What railroad do you model??

[TrainFreak409]

Well, let's see...

I model the Scott Squad Railroad. It is freelanced, obviously, and being such, I have the freedom to model any region, any area, any city, or more simply put, the freedom to model anything I want. When no prototype railroad fully meets your interest, the next best thing is to make your own.[8D]

Now, about the era...I would call it modern day, but here's the catch. The Scott Squad Railroad runs everything; steam, diesel, turbine, electric, you name it. So, it isn't exactly modern day, in this dimension, but maybe in another dimension railroads run a whole mis-match, hodge-podge of locomotives.

I model what brings me the most joy, EVERYTHING.[:D]

[Pruitt]

Primarily CB&Q in Wyoming, with a little C&NW and NP also.

My era is roughly 1930 to 1945, chosen for three reasons - I like steam; The cars in that era are mostly 40 footers (the freight cars, anyway), so for a given train length the number of cars is greater for that era than for a more modern era, but they aren't difficult to find; and finally, it's a big nostalgia trip for me - nostalgia for a time shortly before I was born (that was 1956).

My website explains in more detail - see my signature block.

[tcf511]

I model the transition era. Where I live was a junction between the SRR and N&W so I model both with a freelanced shortline thrown in.

[Anonymous]

Well, I've actually just recently got started building my new layout. I am modeling NS and Conrail from 1996-2006. My layout is a 4x16 and I plan on adding a few inches to each side. I keep the same layout as it is, but I change the years, one day I might operate in 1996 with NS and Conrail trains and the next day I might operate in 2000, right after CR merger, and I will operate CSX trains then instead of Conrail. I am also going to run a few engines from some of the other railroad companies.

[DrummingTrainfan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Norfolk Southern Railfan
I am modeling NS and Conrail

How come that doesn't suprise me? [;)][^][:-,][swg]

[Anonymous]

BNSF

[waltersrails]

Right now i'm modeling 1993 NS CSX CN and Conrail . But it might change later on just like real railroads have to change and make progress.

[countershot]

union pacific in any year i feel like anything from 1900 to 2005 and above!

[Paul3]

The New York, New Haven & Hartford RR Co., from day 1 to January 1st, 1969, 12:01 am. I also dabble in MBTA (one train set), and any other modern equipment that I've actually ridden on.

Other than that, modern railroading in New England is plain dull and boring. To go from an era where the NH had a dozen symbol freights every day between Boston and New York to an era where there is none...why would anyone want to model that?

Paul A. Cutler III
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Weather Or No Go New Haven
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[BRVRR]

Mainly the NYC, Santa Fe and the BRV house road.
Recently, new motive power has been mostly big steam. Niagaras, Heavy Mikes, Pennsy K-4 etc.
The BRVRR can/does run in two eras. In the modern era the lines are CSX, NS, Conrail and Amtrak.
Like TrainFreak, I run what I like.
My website sets the stage and shows the layout, motive power, structures etc.

[Anonymous]

I'm doing the Southern in 1955, fed by my own railroad, the LB&H (Lost, Bewildered & Hostile), built in a mythical Cooter County, Alabama...somewhere between Atlanta and Birmingham. It's in HO.

Erik

[icmr]

Thanks for the replies. This turned out better than I thought.



ICMR

[doctorwayne]

I model the equipment of four affiliated free-lance railroads, and parts of the trackage of two of them. There is an interchange with the other two, plus inter-change with the TH&B, NYC, and CNR. I originally set out to model the mid '50's and by changing locomotives and rolling stock, along with a few key structures, 1976. Eventually, most of the '70's stuff got sold and as I learned more about "fallen flags" from the past, my interest shifted to the mid -to- late '30's. There were a lot more roadnames back in the fifties and even more back in the thirties. I grew up during the fifties and part of the fun in watching a train go by was seeing all of the freight cars from places all over North America. I have lots of equipment lettered for the free-lance roads and the interchange partners, plus Canadian and northeastern US roads and I enjoy painting and detailing prototypes from all over the continent. If it ran on standard gauge track, then there's the chance that it ran through the area that you're modelling.

[GN-Rick]

My signature is pretty self-explanatory. I grew up with it in the 60s.
I chose 1947 to 1967 because of the incomparable Empire Builder
color scheme and I also like GN's steam locomotives and the diesels
from the era. I cut off at the Big Sky Blue era-not a bad scheme, but it
replaced an all-time classic![:D]

[HoosierDaddy]

I'm working on modeling an HO freelance version of the Monon at the end of the transition era. I also plan to have plenty of visitors from the other railroads in the area from the same time period including the Nickle Plate and the Wabash.

There will also be occasional visits from a wandering Rock Island F7 consist that happens to be an HO version of the O27 scale diesels I've had since I was a kid.

HD

[tpd0418]

I model the Atlantic Coast Line - early '60s - lots of freight trains led by multiple EMD first generation units - no Amtrak - before the merger with Seaboard Air Line.

[Anonymous]

Mid-nineties BNSF and Soo line in the upper midwest. First generation Dash 9s and MACs with some older geeps, running in mixed BNSF Heritage 1, BN green and BN executive, Soo line leases track rights and is in the midst of converting over to DMV&W.

[MidlandPacific]

Colorado, circa 1913 (building the layout for 1913, but I sometimes take the composite boxcars and Mallets off and presto, it's 1903). My layout concept is a freelanced combination of the Colorado Midland, Denver & Salt Lake and the Western Pacific - a Denver-to-the-West Coast bridge route. Up and running, but not scenicked yet.

[Anonymous]

Southern Railway/Norfolk Southern with a tad of SCL/CSX

It's all about where I live or have lived. My era is 1970's-1980's

Bob DeWoody

[dragenrider]

I model a short line in the Ozark Mountains. My Cedar Branch & Western runs on old Mopac branch line to serve several industries still surviving in the valleys and nearby small towns of the Ozarks. The time period is vague, roughly 1960-1980. The Mopac still puts in an occasional appearance.



The main products are coal, wood commodities, and grain. The hills are steep, the track is rough, and the speeds are very slow. All my engines are regeared and remotored for excellent slow speed performance and pulling power.



Long live the shortlines!

[tsasala]

My layout is freelance in western PA in the mosly present day. Mainly CR, NS, CSX and the new reincarnation of the CI line.

-Tom

[Anonymous]

ahahha, i guess im not the only one who chooses to model a western ralroad in an eastern Pa industrial scene, i model the Lehigh Valley, and Union Pacific, all in one, Leghigh Valley, with home track rights, and the YOU PEE, all merged together to form my Lehigh Union Railroad!! If only there were such a thing

[rockisland4309]

I model the Rock Island from 1969 to 1980. When I eventually build my layout it will based on the Rock's Golden State Route between Dalhart, TX and Liberal, KS. I also have SP "run-through" power which both railroads did quite a bit in the '70s. Especially on the Golden State.

[skiloff]

My plan for about 20 years now has been to build a layout that extends from the Canadian prairies to the port of Vancouver through the Rockies. In it, I want to include the famous spiral tunnels at Roger's Pass as well as the Black Bear Bridge. This is mostly CP country, but I can get away with some Soo, CN, Via, BN and BCR along the way, and if I go modern, the West Coast Express could make an appearance, but I don't know if I'll do that.

I like the "tube" trains, so I'd have a grain facility for grain cars, an intermodal at each end with coal and/or wood being the other major industry. I'd probably have to have oil and gas in some capacity, too, but it already is pretty ambitious. I figure in N scale I could do this comfortably in a 12x20 space, likely double decked because I like to have the trains run "long" distances between stops. I could probably cram it in a smaller area, but to really do it justice, it just wouldn't be the best. And I don't have a 12x20 space, so it is still quite a few years before I begin. Hopefully not 20 more.

[okiechoochoo]

Santa Fe and some Southern Pacific in the transition era up to 1971. SP is strictly for the wife as she has to have the GS4 Daylight.

[bogp40]

Primarily B&O, C&O, WM & Chessie. Touch on Pere Marquette, ACL and B&LE
Bob K.

[Kurn]

I model the B&O in March,1957.Still some steam,and it is during the system wide renumbering,so I can mix numbers.It's set around Pittsburgh,with some hilly little towns.I started expanding a bit,but the ol brain went into neutral so I'm not sure where I'm going from here.

[Anonymous]

I freelance, I have an HO scale railroad name Eastern RR. I do use nothing but PRR locos. Some passenger cars has Eastern RR on them

[icmr]

Thanks a lot. I really enjoy seeing a lot of different railroads being modeled. One thing I have noticed is that there aren't many IC modelers out there.



ICMR

[wctransfer]

Ha, we need some WC modelers not Harrison modelers [#wstupid][:P][:P]

Alec