Who operates their own roadname?

[Catt]

My Grande Valley runs from Elkhart,Ind. all the way to Petosky,Mich.It also veers east at Grand Rapids,Mich.and runs to Port Huron/Sarnia where it interchanges with two Canadian railroads and another US one based in Ohio.

All of these railroads are freelanced and are modeled in N scale.I also connect with another road in Elkhart that runs up to Chicago.This railroad interchanges with another road that is based in Wisconsin.Yup these roads are freelanced too.

Personaly I think there are at least as many freelancers as there are prototype modelers.

[cheese3]

i operate a small freelanced HO railroad under the name A.T.lines

[tcf511]

My layout will be freelanced based very loosely upon prototype. That way I can run equipment of the two RRs that operated in my modeled area for things like passenger trains. Having my own gives me the luxury of not having people point out that "the N&W didn't use those signals" or whatever. As I got started everyone would remind me that "it is your railroad do what you want" that goes even more so if you made it up. Mine is the Manassas Gap and Front Royal Railroad based loosely upon the Front Royal, VA area in the mid-1950s. I know other people who are freelancing as well.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse

I've been thinking about this for a while. Who for whatever reason, has developed their own small, regional or multinational railroad? It makes sense if what you want to do is either not available, never happened, or you just wanted to own you own railroad.

I suspect that there are not that many, so if you know of somebody who knows somebody, I'd still like to hear about it.

I think you'd probably be surprised at how many people do operate their own freelanced railroad. I think freelancing is a great way to go because you can be creative with type of operations, motive power, paint schemes, etc.

I have my own freelanced shortline railroad - the Delaware River & Western, which is currently undergoing construction in the guest room.

Kevin

[Fergmiester]

Aye!

Though Regional in scope I am making inroads as far as Texas and the Appalachians and have sights set for Foriegn shores.

Fergie

[rogerhensley]

QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse
I suspect that there are not that many, so if you know of somebody who knows somebody, I'd still like to hear about it.

I suspect that you are very wrong in that. There are probably as many Freelanced RRs as those based specifically on a prototype, maybe far more. This topic has been covered before in this and the Layout Forum. You can see my ECI HO Scale RR at: http://cid.railfan.net/eci_new.html

[Supermicha]

I have my own Columbia Southern Railroad, a small Class 2 Railroad with freight and regional passenger service in Virginia.
Link is below...

[SpaceMouse]

I've been thinking about this for a while. Who for whatever reason, has developed their own small, regional or multinational railroad? It makes sense if what you want to do is either not available, never happened, or you just wanted to own you own railroad.

I suspect that there are not that many, so if you know of somebody who knows somebody, I'd still like to hear about it.