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Yes, the Prairie Belt Railway is a fictional shortline interchanging with the Santa Fe (or BNSF) and in the same general area (but not actually interchanging with) the Kansas and Oklahoma RR. It was started in 1990 by a competitor of the Watco Companies of which the K&O is a part. It runs in Central Kansas on a 27 mile branch of Ex- Santa Fe rail through the (fictional) Towns of Weston and Iona and points North. The area modelled is through Weston and just past Iona. Industires served are a refinery, a Salt Mine, a grain elevator, a manufacturer, and a private rail car and engine repair and rebuild shop. (This where I can put any car or engine on the layout that I want.) All of this is still in its conception stages. <br /> <br />The engines (all six) have recently been painted. A GP50 and a SW1500 are painted a royal blue and lettered for the Prairie Belt in Gold Script. These two represent the first "real" paintjob for the railroad back in 1992. A SW1500 SP style loco is painted a sand color and lettered in White Script. This represents the owners "new" paint scheme in 1996. In 1999 the owners decided to do away with the script style lettering and started using a large black Helvetica font but kept the sand color. They also gave these new locos ( a GP40-2 w/o dynamic brakes, a GP60 and a SW1000) a new logo that is a Sunflower with the Letters "PB" in the middle. The sunflower is centered in front of two crossed bundles of wheat. (The logo has not been applied yet. I have no decal paper right now.) <br /> <br />It is fun to model a fictional RR that interchanges with a real one. You get the satisfaction of making up your world AND you can be prototypically correct, too.
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