Well, as something of a contrarian, l should be interested in the Southern that my dad fired Mikados and Consols for, or the L&N that ran through my great aunts' farm, to which my mother rode to visits in an L&N Jim Crow combine (which may be the one displayed at the Kentucky Railroad Museum). Nor is it the Frankfort and Cincinnati, which ran the Brill gas electric displayed at same museum. (I rode the EBT's gas electric..what is its fate?) Nope...it was my devouring my grandfather's picture book on Colorado railroads, with big articulateds huffing the loads "through the Rockies, not around them", and all those nifty little 3 ft. teakettles, which on vacation camping trips became my first train rides, behind steam up to Silverton on the real D&RGW narrow gauge. Too lazy to lay On3 track, l model a marriage of Colorado's Colorado Midland, and Great Western, in three rail.
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