Someone asked... here it is...
The list below are what has been painted. I still have 50-75 more sets of decals to use on new cars.
These are just the Fleet of Nonsense. Not the NMRA Heritage or Living Legends collection, unless they have been upgraded. Also, not the Prop Fleet or Tyco collection.
Abilene And Southern
Alabama And Angel Hills
Allegheny And Crystal Bay
Allegheny And Lake Erie
Allegheny Midland
Anasazi Railroad
Atlantic Central
Atlantic Midland And Pacific
Atlantic Terminal
Bessemer Oxford And Bluff Park
Bethlehem And Manticore
Blackhawk Valley
Blehford Miller And Nanticoke
Blue River And Lenape
Buledean And Toe River
California Northwestern
California Pacific
Canyon River Lines
Carolina Midland
Cascade Northern
Caspar And Silver Creek
Castle Bay Railroad
Cedar Creek Lumber Company
Cedar Creek Northern
Cedar Ridge Lines
Central Alberta
Central Atlantic And Southern
Cheat River Coal
Cherilynville Creek And Spankton
Cheasapeak And Lake Erie
Chicago And Southern
Chicago Denver And Northern
Chicago Gary And Southern
Clipper City Terminal Railroad
Cumberland Road
Dawdle And Delay (Interchange Railroad)
Deerfield And Saint Lawrence
Delta Lines
Devils Gulch And Helengon
Diablo Valley Lines
Diamondback Western
Down South And Back
Eastern Portland And Chicago Railway
El Paso And Eastern
Fawn Grove And Whitehall
Fever River Railroad
Front Range And Western
Fumble And Grumble Railroad
Garden State Northern
Garfield Central
Genesee Valley
GERN (GILX)
Gorre And Daphetid
Grand Floe And Northern
Grand Old Lampasas Railway
Great Lakes And Eastern
Greater Texas United Railway
Hadabuck And Western
Hogtown Phenyl Ester (HPEX)
Housac Valley
Huron Steel (HSX)
Idaho And Texas Railroad
Illinois Valley Railroad
Indiana Rail
Iver Hill Railroad
Kings Creek And Gulf
Lake Junction
Lake Shore
Lake Shore And Western
Langford And Southern
Laramie Lines
Little Rock And Southern
Louisiana Alabama And Northland
Louisiana Gulf United (LGUX)
Louisiana Regional Railway
Lulu City And Estes Park
Mason And Dixon
Mackowiak Steel (MKSX)
Manchester Central (MCX)
Manchester Central (MNCL - OOPS)
Milford And Cokenheim
Missisquoi And Champlain
Montana Northern
Mustang Yukon And El Reno
Nevada County Northern
New England Berkshire And Western
New Jersey Northern
New Jersey Western
New River And Southern
Newfield Lumber Company (NLX)
Newport Central
North East Wisconsin Railroad
Northern California And Constitution
Northern California And Southern Washington
Northern Union Terminal (NUTX)
Northwestern Pacific Southwestern Pacific
Ohio And Western
Ohio Southern
Oldensburg And Lake Richelieu
Omaha And Oklahoma City
Omaha Western
Oregon Trunk
Pacific Coastline And Ohio
Pacific Great Northern
Pacific Transportation (PTX)
Panther Creek Valley Railway
Peoria Ottawa And Omaha
Pheonix And Prescott
Piston Valley
Pocono And Hudson
Port Ellsworth
Portland And Monson
Prarie Creek And Western
Providence Termonal (TPTX)
Pumpkin Hollow Railroad
Purgatory Tomahawk And Miasma
Rahway Pacific Lines
Ridge Terminal Lines (RTLX)
Rivendell And Midland
Sheepscot Transportation (SSTX)
Silver Mountain Loggin Company
South Rickmort
Southwestern Wisconsin And Pacific
Snow Creek Railraod
Spokane And Cascade
Stark City And Pacific
Stratton And Gillette Railroad (SGRR)
Stratton And Gillette Refrigerated Transport (SGRT)
Sunset Railway And Navigation Company
Susquehanna And Eastern
Tehachapi Apache And Hualapai
Texas And Ohio
Texas Port Transportation (TPRX)
Thunder Bay Western
Truckee And Wells
Turtle Creek Central
Upp Stayers And Eastern
Utah Belt
Valley Terminal Railroad
Virginian And Ohio
Washington And Great Lakes
Wisconsin And Michigan
Wisconsin And Midwestern
Wolf River And Western
Wolf Rock Railroad
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I don't see either of mine in there, so maybe one is actually unique... I did find one elsewhere, but only after starting to paint the locomotive. (And I already had a few decals for MOW railcars...)
The othere I've never found elsewhere yet...
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
Atlantic central did exist for a short time.
rrebellAtlantic central did exist for a short time.
That happens. I actually painted that ATLANTIC CENTRAL car before I joined this forum and found out about Sheldon's model railroad.
I found out this was a real railroad too.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
So I sent it out and allowed the Imperial Guard to use it for target practice.
All in great fun, but I hope not too many "non-foobies" have found their way in.
I've produced a few.
McRoberts Haggis, courtesy of F. Milhaupt.
Strumpet Beer and Ale
Saltzburg Salt, because I needed salt for my tannery and got a Bowswer hopper undecorated, and then needed to brand it.
I have an old gondola from my original HO train set. It came with plastic cannisters of some sort. I labeled them Caution! Upsidaisium! Weightless when fully loaded. It's the anti-gravity mineral from old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Nothing wrong with a few real ones. They make the nonsense ones appear real.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
SeeYou190 rrebell Atlantic central did exist for a short time. That happens. I actually painted that ATLANTIC CENTRAL car before I joined this forum and found out about Sheldon's model railroad. I found out this was a real railroad too. -Photograph by Kevin Parson So I sent it out and allowed the Imperial Guard to use it for target practice. -Photograph by Kevin Parson All in great fun, but I hope not too many "non-foobies" have found their way in. -Kevin
rrebell Atlantic central did exist for a short time.
Also the Ohio Southern, while Jim Hediger's model railroad name it was the portion of the DT&I from Springfield to Ironton that operated as the Ohio Southern from 1891 to 1898.
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
There's a lot I recognize.
How about South Hampton Ipswich & Tyrone. I won't give you the reporting marks. But I bet you could guess.
I need to do some hoppers for my South Shore Aggregates. Some old GLA and H21 would be great.
Pete.
As a going away gift when I was at my last club meeting before away going to college, a member who had been modeling since he was a teen in Thirties gave me an ancient Athearn metal car circa 1950 lettered for his pike, the Great Northwestern. Only thing I've done to it is substitute Kadees for X2f's.
I've been watching this thread since last night and I still have no clue what it's about. Can someone explain?
-Matt
Returning to model railroading after 40 years and taking unconscionable liberties with the SP&S, Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads in the '40s and '50s.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
crossthedog I've been watching this thread since last night and I still have no clue what it's about. Can someone explain? -Matt
Rich
Alton Junction
richhotrain It's a takeoff on Seinfeld, a thread about nothing. Rich
It's a takeoff on Seinfeld, a thread about nothing.
crossthedogI've been watching this thread since last night and I still have no clue what it's about. Can someone explain?
Matt,
I have taken "freelancing" as far as I can. Not only is the STRATTON AND GILLETTE freelanced, but EVERY car in my fleet is freelanced. There is nothing on my layout that is real.
I don't even claim that the SGRR is in the United States. On my "Dream House" layout I actually made a new land mass West of Vancouver Island where the SGRR ran!
So, the "Roll Call" is a list of all the roadnames that I have painted and decorated onto freight cars to use on my layout.
The SGRR will interchange with two railroads on my layout. One will be the DAWDLE AND DELAY, the other is yet to be determined.
A forum member asked on another thread how many made-up raodnames I had. I started a new thread with the answer because I did not want to pull the other thread further off topic.
I trust there is a backstory for those 'phenyl esters' along the lines of GERN. If not, there needs to be...
... and surely there's a tank labeled for methyl ethyl awful in that fleet ... or perhaps the phenyl ethyl awful used in production of the, ah, esters.
I always wondered what they called the ore for upsidaisium. Like the way quap was the ore for carolinum...
OvermodI trust there is a backstory for those 'phenyl esters' along the lines of GERN. If not, there needs to be...
-Photpgraph by Kevin Parson
I grew up in Gainesville, Florida, which was previously named Hogtown before the University Of Florida was built, and they decided to change the name of the city. I had the large "HPE" lettering from a military model, and i did a Google search for liquids intitialed "PE", and that is what I found.
That is the whole story.
The Abilene & Southern ran south from my old stomping grounds; here is a link to some history:
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=95923
Tin Can IIThe Abilene & Southern ran south from my old stomping grounds; here is a link to some history:
Darn!
I guess I will have to send another freight car off to be destroyed.
This one was even built from a nice Funaro And Camerlengo kit.
This one is ABILENE SOUTHERN, not ABILENE AND SOUTHERN.
Have I found a loophole, can I keep this model?
Kevin) Suprised to see there wasnt an "Undecorated" or "Unlettered" Railway in there with the RepMarks "UND" or "UNL" respectively. I have to admit your freelancing by name is certainly unique.
Heres another you can add since no one can pronounce it (correctly) anyways - Pierre Market. Pure fantasy there, and the decals wouldnt be too hard to find .
Another thread you could start would be naming your second connecting railroad. Dawdle and Delay being the first, what could be the other?
A few suggestions:
Fizzypop & Belchers Railway -FAB
Echo Mountain & Burning Bush Railway - EMBB
Orville, Gallactica, Rocinonte & Enterprise Railroad - OGRE
Darby, Arron & North Gordon Railway - DANG
Orange Orangatang & Phoebe Snow Railway - OOPS
Huron, Union & Howardsville Railway - HUH
West Haggis & Tumult Railway - WHAT
West Umberton, Philo & Temple Railway - WUPT
Union, Harris, Ontario & Henderson Railroad - UHOH
Minniville, Ingot, & North Evans Railroad - MINE
I can see where one can get carried away by this thread. Let us know if you decide on the 2nd.
Have fun!
Douglas
That's a very good looking car.
PM RailfanKevin) Suprised to see there wasnt an "Undecorated" or "Unlettered" Railway in there with the RepMarks "UND" or "UNL" respectively.
There was a custom run of the UNDECORATED RAILROAD painted onto an Athearn 50 foot single door boxcar made made in the 1980s. I bought one for myself back in February.
Since it is a basic Athearn Blue Box model, it does not qualify to be in the Fleet Of Nonsense without a lot of upgrades, but it will appear as a prop.
PM RailfanAnother thread you could start would be naming your second connecting railroad. Dawdle and Delay being the first, what could be the other?
The DAWDLE AND DELAY is a reasonably famous ficticious model railroad. In a stroke of luck, I bought a lot of old decals on eBay that came with 25 sets for the D&D. Having the SGRR interchange with the D&D is a nice touch for me.
I would like the second interchange to be another custom roadname of renown. My first choice would be the NEW ENGLAND BERKSHIRE AND WESTERN.
In reality, it will probably be just another instance of opportunity. When a good lot of custom printed decals comes up on eBay I will just get them.
There was a huge lot of Rail Grpahics decals made for the VANCOUVER NORTHERN that showed up, but that location is too specific for me to use as an interchange. Maybe the NEBW is too.
PM RailfanOrville, Gallactica, Rocinonte & Enterprise Railroad - OGRE
I have this one...
I will probably do a Star Wars themed car one day, and probably Gallactica as well.
Tin Can IIThat's a very good looking car.
Thank you.
The AS car is one of my favorites. I used the data that came with the F&C kit because it fit between the braces properly, and the very small ABILENE SOUTHERN herald fit in perfectly.
I was going to suggest that you missed Whit Towers' Alturas and Lone Pine, but then I read that the listed cars are cars that you've already done. Never mind!
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
up831I was going to suggest that you missed Whit Towers' Alturas and Lone Pine
I have the NMRA Heritage car for Whit Tower's Railroad.
Even more cool than that...
I bought the collection of custom decals that other modelers traded with Whit Towers. These gave me some gems like this one, with decals right from Whit's personal collection.
This collection was one of the best thngs I ever bought.
I think he needs a car from the New Orleans & Fiddler's Green. A G-scale or Gauge 1 box would be about right for the size, although he might need to change the springs in the HO trucks for proper tracking.
My most recent few- I find Accurail's data-only cars are a lot of fun to play with.
(Abe) Froman Meats. Private name reefers are easy to use to slip gags by.
Along those lines, there's my most recent one, bringing slightly suspicious-looking sausages to a market near you.
And perhaps familiar to Archer fans:
-Fritz Milhaupt, Publications Editor, Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc.http://www.pmhistsoc.org
fmilhaupt(Abe) Froman Meats. Private name reefers are easy to use to slip gags by.
Is that THE REAL Abe Froman, The Sausage King Of Chicago?
I hear there are a few imposters out there.
I may be a bit too lazy to look over the list and pinpoint them, Especially the Wagon Top!
But I can only imagine when those Two Beauties (Glide) Roll over my Timber Trestle after it is tracked and painted
I learned from Wayne through the years All my bridges are completely removable you know
https://youtu.be/sxkjvKBPQjo
TF
SeeYou190 fmilhaupt (Abe) Froman Meats. Private name reefers are easy to use to slip gags by. Is that THE REAL Abe Froman, The Sausage King Of Chicago? I hear there are a few imposters out there. -Kevin
fmilhaupt (Abe) Froman Meats. Private name reefers are easy to use to slip gags by.
Of course there is!
Is there a problem, or is it Abe Froman?
https://youtu.be/1SXl1DYI3Jw