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[quote user="BRAKIE"][quote user="IRONROOSTER"] It's interesting reading this thread.  It appears that many (most?) folks think of free lancing as having your own railroad name.  But suppose you run cars lettered for someone else's road.  As an example, I have all the NMRA's Heritage and Living Legends cars (at least all that were done in S).  If I run a G&D boxcar behind my GG1, which I do, am I freelancing?  What about if I model the Ma&Pa and I have a 4-6-0 camelback lettered for the Ma&Pa, even though they never had one?What if some of my buildings are from Bar Mills with a New England look, but I use them in a village on the Southern?How many people are so pure that they never do any of this? Or are we all free lancers?Just curiousPaul [/quote]Paul,If I may.. There are several approaches to the hobby and its up to the modeler to choose his/her own path. Over the years of observation I have group them as:Fantasy modeling..This is where anything goes to include a camelback lettered for Ma & Pa or a GG1 lettered for Chessie..Prototype modeling..This is where a modeler models a given prototype on a generic layout or club layout and not worry if his/her engines are correctly detailed other then minor details such as hood mounted bells and horn type.They model close enough/good enoughAdvanced Prototype modeling..This is where the modeler wants 110% accuracy for all locomotives and all freight cars.His/her layout will be a given division, era and year.This is the hardest modeling style because of the strict disciplines needed to model in such fashion..Freelance..This is where a modeler models a fictitious railroad based on strict disciplines to include area,year,road name,color scheme ect..The thing here is to have a believable freelance railroad.Now a freelance railroad that the owners uses say CSX and CR locomotives this is not a true freelance railroad.It is in truth a paper railroad owned jointly by CSX and CR..Nothing wrong with that approach either..Free Wheelers..These are the modelers that I enjoy the most..God bless 'em..They have no qualms about running a Big Boy along side of a SD90MAC or a 4-4-0 along side of a GP38-2..There is no doubt these free wheelers probably have more fun then all other types of modelers put together because they follow no disciplines![:D][tup]The operating collector..He/she has locomotives from several railroads for a given era and follows no set disciplines other then to collect whatever catches his/her eye..[:D] [/quote]I think I saw a new term in the latest 'How to build realistic Layout'!  It's called 'Prototype Freelancing'!!!  LOL  Seriously!  It's the only way to go these days especially for modern stuff.
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