What is the name of your railroad?

[Anonymous]

THE UNDECORATED


(( Tongue in cheek ))

OUR MOTTO:: WE DON'T NEED NUMBERS OR PAINT!!

[nbrodar]

The Penn Lake System. A late 90s super-regional in anthracite country. I'm a sucker for mountains, tunnels, winding creeks and bridges.

My HO railroad hosts, Hot shot intermodal trains, unit coal and ore unit trains, the usual general freight, plus the occational visit by Amtrak. It started out completely freelanced, but Delaware & Hudson/Canadian Pacific/Soo Line motive power is showing up in increasing numbers. So a change may be in the air.

Nick Brodar

[trainboyH16-44]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

OH MY GOD this post started back in 2003!!!!![:0]

Has it really been sooo long with sooooo little being completed since then? [:(]

UH OH kinda forgot about having to rebuild the layout twice since then.....[;)]

You have no idea about little progress... All me and my dad have done since 2003 is, um..
Ah! I ballasted part of the mainline! And we did a little track doctoring....
I did buy many new engines, as in 2003 I had 2 P1K c-liners and a dayliner.
Now I have 1 more c-liner, aP2K RS-10, 2GP9s, a GP7, 1 SD45, 1 S-3, 2 atlas C424s, 3 Kato SD40-2s, an SD40, and a GP35. All but one of the SD40-2s are in CP colours.
Now that's progress and stagnation!
Trainboy

[bwftex]

Texas Midland RR. HO scale. 1917 +( -) a few years either way. The season is fall at cotton harvest time. The location is North Central Texas. The real TM ran from Ennis Texas just south of Dallas to Paris up by the Red River. It was abandoned in 1943. My layout represents the line from Ennis to Terrell as near as is possible in a space of about 12'x18'. The track plan is designed to operate point to point from Ennis (Staging) to Terrell and back. It has a continuous loop so I can occasionally watch a couple of SD70m's haul a modern unit train, GP30's haul a 70's era freight or an SP 4-8-2 steam along with a passenger consist. Bruce

[Anonymous]

Pennsylvania Mine & Forge ----- private industrial line serving small anthracite mines and heavy industry in the eastern Pennsylvania mountians.

HO, 30" X 26' shelf type layout along two walls in my small home office, NCE DCC, all engines now have sound, custom decals from Railgraphics.

To be dismantled this fall to make room for a new baby. Will rebuild when one of my older kids gets married, or if I have the skills and money to build a semi climate controlled garage in the back yard this spring.

Jim

[Attaboy]

Since this thread died before I joined the forum and has been resurrected, I'll chime in. My planned layout will be the Dagascagonda, Lycippus, & Euclid Railroad and Coal Company. A big name for a narrow gauge line. It will be LOOSELY based on the EBT. Located in a mountainous region. It could be the Alleghenys or the foot hills of the Rockies, depending on what people want to run on the standard gauge track that will have connections.

[bbrant]

Chuck -

Thanks for the info. You are right, currently the Ohio Central does run through that area and the Wheeling & Lake Erie has trackage rights. I'm probably most familiar with the line around Jewett - my wife's hometown - and Scio. Finally got a pic of a train going through there after YEARS of wanting to.

Looks like that area had a lot of RR activity at one time. Perfect for modeling!!

Thanks again for the info.

Brian

[GRAMRR]

Brian,

As best I can determine from maps and stories, the Pennsy main went thru Cadiz Junction North of Cadiz, and had a branch line down to Cadiz. I chose to have my GR&M interchange with the Pennsy branch at Cadiz. I think that currently, the Ohio Central goes thru Cadiz.

Chuck
GRAMRR

[bbrant]

QUOTE: Originally posted by GRAMRR

Grand River and Monongah Railroad - a ficticious coal-hauling road that takes the place of what was the B&O from Fair Port Harbor/Painesville, Ohio to Warren, then on to Cadiz and continuing to Fairmont, West Virginia. Also includes subsidiary Monongah Railway which services the coal fields, working out of Fairmont. Trackage rights over B&O as far as Cumberland, Maryland. B&O has trackage rights from Warren to Painesville, Ohio. The GR&M interchanges with the Pennsy at Cadiz, the NYC and NKP at Painesville, and the FP&E at Fairport.
Time frame - early '50s.
Committed to paper, will hopefully begin construction this winter.[:D][:D][:D]

GRAMRR -

Did the Pennsy ever actually go to Cadiz (assuming your talking about Cadiz, OH)? Seen the remains of an old yard behind/below Cadiz hospital but never knew who's line it was at one time.

Brian

[Anonymous]

Maine Central Mountian Division Fall 1976. The line began in Portland Maine and climbed to St. Johnsbury Vt thru New Hampshires White Mountians.

The layout will be double decked around the wall in a 10x 10 area with an island in the center.


Josh

[GRAMRR]

Grand River and Monongah Railroad - a ficticious coal-hauling road that takes the place of what was the B&O from Fair Port Harbor/Painesville, Ohio to Warren, then on to Cadiz and continuing to Fairmont, West Virginia. Also includes subsidiary Monongah Railway which services the coal fields, working out of Fairmont. Trackage rights over B&O as far as Cumberland, Maryland. B&O has trackage rights from Warren to Painesville, Ohio. The GR&M interchanges with the Pennsy at Cadiz, the NYC and NKP at Painesville, and the FP&E at Fairport.
Time frame - early '50s.
Committed to paper, will hopefully begin construction this winter.[:D][:D][:D]

[bbrant]

For a couple of reasons, I call my layout the H&S Branch. H and S are initials of my daughters as well as the initials of the counties my wife and I grew up in.

Of course during certain phases of building the layout I called it a few other names but I won't post them here! [}:)]

Now I need another connecting branch that I can call off. That way my entire layout can be called H&S Off.....or to put it another way.....HandS Off. Get it?!? [(-D] Ok, bad joke. On that note I'm out of here!!

[Anonymous]

The Iron Belt - a fictional shortline serving the iron & steel industry in Ohio

[rolleiman]

Officially, the Wabash Model RR.. Unofficially, The Money Pit Central... Sorry, not as creative as some folks around here..

Jeff
[:D]

[littleboom]

Someone please let me know if this name has already been used, so I can pass the credit on. It is still in the planning stages, but I am leaning towards the "GHETOFF & PUSCH RR".

One of the main industries will be the Whoopass Brewery, their slogan being "Open up a can of Whoopass".

It will be set in a generic hilly northeast beer-swigging place with nuttin but STEAM[:p], which has replaced all diesels because they are way cooler[;)]

It's going to be fun!!!

Mike

[Anonymous]

200 posts. yeah!!!!!!!!!
sry guys I had to do it

[Anonymous]

Black Water Mountain

[Anonymous]

Las Cruces & Portales. A fictional short line in New Mexico serving these and other off-the-road communities bringing in and taking out goods from the Big World via a Junction (Sta. Rosa). which interchanges with the UP/SF. Period? Early fifties, although in the back country, it seems to be mid 30's.

Gus.
CEO/COP (that's Operating Officer...)

[trainfreek92]

Mine is the L &F Railroad it is desinged to run through Fitchburg and Leominster and sorunding areas, please visit my site about the L&F www.freewebs.com/trainguy12792

[Anonymous]

AMRail[:D]
probably North East Rail
Eastern Rail
or New England Rail Link
I'm thinking of changing from
Atlantic Rock Island & Wetsern

[mustanggt]

The America RR. It could be anywhere, due to such varied equipment. Santa Fe, BNSF, CSX, Guilford, B&M, Amtrak. Heck, even Metrolink and GO transit!

All because of buying whatever I think looks cool got me in this situation, and I like it[^]

[vsmith]

OH MY GOD this post started back in 2003!!!!![:0]

Has it really been sooo long with sooooo little being completed since then? [:(]

UH OH kinda forgot about having to rebuild the layout twice since then.....[;)]

[pcarrell]

Autumn's Ridge Railway & Navigation Co.

Set in Maine in the late 30's.

[Isambard]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44

The Alberta Pacific Railway. I have been using that name for a couple years now. It's based on Eric Brooman's Utah Belt, and CN, with a line starting at Winnepeg, going through Red Deer, through the rockies at Howse Pass, going up the columbia, and reaching tidewater at Prince Rupert.
Trainboy

Looks like the Alberta Pacific is a competitor of the Grizzly Northern!
The following is from my profile:

The GNR mainline runs from Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, to Kamloops, British Columbia. A branchline from Geiranger, British Columbia, services the Kingdom Copper Mine and the Brunel Coal Mine. A brief history of the Grizzly Northern Railway was published in the 1 July 1938 Dominion Day edition of "The Caribou News and Chronicle". Send an E-mail request if you are interested in reading a transcript of the article.

[trainboyH16-44]

The Alberta Pacific Railway. I have been using that name for a couple years now. It's based on Eric Brooman's Utah Belt, and CN, with a line starting at Winnepeg, going through Red Deer, through the rockies at Howse Pass, going up the columbia, and reaching tidewater at Prince Rupert.
Trainboy

[Anonymous]

Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth RR. N scale. The CG&P was a real railroad from the 1880's until 1936 when it went bankrupt during the Depression. I am modding it sometime post WWII pre Walk-on-the-Moon so there is a lot of freelancing.

[waltersrails]

To the person on page one of this topic how did you start your ministry layout?

My layout is from 1986-present NS Chessie/CSX and IC/CN. It still under contruction but it runs. thats all that matters.

[maandg]

Name: The Mississippi Alabama & Gulf (MA&G)
Nickname: "The Magnolia Route"
Scale: HO
Size: 14 X 32 Triple deck
Prototype: Free-lanced Class 1 Carrier
Locale: Southern Mississippi and New Orleans (areas modeled)
Era: mid-1950's
Control: Digitrax DCC with LOTS of sound!

An earlier incarnation of the MA&G was published in the April 2005 Model Railroader. The new layout will be featured in Great Model Railroads 2007 and an upcoming Allen Keller "Great Model Railroads" video.

[Anonymous]

I call mine the Yttrium Northern Railway. I guess due to my chemistry background (profession wise) I thought it might be cool to include the name of a relatively rare element in the RR's name. I even had a set of decals made for it a long time ago, see below. I have lettered only one passenger car, a caboose, and a box car in this name. Most of my other stuff is C&NW with a few others thrown in.