Favorite railroad

[nachoman]

None and none. I don't have a favorite. I have a few that I don't care much about, and I strongly prefer north american prototypes and eras between about 1880 and 1980.
Why? well, I live in north america, and that is what I am used to. As for eras, I am most interested in the "maturity" of railroads after about 1880 - when railroads became part of a national system, and became standardized with couplers and gauges, and the development of what I consider a more modern and familiar culture was developing (electricity, steel construction, modern sports, etc). I am much less interested post about 1980, as railroads consolidated down to a few big ones, the final branchlines started to give way to trucks, and railroads became primarily a mainline operation. But as to a particular railroad - well I really don't have a preference one way or another.