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The Winchester, Paston, and Portsmouth Railway Corporation Runs west from Winchester Virginia towards a connection with B&O at Grafton, WV. It is actually a composite of the real-world Winchester & Western and the South Branch Valley, although (strangely enough) I never knew these two short lines existed before concocting my fiction. In its heyday, it also ran south from Winchester through Richmond to a coal dock at Portsmouth, right across from N&W's Lambert's Point yard. All through its existence, though, a majority of its stocks were held between two competing railroads: B&O and N&W. Most of its traffic was between these carriers, and it was always swinging one way or another in terms of favoring one road over another, depending on the "balance of power". This enables me to exhibit paint schemes that are a blend of the two, which in my eye are the most elegant paint schemes this side of the Mississip... (drag my attention westward and I start thinking "Norhtern Pacific"). I actually have three distinct schemes. The earliest is basic caboose red and black, with white lettering, which hails back from when the line was just the Paston Valley Lines. This carried on through the steam era as white lettering and logo on the tender, with a red stripe across the bottom sill. The exception was when streamlined passenger service became the rage, and a B&O-esque two-tone blue scheme showed up. This survived into the first generation of cowled deisels, but then due to expense the red and black was favored again for freight units. WIth elaboration, some black pinstripes were added, and then finally N&W held sway in the 60's as it began acquiring more and more ownership. Maroon with a broad gold stripe, with bright blue for the lettering of the logo "wp&p", lasted until ultimately the N&W took it over in '67, in its flurry of mergers back then. Thereafter, the freshest maroon-gold-blue units were given a brand-new white "NW" logo over a black-painted area that replaced the blue lettering once that style came into vogue, otherwise keeping their blue "wp&p" along with their grime until retirement or full repainting. For motive power, my road tried out some F-units early on but quickly grew to favor Alco deisels (again, the NW gaining influence), and my feature locomotive is a high-hood RSD-15. My biggest trouble is that I model in N-scale and only have three body shells, made a long time ago by low-quality manufacturer AHM; I'm still trying to figure out how to repower these with a modern Atlas/Kato mechanism. The recent FM Trainmaster has a very close wheelbase, but its frame must be machined down to fit inside the RSD hood. It's a project that one day, one day, I shall tackle...
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