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What Railroad or Railroads do you model

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Posted by Kenfolk on Monday, March 17, 2008 7:40 PM

Freelancing here.

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Posted by Artur on Monday, March 17, 2008 7:30 PM
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.
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Posted by tomkat-13 on Monday, March 17, 2008 7:09 PM

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

 

I model MKT & CB&Q in Missouri. A MUST SEE LINK: Great photographs from glassplate negatives of St Louis 1914-1917!!!! http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/kempland/glassplate.htm Boeing Employee RR Club-St Louis http://www.berrc-stl.com/
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Posted by on30francisco on Monday, March 17, 2008 7:02 PM
My railroad is an indoor large scale freelanced narrow gauge logging/industrial line set around the early 1900s.
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Posted by tomikawaTT on Monday, March 17, 2008 6:58 PM

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)

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Posted by BigBlueConrail on Monday, March 17, 2008 6:25 PM
I model CSX in modern day.
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Posted by joseph2 on Monday, March 17, 2008 6:17 PM
I model a merger of the Erie and Milwaukee Railroads . Erie cause it went thru my hometown,Milwaukee because I like Western scenery.  Joe
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Posted by saronaterry on Monday, March 17, 2008 6:06 PM

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.

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Posted by New Haven I-5 on Monday, March 17, 2008 5:55 PM
 Texas Zepher wrote:
 New Haven I-5 wrote:
 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.

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Posted by Tracklayer on Monday, March 17, 2008 5:20 PM

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.

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Monday, March 17, 2008 5:19 PM
 New Haven I-5 wrote:
 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.
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Posted by Guilford Guy on Monday, March 17, 2008 5:12 PM

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

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Posted by Robby on Monday, March 17, 2008 4:57 PM
The Louisville & Nashville (L&N) in 1978-80 era so I can run all the Alcos I want.
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Posted by gandydancer19 on Monday, March 17, 2008 4:31 PM
I freelance so that i can model anything that I want.

Elmer.

The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.

(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.

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Posted by Santa Fe buff on Monday, March 17, 2008 4:27 PM
I model Santa Fe. 
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What Railroad or Railroads do you model
Posted by New Haven I-5 on Monday, March 17, 2008 8:33 AM
 I model AT&SF, KCS, UP, NH,SP,NP, D&RGW, & Southern. What railroad or railroads do you model?

- Luke

Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's

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