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Has anyone gone so far as to freelance a railroad in a fictional country

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Has anyone gone so far as to freelance a railroad in a fictional country
Posted by DavidH66 on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 8:59 AM

So one of the things I've always been curious about is if someone actually has a railroad set in a fictional nation.

Do any of you guys run trains in a fictional country?

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:57 AM

DavidH66
So one of the things I've always been curious about is if someone actually has a railroad set in a fictional nation....

This is the one which comes to mind for me:

"The Island of Sodor is a world of wonder. There are faces and places that are old and new. There are bridges and tunnels that engines puff through. There are hilltops and clifftops to climb and explore. There are rivers, and railways, and much, much more. All on The Island of Sodor."— Narrator, Misty Island Rescue"The Island of Sodor is a world of wonder. There are faces and places that are old and new. There are bridges and tunnels that engines puff through. There are hilltops and clifftops to climb and explore. There are rivers, and railways, and much, much more. All on The Island of Sodor."— Narrator, Misty Island Rescue

It must bother those modelling interesting roads like the Seaboard or Frisco that there's so much available in the way of locomotives and rolling stock for this fantasy world, and little for their interests, as was noted in a recent thread here.

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Posted by Canalligators on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 11:17 AM

You could argue that anyone modeling the past is modeling a fictional country.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 11:22 AM

Well, the grass on my layout never grows, nor do the trees. They never shed their leaves, as it is always late summer on my layout. People take their time to move around, in fact, they don´t move at all as they appear to be frozen in time. The creek on the layout does not flow anywhere, yet you can hear it murmuring (once I´ve got that ambient sound system installed, a cheap car radio with an built-in MP3 player).

Truly a fictional country in a fictional world!

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 3:35 PM

Yes of course people have built fantasy layouts in fictional countries but mostly readers of MR build museum style layouts based on history.

I am working on a second layout which is located on Mars but I think it's governed by the USA. lol

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Posted by Track fiddler on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 7:22 PM

doctorwayne

 

 
DavidH66
So one of the things I've always been curious about is if someone actually has a railroad set in a fictional nation....

 

This is the one which comes to mind for me:

"The Island of Sodor is a world of wonder. There are faces and places that are old and new. There are bridges and tunnels that engines puff through. There are hilltops and clifftops to climb and explore. There are rivers, and railways, and much, much more. All on The Island of Sodor."— Narrator, Misty Island Rescue"The Island of Sodor is a world of wonder. There are faces and places that are old and new. There are bridges and tunnels that engines puff through. There are hilltops and clifftops to climb and explore. There are rivers, and railways, and much, much more. All on The Island of Sodor."— Narrator, Misty Island Rescue

It must bother those modelling interesting roads like the Seaboard or Frisco that there's so much available in the way of locomotives and rolling stock for this fantasy world, and little for their interests, as was noted in a recent thread here.

Wayne

 

Heart touching.  I liked that.  I don't know where or when but somehow I feel like I've heard that before.  Or maybe it was just that pleasing to the ear.  Seems familiar, could be just good pure poetry.

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Posted by 7j43k on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 8:02 PM

Well, I don't.  

But RMC showed a layout plan a very long time ago where "you" owned an entire island.  I believe the main product was sugar.  But since "you" owned everything (and obviously had plenty of bucks left over), you could also do such things as have your own private car.  And maybe a real small articulated, 'cause a "real" railroad should have one.  And, a bit more democratic, you could have a bar car to take the jolly workers around the island on Friday, after work.  Etc. Etc.

 

It did look kind of fun.

 

 

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Posted by Track fiddler on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:21 PM

7j43k

Well, I don't.  

But RMC showed a layout plan a very long time ago where "you" owned an entire island.  I believe the main product was sugar.  But since "you" owned everything (and obviously had plenty of bucks left over), you could also do such things as have your own private car.  And maybe a real small articulated, 'cause a "real" railroad should have one.  And, a bit more democratic, you could have a bar car to take the jolly workers around the island on Friday, after work.  Etc. Etc.

 

It did look kind of fun.

 

 

Ed

 

Ya Ya.  I don't know how we'll get the sugar off the island yet to Market it for cash.  But we'll worry about that later.  We're creating our own countries railroad here.  On top of Friday's bar car we'll have a taco tequila Tuesday to break up the week.  All workers are welcome to ride the margarita choo choo.  We'll deal with the sugar problem on Wednesday

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 12:02 AM

Yes!

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The Stratton and Gillette was originally set in "Pannagia", a fictional contininent in the Pacific ocean.

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I got tired of explaining this to people, so now I never say where it is. It is somewhere in the United States, but like Springfield on The Simpsons, no one is quite sure where.

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 2:52 AM

I haven't built any of my rail systems, but I've planned and written about them - not only in fictional countries, but on fictional planets.

Unfortunately, by the 37th century any resemblance to present-day tech is as outdated as ox carts.  Even maglev is declining, limited to freight and mixed-train traffic on a sparsely-populated agricultural continent of Monolith.

Monolith is a starship.  Originally a nameless rocky planet, it was, "Fitted with the necessary power, propulsion and control systems required for independent interstellar voyaging," in the 24th century.  After traveling 7.62 light years it was parked in a semi-permanent orbit in the 26th century.  The ice melted, the basins filled - and now Monolith is the only starship with continents.  (The quote is from the definition of a starship in Confederation Admiralty law.)

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Posted by fmilhaupt on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 4:59 AM

If I were to do this, I'd probably model part of the Ankh-Morpork to Quirm line of the Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Hygienic Railway, from Sir Terry Pratchett's Raising Steam.

The tricky bit would be determining which scale to use, so that I could get the right combination of necessary figures and early British-outline rolling stock. That way I would only have to scratchbuild the things I wanted to.

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Posted by fieryturbo on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 8:03 AM

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Posted by ACY Tom on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 9:40 AM

Didn't Bro. Elias run a railroad through Middle Earth in his pre-subway days? 

Maybe he can tell us about it. 

Tom

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Posted by joe323 on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 9:44 AM

Dont know about a fictional country but the citizens of my layout complain of global cooling every summer when the A/C is on. Big Smile

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Posted by UNCLEBUTCH on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 11:46 AM

I'm curious, how would one know if they were looking at a fictional country?

What would be different from our plastic/plaster worlds or even the real world.

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 3:04 PM

UNCLEBUTCH
I'm curious, how would one know if they were looking at a fictional country?

We’re not in Kansas anymore! LOL

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Posted by UNCLEBUTCH on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 3:38 PM

Lone Wolf and Santa Fe
We’re not in Kansas anymore! LOL

 Well Sir, you definitely answerd my question

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Posted by TheGamp on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 4:21 PM

This gave me an idea. I've been catching up on reruns of Match Game '7x on TV. Someday I might like to model the rail system of Nerdocrumbesia ("the world's sleaziest country").

"Nerdocrumbesia has the world's sleaziest railroad. Instead of burning coal, they power their locomotives by burning _________."

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Posted by NittanyLion on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:48 PM

UNCLEBUTCH

I'm curious, how would one know if they were looking at a fictional country?

What would be different from our plastic/plaster worlds or even the real world.

 

If your layout was Potomac Yard in Alexandria VA, and the north end was the customs check before leaving the CSA for the USA, then it would definitely be in a fictional country, as there stopped being a CSA decades before there was a Potomac Yard.

Or saying it was in the state of Delmarva, Lincoln, or something of that nature.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, March 30, 2017 11:21 PM

UNCLEBUTCH
I'm curious, how would one know if they were looking at a fictional country? What would be different from our plastic/plaster worlds or even the real world.

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It is pretty easy. Make street and traffic signs a little different. Make your buidings using components from both American and German prototype kits. Use off-color combinations on signs like yellow and orange. Use brass for a detail color instead of silver.

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Just make everything look a little wrong, and your viewers will know they are not in the United States or Canada.

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Posted by 7j43k on Friday, March 31, 2017 2:25 PM

 

 

Or in Kansas, either.

 

 

Ed

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