what type of line do you model ?

[waltersrails]

Class 1 NS/CSX/CN and my own railroad because one day i plan to have a real shortline.

[Anonymous]

CSX, which, of course, is a Class 1.

uspscsx

[SpaceMouse]

I put other. Right now I have a 1880's mining layout. But I'm only using it as a test track right now. The layout I'm planning will be visually dominated by the loging road, but the major trackage will be a regional railroad. There will be a mining component as well.

[Anonymous]

I choose regional, but really I am modeling a bridge route owned by BNSF, UP and TP&W, with Geneese (sp) Wyoming as a new co-partner. I am angling that UP and BNSF will play nice to each other and hence want to have a east/west route in Illinios. Main reason they didn't go with TP&W is they sold their westend, and their track is in such slow order shape, a newcomer was required [:D] So enter WPG RR!!

[IRONROOSTER]

PRR with shortline interchange. Gives you the best of both
Enjoy
Paul

[TrainFreak409]

I model the Scott Squad, which is of course a CLASS 1 RAILROAD![:D]

[Anonymous]

I model the UP main line with local scenery types. Of course so far I only Have Podunk Junction on a 4x8, but it is the junction for the Simmons Pacific Railroad, a fictional short line, of my design, that will serve farms and the mines in the mountains. So am I regional, class 1, mining, or short line?

[Darth Santa Fe]

I model whatever I've got. (box cars, tankers, hoppers, passenger trains, mix)

[DrummingTrainfan]

I model anything passenger. My dad models the GN/BN/BNSF through an Iowa small town.

[Anonymous]

Archer Grain a large branch line, about to become a regional!!

[Anonymous]

Im modelling a freelance bridge route in Chicago doing transfers on trackage rights between railroads from Blue island up to Whiting and Gary and also contract stack hauling ("hot-racks" as my crews call them) on the joint CSX / UP line from chicago Heights into downtown intermodal terminals.
I dont know quite what period to set it in, still deciding between "tomorrow" or 1986.

Drew Of NZ

[CBQ_Guy]

I'm protolancing the CB&Q in the 1960's.

The proto part is a class one, double mainline...

The free-lanced part is a rural branchline...and it hauls coal.

As you can see, I didn't know WHAT choice to make on your poll!

[andrechapelon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CP5415

I'm attempting to model 2 class 1's here.
The Canadian Pacific with an interchange with the MEC/B&M & another interchange for other railroads.
A mix of stuff here, somewhat freelanced as this is going to be my first true attempt at building & finishing[?] a layout.
Different eras of locomotives working together to move trains.

Gordon

You modeling the St. Johnsbury,VT, area or is the location freelanced?

Andre

[jrbernier]

I am modeling a Class 1(Milw), but I am modeling a secondary line that has a stub end branch running off of it. No 'Hiawatha' trains here, but lots of GP9's, SD7's and other first genretion diesels. I have added 5 sound equiped steam engines over the past two years and have tried to model the mid to late 50's.

Jim Bernier

[FThunder11]

AMTRAK soon

[trainfan1221]

ckape,
Sometimes there seems to be very little difference. Generally regionals are larger and seem to go further. As a matter of fact many noted railroads from the past might be considered regionals now, such as the Lackawanna. The WC was a classic example of a regional. Then there is my own local railroad, the Susquehanna, which nobody seems to know if it is a shortline or a regional, I've heard it referred to as both.
the railroad that inspired my model railroad is the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern, another regional line .

[EL PARRo]

I model a class 1, but I do also have a short logging line.

[ckape]

What is the difference between a regional and a short line, anyway?

[trainfan1221]

What about regional? That's my railroad all over. You can run good long trains but don't have to act like you have 10,000 miles of track. I checked other.

[CP5415]

I'm attempting to model 2 class 1's here.
The Canadian Pacific with an interchange with the MEC/B&M & another interchange for other railroads.
A mix of stuff here, somewhat freelanced as this is going to be my first true attempt at building & finishing[?] a layout.
Different eras of locomotives working together to move trains.

Gordon

[88gta350]

freelance shortline for me!

[Noah Hofrichter]

You forgot regional!! I'll vote for other if you don't add it in the next few days though, if I remember to stop back again.

Noah

[twhite]

Class I. Mountain railroading as per Rio Grande and Espee. California's Sierra Nevadas (Ok, I know the Rio Grande didn't go there, but it does now) in the '40-'50 era of big steam. Occasionally I think it might be fun to go into On30 so I could model the railroad I grew up around (Nevada County Narrow Gauge), but I'm too heavily invested in HO to think about the conversion.

[Anonymous]

I prefer shortline railroads. I model the Maryland & Pennsylvania RR in S scale. I also have my freelance desires satisfied by my own road, the Deer Creek & Susquehanna RR.

Roger

[Junctionfan]

The G & A will be class 1 running soon enough.

[Anonymous]

I'm modeling UP, SP, ATSF, Burlington, WP, Rio Grande, and MoPAC in the 40s and 50s. So I'd guess that'd be a class 1.

[Anonymous]

I model a museum line, so I voted "other" - I find this allows me to build and run what I want to. At the moment I have a couple of 4x1 boards representing a semi-rural yard scene - based on photos I found online of a shortline yard in New York, one of those overgrown rail yards that look rural yet are only a few miles away from the city. I plan to extend with a scene of the museum's maintainance shops, and possibly an exhibition/storage warehouse building using some of the Walthers low-relief building kits.

[Anonymous]

I am using Ian Rice's idea of interchangable layouts on commen becnwork, so I model several : a shortline, 2 branchlines , and an industrial yard. what do you model ?