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[quote user="FowlmereRR"]My ficticious single track line will run between an interchange with another railroad (B&M ?) plus a small yard, and a harbour area (inspired by the Bar Mills Wharf Street layout) where assorted fishing, passenger ferry and commercial stuff will be found. On the way there will be whatever local industries I fancy modelling. I'd like to incorporate a quarry, perhaps, because I like the idea of a small ore dock in the harbour for loading a barge. Anyway, whatever ends up on the layout will be because I'd like to model it, though I want to avoid making any gross errors, particularly with regard to what existed in the era (e.g. no 1950's cars on a 1920's layout! And no diesels.). It is hard enough sometimes to work out here in my native UK whether this or that existed or was used at a particular point in time, so I am very much feeling my way with regard to US railroads.[/quote] That actually existed, in Maine, on the coast.  The Limerock railroad in Rockland Maine, was a standard guage railroad interchanged with the Maine Central.  Color photos can be found in Maine Central in color Volume 3 p58-60 (Morning Sun Books).  The Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway also fits your bill, although it is a narrow guage operation.  I say is not was, because it is in operation as a tourist line.  This line also interchanged (or transloaded cargo, as MEC was a standard guage line) with the Maine Central, in Wiscasset, Maine on the Rockland Branch.
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