Do you have a made up RR company?

[SilverSpike]

The Westbank, Algiers, and Lower Coast Railroad.

Industries Served:
Pioneer Timber Company
Westbank Lumber
Sparky LPG Depot
Jose Fresh Fruits
Mo's Betta Coal Co.
Bryan Meat Packers
Benn Station (Passenger)
Ryan's Hardware Dist.
ADM Grain Mills


Ryan

[trolleyboy]

Hi the trolley line on the layout is called the Heatherton&Scottsdale Radial Railway it runs city street cars and light intururbans between the fictional above named cities. It also runs some electric freight operations that interchange with CN/CP and the TH&B in southern ontario. Paint scheme for the streetcars and intururbans is pullman green bodies with TH&B creame doore and windows. Work equipment and steeple cabs black with silver end warning chevrons all numbers are silver railroad roman,no logo yet still wirking on that. Rob

[Hakuhatsu]

QUOTE: Originally posted by emdgp92

My own Waynesburg & Washington is a composite of a few locations on the real narrow-gauge W&W, which ran between those two towns in southwest PA. Even though it went out of business years ago, I model it as it would have existed during the late 1970s, but with standard-gauge equipment. I've applied for (and received) my modeler's license. W&W operations terminated in Waynesburg, PA. However, I've extended the line south to interchange with the Monogahela RR. The northern interchange is with the B&O in Washington. Engines are painted PC black, with W&W lettering in place of PC's. Frieght cars are PC green with W&W lettering.

[Anonymous]

GAP
Gulf-Atlantic-Pacific
Coast to Coast to Coast
From Fla. to Maine to Calif.
American Flag under lettering
I have my own decals which will be on a lot of the engines & freight cars.
Haven't yet came up w/a color scheme.

[Texas Zepher]

What is its name, what are the colors:
Pine Ridge & North River Railroad (Regional - original from high school days)
Somewhere along the Colorado/New Mexico boarder.
Logo: three abstract pine trees
Freight dark green with gold-yellow arrow heads.
Passenger silver with dark green arrow heads.
Unfortunately a decked out caboose ended up looking like a crayon box.

Pikes Peak, Fossil Creek & Tesla (Industrial RR expanded to Shortline)
Services the Tesla Wireless Power company in Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas.
Logo: An ammonite in a mountain with lightening bolts over the top.
Colors: tan & yellow. No standardized schemes developed yet.

Club:
Platte Valley & Western Railroad (class one)
Logo: oval with Buffalo or PV&W intertwined (like C&S) inside.
Freight Dark Green with white sash on bottom (like Southern, but swoop over nose is like IC).
Passenger Like freight only a second white sash on "window" panel. This makes the passenger cars look like MOPAC if you replace the blue with green.

Club Narrow Gauge
San Juan & Clear Creek
Logo: mountian stream with tree & deer.
colors - all steam black. The caboose are caboose red. stock cars black, box cars oxide, reefer's are white, gondolas and flats never got painted.

[MidlandPacific]

The Midland Pacific Railway, running from Golconda, CO to Yalta, CA. It's set in 1913 and is imagined as a more successful and longer version of the Colorado Midland, with an extension to the Pacific Coast, a la the WP. Motive power is transition, a lot of 4-6-0s and 2-8-0s, but with a solid overlay of new-for-1913 power - a lot like the D&RG!

[deevs]

Mine is the Detroit Saganaw & Vassor and it covers the great lakes

[aloco]

Yeah. It's a short line called the LBSS&G (Lopsided, Backwards, Smeared, Smudged & Gouged). The name is dedicated to the many slip-ups I've made painting locomotives over the years. The LBSS&G paint scheme is Pennsylvania Brunswick green with a whole lot of grime and rust. The roster consists of three diesels: an Alco RSD-4, an Alco S-2, and a Baldwin VO-1000.

[jabrown1971]

Since mine is small and the only connection to the outside world is the 0-5-0 switcher, I call it the Roundabout Shortline. I do have passenger and freight trains. I have mostly Amtrak, N & W and Wabash equipment, with some Conrail, UP and Santa Fe thrown in to keep my boys happy. I also have some Auto-Train equipment that I use for freight trains. The slogan of the Roundabout Shortline-We'll get it there-The long way around

[eastcoast]

My EMPIRE is;
East Coast Railways. It is a Class II road that competes with CSX and NS for
frieght business on the eastern coastline. We also are attempting to put
Amtrak out of business,but this is a very hard thing to do. Amtrak use more
modern equipment than the E C R and ridership is down.
My roster is made up of GE AMD 103's , FP 45 , EMD's and others on lease
from major rail lines. The Acela is a fine addition to my Northeast sector, but
we (E C R ) purchased a Japanese Bullet to stay in competition for speed.
It is a daily grind here on the eastcoast but our spirits are held high that we
will stay profitable against the others.

[Anonymous]

My road is the Deere Valley & Western. Though an extremely small (4x8) railroad without rolling stock of its own, (much of the motive power and freight cars are owned and operated by John Deere Company), being in a unique location allowed it to lease trackage rights to the Union Pacific and Santa Fe on both of its main lines and its branch line through the central part of Deere Valley where a large John Deere distribution center is being built. This allows for great variety in consists of both passenger and freight equipment and is indeed a very busy railroad. Having a steep, curving 4% grade into and out of the valley brings in some of Union Pacific's largest locomotives and F7 ABBA Santa Fe passenger consists are not uncommon.

[Anonymous]

Eastern Railroad; Dated in the 1950's. Athearn's F7 and GP9's. Photo 2000's E8's. IHC passenger cars. Soon to be replace with Walther's Budd cars. IHC's GG1's. My favorite railroad was the late great Pennsylvania Railroad

[darth9x9]

Partially...I guess. Although I model a prototype, I am not going to model it mile for mile. It will have the "feel" of the prototype.

[Anonymous]

My HO scale railroad is called EASTERN RAILROAD. It is date for the 1950's I model it after the New York to Philadelphia line of the old Pennsylvania RR.

[n2mopac]

Mine is a freelanced subsidiary of BNSF running over a prototype BNSF line, the Wichita Falls sub from Fort Worth to Wichita Falls, TX. It is called the Saginaw and Western Railway and it colors are BNSF Orange and Green.
Ron

[Anonymous]

Mine is the Portland & Albany RR, owned by the NYC. I do steam to diesel in 'N' using NYC decals (lightening stripes) with Portland and Albany lettering on the diesels. It's a main line running from Maine, thru New England to Albany. Allows me to run B&M, MEC and BAR. The logo is: The Maine Line to the Coast. It is now (or will be shortly) under construction in a 15X 26 soon to be finished basement room.

Ed Schultz

Ed Schultz

[Anonymous]

I'm the owner and president of the Midwestern Railroad. We run all over the midwest, and have trackage rights to the west, northeast, and south. We operate everything on this railroad. ''It's never to old to be useful''. We've got over 100 steam locomotives, a ton of first generation diesels, as well as a bunch of modern power. We currently have 4 paint schemes, all using the colors blue and yellow. Also we have no Amtrak, we do all our own passenger trains.

''Midwestern Railroad, The Great Lakes Route''

[twhite]

Let's say I WILL have, eventually. I'm modeling a fictional California extension of the Rio Grande through the Sierra, and I'm planning on having a short lumber line connect at Downieville, CA. It will be called CAL-IDA RR, in honor of a large lumber company that used to operate near Downieville. The logs were sent by truck down St. Rt. 49 through Nevada City, CA to Auburn, CA, where the planing mill was on the SP Donner Pass line. I've already got two locos, a Bachmann Shay, and a little PFM Frisco 2-10-0 with a bright green boiler I picked up at a swap meet some years back. The green boiler will stay on.

[Junctionfan]

Yes. I am the Chairman, CEO and Chief Operating Officer of the Great Lakes and Atlantic Railroad.

The railroad service all along the Great Lakes from Chicago and Northern Ontario, to Boston and Halifax. My railroad is made up with many shortlines including the Ontario Northland and series of shortlines that were once own by RailAmerica and the Genesse and Wyoming. The railroad operates like a class 1 and uses the most modern equipment including its own rollingstock. The railroad has 22 major subdivisions.

I operate almost every kind of train including intermodal, trash, military and tourist.

I am located in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois as well as being located in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

I plan to model the very busy St.Thomas Junction in Ontario which sees about 90-105 trains a day. The colours for my engines are Ontario Northland dark blue, gold, and light BC Rail green.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by emdgp92

My own Waynesburg & Washington is a composite of a few locations on the real narrow-gauge W&W, which ran between those two towns in southwest PA. Even though it went out of business years ago, I model it as it would have existed during the late 1970s, but with standard-gauge equipment. I've applied for (and received) my modeler's license. W&W operations terminated in Waynesburg, PA. However, I've extended the line south to interchange with the Monogahela RR. The northern interchange is with the B&O in Washington. Engines are painted PC black, with W&W lettering in place of PC's. Frieght cars are PC green with W&W lettering.

emdgp92, Would love to talk to another modeler of the W&W RR.

[trainfan1221]

RMaxfield,
You just described my first railroad, The Ho version of the Eastern Central. I had rolling stock of all different eras and locos ranging from FTs to F40s, all pulling freight trains together. My dispatcher, if there was one, usually would tell train TPTP (this place-that place) to proceed in well, whatever direction they happened to be facing. Then they would be meeting train WAWG (where are we going) once, or twice or numerous times. The layout was two ovals. It was supposed to be a big RR ala chessie system or the like, but really had little use for existing. At least my new railroad has a purpose. I think.

QUOTE: Originally posted by RMaxfield

Mine is the U & O or the Useless and Ornamental.... Colors are Red, silver and Black. A bunch of F7's and rolling stock that just shows up for no particular reason and has no specific place to go.

RMax

[Hawks05]

nice. i take it you're from up by Superior or Duluth or along the north shore up there in minnesota. i plan on attending college in Duluth hopefully.

i like the idea of the railroad. thas exactly what goes on up there to pretty much.

[jhugart]

The Keweenaw & Superior Railroad, "The Copper Line," is the result of the merger of the Mineral Range and some other Upper Peninsular Michigan railroads in the face of a booming copper market. (The assumption is that copper found out west wasn't as good, so Keweenaw copper was the best source in the world.)

The K&SRR links to the Great Northern in Duluth/Superior, to the Chicago & North Western in northern Wisconsin, and heads over into Canada. It moves a lot of ore that freighters on the Great Lakes can't handle in the winter months, as well as the regular passenger and commercial needs of the UP area.

There's a lot of steam engines on the roster, since they had the power. These engines were all-black. Some, for passenger service, had a copper-green shield over the front of the engine. When diesels made their appearance, freight engines retained the black with copper-green circle in the front, but streamlined passenger sets got a midnight-blue base coat with a copper-green stripe from the front down every car in the train.

Or that's the theory, anyway. *grins* Right now I'm working on a non-specific small layout to get skills built, and then will work on dioramas or sections for the K&SRR.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Sgt. JT Clark


The Delusions of Granduer Railroad. We May Not Be The Best, But We Think We Are." Like I said, it's still in the design phase.

Just a thought but wouldn't " Delusion & Granduer Railroad" sound better?

Hey Sarg, my guns all jammedTA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA

[Anonymous]

Until I come up with something better (and more permanent) my wokring name is Abbinnagh , Werk & Onnddagh Railroad. (say it out loud quickly). It's HO, roughly modelled on late 1950's into mid-60s Ontario. Still under construction but it will run a mix of steam/diesel, hence the time period. My colours are dark green and yellow.

[Anonymous]

endsville milling railway. my colors are blue and orange and my saying is we hope that a life in endsville does not end.

[Anonymous]

Mine is where I get my email address from. It's called the Delusions of Granduer Railroad. I basically use everything from modern to 1930ish era steam. All the structures have that older Northeastern US flavor, (I'm a native UPSTATE New Yorker), and look modern or retro. Depending on how I feel, decides what era I will use. My next goal is to have enough vehicles of each era that can truly keep it from being dated.

I am still working on colors and logo. I usually run NYC locos and rolling stock or CSX and NW. Until I design something, I will use whatever the factory painted. I've been working on a design using a pair of pink tinted sunglasses with the motto, "Looking at the World Through Rose Colored Glasses The Delusions of Granduer Railroad. We May Not Be The Best, But We Think We Are." Like I said, it's still in the design phase.

[Anonymous]

Mine is the U & O or the Useless and Ornamental.... Colors are Red, silver and Black. A bunch of F7's and rolling stock that just shows up for no particular reason and has no specific place to go.

RMax

[ClinchValleySD40]

Clinch Valley.

Protofreelance set in 1978 running Knoxville, TN up to Huntington, WV.