Do you have a made up RR company?

[Anonymous]

Mine is the Chicago And Western, in yellow and green...of course

[Anonymous]

Mine is the Chicago And Western, in yellow and green...of course

[Anonymous]

Mine is the WESTERN ILLINOIS TERMINAL & TRANSFER RR. [WITT RR]. This consists, at this time of a book-shelf diorama [in work]. The business of the WITT is to transfer freightcars from major carriers to and from a trucking terminal and local factories in the "Western Illinois Terminal Industrial park"

The RR is present-day and consists of very old but reconditioned equipment. The yard switcher is a Baldwin VO1000, the road switcher is a GP38. The yard office is an old caboose and the tool & supplies shed an old Soo Line boxcar.

Since it is only a small diorama at this time, it is static. Eventually it will interchange with my ELGIN, JOLIET & EASTERN.

Rich Witt

[Anonymous]

Mine is the WESTERN ILLINOIS TERMINAL & TRANSFER RR. [WITT RR]. This consists, at this time of a book-shelf diorama [in work]. The business of the WITT is to transfer freightcars from major carriers to and from a trucking terminal and local factories in the "Western Illinois Terminal Industrial park"

The RR is present-day and consists of very old but reconditioned equipment. The yard switcher is a Baldwin VO1000, the road switcher is a GP38. The yard office is an old caboose and the tool & supplies shed an old Soo Line boxcar.

Since it is only a small diorama at this time, it is static. Eventually it will interchange with my ELGIN, JOLIET & EASTERN.

Rich Witt

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

Yeah...it's called Amtrak...even the ticket agent is a machine...

LC

[:0][:0]Are you saying Amtrak is a made up railroad?? But Trains Magazine said it was real and so did my Congressmen!!!
TIM A

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

Yeah...it's called Amtrak...even the ticket agent is a machine...

LC

[:0][:0]Are you saying Amtrak is a made up railroad?? But Trains Magazine said it was real and so did my Congressmen!!!
TIM A

[Anonymous]

Yeah...it's called Amtrak...even the ticket agent is a machine...

LC

[Anonymous]

Yeah...it's called Amtrak...even the ticket agent is a machine...

LC

[kenneo]

Vernonia and South Park. It carries Very Special People!

The SP in the VSP allows me to use SP equipment without much tall tale telling!

[kenneo]

Vernonia and South Park. It carries Very Special People!

The SP in the VSP allows me to use SP equipment without much tall tale telling!

[Paul3]

This really should be on the MR side of things, however, since it's here...

My home layout is the New Haven's Boston to Providence line.

My club has a "imaginary RR" called the East Coast Lines. We've been using that name since the club was established in 1938, and it is currently imagined to be a "What-If" scenario based on A. A. McLeod's Reading empire of the 1890's (as in "What if the PB&NE hadn't gone under?").

At one time, A. A. Mc Leod owned the Reading, the L&HR, the NYO&W, the CNE, the NY&NE, and the B&M. It was all called the Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England, and only lasted a few years before it all fell apart due to a financial panic and the efforts of J. P. Morgan.

Our club, the South Shore Model Railway Club (www.ssmrc.org) in Hingham, MA, is currently building our new 50' x 135' layout to represent this "What-If?" In our "reality", the PB&NE did go under, but it was reorganized it as the "East Coast Lines".

Paul A. Cutler III
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Weather Or No Go New Haven
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[Paul3]

This really should be on the MR side of things, however, since it's here...

My home layout is the New Haven's Boston to Providence line.

My club has a "imaginary RR" called the East Coast Lines. We've been using that name since the club was established in 1938, and it is currently imagined to be a "What-If" scenario based on A. A. McLeod's Reading empire of the 1890's (as in "What if the PB&NE hadn't gone under?").

At one time, A. A. Mc Leod owned the Reading, the L&HR, the NYO&W, the CNE, the NY&NE, and the B&M. It was all called the Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England, and only lasted a few years before it all fell apart due to a financial panic and the efforts of J. P. Morgan.

Our club, the South Shore Model Railway Club (www.ssmrc.org) in Hingham, MA, is currently building our new 50' x 135' layout to represent this "What-If?" In our "reality", the PB&NE did go under, but it was reorganized it as the "East Coast Lines".

Paul A. Cutler III
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Weather Or No Go New Haven
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[Anonymous]

Laurel and Blue Ridge Railway Co.

A B&O to Western Maryland connection up the Patuxant River valley from Laural MD on the B&O to somewhere about Thurmont on the WM.

HO and still in boxes due to "unfunded mandates" like college for the daughters. It will come out someday. --ralph

[Anonymous]

Laurel and Blue Ridge Railway Co.

A B&O to Western Maryland connection up the Patuxant River valley from Laural MD on the B&O to somewhere about Thurmont on the WM.

HO and still in boxes due to "unfunded mandates" like college for the daughters. It will come out someday. --ralph

[enr2099]

Victoria Terminal Railway Company.

Operating on former Canadian National Railway trackage in Victoria, BC. My layout is still in the planning phase right now, but I do have a roster built up already. I've got a GP9 and a GP50, and 3 RDC's to be used for excursions.

[enr2099]

Victoria Terminal Railway Company.

Operating on former Canadian National Railway trackage in Victoria, BC. My layout is still in the planning phase right now, but I do have a roster built up already. I've got a GP9 and a GP50, and 3 RDC's to be used for excursions.

[JoeKoh]

QUOTE: Originally posted by normklow

The MJS&D. That's the Matthew, Jason, Steve & Dad. It's set in the mid '20's. Short rolling stock looks better on the sharp model railroad curves. Wooden cars, steam, tons of grit, grime, and grease, not to mention STEAM!. And also STEAM!

[:)] Matt did have a yard as part of the JORR but we had to make room for a computer somewhere.Its something that I want to pass on[:I]
stay safe
joe

[JoeKoh]

QUOTE: Originally posted by normklow

The MJS&D. That's the Matthew, Jason, Steve & Dad. It's set in the mid '20's. Short rolling stock looks better on the sharp model railroad curves. Wooden cars, steam, tons of grit, grime, and grease, not to mention STEAM!. And also STEAM!

[:)] Matt did have a yard as part of the JORR but we had to make room for a computer somewhere.Its something that I want to pass on[:I]
stay safe
joe

[GDRMCo]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

hasn't this been posted on another forum topic? Oh Well, heres my layout again.

Too true and it was started by me.

[GDRMCo]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

hasn't this been posted on another forum topic? Oh Well, heres my layout again.

Too true and it was started by me.

[Anonymous]

The MJS&D. That's the Matthew, Jason, Steve & Dad. It's set in the mid '20's. Short rolling stock looks better on the sharp model railroad curves. Wooden cars, steam, tons of grit, grime, and grease, not to mention STEAM!. And also STEAM!

[Anonymous]

The MJS&D. That's the Matthew, Jason, Steve & Dad. It's set in the mid '20's. Short rolling stock looks better on the sharp model railroad curves. Wooden cars, steam, tons of grit, grime, and grease, not to mention STEAM!. And also STEAM!

[Anonymous]

Nope. All my railroading is 1:1 scale...

LC

[Anonymous]

Nope. All my railroading is 1:1 scale...

LC

[vsmith]

hasn't this been posted on another forum topic? Oh Well, heres my layout again.

Borracho Springs RR, or known locally, the "BS" serving the Borracho Tequila factory, the town of Borracho, the whistle stop of Purgatory, and two mines the FUBAR and the SNAFU mines.

Colors range from grimy black to various shades of rust.

It is a G narrow guage indoor layout under construction on the back wall of my garage. I started as a garden layout but got 86'ed when "she-who-be-obeyed" was dismayed at what I had planned for her garden, so I switched from garden to a Finescale (hopefully) indoor layout. by G standards it very small (planned for 6 1/2 feet by 20 feet) but at least I have a good chance of finishing it. Locale is Arizona desert bordertown in the 1950's, all small locos and cars loosely based on Mexican narrow gauge and other southwest lines. I model what I like and dont worry about counting rivets, its all about enjoying yourself.

[vsmith]

hasn't this been posted on another forum topic? Oh Well, heres my layout again.

Borracho Springs RR, or known locally, the "BS" serving the Borracho Tequila factory, the town of Borracho, the whistle stop of Purgatory, and two mines the FUBAR and the SNAFU mines.

Colors range from grimy black to various shades of rust.

It is a G narrow guage indoor layout under construction on the back wall of my garage. I started as a garden layout but got 86'ed when "she-who-be-obeyed" was dismayed at what I had planned for her garden, so I switched from garden to a Finescale (hopefully) indoor layout. by G standards it very small (planned for 6 1/2 feet by 20 feet) but at least I have a good chance of finishing it. Locale is Arizona desert bordertown in the 1950's, all small locos and cars loosely based on Mexican narrow gauge and other southwest lines. I model what I like and dont worry about counting rivets, its all about enjoying yourself.

[ironhorseman]

Vandalia? I think I saw that name on the side of a charter bus today that was from St. Louis. Could you tell just a little bit about where this line went?

[ironhorseman]

Vandalia? I think I saw that name on the side of a charter bus today that was from St. Louis. Could you tell just a little bit about where this line went?

[Anonymous]

My HO layout models the Vandalia Line in the late 1950s, as though it were never bought by Pennsy (which means I had to make up my own history from 1917 on...). However, it also connects to my purely freelanced "Atlantis, Beulah & Western", a railroad that, on the surface, looks like a composite of midwestern railroading in the first half of the twentieth century. The AB&W is =not= however located anywhere in the United States (or the rest of the world) and is simply its own microcosm reminiscent of the midwest 50 to 60 years ago. It allows me to capture the look and feel of that time and place without having it actually be there, which I think gives you a lot more room for creative leeway. Does anyone else have a similar railroad?