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Alex is right. No matter how big the plastics factory, it's really not worth it to build a new line over the mountains to connect to a line something like 50 miles away...Maybe that's no biggie in SC, but you've never seen the White Mountains... Think vertical granite cliffs several hundred feet high... Compare it to building a bridge to Hawaii because you want to serve the industries there...EDIT: Look at the background hills in this photo of that area. <a href="http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1306538">http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1306538</a>I'd abandon the DDWH from your scheme if I were you...it just doesn't make sense...                                                                      I actually have a pretty similar story to yours that I'd like to share: My previous railroad was called the Springfield Central Railroad. It was actually the same layout as the WRS is, but a different prototype. It consisted of a freelanced bridge line over the Berkshires that was built on a new route via Pittsfield, MA, and a few freelanced cities. Then I discovered that CSX and GRS each had an almost identical route, so I abandoned that plan...Alex and several others came up with the B&M's Northern Division as a route to model, from Nashua, NH, to White River Junction, VT. Alex came up with a whole bunch of names for the new railroad, but I ended up picking White River Southern because all his were too hard to remember...[:-^]Later, I was able to persuade a friend to pick a locale for his layout. I suggested Nashua, NH, to Manchester, NH, and he went with that, calling his road the Pennichuck Railroad (reporting marks PCRR). Now the WRS was from Manchester to White River Junction, connecting with the PCRR at Manchester and Alex's old Midland New England (MNER) and a few other roads (CN and/or NECR, I don't remember which one MNER ran over) at WRJ. Later the PCRR expanded North to Concord, NH. That actually made more sense, because Concord had a larger yard and was a junction point between the WRS to the Northwest, PCRR to the South, and some railroad North to the tourist-hauling Hobo Railroad. The WRS and the PCRR work closely together, hauling run-through trains from Nashua to WRJ. I'm not exactly clear what happens South of Nashua. So far, no locomotives run through, but that may change if we trade some WRS and PCRR locos.In reality, the line from Nashua to Concord is owned by Guilford Rail System (GRS), while the WRS mainline to White River Junction is abandoned. The line up to the Hobo Railroad is largely unknown to me. I know the Hobo Railroad operates it near Franconia Notch. I think GRS owns the line up to there now. I've seen a <a href="http://trainmanty.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1306538" mce_href="http://trainmanty.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1306538">New England Southern GP10</a> (NEGS is no more, Guilford killed their lease of the line and took it over again) up by the Hobo Railroad in Lincoln, NH. My story hasn't changed since the PCRR expanded North. I don't expect it to for a long time either. I've learned to stick with one railroad and story.
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