Southern Pacific, ATSF, DRGW, WP
John
ArtOfRuin wrote:I orginally was going to model Guilford until I heard all the horror stories. Since I already had a couple of GRS-painted locos and unpainted locos that are GRS-specific, I decided to instead "proto-lance" a new parent who bought GRS from the current and turned it back into the B&M and MEC. So I'll have a rainbow fleet of B&M bluebirds, MEC green/gold, and GRS gray/orange. I also have some Conrail and P&W stuff I'm going to use as run-through power.
B&M 4 THE WIN!
Have any use for a B&M painted GP30?
Alex
Just as my avatar suggests, "THE WOBBLY" Western Pacific, with a few of the power units and rolling stock that was frequently seen in their consists such as Burlington, BN, DRG&W, SP&S, Tidewater Southern. with a few other exchange loads coming in through the interchange yards. As this was that transition period of the 60s--70s. However the layout itself is freelanced 25% of it is mountainous and the rest is various landscaping but all associated with the northwest the exception being "no logging". This may change in the mountain landscaping but not in the railroad as far as I can see now.
Johnboy out.................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Rio Grande and SP steam during the WWII era. And since it is WWII and railroads were leasing locos from each other as traffic patterns occurred between the European and Pacific theatres, it also gives me a chance to run some 'borrowed' power from railroads like Colorado and Southern, GN and C&O. And yes, historically, some Eastern power showed up on Western rail lines during that time.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Current layout under construction will be Ma&Pa. I also have a WW&F Forney so I'm hoping to work in a little Maine 2ft track somewhere.
Enjoy
Paul
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Check out the Deming Sub by clicking on the pics:
I model C&O steam-diesel transition era with a date cutoff of Nov 1952 so I can run certain locomotives.
Charles
My 3x5 models the interchange at Whitefield NH between the B&M and the MEC around 1949. That will let me use my 2-8-0 as well as the RS-2 I put on my Christmas/Birthday list.
The 10x10 I am working on will be a modern New England theme. Currently I am working on plans for both Pan-Am (ex B&M ex Guilford) in Seacoast NH including the Portsmouth Branch and plans to model the Vermont Railway (ex Washington County) between either White River Junction or Wells River and Newport VT.
Chris
Hogwarts ExpressBuffalo and PittsburghRock Ridge RailroadSouthern Pacific Currently without a layout
PRR 1950Has a layout
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
For my self, just about anything that catches my eye. If I where to do a cout most of my engines and rolling stock is Santa Fe.
Engines at a quick guess.
Santa Fe about 15, all but one war bonnet passanger, just gor a SD40-2 in freight.
UP, 1 Big Boy, 2 GE AC 6000's and 1 Dash 9 with flag.
Monon, 4 F-3, 4 BL-1 and 1 heavy Mike.
SP, 3 engines with bloody nose
2 Rio Grand engines, SD-50 and SD-7, 8 hoppers and 5 box cars.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
A freelance logging railroad in Cass, WV in the early 1950's.
Wayne
Modeling HO Freelance Logging Railroad.
When I was a youngin, my layout was a completely imaginary shortline in western Montana named the Timberline and Glacier Ridge Railroad. It owned an ex-BN SW1000 and was connected to the greater world with Burlington Northern at Timberline, where an SD40-2 made appearances. It was the "Modern Day" according to the double stack intermodal cars and that lone 89' flat car I had (which eased its away around those 22" curves quite precariously) but the high number of CBQ cars around challenged that notion. Why a very small town in rural western Montana had a small intermodal facilty I'll never know.
A few years ago when I made an aborted reentry to the hobby, I devised a new freelance railroad. Of course, being a college guy in a small apartment and other things demanding my limited funding (girls, beer, football, you know the essentials). Now a few years later, with space and money, albeit both in small quanities, that railroad returned but in a moderately modified way. I decided to return to my home town, where I knew what the land looked like and knew what I could model and not model but still give it the right look and feel. I don't know what the heck Montana really looks like. But I know what semi-rural but kinda urban small town Western Pennsylvania looks like.
Grafting together the Bessemer & Lake Erie (now CN), Buffalo & Pittsburgh (ex B&O), and a hefty helping of abandoned Conrail (ex Pennsy), I forged a mighty regional railroad that could only exist in myth or a Pennsylvania where the whole "Rust Belt" thing never happened. Still firmly in the planning stages, awaiting a day its warm enough to go out in the garage to get to work, the Allegheny, Mercer, & Lake Erie is what I will model. Or at least a scaled down half mile of its trackage in Butler PA.
Lot of words to say "I made one up."
A freelanced New York Central mid to late '50s set in New England because of the fall foliage. (imagining trackage rights over the B&M also interchanging with the C&O because my wife loves the sleeping kitty!)
Matt
New Haven I-5 wrote:My layout plan is freelanced. I have locos from those RR's. I forgot to add the Nickel Plate Road.
I have locomotives painted for many many railroads that I do NOT model. On the other hand I do model specific "trains". For example I have both real and freelanced California Zephyrs. I can model it in any time period from 1949-1962, pulled by the D&RGW, CB&Q, or Colorado Central. I do not have any WP locos to pull them with-yet.
I model the Missouri Pacific circa October 1979 in Northern Kansas. I will also include the Rock Island same time frame as I find the history of both lines in that area interesting. Granger modeling at its best.
Nate
A true friend will not bail you out of jail...he will be sitting next to you saying "that was friggin awesome dude!" Tim...Modeling the NYC...is there any other?
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout