What railroad(s) do you model?

[Anonymous]

I model 1999-2004 Conrail, Norfolk Southern, and Reading & Northern with my fictional Allentown Scranton & Northern. [:)]

[Anonymous]

After many years of searching. I have finally settled on a definitive answer. Late 1960s Great Northern, 1970s Burlington Northern, (So I can run Cascade Green or Big Sky Blue depending on my mood) and my freelanced Tyco Valley and Chattanooga. (I have to do something with those old Tyco Chattanooga Choo Choo Locos from my early days) I also have a modest collection of Union Pacific Steam. I think I will repaint what I can into GN, and let the rest collect dust.

James

[vsmith]

You didnt specify if freelances or prototype so.....

The Borracho Railroad, serving the Borracho Brewery and the town of Borracho Springs in the remote desert southwest. Set in the period between 1947 and 1957. Large scale 1/20.3 narrow guage indoor layout. Roster consists of about 6 small Baldwin and Porter 0-4-0 steam locos and about 6 gas/mechanical critters.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

You didnt specify if freelances or prototype

Both freelance and prototype plus prototype-freelance (like the AS&N)

[Anonymous]

BNSF and Amtrak in Oklahoma[:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

UP, SP, ATSF, D&RGW, WP, CB&Q, and CNW in the 1940s and 50s. Big Steam, Classic Diesels, and Turbines! [:D]

[Anonymous]

The fictional Allegheny, Mercer, and Lake Erie running from North Bessemer to Wesleyville, PA (just east of Erie) in September-October 1998. Runs iron ore, auto parts, and intermodal south and automobiles, coal, and intermodal north. Or at least it runs all that on paper, considering all that exists so far is a drawing of a limestone loading facility on kraft paper.

[ClinchValleySD40]

August 8 1980. My Clinch Valley interchanges with

L&N and Southern in Knoxville, N&W at Richlands, Logan Southern at Logan, Chessie (C&O), V&O and DT&I at Huntington.

Since all are staging, there is plenty of foreign power bringing trains on and off the layout.

[conrailpolice]

Conrail in West Va.

[GDRMCo]

I model the great Range Road a.k.a Great Dividing Range Mining & Manufacturing Company (GDRM&MCo) in the 1960's because some of their late steam like the monstorus 2-10-2s and 2-10-4s and the high speed, high horsepower 2-10-6s are still in operation. The other RR's that interchange with the GDRM&MCo are Quality Rail a.k.a Quality Co., a stuck up RR like Union Pacific, and LTV Queensland, a class 2 steel mining RR with a large fleet of the Lengendary Steamers, the ALCo PA/PBs. Intermodal, Iron Ore, Auto Parts and time sensitive Merchandise are all a big part of each RR's revenue. The layout should be complete by 2006.

[mustanggt]

My layout is gonna be Boston to LA, So I have Santa fe, bn, csx, guilford (MEC,B&M), Amtrak , MBTA and occasional cameos by by a UP SD40-2[:P]

[AggroJones]

Primarily ATSF and Southern Pacific. A little D&RGW, NP, WP, and UP back in the transition era.

[CP5415]

The Canadian PacificD&H & SOO in the US Northeast with a dash of the MEC/B&M for an interchange.
Pretty much Protolanced here.
I'm still working on another interchange to include Conrail/UP & or whatever I can fit in.

Gordon

[Anonymous]

ATSF, SP, UP, and BN in the transition era. No specific towns just the mountainous region of the western United States.

[cmrproducts]

Conrail Lowgrade from Dubois to East Brady, PA in the '75 to '85 time period. The layout is in a 75' by 25' basement and has 6 active shortlines which feed the Lowgrade line (B&LE, Falls Creek RR, B&P, P&S, LEF&C and the Sligo & Rimersburg railroad). The layout is a historical representation of the real thing and I used the Contrail ZTS track charts (1984) to layout all of the towns along the route.

BOB H Clarion, PA

[Anonymous]

I model my Eastern Railroad after Pennsyslvania RR between Philadelphia and New York City, in the 1950's. Also I use Train Dispatcher, between these two city. If i am not run my trains, I am on my computer.

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[SSW9389]

The trains of Stockton, California in the 1960s and 1970s. Lots of different paint went through that town.

[Anonymous]

CB&Q and CRI&P in 1940's to 1950's Iowa.

[Noah Hofrichter]

Right now I model Wisconsin and southern Rolling stock in a fictional setting, just someplace in WIsconsin. My Next layout will be based as prototypicaly as possible on the Wisconsin and southern's Reedsburg Sub.

Noah

[CBQ_Guy]

CB&Q in the late 1960's primarily.

Also interchanges, most live and a couple passive, with TP&W/ATSF, Rock Island, CNW, IC, PC, and maybe Milwaukee Road.

I will also model a freelance urban switching line, name and color scheme yet to be decided, possibly the Merchant's Interlink RR or some such.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Heartland Flyer

BNSF and Amtrak in Oklahoma[:D][:D]

Dude, Rock On !!!!!![8D][8D][8D] I want to model that as well as the MKT, Rock Island, Farmrail, and AT&L. all in Oklahoma !

[Anonymous]

I model the Florida East Coast, CSX, and BNSF in modern day North Florida on my Branford & Southern Division.

Although "it ain't prototypic", I like to occassionally run my BN F-7s pulling 1930 smooth side BN passenger cars.

Frank
Branford, FL

[Anonymous]

I model in S scale and do the Ma&Pa (Maryland & Pennsylvania) and my home road, Deer Creek & Susquehanna RR in the 1945-1950 era. I also build & collect N&W passenger trains in HO. Go figure?!?!?!

Roger

[Sperandeo]

Hi,

I model the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe line over Cajon Pass in Southern California (the First District of the Los Angeles Division of the Coast Lines) as it was in 1947.

That means that I'm also a de facto Union Pacific modeler, because UP trains had (as they still have) trackage rights over the Santa Fe line from Daggett, just east of Barstow, over the First District from Barstow to San Bernardino, and down the Third District to Riverside Junction.

This was heavy-duty steam/diesel transition time on both railroads, as both would be dieselized (on this part of their systems) by 1953. I like having clearly delineated prototypes to model in a relatively narrow time frame – I don't see this as restrictive but informing. I either know or can find out what the railroad was like at that time and then do my best to re-create it.

so long,

Andy

[jwmurrayjr]

My San Juan Southern "freelance" (To the max!) layout was inspired by the Rocky Mountain railroads of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The SJSRR layout is based on what little RR and prototype knowledge I have at any given time and which I hope will increase with time.[:I]

The time period is 1949 and the SJSRR serves regional mining and lumber industries and interchanges with the D&RGW which is the source of many of the necessities of life and commerce for the San Juan area.

We've got a handle on it now! [:p]

(Borrowed from a MRR friend.)

[:)]

[Anonymous]

Mostly the SOO LINE of the 60's & 70's Along with the Chicago & North Western, & am now in the process of merging the Wisconsin & Southern into the mix. All rural Wisconsin settings with some small towns, I am in the process of rebuilding right now.

[the-big-blow]

As the name implies I model the UP in the Turbine Era.

[Anonymous]

In the process of modeling the Vermont Railway and Green Mountain railroad and due to the railroads being small, rolling stock is hard to come by

[88gta350]

my "fictional" short line (the Indian Valley Railroad) is based on a real short line (the Kishacoquillas Valley Railroad) in the Apalachian mountains of Pennsylvania that was abandoned in 1940. My IVRR models the line as if it had survived into modern day. A full history can be seen on my website, link in the signature.

[darth9x9]

Chessie System and its predecessors (B&O, WM, C&O) from 1973 through 1983. Of course there are the occasional 'visitor' trains from RF&P, N&W, Conrail (PRR, PC), Reading, Southern, NY&SW, L&N, and DT&I.