was still in grade school.

 

[J.Albert]

"that would make you an old timer if you pulled a throttle on an NYC"

I hired out on Conrail in 1979.
The list above is the territory I got to work over.
The O&W went out of business in 1957. But 30 years later I was running a Conrail engine by their former main offices in Middletown (NY), on what were probably original O&W-installed rails.

Hmmm...
I should have included the Central Vermont in the list above.
Except I ran passenger on their tracks...

 

[Iron Horseman]

"that would make you an old timer if you pulled a throttle on an NYC"

I hired out on Conrail in 1979.
The list above is the territory I got to work over.
The O&W went out of business in 1957. But 30 years later I was running a Conrail engine by their former main offices in Middletown (NY), on what were probably original O&W-installed rails.

Hmmm...
I should have included the Central Vermont in the list above.
Except I ran passenger on their tracks...

Oh, I see. I still call the Union Pacific tracks through Kansas by its original name "Kansas Pacific". Of course the mile posts are still KPxxx.

 

[cv_acr]

I have equipment and roads that I'm partial to, but I wouldn't say I "dislike" any particular road or equipment type.

 

[trailrider]

I've always liked the old billboard reefers. Illegal, obsolete, but colorful. My layout can't support running the long beasts so stick to smaller boxcars, hoppers and a few tank cars. Partial to the CB&Q, CNW and the GM&O. There doesn't seem to be a lot of models of GM&Os equipment out there.

I'm also partial to the Q, and CNW, as I rode both as a boy from the '40's through 1960. I do have trains, especially passenger trains, from the NP and GN, mainly their streamline name trains, BEFORE the merger. Can't stand the post-merger green-black-and white of the BN. BNSF schemes are okay, if a little after my era!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Green board all the way!

 

[Iron Horseman]

I do have trains, especially passenger trains, from the NP and GN, mainly their streamline name trains, BEFORE the merger. Can't stand the post-merger green-black-and white of the BN. BNSF schemes are okay, if a little after my era!

Interesting. Originally I did not like the Casacade green scheme. But then after they were gone for a while they sure looked good when I saw and oldie running around. And I HATE the BNSF schemes. Orange and Green are a technical eyesore, and orange and black is Halloween. then that wedgie logo is the worst.