how do you model your layout

[Anonymous]

I proto-freelance. I maintain a vauge Resemblence of the BN between Miniappolis and Chicago. But I deviate so much from it that Miniapolis is North Pendleton, and Chicago will probably be resemblence in Name only.

James

[Nieuweboer]

mine is free lance layout and prototypical motive power adn rolling stock. However I pretend that the layout is situated somewhere west of Chicago where the country is relatively flat and where one is liable to have met trains from ATSF, UP, CNW and BN in the 60's with a sprinkling of SP/SSW and N&W. One can also meet
CB&Q as well as Milwaukee Road. I've often been to Chicago in the past and I've seen them all so I know that I'm not that errant.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Nieuweboer

mine is free lance layout and prototypical motive power adn rolling stock. However I pretend that the layout is situated somewhere west of Chicago where the country is relatively flat and where one is liable to have met trains from ATSF, UP, CNW and BN in the 60's with a sprinkling of SP/SSW and N&W. One can also meet
CB&Q as well as Milwaukee Road. I've often been to Chicago in the past and I've seen them all so I know that I'm not that errant.

Great i also model SSW with some RI run through power and some SP units in a TX/OK/MO local

[on30francisco]

My On30 Tres Arboles Railroad is mostly freelanced but I base it on the logging lines and narrow gauge railroads that existed in the areas around the eastern part of the country in the first half of the century, however, I also use some equipment that was used in the western part of the country. My general rule is that if it was plausable it's OK.

[ClinchValleySD40]

Protofreelance.

[twhite]

Both. I model Rio Grande and SP during the late steam era, but on a fictional 'California Extension' of the D&RGW that runs over the Sierra using the Yuba River watershed (midway between SP's Donner Pass and WP's Feather River Canyon). SP has trackage rights between Sacramento and Reno. GN has an occasional run-through via a fictional connection from Bieber, CA to Reno Junction. And right now, with a severe loco shortage on the Yuba River sub, I've got borrowed power from C&S, C&O, N&W, Pennsy and even that ol' debbil Santa Fe.
Dang, it's fun!

[rexhea]

I model freelance, but try to keep roadnames, scenery, and industry matched to the southern Appalachians in the 50-60's. I would like to have an extension later that is prototypical. I believe the research needed would be interesting and a lot of fun.[:D]

REX