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The Reading (pronounced Redding for those outside the northeast).

A humorous story, we lived close the the Reading Tracks and one day my dad and I were at the train station, I asked him why it was called the Reading Railroad - he asked me to look in the windows of the passenger car and tell him what I saw.  Everyone of reading the newspaper.  That's why.

 

I grew up close to the C&O line along the James River.  I only have a few pieces of rolling stock.

My first house I bought was within 100 yards of the RF&P line.  I only have a few boxcars.

My grandfather started as a fireman and ended as an engineer with Southern and had a dozen relatives that made careers out of Southern. I only have a few pieces.

Not doing very well at focusing in on companies that I have a connection with.

Do have N&W, B&O, CSX, and NS.

 

jstraw124 posted:

I grew up close to the C&O line along the James River.  I only have a few pieces of rolling stock.

My first house I bought was within 100 yards of the RF&P line.  I only have a few boxcars.

My grandfather started as a fireman and ended as an engineer with Southern and had a dozen relatives that made careers out of Southern. I only have a few pieces.

Not doing very well at focusing in on companies that I have a connection with.

Do have N&W, B&O, CSX, and NS.

 

I've been looking into Southern recently. It has a history here in SC (it acquired SCRR in 1899) and I'd like to at least run one locomotive with rolling stock from a "fallen flag" railroad that ran locally (though I need to see if Southern came through Florence, SC.

Pennsy, pre 1953, when passenger motive power was painted the proper DGLE. Why? Partly because there is a model of virtually every 20th century loco. And, tons of information.

2nd--B&O, the plucky striver against Giganto.

3r--N&W-who doesn't like N&W?

4th--Reading. Bought a Lionel T-1 y'ars ago. Just a cool railroad.

Thank heaven that I'm out of storage space, else I would be bankrupt...

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