Reply to "Your Favorite Railroads and..... Why"

My primary interest is narrow gauge railroads (especially Hawaiian narrow gauge lines, the RGS, SP's Laws-Keeler branch, the Pacific Coast Railroad, and Mexican narrow gauge lines), but my standard gauge interests are:

1. SP's branchline operations in Texas and Louisiana, especially the Gonzales-Harwood branch
2. Branchline operations on other major RR's in Texas (ATSF, KCS, MKT, T&NO, Frisco, Cotton Belt, T&P)
3. Texas shortline railroads
4. Virginia and Truckee
5. Many other shortline rr's in the US during the 1940's-1950's. (Bath & Hammondsport, Dardanelle and Russelville, Bellefonte Central, Ma and Pa, etc)
6. Port, terminal, and dockside operations

ALL of the above would be from the 1940's -1950's. I have ZERO interest in contemporary mainline operations or modern motive power.

Memories which inspire me:

1. Riding the Sunset Limited from Beaumont to Houston on the last night of SP's operation, before Amtrak took over.  
2. Riding the KCS local passenger train from Beaumont to Mauriceville, then catching a caboose ride on the Sabine River & Northern for a few miles.
3. Riding the Reader RR's mixed train in Arkansas in the summer of '70, in a former KCS combine behind a steam loco.
4. Seeing the remains of equipment on the Red River and Gulf RR's logging operation in Long Leaf, LA.
5. Railfanning the Moscow, Camden, and San Augustine RR with my dad.
6. Visiting the Milby Street, Hardy Street, and Englewood yards as a kid in Houston.

Kyle Evans

Houston, Texas