I'm modeling the piedmont cotton mill region. Something like the Piedmont & Northern or Lancaster & Chester. If you go back to as late as the 60s and 70s it was still like the 1930s there. Small mill towns and businesses in each town. Even still a lot of homes heated with coal (boy do I remember those coal stoves in my aunts house on Christmas Eve.) Seems to have a lot of un developed modeling potential.
I'm modeling South Carolina midlands in current era. I drove around the state checking track ballast colors, buildings, dirt colors and foliage to get a somewhat prototypical idea.
Thanks! I had no idea those Sanborn maps were on line. I could stay up all night reading those. Also, the sight you linked did have some info about the G&N, which I had seen before but somehow lost it. Very helpful.
Which area of S.C. are you modelling? Upstate, Midlands, or Low Country? As you probably know the S.C. State Museum in Columbia has an excellent HO scale model railroad depicting S.C. circa 1870 or thereabouts. It's not huge and overwhelming like some I've seen, but it is extremely well done and operates continuously.
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jmbjmbI'm currently working on a proto freelanced SR branch set in SC. It's currently in the plywood and foam stage, moving toward scenary. I'm modeling a generic 1950s cotton mill town. Overall based on where I grew up, but if the real branch had the traffic level I'll have, it would still be there of course. This website http://abandonedrailroads.homestead.com/ has some photos of abondonded branches in SC, though I haven't checked on G&N. Also, the Univ of SC library has digitized Sanborn maps of many towns in the state on line. Just do an internet search and you should find it. The Greenville of today is a far cry from what it was even 20 years ago
I'm currently working on a proto freelanced SR branch set in SC. It's currently in the plywood and foam stage, moving toward scenary. I'm modeling a generic 1950s cotton mill town. Overall based on where I grew up, but if the real branch had the traffic level I'll have, it would still be there of course. This website http://abandonedrailroads.homestead.com/ has some photos of abondonded branches in SC, though I haven't checked on G&N. Also, the Univ of SC library has digitized Sanborn maps of many towns in the state on line. Just do an internet search and you should find it. The Greenville of today is a far cry from what it was even 20 years ago
It's hug today. there's the Greenville Drive's Stadium, w/ the mini-Green Monster (there's an RR track running behind right field), and it's getting more and more developed. However, i can report that the Great escape hobby shop there is still there, and doing well.
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HarryHotspurPackers#1HarryHotspur Some day I'd like to model the now defunct Greenville & Northern short line which operated out of Greenville, S.C. There in very little info on the internet about this railroad, and I would greatly appreciate anyone posting anything you have about it. Got a route map? Any idea of buildings still left? My grandma and aunt live up in Greenville, and I'm sure i can get one to take me railfanning this summer. PM me w/ anything, and I'll see what i can do. No route map but it went from downtown Greenville (I'm pretty sure the Norfolk Southern station is still there) to River Falls just north of Travelers Rest, S.C. Total distance about 20 +/- miles. I don't think there are any buildings or track left.Last I heard the county was planning to turn the old roadbed into some kind of combo walking/biking and electric minibus trail. Governments often do strange things.
Packers#1HarryHotspur Some day I'd like to model the now defunct Greenville & Northern short line which operated out of Greenville, S.C. There in very little info on the internet about this railroad, and I would greatly appreciate anyone posting anything you have about it. Got a route map? Any idea of buildings still left? My grandma and aunt live up in Greenville, and I'm sure i can get one to take me railfanning this summer. PM me w/ anything, and I'll see what i can do.
HarryHotspur Some day I'd like to model the now defunct Greenville & Northern short line which operated out of Greenville, S.C. There in very little info on the internet about this railroad, and I would greatly appreciate anyone posting anything you have about it.
Some day I'd like to model the now defunct Greenville & Northern short line which operated out of Greenville, S.C. There in very little info on the internet about this railroad, and I would greatly appreciate anyone posting anything you have about it.
Got a route map? Any idea of buildings still left? My grandma and aunt live up in Greenville, and I'm sure i can get one to take me railfanning this summer. PM me w/ anything, and I'll see what i can do.
No route map but it went from downtown Greenville (I'm pretty sure the Norfolk Southern station is still there) to River Falls just north of Travelers Rest, S.C. Total distance about 20 +/- miles. I don't think there are any buildings or track left.
Last I heard the county was planning to turn the old roadbed into some kind of combo walking/biking and electric minibus trail. Governments often do strange things.
Ah, ok. Sounds like an interesting RR though.
BTW, the G&N was nicknamed the Swamp Rabbit, although there's probably not a swamp within 100 miles.
CSXDixieLineI agree and I am doing my best to change the situation! Jamie
I agree and I am doing my best to change the situation!
Jamie
That looks like the route of the Great Locomotive Chase during the Civil War. Great story.
The P&WV ran not too far from my house south of Pittsburgh. By the time I grew up, it was all N&W then. Now it's part of the W&LE, and doesn't see as much traffic. Still, it would be kind of cool to model the P&WV. Too bad I'd have to paint and decal just about everything...but it would be worth it simply for the Montour coal traffic. The MTR ran over parts of the P&WV r-o-w--their "Library Branch," but most of that was abandoned by the 1980s. What's left is now a hiking trail.
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You know, you've got a point. I don't think I've ever seen an A&WP loco in any model railroad magazine. At this point somebody will probably prove me wrong.
Other neat roads that probably deserve more attention: NC&StL, CStPM&O, D&SL, Pere Marquette, T&P, P&WV, Alton, and plenty of others. Actually, it seems like the flags that fell before steam ended tend to be forgotten, except for some like the NYO&W that seem to have legions of fierce partisans.
UlrichI don't see many model railroads set in the beautiful states of South Carolina dn Georgia...anyone here model those states?
I don't see many model railroads set in the beautiful states of South Carolina dn Georgia...anyone here model those states?
I don't prototype in the state, but I set my freelance line in my hometown county of Aiken, SC. In fact, i've created my whole freelanced statewide South Carolina rail system, lol. I love my home state; spent all but 6 months of my life here in Aiken.
Oh, and sure am proud of SC; ain't any place finer!
Nice work so far!
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