Greatest RR company.
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 9:01 pm
What RR company do you consider to be the best? Personally it's a 3-way tie between Union Pacific, New York Central, and LNER for me.
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Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 2:44 pm
So am I really the only one who thinks a specific RR company/companies was/were the best ever?
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:22 pm
Define "best ever".
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:59 pm
Just post which company you think was the best one. It doesn't matter in what category.Gumboots wrote:Define "best ever".
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:29 pm
Taggart Transcontinental while Dagny was running it. "Best ever" is so broad that I assume it includes fictional, right? A railroad that is run for profit as well as to provide service to people in balance. In real life, depending on the people in charge some companies have done this, but, I fear, not consistently due to the nature of man.
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:35 pm
Since the original question is so broad, I'm going to say the best railroad company to me is the Georgia Northeastern.
Why? Because it's a small company and I like small companies.
Why? Because it's a small company and I like small companies.
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:04 pm
Ok maybe I should of said best ever Real life Company.
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 11:11 pm
I will say the Great Northern for a US one. I also like South African Railways.
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 5:15 pm
GWR hands down!
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:31 pm
Apparently the LNER had the worst safety record of the "Big Four".AdmiralHalsey wrote:What RR company do you consider to be the best? Personally it's a 3-way tie between Union Pacific, New York Central, and LNER for me.
Just found that while I was looking for something else.Westwood does however, note that he did much to develop locomotive cab signalling (abandoned by the LNER which had the worst safety record of the four mainline companies)
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:35 am
My 'greatest' lists (excluding government owned corporates because many of them sucks!)
1. Union Pacific: Over 150 years strong. also known to pioneer new classes of locomotives (Two of them also exists in Railroad Tycoon 3--The Challenger and the Big Boy) and is the only railroad in the world to use Fuel-oil powered gas turbine locomotives.
2. Southern Pacific: Two best oil-firing steam locomotives. The 4-8-4 Northerns for Daylights, and series of Mallet Cab Forwards
3. ATSF/BNSF: Biggest user of decapods (One is named after the state the railroad serves, other took the name from the railroads itself!), One of the first railroads to use Diesel Electrics motive power.
4. Norfolk & Western / Norfolk Southern: The last class one to run coal-fired steam trains (and proven how bad Diesels really are!)
5. Great Northern: The only 'Transcontinental' built by ONE corporate (And so deserving the name 'Empire Builder'), east to west. most of the transcontinentals were built by several competing companies (and by the directives of, and numbers of helps by Federal Government... the helping hand usually earned by macchiavellian lobbyism by the likes of Leland Stanford and .... maybe Cyrus K. Holliday). and therefore the constructions began on the different ends and meets somewhere by agreements with rivals (1st transcontinentals--UP & CP , the line met somewhere in Utah, the southernmost transcontinentals were SP, ATSF, and several lesser gulf railroads later bought off by SP) Great Northerns don't need any, nor earned an attention of the federal governments.
Great Northern is the dream realized by James Hill. relive his railroad efforts by downloading maps today!
1. Union Pacific: Over 150 years strong. also known to pioneer new classes of locomotives (Two of them also exists in Railroad Tycoon 3--The Challenger and the Big Boy) and is the only railroad in the world to use Fuel-oil powered gas turbine locomotives.
2. Southern Pacific: Two best oil-firing steam locomotives. The 4-8-4 Northerns for Daylights, and series of Mallet Cab Forwards
3. ATSF/BNSF: Biggest user of decapods (One is named after the state the railroad serves, other took the name from the railroads itself!), One of the first railroads to use Diesel Electrics motive power.
4. Norfolk & Western / Norfolk Southern: The last class one to run coal-fired steam trains (and proven how bad Diesels really are!)
5. Great Northern: The only 'Transcontinental' built by ONE corporate (And so deserving the name 'Empire Builder'), east to west. most of the transcontinentals were built by several competing companies (and by the directives of, and numbers of helps by Federal Government... the helping hand usually earned by macchiavellian lobbyism by the likes of Leland Stanford and .... maybe Cyrus K. Holliday). and therefore the constructions began on the different ends and meets somewhere by agreements with rivals (1st transcontinentals--UP & CP , the line met somewhere in Utah, the southernmost transcontinentals were SP, ATSF, and several lesser gulf railroads later bought off by SP) Great Northerns don't need any, nor earned an attention of the federal governments.
Great Northern is the dream realized by James Hill. relive his railroad efforts by downloading maps today!
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 11:15 am
That would be Promontory, Utah, where they drove the golden spike.Lone Cat wrote:(1st transcontinentals--UP & CP , the line met somewhere in Utah,
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 10:22 pm
How about the China Railway Corproration?
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 6:29 am
Hawk wrote:That would be Promontory Summit, Utah, where they drove the golden spike.Lone Cat wrote:(1st transcontinentals--UP & CP , the line met somewhere in Utah,
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:08 am
Promontory Summit is in Promontory, Utah.
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 6:05 am
So did the SP. You forgot about the Cab Forward and 4-10-2. The only two companies to use them were the SP/UP. Plus the Daylight was included in RT2 Platinum and the skin for the 4-8-4 Northern was also based on the SP GS-4 or GS-5 type 4-8-4.Lone Cat wrote:My 'greatest' lists (excluding government owned corporates because many of them sucks!)
1. Union Pacific: Over 150 years strong. also known to pioneer new classes of locomotives (Two of them also exists in Railroad Tycoon 3--The Challenger and the Big Boy) and is the only railroad in the world to use Fuel-oil powered gas turbine locomotives.
2. Southern Pacific: Two best oil-firing steam locomotives. The 4-8-4 Northerns for Daylights, and series of Mallet Cab Forwards
3. ATSF/BNSF: Biggest user of decapods (One is named after the state the railroad serves, other took the name from the railroads itself!), One of the first railroads to use Diesel Electrics motive power.
4. Norfolk & Western / Norfolk Southern: The last class one to run coal-fired steam trains (and proven how bad Diesels really are!)
5. Great Northern: The only 'Transcontinental' built by ONE corporate (And so deserving the name 'Empire Builder'), east to west. most of the transcontinentals were built by several competing companies (and by the directives of, and numbers of helps by Federal Government... the helping hand usually earned by macchiavellian lobbyism by the likes of Leland Stanford and .... maybe Cyrus K. Holliday). and therefore the constructions began on the different ends and meets somewhere by agreements with rivals (1st transcontinentals--UP & CP , the line met somewhere in Utah, the southernmost transcontinentals were SP, ATSF, and several lesser gulf railroads later bought off by SP) Great Northerns don't need any, nor earned an attention of the federal governments.
Great Northern is the dream realized by James Hill. relive his railroad efforts by downloading maps today!
I'd say the Southern Pacific during the 1940s and 1950s.
Northern Pacific also built a Transcon line without any help from firms or gov't.
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 4:24 am
How about China Railway Corporation?
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 4:53 pm
You're talking to Americans. They'll never admit that a non-US railroad could be great.
Re: Greatest RR company.
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 6:29 pm
Its hard enough to admit an American railroad is great these days.Gumboots wrote:You're talking to Americans. They'll never admit that a non-US railroad could be great.
