What Railroad or Railroads do you model

[New Haven I-5]

 I model AT&SF, KCS, UP, NH,SP,NP, D&RGW, & Southern. What railroad or railroads do you model?

[Santa Fe buff]

I model Santa Fe. 

[gandydancer19]

I freelance so that i can model anything that I want.

[Robby]

The Louisville & Nashville (L&N) in 1978-80 era so I can run all the Alcos I want.

[Guilford Guy]

Generic Division of the Lamoille Valley. I also model B&M...

[Texas Zepher]

 I model AT&SF, KCS, UP, NH,SP,NP, D&RGW, & Southern. What railroad or railroads do you model?

That is quite an odd mish-mash of road names.  How exactly do you model them?  Do you mean you model a specific train from each one?  It obviously can't be shared scenery esp. with the NH and Southern in the mix.

[Tracklayer]

I don't "model" any road in particular. My layout is the model. Otherwise I just run trains as the spirit moves me... My steam era roads are Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Western Pacific, Rio Grande, Union Pacific, Nickel Plate Road and Norfolk & Western. My diesel roads are Union Pacific, CSX, Santa Fe (before the BNSF merger), Southern Pacific/Cotton Belt and Amtrak.

Tracklayer

[New Haven I-5]

 I model AT&SF, KCS, UP, NH,SP,NP, D&RGW, & Southern. What railroad or railroads do you model?

That is quite an odd mish-mash of road names.  How exactly do you model them?  Do you mean you model a specific train from each one?  It obviously can't be shared scenery esp. with the NH and Southern in the mix.

 My layout plan is freelanced. I have locos from those RR's. I forgot to add the Nickel Plate Road.

[saronaterry]

The BN in 1972, so I can run NP,GN,CB&Q and freshly painted BN units.And early Amtrak with various road passenger car consists.

Terry

[joseph2]

I model a merger of the Erie and Milwaukee Railroads . Erie cause it went thru my hometown,Milwaukee because I like Western scenery.  Joe

[BigBlueConrail]

I model CSX in modern day.

[tomikawaTT]

Given the location and era:

• Japan National Railways - right down to the prototype timetable.
• Kiso Forest Railway (762mm gauge logging line) under the name Kashimoto Rintetsu.
• Kurobe Railway (762mm, supports a major hydroelectric project and carries tourists) under the name Harukawa Dentetsu.
• Tomikawa Valley Railway - freelance roughly based on coal carrying JNR branches in Fukuoka-ken, with rolling stock never seen anywhere in Japan or elsewhere.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

[on30francisco]

My railroad is an indoor large scale freelanced narrow gauge logging/industrial line set around the early 1900s.

[tomkat-13]

MKT (Katy).....& CB&Q (Burlington Route).....pre BN...1964-1970.....in Eastern Missouri

 

[Artur]

I model CN, CP, VIA and GO. I'm not modeling any particular era so you will find anything from steam to SD90MAC's running at the same time.

[Kenfolk]

Freelancing here.

[Anonymous]

    I model logging operations in northern Michigan (haven't decided on a name yet, it's still under construction).

[Packers#1]

Freelancer, here. I model modern day, but I want to use diesels from the transition era, 70s, 80s. Might wind up having some modern day (SD70s) hauling coal drags or something.

[fireman216]

NYC in the transition era....autumn setting....with the 20th Century Limited...

[obermeyern]

I model the Missouri Pacific circa October 1979 in Northern Kansas.  I will also include the Rock Island same time frame as I find the history of both lines in that area interesting.  Granger modeling at its best.

 

Nate 

[Texas Zepher]

My layout plan is freelanced. I have locos from those RR's. I forgot to add the Nickel Plate Road.

So, as davidmbedard said, you aren't really modeling any of those railroads.  You have just happened to accumulate equipment from them.  A model is a representation of something real - usually in minature.    A freelance is a model of an something imaginary.  The more realistic the imagination the more realistic the model of it will be. A good freelance like the V&O is more difficult to do than just copying a prototype.

I have locomotives painted for many many railroads that I do NOT model.   On the other hand I do model specific "trains".  For example I have both real and freelanced California Zephyrs.  I can model it in any time period from 1949-1962, pulled by the D&RGW, CB&Q, or Colorado Central.  I do not have any WP locos to pull them with-yet. 

[salt water cowboy]

A freelanced New York Central mid to late '50s set in New England because of the fall foliage. (imagining trackage rights over the B&M also interchanging with the C&O because my wife loves the sleeping kitty!)

 

Matt

[NittanyLion]

When I was a youngin, my layout was a completely imaginary shortline in western Montana named the Timberline and Glacier Ridge Railroad.  It owned an ex-BN SW1000 and was connected to the greater world with Burlington Northern at Timberline, where an SD40-2 made appearances.  It was the "Modern Day" according to the double stack intermodal cars and that lone 89' flat car I had (which eased its away around those 22" curves quite precariously) but the high number of CBQ cars around challenged that notion.  Why a very small town in rural western Montana had a small intermodal facilty I'll never know.

A few years ago when I made an aborted reentry to the hobby, I devised a new freelance railroad.  Of course, being a college guy in a small apartment and other things demanding my limited funding (girls, beer, football, you know the essentials).  Now a few years later, with space and money, albeit both in small quanities, that railroad returned but in a moderately modified way.  I decided to return to my home town, where I knew what the land looked like and knew what I could model and not model but still give it the right look and feel.  I don't know what the heck Montana really looks like.  But I know what semi-rural but kinda urban small town Western Pennsylvania looks like.

Grafting together the Bessemer & Lake Erie (now CN), Buffalo & Pittsburgh (ex B&O), and a hefty helping of abandoned Conrail (ex Pennsy), I forged a mighty regional railroad that could only exist in myth or a Pennsylvania where the whole "Rust Belt" thing never happened.  Still firmly in the planning stages, awaiting a day its warm enough to go out in the garage to get to work, the Allegheny, Mercer, & Lake Erie is what I will model.  Or at least a scaled down half mile of its trackage in Butler PA.

Lot of words to say "I made one up."

[sfcouple]

A freelance logging railroad in Cass, WV in the early 1950's.

Wayne 

[Union Pacific Cascade Division Model RR]

Union Pacific all the way.

[cudaken]

 For my self, just about anything that catches my eye. If I where to do a cout most of my engines and rolling stock is Santa Fe.

 Engines at a quick guess.

 Santa Fe about 15, all but one war bonnet passanger, just gor a SD40-2 in freight.

 UP, 1 Big Boy, 2 GE AC 6000's and 1 Dash 9 with flag.

 Monon, 4 F-3, 4 BL-1 and 1 heavy Mike.

 SP, 3 engines with bloody nose

 2 Rio Grand engines, SD-50 and SD-7, 8 hoppers and 5 box cars.

 

 

            Cuda Ken

[SpaceMouse]

Hogwarts Express
Buffalo and Pittsburgh
Rock Ridge Railroad
Southern Pacific
Currently without a layout

PRR 1950
Has a layout

 

 

[stevechurch2222]

 I model the Milwaukee Road in HO Scale from Perry,Iowa-Savanna,Illinois from 1979-1985 as if the Milwaukee Road had the funds tp upgrade the entire iowa Division to 132 pound rail.I loved the SD40-2's and MP15AC's and am going to model the on my future layout. Steve Church MIlwaukee Road Iowa Division

[highhood63]

I model the Norfolk Western/Southern Merger in 1987. I get to use NW, Southern and early Norfolk Southern power, you can still see Cabeese and get to enjoy a unit coal train heading for the Rockbury Steam Station.  The name of my pike is the Peidmont Southern and is set in South Central North Carolina.

[ArtOfRuin]

I orginally was going to model Guilford until I heard all the horror stories. Since I already had a couple of GRS-painted locos and unpainted locos that are GRS-specific, I decided to instead "proto-lance" a new parent who bought GRS from the current and turned it back into the B&M and MEC. So I'll have a rainbow fleet of B&M bluebirds, MEC green/gold, and GRS gray/orange. I also have some Conrail and P&W stuff I'm going to use as run-through power.