Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

UPDATE I dont really like any of them, MKT FTW

CN, CP, and KCS were missing from the list, so I enabled those, resetting the voting.

I voted CN/GTC

Trainmanalex2 wrote:I vote BNSF

UP ALL THE WAY
BNSF CAN KISS MY

None of 'em. They all like to abandon and rip up far too much good track.

I'm with Sir Krunch. I dont like any of em. Pan Am Railways is all I vote for.

CP. They are relatively railfan-friendly compared to most other Class I railroads, at least in my experience. They are also slower about upgrading their crossings compared to CN and UP, and although they have mostly caught up in the last couple of years, they left a few sets of 8" clear L.E.D.s alone.

The only beef I have with them is their bland current paint scheme...I'd like their ES44ACs a lot better if they had put some form of the "Golden Beaver" or "Dual Flags" logo on them...or even an updated "Pac-Man" if they wanted to go retro. Solid red with the words "Canadian Pacific" in white gets kind of boring, especially when every frickin' train is led by an ES44AC. Only their recent purchase of the DME/ICE and the presence of their SD40-2/3s on a couple trains each day provides a little motive power variety on the general manifest freights.

AndyWS wrote:CP. They are relatively railfan-friendly compared to most other Class I railroads, at least in my experience. They are also slower about upgrading their crossings compared to CN and UP, and although they have mostly caught up in the last couple of years, they left a few sets of 8" clear L.E.D.s alone.

The only beef I have with them is their bland current paint scheme...I'd like their ES44ACs a lot better if they had put some form of the "Golden Beaver" or "Dual Flags" logo on them...or even an updated "Pac-Man" if they wanted to go retro. Solid red with the words "Canadian Pacific" in white gets kind of boring, especially when every frickin' train is led by an ES44AC. Only their recent purchase of the DME/ICE and the presence of their SD40-2/3s on a couple trains each day provides a little motive power variety on the general manifest freights.

There is a CP ES44AC in Phoenix it was spotted on 8-27. Here is a picture i found http://www.geocities.com/~aeromoe/8832CPw.jpg

I might go and check it out Sunday, i wasnt going to beacuse of the heat, but then i found out that a BNSF SD70ACe came into town today, AND IT WAS LEADING!

BTW, my favorite railroad is BNSF, it was IC but i guess there gone.

Good, that means there will be one less to get in the way of a perfectly photogenic SD40-2 or GP38 around here!

Well the CP left on Thursday, and the SD70ACE probely left today, according to the guy who monitors the Phoenix sub, here is his page: http://www.geocities.com/~aeromoe/Peavine.html