Your RR

[Texas Zepher]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Adelie
The Bunter Ridge Southwestern Railroad in 1958 operated mainly from Pueblo, Colorado to Albuquerque, with branches north to Colorado Springs and east and west from Albuquerque. It interchanges with the D&RGW and AT&SF.

I think you need an interchange with the C&S, MP, and RI in there too. The C&S would be parallel with you from Pueblo all the way to Trinidad.

[Anonymous]

Mine is the Jamestown Transfer Railway. It is a fictional railway in the Mid-West, serving a grain elevator, a coal flood-loader, a rock quarry, and, of course, transfer jobs between the fictional Jamestown Yard(The larger of the two) and the fictional Southside Yard. It interchanges with CSX at both yards, and NS at Southside. It leases some rent-a-wrecks, as well as CSX locomotives. It also owns and operates an intermodal yard across from Southside.

[Anonymous]

Ajax and Imperial Railroad. Freelanced with ties to Canadian National.

[Texas Zepher]

I wish I could find the thread that Spacemouse started on this topic a long time ago. As I recall, at the time, he didn't realize making up fake RR companies was a common thing. [:)]
My railroad was founded in 1972 and formalized in 1973 as a High School English short story project. It is the "Pine Ridge and North River". It is set at the height of the uranium mining craze of the 1950s and is in the same part of the country as Adelie's Bunter Ridge Southwestern Railroad. It connects to the Santa Fe & C&S in Trinidad and the Rio Grande in Walsenburg. It services several major coal mines but its primary customer is a uranium mine in Northern NM.

Here are some other threads related to this topic. Once again I really wish we could merge these things into a more comprehensive and easily findable thread.
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?&TOPIC_ID=5585
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=64362
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=52877

[Anonymous]

I dont have one

[jeffrey-wimberly]

QUOTE: Originally posted by alexander13

I dont have one

Dream one up.

[radio2]

Mine is the Allegany and Western, fictional subsidiary of the NYC

[GRAMRR]

Grand River & Monongah Railroad - Beat the B&O to the mouth of the Grand River, running from Painesville/Fairport Harbor, Ohio to Fairmont, West Virginia. Crosses B&O at Warren, Ohio - trackage rights through Pittsburgh, PA. Going south from Warren, intechanges with Pennsylvania branch line at Cadiz, OH. Purchased subsidiary Monongah Railway. previously owned by Monongah Mining Co., runs from Fairmont to the coalfields.

[roadrat]

I've changed the name of my RR and the location several times all while still laying down more and more track, but as of right now I'm thinking of calling it the Dixfield & Megantic RR.
It will interchange with the Maine Central in Dixfield, ME and with the Canadian Pacific in Lac Megantic,Quebec,Canada.
of course this may all change again by next week.

bill

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by roadrat

I've changed the name of my RR and the location several times

[(-D] I've been there man [(-D]

[Anonymous]

The Iron Belt. Remnant of a steel-industry-centered Class I that was gobbled up by Conrail and CSX, but the locos still haven't gotten painted-over yet. [Hey, I needed some excuse to buy a set of those beautiful Kato SD38-2's...[:I][8D]]

[Anonymous]

Conrail.[:D]

[dragenrider]

The Cedar Branch & Western is a short line which serves a handful of towns and villages in the Ozark Mountains of north Arkansas. The railroad was originally a Missouri Pacific branch line. Some of the Mopac's influence can still be seen and their "Jenks blue" engines still put in an occasional appearance.

[icmr]

The Illinois Central Railroad.



Victor

Happy Railroading.[swg][swg]

[fsm1000]

I will probably go with FSM RR. Which is simply my initials but it sounds real lol.

[mopacforever]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dragenrider

The Cedar Branch & Western is a short line which serves a handful of towns and villages in the Ozark Mountains of north Arkansas. The railroad was originally a Missouri Pacific branch line. Some of the Mopac's influence can still be seen and their "Jenks blue" engines still put in an occasional appearance.

The Ozarks are a great place aren't they? I am from there myself and really miss it.

[mopacforever]

I am planning the Missouri Pacific Cooperative (Arkansas Branch). I like to imagine what it would have been like if the railroad employees had bought out the line before the merger went through. All my locomotives will still have the blue birds and turbo eagles on the sides, but it will have MoPacCoop on the side of the cab. The reason I chose Arkansas is because I am from there, and the Ozarks are absolutley beautiful especially in the Fall (that's when I will set the tiem frame). I plan to have alot of little things that remind me of my childhood. I am working on my kitbashing skills right now and have completed an Athearn GP-50, an Atlas U23B (with EMD Cab), and am working on 2 SD40-2cs for my coal drag. All of these are super detailed with homemade brass parts, air tanks, firecrackers, traction motor cables, grab irons, hand rails, air filters, vent hoses, horns etc.

[twcenterprises]

Well, currently mine is "quasi-proto-freelanced". I'll elaborate. In reality, the Gainesvile and Northwestern (G&NW or GNW for easier typing) folded in the 30's. It ran from Gainesville, GA, north to Clermont where it split. One branch ran to Chestatee (no longer in existence), where the Copper Mines were (remnants still exist). This is about 5 miles from Dahlonega, city of the first US Gold Rush. The other branch runs through Cleveland and on to Helen, terminating just north of there in Robertstown. Total line length was about 50 miles +/-. This is where MY version of history picks up. When the line folded, Southern Railway bought it up (almost happened in reality), and finished the run to Dahlonega. During WWII, the demand for copper was very high, so they ran the line ragged to keep up with demand. After the war, that branch (from Clermont to Dahlonega) was in poor shape and really needed a lot of work, so they simply sold it to North Georgia Mining Company and let them worry with it. Since I model it in 1957, the mine branch has only received minor maintenance, and has weight restrictions for any locomotive and rolling stock, especially over the covered bridge. So, I model the G&NW branch of Southern Railway, as well as the (fictional) North Georgia Mining Company.

Brad

[canazar]

My little jem is the Kiva Valley Railway. (Named in part due to the thanks of the forum) After going ropund and round for a name, I came up with in the most original method.... Kiva.. Its the name of the street we live on, just turned out be to catchy.

It is set in central Arizona and is completly fictional in location, but operates in with real world setting. Works with BNSF from the the north and the UP from the south.

I set it in two time periods, either in 1956 or present day. I love the modern look and the fun of watching the real thing with my son... But love the attratcion of steam too.[:D]

[marknewton]

Our first US layout was modelled on the Nickel Plate in East Peoria, however our current US "proto-freelanced" project is heavily inspired by the Chicago & Illinois Midland. It's called the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railroad. Anyone familiar with the real C&IM will recognise this name as belonging to one of its predecessor roads. It's a very "railroady" sounding name, I reckon.

Our Japanese modular exhibition layout is also progressing well. It is called "Chitetsu", short for the Toyama Chihou Tetsudo, or Toyama District Railway.

Cheers,

Mark.

[Anonymous]

Mine is Russellrail a fictional branch line to BN main line.[swg]





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[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tom russell

Mine is Russellrail a fictional branch line to BN main line.[swg]





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Those Dash9s look really good. [:D]

[ErnieC]

Improbable but maybe not impossible? My freelanced line is the Virginia Northern which developed from some of the logging lines in the Sleepy Creek Mountain area of West Virginia and connects the Western Maryland at Cherry Run ( where the WM crosses the Potomac to connect with the B&O) with Winchester, VA. Trackage rights over the B&O continue to Strasburg Jct. to connect with the Southern. Actually , the B&O may have sold this section to the Virginia Northern I don't remember (or haven't decided) The VN is N scale and set in the late '40s. An active imagination has allowed the teleportation of coal deposits to the east and the late development of logging as a traffic base. An interurban, cement plant railroad and a logging narrow gauge help to keep the operator busy and happy.

[Anonymous]

Like name name-NoSpaceOreCashRR-freelanced 1925-30 Sierra Nevada logging and small mining with fictional small towns and business.

[Train 284]

Boulder Creek & Western Railroad, modern day tourist line operating vintage narrow gauge steam and diesel locomotives. 45mm gauge (G scale) 1:20.3 scale.

[MIKE0659]

Hey Clinchvalley,

I was just down there last week for some railfanning. That just might be (Along with the old Clinchfield) some of the best railfanning I do. I've been there a bunch of times. It is pretty much what we are modelling on our railroad. Everytime I'm there I find some new out of the way photo location up some branch that I didn't get a chance to check out the last time I was there.

And the whole area is very much an area that lends itself to modelling.

Oh yeah, we are the Roanoke & Western Railway, a Southeastern coal hauler in the mold of the NS, CSXT. If going back further in time you can also use the Interstate, N&W, SOU, L&N, and especially the Clinchfield RR. We envisioned the R&W as being approximately the same size so our roster is based loosely on theirs. Around the same mix and number of locomotives. Of course, we don't model them all, but we have a good cross-section of them.

So we picked a free-lance prototype because we wanted to have not only our own locomotives and coal hoppers, but those of our favorite rods too. And no one can count our rivets. Okay, they can count the rivets on the foreign power, but we did those units correctly.

[nbrodar]

Penn Lake System

The PLS started out as a mid 1990s super-regional across Northeastern Pennsylvania, that interchanged with Conrail, CP/D&H, and the Reading & Northern.

Then, I developed Alco-holism and turned the clock back to the mid 1970s (just prior to Conrail). Now the Penn Lake is Northeastern, PA shortline jointly owned by the Reading and Delaware & Hudson, and is home to a fleet of RDG and D&H C424s and RS-3s.

Nick

[jamnest]

I started out with the Kansas City Northern. It was to be a fictional railroad running north and west out of KC hauling grain, and interchanging with the other railroads of KC. I like F units and EMD SD40s and needed a simple paint scheme. Then I discoverd the Kansas City Southern and it had most of what I wanted to model so I switched to the prototype. Kansas City is the only real town that I model, the other towns are fictional.

Jim

[leighant]

Some years ago, when trying to find a name for the "big-city terminal" on my dream model railroad, I thought of the Santa Fe's southwest, mission-style stations and and of the number of Southwest Spanish-flavored town names on the Santa Fe with some religious connotation.

Vacaville, California had been in the news about a prison controversy, and the name "Santa Vaca" suggested itself as a Spanish-sounding name that didn't refer to any specific actual place. But "Santa Vaca" means "Holy Cow" doesn't it? And my model railroading started with the electric train set under the Christmas tree, so there has always been at least an indirect connection to Christmas.
The various elements melted together into:

The Legend of Santa Vaca
At one of the early Spanish missions, the priest was trying to explain to the native Indians why they should give what they could to God even if they didn't have much. He used the example of the cow who gave up her feeding stall temporarily to become the crib of the baby Jesus. Her gift was humble compared to the gold, frankincense and myrrh brought by the Wise Men, but it became the very center of the Christmas scene. "See how God uses your simple gifts," the priest said. But the Indians took the story to refer to a bovine spirit in their pre-Christian mythology. The church tried to correct the error but it stuck and gave the village its name, Santa Vaca. And to this day, in the stained glass window of Santa Vaca Cathedral, in the background behind the images of the baby Jesus with a halo and the Blessed Mother with a halo, is the cow with the halo.

(Or maybe the stained glass window will be in the mission-style station. The city of Santa Vaca won't be built on the layout until the "deluxe train building" can be financed and built.)