TheP725 I Decided To Go With Central Georgia And Eastern! Now, I Need Help In Figuring Out The Railroad's Livery! My Favorite Color Is Blue, So The Primary Color Shoild Be Blue! What Should The Other Color Be?
I Decided To Go With Central Georgia And Eastern! Now, I Need Help In Figuring Out The Railroad's Livery! My Favorite Color Is Blue, So The Primary Color Shoild Be Blue! What Should The Other Color Be?
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Rich
Alton Junction
richhotrain Shock Control The Parsley, Sage & Rosemary. But not Thyme?
Shock Control The Parsley, Sage & Rosemary.
The Parsley, Sage & Rosemary.
But not Thyme?
This just in: representatives of Thyme have filed a lawsuit in district court to require Parsley Sage & Rosemary RR to extend trackage to Thyme, and that Thyme be granted full partnership including being added to the name of the railroad.
If Georgia Central won't work, you could do Central Georgia & Eastern or other. The only thing I would suggest would be to resist cutesy names like Itsy Bitsy Lines, etc. because you will most likely grow tired of it quickly.
[/quote] Blue, So The Primary Color Should Be Blue, But What Should The Other Color Be?
Hello All,
richhotrainBut not Thyme?
No, they were never on "Thyme!"
"Parsley" because the conductor was always late saying goodbye to his wife "Rosemary."
The name of my railroad is The Buckskin & Platte R.R. (B.S. & P. R.R.) Coal Branch Loop.
The name is derived from the confluence of Buckskin Creek; which bisects our town, and the Middle Fork of The South Platte River.
Yes, I did take some liberty in splitting the word "buckskin" to make B.S.
An actual coal branch loop exists outside of Paonia, Colorado, that I based my pike on.
The parent company of my railroad is The Consolidated Materials Group Inc.
Early on in the inception of my pike, I decided to make as much of it as possible out of "found items" to scratch build as much as possible.
Some of my rolling stock if scratch built out of coffee stir sticks, "popsicle" sticks, and "tongue depressors" which can be found unused in the craft section of most home improvement or craft stores.
You can work forward from geographic features or work backward from an acronym.
My first thoughts for naming my railroad were P.S. & B.S. (Platte Southern and Buckskin).
P.I.A.S.S. (Placer Interchange At Southpark Smelting). Our town of Alma, Colorado, is located in the Placer Valley.
M.S.L. & R.G. (Marble Short Line & Rio Grande) which could be a short line from Marble, Colorado- -which supplied marble for the monuments in Washington D.C., to the main line of the Denver & Rio Grande West.
Your naming choices are only limited by your imagination.
Hope this helps.
"Uhh...I didn’t know it was 'impossible' I just made it work...sorry"
Heartland Division CB&QI see Kevin is here with examples of his freight cars with fictional railroads. (Side note to kenvin: One of your cars has reporting marks of Alaska Railroad, ARR, for its fitional railroad. )
I gave up a long time ago trying not to duplicate prototype reporting marks.
Once I decided that every freight car on my layout would be fictional, the use of "real world" reporting marks made no difference.
Then I made the mistake of duplicating reporting marks on ficticious freight cars.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
nealknowsMy railroad is named the "Atlantic Pacific Railroad" and named that way since I like the railroads on both side of the US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_and_Pacific_Railroad
BTW Atlanta GA was founded by, and named after, the Western & Atlantic railroad (I think it was originally called "Atlantica"(?)). There are several towns that were named by / named after railroads, including Centralia IL and St. Louis Park MN.
NittanyLion Something I do know from my familiarity with Georgia is that they have a lot of very small counties. I'm told is has to do with an old times requirement of county seats being a day's horse ride from all points in the county. Very rarely do counties share their name with their county seat's name. Savannah & Atlanta is taken? Well, Chatham & DeKalb isn't. There's a Macon County, but Macon (the city) is in Bibb County. They're 40 miles apart. Macon's seat is Oglethorpe. There's an Oglethorpe County, though, 125 miles away. Way to make things entirely confusing, Georgia.
Something I do know from my familiarity with Georgia is that they have a lot of very small counties. I'm told is has to do with an old times requirement of county seats being a day's horse ride from all points in the county. Very rarely do counties share their name with their county seat's name. Savannah & Atlanta is taken? Well, Chatham & DeKalb isn't.
There's a Macon County, but Macon (the city) is in Bibb County. They're 40 miles apart. Macon's seat is Oglethorpe. There's an Oglethorpe County, though, 125 miles away. Way to make things entirely confusing, Georgia.
I've lived here for about 4 years and noticed there are a bunch of counties in this state. Seems inefficient.
I haven't seen too many folks on horseback commuting to the courthouse lately, so maybe some consolidation would be a good way to save tax dollars. ( We have a 6.0% state income tax and a 7.0% sales tax, those are high where I come from)
Lots of opportunities for naming a railroad though.
- Douglas
Welcome to the forum.
This topic can be a lot of fun. I had a previous layout with 1900 era trains and scenery. It was named the Grime & Soot Railroad. It had three stations: Hither, Thither, and Yon.
I see Kevin is here with examples of his freight cars with fictional railroads. (Side note to kenvin: One of your cars has reporting marks of Alaska Railroad, ARR, for its fitional railroad. )
I think you should name your railroad after towns along the line on your layout.
My current layout is a fictional division of a real railroad (CB&Q).
Have fun !
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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I created a few fictional railroads and cities.
Railroads:
Georgia, North Carolina Railroad Company- GNRC
Georgia, North Carolina, and Ohio Railway- GNOR
Their the same company with a slight name change prior to WWII for America.
Sienna Black Star Organization- SBSO Sienna is a name of a town in California.
Mississippi Rail System- MSS It follows the same trackage as Illinois Central.
Cities:
Ephraim, NY- named after Molly Ephraim from Last Man Standing.
Pine Spears, WA- Britney Spears still my favorite artist.
Sienna, CA- Sienna Miller (because)
Kittridge, PA- name from a book I believe but I added an extra t.
Queenston Capital, CA- ?
Clintonia, IN- Its name after a flower and the past president.
There's more I believe but I care remember all of them in my mind. I would go more in depth but believe me it's like reading actual history report.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Look back at the history of the railroads in that area. There might be a long gon eline or what's called a paper railroad you could develop. Mine line, the Nittany Valley Southern was a paper railroad. It was created by the Bellefonte Central to connect to the NYC branch just north of state college PA to give them a second outside connection. They also wanted to obtain the Pennsylvania branches and NYC branches in the area and consolidate them. Since the low traffic wasn't appealing or financially operable to Pennsylvania Rr. In the 80's that ultimately did happen with what was left and the Nittany and Bald Eagle was created. I surmised what if the NVS had been built and all the lines comsolidated under that name years earlier.
simply did some plausible history rewrite and there We are. Plus it was interesting to find an industry completely over looked along with a history of the reagion not known yet. Important to railroad history in general.
Shane
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
MARTIN STATIONI believe the guy even offered the P&L his paint scheme if I remember correctly. So in that case that makes the model railroad the actual prototype.
An interesting detail is that the NYC 'lightning stripe' was preferred but the shop had none in stock. One was found ASAP but ... the board had already approved the original.
I suspect at this point the fake paint has survived longer than any other paint scheme applied to a Baldwin Shark!
mbinsewiYea, well, years ago, I named my fictional shortline the Great Lakes Central. But in March, 2006, the Tuscola & Saginaw Bay RR., (TSBY) was bought by Federated Railways, Inc., and they changed the name to the Great Lakes Central! Where is the justice!! I still call mine the GLC. Mike.
If I'm not mistaken the Paducah and Louisville railroad which took over rail lines from the IC was someone's name for their model railroad. I believe the guy even offered the P&L his paint scheme if I remember correctly. So in that case that makes the model railroad the actual prototype.
Ralph
Or if you're less serious, you could do a whimsical play on words, like that standing joke name about a law firm:
Dewey, Cheetum, & Howe
TheP725 Okay, I Need A New Name For My Fictional Railroad That I Will Model In HO Scale. The Original Name Was Georgia Central Railroad, But Upon Doing Research, I Discovered That The Georgia Central Is A Real Company, So Now I Need A New Name For The Company.
Okay, I Need A New Name For My Fictional Railroad That I Will Model In HO Scale. The Original Name Was Georgia Central Railroad, But Upon Doing Research, I Discovered That The Georgia Central Is A Real Company, So Now I Need A New Name For The Company.
I live in Georgia and was having the same issue. All the good Georgia names for railroads are taken.
How about Chattahoochie Eastern. Would apply to most of the State, as long as the railroad was somewhere close to the Chattahoochie.
Theres a shortline in NW GA, Chattooga and Chickamauga. That's a dandy.
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MisterBeasleyI seriously like railroad names with Native American names and names of rivers, lakes, canyons and ridges. The tribes that lived where railroads were built and the geography of the lands they crossed are part of their history and their heritage.
I have painted a few of those for ficticious railroads.
I like them too.
Yea, well, years ago, I named my fictional shortline the Great Lakes Central. But in March, 2006, the Tuscola & Saginaw Bay RR., (TSBY) was bought by Federated Railways, Inc., and they changed the name to the Great Lakes Central!
Where is the justice!!
I still call mine the GLC.
Mike.
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Rats! It was too good not to be taken, I guess.
How about 'Georgia Midland' (with paint taken from the English Midland after the fashion Southern followed with the Ps-4s)...
Overmod Heart of Georgia (with a heart replacing the 'O' in the acronym; I acknowledge some potential conflict with Arkansas Razorback fans...) Or a peach perhaps: "It's a Peach of a Line"
Heart of Georgia (with a heart replacing the 'O' in the acronym; I acknowledge some potential conflict with Arkansas Razorback fans...)
Or a peach perhaps: "It's a Peach of a Line"
There is a real HOG. They're part of the G&W family now and instead of the G&W couplers logo, they have a hog that looks curiously like the Arkansas razorback.
First of all "welcome". How about Chattahoochee and Southern? If you have to paint your own locomotives, you can use C&S from Colorado and Southern railroad and RR or RW for railroad or railway decals which means you only have to put two sets of cut outs together, ie: C&SRR or C&SRY. Also if you wanted to use locomotives that were aquired from another railroad you could just sub letter your reporting marks under the cab road numbers like many start up railroads do. Since C&S was owned by Burlindton Northern, the small sub-lettering decals are already available as are lots of decals that have RR or RY. Makes it really simple.
Good luck and let us know what name you decide to go with.
You make it sound like a bad thing. But if you do fictional, you'll have to paint and decal a lot of models; but if that's your thing ...
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
I seriously like railroad names with Native American names and names of rivers, lakes, canyons and ridges. The tribes that lived where railroads were built and the geography of the lands they crossed are part of their history and their heritage.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
The Georgia Gnat Line. Runs smack dab across the center of the state.
LINK to SNSR Blog
up831The only thing I would suggest would be to resist cutesy names
Absolutely, cutesey names are a bad idea. So are naming the railroad after family members like the SHARONVILLE AND DAVIDTON.
My railroad is named the "Atlantic Pacific Railroad" and named that way since I like the railroads on both side of the US... Now I can run any engines from those areas. Since I am east coast based, my railroad can lease engines from the UP, BNSF, KCS, and CSX!
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Fictional? How 'bout "The Orlon & Wah-Watusi"...
Tom
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