Who operates their own roadname?

[Bill H.]

Tennessee Central. Nashville. Totally ficticious.

Serves Indianapolis to New Orleans and east to Knoxville. Heavy international traffic via Port of New Orleans.

[Milwhiawatha]

Fergmiester,
Well they are nice I havent seen them like that near me and I live near walthers. As for the tree farm myine went out of business ran out of seedlings lol.

[Fergmiester]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Milwhiawatha

Fergmiester,
whered you get th os awsome pine trees? I make my own but those are some nice ones is that HO scale?

On my HO scale Tree farm, where else[;)]

Actually I pick them up from the LHS. I'll provide details later as I'll have to look up the numbers in the catalogue.

[MidlandPacific]

The Midland Pacific - a combination of the old Colorado Midland (extended, as the real one never was, to Salt Lake City) and the Western Pacific. I'm building the first layout now, and it's going to represent the small triangle formed by Leadville, Wild Horse, and Arkansas Junction, circa 1913.

[Milwhiawatha]

Fergmiester,
whered you get th os awsome pine trees? I make my own but those are some nice ones is that HO scale?

[Fergmiester]

QUOTE: Originally posted by clinchvalley


Clinch Valley RR Co.

Hey I have one of those!



[:D]

[potlatcher]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Brunton

I run my own roadname - the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.

I heard someone else was using that for awhile, and I'm thinking of suing the company which they merged into, for trademark infringement.....

You should just charge them licensing fees for every locomotive or car on which they paint the letter "B" (which did come from the "Burlington" in your CB&Q, after all).

Tom

[Pruitt]

I run my own roadname - the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.

I heard someone else was using that for awhile, and I'm thinking of suing the company which they merged into, for trademark infringement.....

[Milwhiawatha]

I have my own railroad called the Midwest & Northern I really dont know what class it is some tell me its basically a class 1 but I didnt create it based on class just something to run and have fun with. At the time I didnt know there was a Pike registery with that name already but oh well so is the life of model railroading. I do my own decals and paint my own locomotives with minor super detail. I do exchange with fallen flags such as the Milwaukee Road, Wisconsin Central, SOO, some BNSF/ATSF. I also have steam excursions from L&N and the Milwaukee kept one of their Hiawathas. if you would like to see go here
http://www.freewebs.com/midwestandnorthern

[ClinchValleySD40]

Clinch Valley RR Co.

[vsmith]

The Borracho Springs Railway is a small short line narrow gauge railway operating between the New Mexico/Arizona border towns of Borracho Springs and Banjo Juction where it interchanges with the Standard Guage. It serves the Borracho Distillery, the Dina-Might? talcum powder co., the F.U.B.A.R. Mining Consortium. It also has a branchline to the small community of Snafu Acres serving the Snafu Inc silver mine, the Long Johnson Bar cattle ranch and the Fonda U sheep ranch [;)]

The managment will operate whatever equipment it can buy on the cheap and has a rather extensive roster for its size, thats because most need to be keep in the shop for repairs or are just taking up space. As a result the roster is a mix of what-ever from where-ever as long as it fits between the rails.[:p]

Freelancing is far more fun and offers more freedom than prototyping[:D]

[Anonymous]

How about a few well known freelance layouts Franklin and South Manchester (George Sellious) Hoosac Valley (*** Elwell) V & O (Allen McLellend) Gore and Dapheated (John Allen) Allegheny Midland (Tony Koester) , I could go on for pages. My own is the Neponset Ridge Shortline and I bought the decals from Rail Graphics

[tjsmrinfo]

my railroad is the HNH RY a class 3 bridge route with trackage rights over the Santa Fe.
early power is x conrail units and some second hand rolling stock.
i also created a railroad for my girlfriend called BHP&W which is Boston Hyde Park and Western, which will interchange/run through on HNH/Santa Fe tracks.

HNH stands for Huffman N Huffman.


tom

[Isambard]

My Grizzly Northern Railway is a CPR subsidiary, with a mainline that runs from Rocky Mountain House, Alberta to Kamloops, BC, via Geiranger BC and Grizzly, BC. A branchline from Geiranger services the Kingdom Copper Mine, the Brunel Coal Mine and several rural hamlets in the Rockies and Selkirks. The era is the mid 1940's, before the arrival of diesels.

The mainline motive power is currently comprised of 2-8-0 Consolidations and 2-10-0 Decapods. Delivery of a 2-10-2 to haul heavy drag freights is expected shortly. An 0-8-0 handles switching at Geiranger. A 3-truck Shay heads up ore trains on the branchline.

The Grizzly Northern had it's origins in the early 1960's, when inspired by boyhood memories of frequent trips through the Rockies on the CPR and by a 1959 trip through the Norwegian mountains, I decided to model a mountain railway, then to be called the Groetli Northern Railway. This remained at the time largely a paper activity.

Like many of us I had owned Marx and Lionel trains as a boy and done some HO modelling when in my teens (long long ago). Modelling activities beyond the paper stage were postponed for some 45 years however, as schooling, career, marriage and family became my pre-occupations.

On retirement several years ago and now with (some) spare time available, I decided to get back into model railroading. Layout sketches and notes for the Groetli Northern were pulled out from the archives and dusted off and motive power and rolling stock were purchased. I became an active member in a local model railroad club, greatly helping me up the learning curve with respect to new (to me) techniques and technologies, such as DCC.

While doing this, I also decided to write a "brief" history of the Groetli Northern to provide a framework for my modelling. This, after a considerable number of hours then lead to a five page historical document and a renaming of the railway to the Grizzly Northern.

Today, although a mountain railway, the Grizzly Northern operates on the flatlands of the club, pending the (potential) construction of a home layout.

If you're interested in reading the history of the Grizzly Northern, "as published in the 1 July 1938 Dominion Day edition of the "The Caribou News and Chronicle", drop me a line.

[:)]

[wjstix]

My road is the "St.Paul Route", the St.Paul Duluth and Canadian Ry. It's based on a real railroad, the St.Paul and Duluth which started as the Lake Superior and Mississippi around 1870. In 1900 the St.P&D was bought by Northern Pacific, but in my world that never happened. A nice thing about basing it on a one-time real RR is I had a starting point for a herald, a real crack passenger train name to use, and even a real slogan - "Route of the Famous Lake Superior Limited".

[GAPPLEG]

QUOTE: Originally posted by canazar

There is mine. [:)]

Really like the paint scheme you finally settled on, really sharp.[:D][8D]

[GAPPLEG]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Texas Zepher

QUOTE: Originally posted by GAPPLEG

Last but not least is the Texas Mining and Industrial railroad, my ficticious shortline.

What do they mine in Texas? Phosphate, potassium, gypsum, salt? They only have like 14 lignite mines in the whole place. Or is mining just a generic term used for things like sand, gravel, oil and gas.

http://www.nma.org/pdf/states_99/smbtx1999.pdf

Again I love the ambiguous, The TMI may run west from Texas into the NM copper mining areas, then again they may not. All I state for my layout is that it's located somewhere on the Lordburg sub. of the SP. ( I like to think my headquarters are near El Paso, that's where I grew up) One of the largest copper smelters in the US is there. )

[Anonymous]

I have been planning the Allegheny Midwestern. It is a Class I sandwiched between the Norfolk Southern and the Union Pacific. It 'links' the NS with the UP in PIttsburgh and Kansas City. The whole idea was spawned by the supermergers of the 80's and 90's.

[GN-Rick]

I model the Great Northern Railway (yes, I know) but in addition, as a traffic
source, I also have my own Three Lakes Timber Co., a logging railroad
connecting to my GN at Snohomish, Wa. This gives me a place to run
my small fleet of logging-type locomotives.

[marknewton]

We have one prototype layout, and one protofreelance project. The prototype layout is based on the Toyama Chihou Tetsudo, or "Chitetsu". It's a Japanese electrified commuter railway in HOj scale, 1/80th.

Our first US-prototype layout was based on the Nickel Plate in East Peoria, however our intention was to replace it after we moved house with a "proto-freelanced" HO layout which would be heavily inspired by the Chicago & Illinois Midland. It would have been called the Chicago, Peoria & St.Louis Railroad. Anyone knowledgable about the real C&IM will recognise this name as belonging to one of it's predecessor roads. It's a very "railroady" sounding name, I reckon.

I designed a herald for the C.P.& St.L. roadname, derived from the real C.&I.M. diamond herald. We applied the herald, and reporting marks to a couple of freight cars using Railroad Roman, and were very pleased with their appearance. The steam loco livery was that of the C.&I.M., with the large block numbers and red stripe on the tender.

Our one real departure from the example of the C.&I.M. was to design a colour scheme for the road's passenger diesels - Alco FAs - based on the Rock Island freight scheme, and using EMD streamliner-style lettering for the roadname. The freight diesels were going to be our old NKP units, with red/orange stripes substituted for the yellow, and C.P.&St.L. logos.

However, a change of job has meant my wife has little time at present for modelling, and I have other modelling interests to explore. So for now the C.P.& St.L. layout is on hold, although I continue to work on locomotives and rollingstock.

Cheerio,

Mark.

[DanRaitz]

I am currently modeling 2 RR's. The first is the Sn3 Nevada Midland Ry. This was a proposed (but never built) RR between Austin and Tonopah NV. The second is the HO scale Minnesota & International Ry. In my version of history this real RR DID NOT disappear into the Northern Pacific in 1941, but is alive and well.

Dan

[Medina1128]

The Clinton-Golden Valley RR is in the house! It's a fictional short line rail line that still carries coal from the Medina Valley Mining Co. to the coal-fired electrical plant in Montrose, MO. We also do a fair bit of logging, what with all the cedar and pine that we have growing locally. A rich eccentric was so enthralled by trains in his youth, that he bought his own Sante Fe F7s and streamline cars, a Union Pacific 4-8-4 led consist, a light Mike with requisite 40's era freight cars and a Santa Fe 4-8-4 led heavyweight consist. He brings them out for a bit of railfanning from time to time.

[canazar]

There is mine. [:)]

[dinwitty]

The club I was at I took a prototypical RR and narrow gauged it to be prototypically correct as far as the name goes, but the club layout was fictional, but UPish.
The club had its own decals and paint schemes.

I am going more prototypical now, but will have a narrow gauge line based on a real narrow gauge line the RR I will model that it interchanged with.
The real NG line was abandoned by then, but I will make it survived.

[colvinbackshop]

Even though I operate a DM&IR ore drag form the Soudan Mine to the ore docks at Duluth.....Most all other operation centers around two fictitious RR's.
The main one is the Colvin Creek Railway, a connecting route (mostly on abandoned DM&IR and General Logging right of way) between the routes of the GN, DW&P, SOO, some of the plethora of lines that serviced the Twin Ports of Duluth and Superior.
The other fictitious road is the lumbering/logging RR, of Sawyer Lumber Co. Again some of this operation is on old right of way of General Logging, Virginia & Rainy Lake and other logging lines.....that operated in the Arrowhead in the late 1800's to early 1900's.,
Again...It's a fictitious story, but based on accounts and major amounts of real fact and history, making it a more of a "What If ????" then pure fiction.
If you want to hear more on how it all came about, email me and I'll be happy to share! I've actually been writing a history of the CCRY.

[caldreamer]

My Golden State Railroad is a fictional bridge route in northen california that runs from Santa Clara near the south end of the San Francisco peninsula to Stockton in the San Juaquin Valley down to Modesto and than up he spine of the sierra nevada mountains to Alturus and then west through Klamath Falls, OR to Medford, OR.
We connect the six big western railroads to each other, as well a number of smaller local roads. None of the western mergers occured so we bridge the traffic for the BN, ATSF, UP, SP, WP and CORP. We ae very busy and profitable as no transcontinental or west coast north/south traffic can occur without going through us.

[Texas Zepher]

QUOTE: Originally posted by GAPPLEG

Last but not least is the Texas Mining and Industrial railroad, my ficticious shortline.

What do they mine in Texas? Phosphate, potassium, gypsum, salt? They only have like 14 lignite mines in the whole place. Or is mining just a generic term used for things like sand, gravel, oil and gas.

http://www.nma.org/pdf/states_99/smbtx1999.pdf

[BRVRR]

My Black River Valley Railroad is a fictional connecting line between the NYC and the Santa Fe somewhere in the middle United States. It turns out there was a real connection between the two roads in Streator, Illinois. No connecting road though. There is just one locomotive, a EMD F7 painted in the house livery. (Photo on my website). Plans for a couple of box cars and a caboose or two in the BRVRR livery haven't come to fruition yet. Lately, though, the BRVRR is becoming more and more, a part of the NYC.

[Anonymous]

look up my rant about the Conecticut River Valley Railroad. my freelanced"scavenger" railroad. it gets first pick at older desils and keeps them in service well past their usefullness, then theyre put into yard service.
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