What region is your model railroad based and why?

[Anonymous]

Oregon Coast, small towns, waterfront, low mountain range, logging,agriculture, mining, lots going on here. Fictional narrow gauge surviving into 1950, interface with Southern Pacific standard gauge for in-out freight and passenger movement. Also a 'rail museum' collecting and restoring narrow gauge equipment from all over --justifies having out of period equioment.
Jennifer

[Anonymous]

Oregon Coast, small towns, waterfront, low mountain range, logging,agriculture, mining, lots going on here. Fictional narrow gauge surviving into 1950, interface with Southern Pacific standard gauge for in-out freight and passenger movement. Also a 'rail museum' collecting and restoring narrow gauge equipment from all over --justifies having out of period equioment.
Jennifer

[BRJN]

My layout will be based on Ft Wayne IN, set in 1900 (or so). I am modeling a Belt Line.

This is because I have lived here all my life, I have access to a Top-Ten-Best-In-The-Nation library (which makes research easy), and I like history. If / when I get something transportable built I intend to write up a presentation that I can take around to schools with a little hands-on fun on the side.

One of the books I found was a Fort Wayne Yearbook, 1905. It included a list of every industry in town. So I can put in:
- tombstone maker
- piano and organ manufacturer
- world's largest maker of handles
- broom builder
- grocer's warehouse
- meatpackers
- brewery and strong spirits
- women's hosiery
among others.

I get to interchange with PRR, NKP, Wabash, Lake Erie & Western, Grand Rapids & Indiana, and LS&MS, which all came into town.

The actual track I want to simulate has been about half-abandoned, but I can still get near the right-of-way to take pictures for backdrop use.

I get a variety of scenes for future modules. There is some rural area on one end, residential city, industrial (switching puzzle), and a riverside scene near one end's yard.

[BRJN]

My layout will be based on Ft Wayne IN, set in 1900 (or so). I am modeling a Belt Line.

This is because I have lived here all my life, I have access to a Top-Ten-Best-In-The-Nation library (which makes research easy), and I like history. If / when I get something transportable built I intend to write up a presentation that I can take around to schools with a little hands-on fun on the side.

One of the books I found was a Fort Wayne Yearbook, 1905. It included a list of every industry in town. So I can put in:
- tombstone maker
- piano and organ manufacturer
- world's largest maker of handles
- broom builder
- grocer's warehouse
- meatpackers
- brewery and strong spirits
- women's hosiery
among others.

I get to interchange with PRR, NKP, Wabash, Lake Erie & Western, Grand Rapids & Indiana, and LS&MS, which all came into town.

The actual track I want to simulate has been about half-abandoned, but I can still get near the right-of-way to take pictures for backdrop use.

I get a variety of scenes for future modules. There is some rural area on one end, residential city, industrial (switching puzzle), and a riverside scene near one end's yard.

[camarokid]

Desert Southwest. It's always warm. Whatever suits my fancy at the time. 40's and 50's.
Archie

[camarokid]

Desert Southwest. It's always warm. Whatever suits my fancy at the time. 40's and 50's.
Archie

[Anonymous]

La La Land, cuz that's where I spend most of my time. ; 0 )


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[Anonymous]

La La Land, cuz that's where I spend most of my time. ; 0 )


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[Train1725]

Captsmokey,
I'm from Queens, what will you be modeling? I plan to (eventaully) model Sunnyside Train Yards and maybe the Hell's Gate Bridge. Alos, i might include the #7 Train.

[Train1725]

Captsmokey,
I'm from Queens, what will you be modeling? I plan to (eventaully) model Sunnyside Train Yards and maybe the Hell's Gate Bridge. Alos, i might include the #7 Train.

[CFournier]

The setting is central California, the WP, SP and SF between Monterey and San Francisco with a little inland scenery in between...Because it is exotic to me.

[CFournier]

The setting is central California, the WP, SP and SF between Monterey and San Francisco with a little inland scenery in between...Because it is exotic to me.

[Anonymous]

I'm freelancing because I couldn't come up with a place that I could afford to go and visit enough to do justice in modeling. I will have some double stack/container work, general cargo in all the standard cars, some passenger (C&NW and yes, Amtrak as well) along with an occasional visit by the old S.P. Tank Train. There will be a lot of excursion trains to account for the steam fix I need and some historic John Bull and Dewitt Clinton type of runs as well.

[Anonymous]

I'm freelancing because I couldn't come up with a place that I could afford to go and visit enough to do justice in modeling. I will have some double stack/container work, general cargo in all the standard cars, some passenger (C&NW and yes, Amtrak as well) along with an occasional visit by the old S.P. Tank Train. There will be a lot of excursion trains to account for the steam fix I need and some historic John Bull and Dewitt Clinton type of runs as well.

[PennsyHoosier]

Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, because they are the coolest places on earth!

[PennsyHoosier]

Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, because they are the coolest places on earth!

[Anonymous]

Well my FIRST new layout is based in Dept. 56. It will be a simple oval with a
passing track to highlight my Better Half's Christmas Village and to hone my skills to tackle layout #2.

Layout #2 will be the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth a mixed gauge, mixed passenger & freight, mixed steam & electric line that existed from the late 1870's to 1933. Once I decide how to condense about 100 miles of track and 35 sidings into a scale model I will decide on the exact era. I may even try to rationalize a a way for the line to survive into the 40's and 50's.

I grew up a stones throw from the abandoned right of way and spent most of my life in the area it served.

[Anonymous]

Well my FIRST new layout is based in Dept. 56. It will be a simple oval with a
passing track to highlight my Better Half's Christmas Village and to hone my skills to tackle layout #2.

Layout #2 will be the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth a mixed gauge, mixed passenger & freight, mixed steam & electric line that existed from the late 1870's to 1933. Once I decide how to condense about 100 miles of track and 35 sidings into a scale model I will decide on the exact era. I may even try to rationalize a a way for the line to survive into the 40's and 50's.

I grew up a stones throw from the abandoned right of way and spent most of my life in the area it served.

[dinwitty]

will be building a multi-railroad line with interchanges using a multi-level shelf module design I am engineering.

location is chicago style lines, NS, SS, NKP,NYC, BRC, the also N&W and VGN in the east, all lines will be able to get traffic to/from each other via various interchanges.

N&W is unique as I enjoyed O WInston Links recordings, and I have ridden SS and NS.

VGN is interesting for the electried portion it had I will model.

[dinwitty]

will be building a multi-railroad line with interchanges using a multi-level shelf module design I am engineering.

location is chicago style lines, NS, SS, NKP,NYC, BRC, the also N&W and VGN in the east, all lines will be able to get traffic to/from each other via various interchanges.

N&W is unique as I enjoyed O WInston Links recordings, and I have ridden SS and NS.

VGN is interesting for the electried portion it had I will model.

[howmus]

The Seneca Lake, Ontario, & Western (SLOW) is a fictional railroad based on the New York, Ontario & Western in name only. It lives up to its name as it has been in construction for 25 years and isn't showing any signs of being close to finished yet. It is located in the heart of the Finger Lakes Region of New York and connects with the NYC and the Northern Central Branch of the Pennsylvania RR both of which did come into Canandaigua, NY where I was born. Ultimately there will be models of the Lisk Plant in Canandaigua as well as many of the mills found on the old Penn Yan and New York RR that went from Dresden, NY to Penn Yan, NY (nicknamed the Corkscrew RR by the NYC which absorbed this shortline). It will haul coal from PA and the little mine that will be built sometime or other as well as paper from mills in the area and enamalware from the Lisk plant. It, of course, will have to bring supplies to each of the industries as well.

The time period is post WW1 the USRA period. Why? I don't know, I just like the steam locos and equipment of that era and it HAS to be steam..... Fwhooooooo Chuf, Chuf, Chuf is just so much cooler than Rumble, BLAAAT, Rumble! [;)]

Ray

[howmus]

The Seneca Lake, Ontario, & Western (SLOW) is a fictional railroad based on the New York, Ontario & Western in name only. It lives up to its name as it has been in construction for 25 years and isn't showing any signs of being close to finished yet. It is located in the heart of the Finger Lakes Region of New York and connects with the NYC and the Northern Central Branch of the Pennsylvania RR both of which did come into Canandaigua, NY where I was born. Ultimately there will be models of the Lisk Plant in Canandaigua as well as many of the mills found on the old Penn Yan and New York RR that went from Dresden, NY to Penn Yan, NY (nicknamed the Corkscrew RR by the NYC which absorbed this shortline). It will haul coal from PA and the little mine that will be built sometime or other as well as paper from mills in the area and enamalware from the Lisk plant. It, of course, will have to bring supplies to each of the industries as well.

The time period is post WW1 the USRA period. Why? I don't know, I just like the steam locos and equipment of that era and it HAS to be steam..... Fwhooooooo Chuf, Chuf, Chuf is just so much cooler than Rumble, BLAAAT, Rumble! [;)]

Ray

[twhite]

Northern Sierra Nevada mountains of California, midway between SP's Donner Pass and WP's Feather River. Specifically, the Yuba River watershed, between Nevada City, CA and Yuba Summit. The era is WWII, it's all steam. Railroad modeled is the Rio Grande California Extension between Utah and Oakland CA, with SP and GN (Highline) trackage rights. Also some 'borrowed' eastern steam since the Rio Grande is perennially power-short (C&S, N&W, Pennsy, C&O). Season is early Fall, which makes the line heavy with east-bound late-season reefer blocks. Also regular freight, seasonal cattle movements and westbound Utah coal trains to service west coast defense factories (and the railroad--it's the only coal-burning rr on the West Coast).
Tom

[twhite]

Northern Sierra Nevada mountains of California, midway between SP's Donner Pass and WP's Feather River. Specifically, the Yuba River watershed, between Nevada City, CA and Yuba Summit. The era is WWII, it's all steam. Railroad modeled is the Rio Grande California Extension between Utah and Oakland CA, with SP and GN (Highline) trackage rights. Also some 'borrowed' eastern steam since the Rio Grande is perennially power-short (C&S, N&W, Pennsy, C&O). Season is early Fall, which makes the line heavy with east-bound late-season reefer blocks. Also regular freight, seasonal cattle movements and westbound Utah coal trains to service west coast defense factories (and the railroad--it's the only coal-burning rr on the West Coast).
Tom

[Anonymous]

My region is Southern California and it is because it is a region I do not live in and I want to model a region I have never visited. Easy and simple no need for three paragraphs to why.

[Anonymous]

My region is Southern California and it is because it is a region I do not live in and I want to model a region I have never visited. Easy and simple no need for three paragraphs to why.

[eastcoast]

QUOTE: Originally posted by appst03

Where is your model railroad based? Why did you select that location(s)? What type of commodities does it haul? What era does it operate in?

As the name implies, I model the East Coast U.S. Mainly focused on the
Southeast region along the Atlantic Coastline from Florida to North Carolina.
This gives me flexability with my equipment choices. I have a freelanced road
anyhow so this further minimizes location problems. I grew up in TampaBay, FL.
but now reside and work elsewhere near a prominent landmark. I mostly model
passenger operations but do have some industries like plastics and lumber.
Alot of my businesses are wharehousing,shipping,receiving from truck to train,etc.
Since I model what I know, the era is set from 1970 to present day but some of the
stuctures are built to be dated further back. This is a work in progress and may
see changes as time goes on.
THANKS FOR ASKING.

[eastcoast]

QUOTE: Originally posted by appst03

Where is your model railroad based? Why did you select that location(s)? What type of commodities does it haul? What era does it operate in?

As the name implies, I model the East Coast U.S. Mainly focused on the
Southeast region along the Atlantic Coastline from Florida to North Carolina.
This gives me flexability with my equipment choices. I have a freelanced road
anyhow so this further minimizes location problems. I grew up in TampaBay, FL.
but now reside and work elsewhere near a prominent landmark. I mostly model
passenger operations but do have some industries like plastics and lumber.
Alot of my businesses are wharehousing,shipping,receiving from truck to train,etc.
Since I model what I know, the era is set from 1970 to present day but some of the
stuctures are built to be dated further back. This is a work in progress and may
see changes as time goes on.
THANKS FOR ASKING.

[Anonymous]

Between Philadelphia and New York City. Mostly in the 50's, thats when I grew up in. When I was a kid, me and a buddy used to walk across town to see GG1s pull fast passenger trains.