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There is another variant to the "protolance" type of model railroading. The one that I subscribe to is having a railroad that didn't exist but could have. My Tioga & Great Lakes is what would be called a regionl railroad today. In my mind the T&GL was chartered and for the most part, built in the 1880s and early 1890s. It runs from a connection with the Reading and Pennsylvania railroads in Williamsport PA north to Rochchester NY and from a Lackawana and Erie railroads connection in Binghamton NY west to Erie PA. The area that I model on my layout(still under construction)will be the Williamsport branch circa 1956. By using equipment, vehicles, and scenery correct for the era and interchange with some run through power from the RDG, I can create a model railroad set in a definite time and place. Anyone seeing the layout will be able to have the feel of a real railroad at a real place in a real time in the past, even though it never really existed.
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