How Does where you grew up compare with what you model?

[Anonymous]

Much of my youth was in CT in the late NH and PC years. I was as fascinated with the run down branchline in Manchester as much as the shoreline heavy passenger action. Summer beach trips to Rocky Neck ( tracks run through the beach) were a must!
However, trips to relatives at Croton NY with a clear view of the Hudson Line and letting me hang out at Harmon Station (and almost always returning late for dinner) along with the massiveness of the whole place nailed it for me.
That's why I model PC at Croton-Harmon circa 1969-72. The NH/PC in Connecticut would have been my second choice.

Rob

[darth9x9]

I grew up all around the Baltimore area and saw B&O and Chessie quite a lot - hence my signature block. I went in the Army in '83 and missed the last years of Chessie. Had I known Chessie was going away, I would have delayed joining the Army for a year and video taped every possible Chessie and predessor piece that I could. Hindsight is 20:20. [:(]

[Anonymous]

I model what I saw when I grew up. C&NW bi-level commuters, freights, and Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee interurbans (OK, they were gone 11 days before I was born...). I miss the sound of an E8/9 starting up with a 9-car train of loaded gallery coaches behind it.

[Anonymous]

I became interested in railroading just as Conrail was created. For some twenty years I was able to see the trains from the two different houses I lived in. I really liked to watch the big blue engines go by, although it was a treat when other railroad's motive power was in the consist. So, it would be hard to make a model railroad without it being Conrail.

My Mother is a coal miner's daughter from Robertsdale, Pa (Altoona area). Robertsdale was a mining company town on the East Broad Top Railroad, the narrow guage short line that brought coal from the Broad Mountain coal fields to the PRR. I've spent alot of time there.

So, I'm deciding on how to make a fictitious interchange between the two railroads that are from two different eras. Hey, its my railroad!

Jim

[Anonymous]

Born and raised in NYC. I saw TONS of Long Island Railroad, Amtrak and NYC Subway but I am modeling freight right now.

[Anonymous]

i have live almost all my life in the silicon vally (only last year did i move to san luis obispo for college). in the san jose area SP was the main railroad running around there until the UP mearger. i've had seen my share of SP trains as a kid but never really got into them untill they were starting to become less common. now im a loyal SP fan. i also include in my modeling a bunch of other western railroads, BN, UP, WP, santa fe, rio grande, and a bit of amtrak too.

the area i model is roughly based around where i live. none of my layour is based right where i live but it is based in differnt parts of northern CA.

i also have two brothers that are into modeling but neither model local stuff. one is into rio grande and the other PRR. the one into PRR im geussing got it cause we go and visit family back east every year, and also see a lot of trains on those trips. the rio grande one i dont really knwo where he got it from...

[ericsp]

I model the area where I grew up. However, I have used some "modeler's license".