Do you have a made up RR company?

The BEAR line, (Backwoods Enterprise and Agricultural Road) is still in the planning stage. I hope to go with a 3x10 layout, with an oval leading behind the backdrop to a train cassette for storing complete trains.

I think I'll go for a dark background color (purple, black, navy) with yellow or orange logos and markings).

It will serve stock pens, meat packing plant, grain elevator, cross-docking/transhipment facility, grocery warehouse. Most of my rolling stock is cattle cars, covered hoppers, private label boxcars (1970s), reefers, etc. that support those industries. The businesses were chosen based on 1) what rolling stock I own, and 2) interplay between the industries that will hopefully lead to some cars being used multiple times in an operating session.

Motive power will be whatever I currently own (including 4-8-4, a couple of docksiders, C424, SD??, GP??, F7A&B, etc.).

The Cowford and Southern. Cowford is the original name of Jacksonville FL. The C&S doesn't have any of its own motive power. Its owned by Seaboard Coast Line railroad. The line runs from Jacksonville to Orlando down what is now called the "A" line. The towns on the layout match the towns on the A line but the industries are made up to give me plenty of operating. Motive power runs the gamut from GP-9's to U36C's. The layout also interchanges with my club layout, The Cowford and Northern which runs from Jacksonville north into North Carolina.

Borracho Springs R.R. Co., or as its known locally, the B.S., serving the Borracho Tequila factory, also serving the towns of Borracho Springs, Purgitory, the F.U.B.A.R. Mining Consortium and the S.N.A.F.U. Mineral Co when we can get the train crews to stop endlessly switching cars at the distillery.
Colors range from grimy black to various shades of rust.

Pacific & Southwest Railroad Co HO
Operates from San Francicso to New Orleans just as if the Espee didn't exist in that area. Subsudiary lines, my sons, cover the California central valley like a tent. We have wild imaginations. All are colored basically Reefer Grey with White roofs and Yellow noses. Striping and lettering colors vary according to the road. Place to go to see double stacks behind Challengers in 2003.

Lowell

Mine is the Great Dividing Range Mining Company. It was the only company to cross the Great Dividing Range. The Alco PAs have a fat stripe coming from the nose to the tail were it splits in to two stripes going to each back corner. The stripe is blue and the body is red. The lettering is black. The PBs have a large cross on the sideswith each point coming from the corners leading to the middle. the cross is red and the body is blue.The lettering is black. The RR mostly uses Alco PA/PBs and some SD40-2s.

Mine is named SOTATRR(Some of This And That). As the name implies I'll run just about anything. Colors are Dark Blue background with Mint Green letering. I still need to come up with a logo.

Mike

My RR uses 55' ACF centreflow covered hoppers and also runs a passenger train called the Highlander.

Mine is the Quality Rail. It is the equivilent of the UP. It uses 8000 SD70Ms which are white with blue logos.

Mine is yet to be named. I am rebuilding it. It will be a small industrial layout served by the MP. My current roster consists of 6 40' MP Merchandiser Eagel box cars- grey and white. The motive power is a leadsed EMD SW7 painted yellow and green to match the Precision National paint scheme and lettered for Precision.
I had to dismantle my current layout and I am in the process of redoing the structures to make them look better and more functional. I also plan to do a better job of track planning this time around.
A lot of tips I learned from those that answered my postings on this forum will be used as well.
Thanks Bob

U could call it the Precision National RR or the America National RR

Precision is or was a company that bought diesels and rebuilt them to factory specs or more and then sold or leased the to railroads. The paint scheme was theirs. A small article about them appeared back in the 70's in I beliece Model Railroad Craftsman.
Before dismanteling my layout I was toying with the name Somers Point. It will be an industrial switching layout with only about 3-4 sidings and a couple of storage tracks and one track that will connect to a main line. This will be loosly based on Progressive Rail. MR ran an article on them earlier this year and it caught my interest.
I have a lot to workout so as not to repeat the mistakes I made on my other layout.
Bob

My railroad is the Graniteville and Bullshead. Its an imaginary branchline railroad in Ohio, now completely owned by the B&O (1950s), though the two towns are actually neighborhoods in Staten Island, NY where I grew up. I save my really silly names for some of the industries on my layout: Avogadro Chemical Company (address is 602 E 23 St - sorry, its a chemistry joke), Pheesh's Marine Supply (pronounced Fish's), and Acme Product Corporation (famous for their roadrunner catching products).

Saratoga & Adirondack. Runs mostly steam (2-8-0, 2-6-0, 0-8-0 Camelbacks and rear cabs).

However, B & M Diesels (RS-3, GE 44-ton, BL-2) make appearances as the B & M had a branch terminating in Saratoga.

When I get around to painting them, there will be two RS-3s in basic black with yellow end chevrons.

The track is built and operational in DCC. No scenery or structures but I will attempt to model what I remember.

I'm spending what little time I have this Summer building an accurate model of one of the Erie's very early oil-electric box cabs. I'm combining pieces of two MDC box cabs, Athearn NW2 and GE U25. This is my first experience cutting up perfectly good locomotives to make something different.

Fay and Lindsay Smith operate the L&F RY. Co. We call it "The Better Way." You know that on bad trips we can be the F&L. The colors are Green and White.

A Roundhouse Shay, and small tanks pull logs and ores. It serves Mt. Baldy, Anaheim and Cucamonga!

The WEUSANDCORR was establishedin 1976 and has a northern and southern division with a western branch . Motive power is all ex CNW up to C44-9W with CNW colours retained and redecalled for our company. Coal,wheat,plastic pellets, cement,Trailer-rail @ intermodal traffic. Communication used to be snail mail now it is on computer e-mail car card system. WE are in Australia and the Divisions are 700miles apart actual Regards Les Charlie Steve

PRM&GP Pacific, Rocky Mountains and Great Plains.
Scenario: several short line holding companies bought the Milwaukee Road and restored the electrification through to Chicago. Primary cargos are grain and coal west to port of Tacoma and autos east to connections at chicago. Never joined Amtrack, uses accela equipment for a very high speed Olympian Hiawatha, and second generation electrics for freight and commuter traffic. orange and black of course on the OH, but all other passenger Teal and Salmon as in the Electroliner. Grants trackage rights to other roads who usually use diesel power.

The praries are unfortunately plywood as of now but...

Doug, in Utah

Hello, Think HO scale. Patricks Railway Service Inc. or PRSI. PRSI provides all railroad services to anyone who needs it. The big thing right now is a large railroad constrution train esp. anything thats needed to do the job on hand. Colors are gray and black. Pile driver set is yellow and black. Ben

Not only have I made up the name of my HO railroad but also the country it serves. I call my country Dalreada with Marcstadt being the capital, a busy port city called Melmatt and the other principal city called Royston. All called for members of my family. The railroad is called Dalreada National Railways. The all steam locomotive livery is black with red trim. The passenger coaches are dark blue or green depending on which train they serve. I think modeling your imagination is more fun than trying to model an existing railroad. Have fun.
Pop.

My road is the I.T.& T. RR, the Ironbound Terminal & Transfer Railroad. Protyping Newark, NJ's one-time heavy industrial area, it does private-line switching from the Oak Island yards of CONRAIL, CSX and Norfolk Southern. Our industries include a chemical plant,a paint factory,a lumber yard,a concrete batch-plant served by water and rail,a burned-out tallow plant,a plastic extruder, a feather and down processor, a boiler/furnace warehouse distributor, a steel door mfgr.,a municipal incinerator, a cold-storage warehouse and a scrap yard. Most of the structures are gritty, grimy and graffitied buildings.The area is called "Ironbound" because many years ago it was about 2 sq. miles of space surrounded by the Lehigh Valley,Central RR of NJ, Penn Central and Lackawanna, thus it was Ironbound. Today, it is largely ethnic Portugese so I get most of my signage from the Portugese/Brazilian area classified telephone book. Mixed in with the industrial area are residences and small businesses. All of my three children and 8 grandchildren have their names worked into the structures.

I myself put forth towns, and states into my titles like Chicago and Indiana or Texas and Gulf Central, take note of the surondings.

I am new to model railroading, so mistakes will be common, but fun. I named my layout-under-construction the "South Fork Railroad". I lived in Pagosa Springs, CO for a while and fell in love with South Fork, Co. Neighboring town over the mountain. The Rio Grande river helped too.

Take the "SOUTH FORK"!

Kidisme

Ontario and New England Railway
A bridge line linking Ontario to New England via a tunnel under the St. Lawrence. This gives an independent and shorter route from the Atlantic to central Ontario. However due to the cost of the tunnel, it required joint funding and is thus owned by CP/CN/D&H/Rutland/MEC.
Trains come mainly from parent companies on through services, it has however some own road locos and stock which tend to be green or CP maroon.
There is an element of 'that looks nice, so will have one, as unlettered loco.

Era : late 50's/early 60's

The Bayou Self Railway is situated in the "River Parishes", west of New Orleans. New Orleans is my home town. The B.S.Ry.serves the petro-chemical industry, as well as sugar cane refining, a cypress lumber mill, and a seafood packing/canning plant. The B.S.Ry. is a subsidiary of the Southern Ry. and serves as a link with the Southern Pacific. Occasionally links with both Illinois Central Gulf and Kansas City Southern. The time frame is the late 1940's to the early 1950's. I selected this time frame to employ both steam and diesel motive power. The B.S.Ry. at present exists on paper only. The B.S.Ry.'s color scheme closely follows Southern's guidelines.

Michael E. Risher
President, Chairman & CEO
Bayou Self Railway
Greenville, S.C.

Something I forgot to mention in my previous thread; The Bayou Self Ry. is HO scale, and if built will occupy a 17'x27' basement. Currently, my youngest daughter is using it as a bedroom.

Michael E. Risher
President, Chairman & CEO
Bayou Self Railway
Greenville, S.C.

Mine is the Detroit Vassar Saginaw RR It serves all of Michigan

Of sorts ... I model a fictional regional ROCK ISLAND LINE based in Illinois and Iowa in 1996! Actually, the real CRIP's 1980 roster is a good base for a 1996 regional road, and is the basis for my fleet, as are the IMRL and IAIS rosters for that year. My fictional RI regional covers roughly the same area/track as these two real regional roads in that year.

As per the real roads, my regional hauls grain (so lots of ADM and RI hoppers), chemicals and plastics (to and from DuPont in Clinton), and other goods needed in the Quad Cities area. And there is even a Quad Cities Rocket that meets up with AMTRAK!


- George

Yes,I have a free lance railroad..It is a short line owned by the CDB Industries..I am sure many on this forum knows its name..The Columbus & Hocking Valley..

My own Waynesburg & Washington is a composite of a few locations on the real narrow-gauge W&W, which ran between those two towns in southwest PA. Even though it went out of business years ago, I model it as it would have existed during the late 1970s, but with standard-gauge equipment. I've applied for (and received) my modeler's license. W&W operations terminated in Waynesburg, PA. However, I've extended the line south to interchange with the Monogahela RR. The northern interchange is with the B&O in Washington. Engines are painted PC black, with W&W lettering in place of PC's. Frieght cars are PC green with W&W lettering.

I've got a good one its called the Texas & St. Louis. The railroad was started when the Texas & Pacific merged into the St. Louis & Southwestern. The railroad subdivision that I feature in my layout is the Harmon Sub. The line is is also ran by the MIssouri & Pacific witch is alive and well I might ad. But for all you Cotton Belt fans out there the line is still called the Cotton Belt. The railroad works with GP38's, GP40-2's, GP50's, and GP60's. MAN! Thats alot of geep's.[:)][:p][8)][;)][8D][:D][8][^]