Can't help with decals and photos, except to suggest that you go, initially, with the last paint scheme of each of your desired roadnames. (N&W should be easy - as Henry Ford said, "Any color you like, as long as it's black.")
As for justification, just tell all the mundanes who think that the Neil Armstrong Universe is the only universe that you're modeling the Cyrano DeBergerac Universe, or maybe the Ballox O'Malley Universe - where those fallen flags never fell. (Universe references explained in Heinlein's The Number Of the Beast.)
I personally model the Leslie LaCroix Universe - which allows me to mine coal in an area that never had a workable seam...
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with a Northern Kyushu coal mine)
Decals...http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNTChoose your road name from the drop down menu.
http://www.minot.com/champ/HO-catalog.htm
A few of those old road names you mentioned can still be found roaming the rails. I have an old B-23 Family Lines SCL loco that shows up around here once in a while.If your talking about "fantasy" schemes, I've thought about doing a couple of those myself. I'd like to have an F unit in CSX new blue/gold scheme.
Not crazy at all !! That is the best part of this hobby, it's you're call. You can recreate the exact or go in a total differnt direction. That's why I love it.
modelbuilder wrote:Not sure this is the right place to post but here goes. While laying track on our lower staging yard last nite we began to discuss exactly where we want to go with this layout. We want a layout with modern equipment running and modern industries but would like to incorporated some of the now defunct railroads from our location. We live in Gastonia NC so we would like to incorporate the old ACL, SCL, SAL, SEABOARD, SOUTHERN, NORFOLK WESTERN, and any other roads that operated in NC, SC, GA, VA, AND TENN. Our crazy idea is to actually have a layout on which these roads are still in existence and running using modern equipment such as the Dash 9 and AC4400. Where can we find reference, decals in HO scale, and photos.
Sounds like this person is doing something similar to what you envision. Although he is keeping his era in 1953 instead of modern, his fictional ACL branch line passes pretty close to where you are located. Sounds like he has thoroughly researched the ACL, SAL, and other roads in your part of NC--maybe he can help you with references for researching your idea. Jamie
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modelbuilder wrote:We live in Gastonia NC
I live in South Charlotte.
We should get together and hang sometime. I would be willing to help you build your layout. (I need the practice)
PM me.
Not crazy. People have been doing that for the last 40 years (retaining fallen flags). Down side is you have to letter a large part of your equipment yourself.
Dave H.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
dehusman wrote: Not crazy. People have been doing that for the last 40 years (retaining fallen flags). Down side is you have to letter a large part of your equipment yourself.Dave H.
No sweat there. I build scale armor and aircraft so I have plenty of practice decalling
Oh No!
Not another crazy model railroader!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
galaxy wrote: Oh No!Not another crazy model railroader!
Is there any such thing as a SANE model railroader?
All are strange save thee and me, and I have some doubts about thee...
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - when they let me out of this funny jacket)
WaxonWaxov wrote: modelbuilder wrote:We live in Gastonia NCI live in South Charlotte.We should get together and hang sometime. I would be willing to help you build your layout. (I need the practice)PM me.
Would "South Charlotte" actually by Waxhaw? Just relating to your "name".
I live in Charlotte, but I could throw a rock and hit Pineville.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
It's not that crazy, some historical societies for particular "fallen flags" have a "what if?" category in their model contests where people imagine what say a Great Northern SD-90 would look like etc. A few manufacturers have even come out with modern engines lettered for fallen flag railroads.
Here's a link to a guy who models a "modern day" version of the New York Central:
NYCS Today!!
I guess now that I think of it that my modelling could fall in that category...my layout is based on what might have happened in a real railroad, the St.Paul and Duluth, hadn't been taken over by Northern Pacific in 1900 and had stayed independent thru the 20th century. I have them merging with another real railroad, the Port Arthur Duluth and Western (which actually went out of business in the Great Depression) and built a line up the north shore of Lake Superior to what's now Thunder Bay Ontario.
Phoebe Vet wrote: WaxonWaxov wrote: modelbuilder wrote:We live in Gastonia NCI live in South Charlotte.We should get together and hang sometime. I would be willing to help you build your layout. (I need the practice)PM me. Would "South Charlotte" actually by Waxhaw? Just relating to your "name".I live in Charlotte, but I could throw a rock and hit Pineville.
No, not Waxhaw. The WaxonWaxov name has a long and strange history.
I live in the city of Charlotte, but I could throw a rock and hit Matthews. In other words, we seem to be neighbors... PM me.... I'm looking for an operating group to join.
tomikawaTT wrote: Can't help with decals and photos, except to suggest that you go, initially, with the last paint scheme of each of your desired roadnames. (N&W should be easy - as Henry Ford said, "Any color you like, as long as it's black.")
Be creative, and make up your own painting and lettering schemes, at least for a couple of the "expired" railroads.
Mark
Marlon
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