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I model the area around Winchester, Virginia, and my reason is largely due to ignorance! I actually determined the name of the towns I would model based on a random decal that I liked as a kid, with the initials "WP&P" in a circular herald. At the time I lived near Norfolk, VA, and owned a single Norfolk & Western engine, so I know which way I would be heading. I chose Portsmouth as one town name (it is just across the harbor from Norfolk) and then looked on the map for a "W" town name somewhere on the opposite side of Virginia. <br /> <br />As time has gone by, I've discovered just how excellent my town selection was; everything that I invented as fiction when I first started modeling turned out to have corresponding prototypes in the Winchester area. The one rather funny thing, though, is that I model a coal hauler with several active mines, and yet, now that I have looked into it, the two northeaster counties of West Virginia where my mines are supposed to be located are, in fact, the ONLY two counties of the state which have never had productive coal mining! <br /> <br />So, my entire fictional railroad is based on a geological premise, i.e. that there was in fact a large coal seam running through the area, and my railroad's founder was a surveyor who spotted it. If there was coal there, then surely my Winchester, Paston, & Porstmouth would have come into existence, right?
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