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"Winchester, Paston, & Portsmouth Railway", a name that I made up based on a set of logging-line decals that was given to me as a gift, way back when I first got into N-scale. The round WP&P logo was just too catchy, I had to use it; no doubt there is a real WP&P that hauled tree trunks around, with some other name. <br /> <br />I picked two names off of the map of Virginia, because I also had a Norfolk & Western engine and I kinda wanted to model that region (at the time, I lived near Newport News, VA). "Paston" was a fictional name, and was the only town that I modelled at first; this gave me a lot of license. <br /> <br />Over the years, though, as my backstory has grown and other towns have taken shape, I've discovered that there are a couple of real short lines near Winchester, VA that look for all the world as though they were my "prototype" from day one. You can even look up the Potomac Eagle scenic train on the web; this train runs from Romney to Moorefield, and Moorefield is eerily similar to the town of Paston that I just made up to fit an acronym, long before I knew anything about that region. The same thing goes for each of the other four towns I model. My mainline runs west out of Winchester much as the real Winchester & Western does, heading for a small non-town called Gore which matched almost perfectly with my model town of Oxmore. These days, I pretty much act like this was my intention all along, to model the South Branch Valley and the WW as though they were a larger, intact railroad that was gobbled up by the expansionist NW in the '60s. But honestly, this was pure luck on my part...
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