Do you have a made up RR company?

[SilverSpike]

The Westbank, Algiers, and Lower Coast Railroad.

Industries Served:
Pioneer Timber Company
Westbank Lumber
Sparky LPG Depot
Jose Fresh Fruits
Mo's Betta Coal Co.
Bryan Meat Packers
Benn Station (Passenger)
Ryan's Hardware Dist.
ADM Grain Mills


Ryan

[trolleyboy]

Hi the trolley line on the layout is called the Heatherton&Scottsdale Radial Railway it runs city street cars and light intururbans between the fictional above named cities. It also runs some electric freight operations that interchange with CN/CP and the TH&B in southern ontario. Paint scheme for the streetcars and intururbans is pullman green bodies with TH&B creame doore and windows. Work equipment and steeple cabs black with silver end warning chevrons all numbers are silver railroad roman,no logo yet still wirking on that. Rob

[Hakuhatsu]

QUOTE: Originally posted by emdgp92

My own Waynesburg & Washington is a composite of a few locations on the real narrow-gauge W&W, which ran between those two towns in southwest PA. Even though it went out of business years ago, I model it as it would have existed during the late 1970s, but with standard-gauge equipment. I've applied for (and received) my modeler's license. W&W operations terminated in Waynesburg, PA. However, I've extended the line south to interchange with the Monogahela RR. The northern interchange is with the B&O in Washington. Engines are painted PC black, with W&W lettering in place of PC's. Frieght cars are PC green with W&W lettering.

[Anonymous]

GAP
Gulf-Atlantic-Pacific
Coast to Coast to Coast
From Fla. to Maine to Calif.
American Flag under lettering
I have my own decals which will be on a lot of the engines & freight cars.
Haven't yet came up w/a color scheme.

[Texas Zepher]

What is its name, what are the colors:
Pine Ridge & North River Railroad (Regional - original from high school days)
Somewhere along the Colorado/New Mexico boarder.
Logo: three abstract pine trees
Freight dark green with gold-yellow arrow heads.
Passenger silver with dark green arrow heads.
Unfortunately a decked out caboose ended up looking like a crayon box.

Pikes Peak, Fossil Creek & Tesla (Industrial RR expanded to Shortline)
Services the Tesla Wireless Power company in Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas.
Logo: An ammonite in a mountain with lightening bolts over the top.
Colors: tan & yellow. No standardized schemes developed yet.

Club:
Platte Valley & Western Railroad (class one)
Logo: oval with Buffalo or PV&W intertwined (like C&S) inside.
Freight Dark Green with white sash on bottom (like Southern, but swoop over nose is like IC).
Passenger Like freight only a second white sash on "window" panel. This makes the passenger cars look like MOPAC if you replace the blue with green.

Club Narrow Gauge
San Juan & Clear Creek
Logo: mountian stream with tree & deer.
colors - all steam black. The caboose are caboose red. stock cars black, box cars oxide, reefer's are white, gondolas and flats never got painted.

[MidlandPacific]

The Midland Pacific Railway, running from Golconda, CO to Yalta, CA. It's set in 1913 and is imagined as a more successful and longer version of the Colorado Midland, with an extension to the Pacific Coast, a la the WP. Motive power is transition, a lot of 4-6-0s and 2-8-0s, but with a solid overlay of new-for-1913 power - a lot like the D&RG!

[deevs]

Mine is the Detroit Saganaw & Vassor and it covers the great lakes

[aloco]

Yeah. It's a short line called the LBSS&G (Lopsided, Backwards, Smeared, Smudged & Gouged). The name is dedicated to the many slip-ups I've made painting locomotives over the years. The LBSS&G paint scheme is Pennsylvania Brunswick green with a whole lot of grime and rust. The roster consists of three diesels: an Alco RSD-4, an Alco S-2, and a Baldwin VO-1000.

[jabrown1971]

Since mine is small and the only connection to the outside world is the 0-5-0 switcher, I call it the Roundabout Shortline. I do have passenger and freight trains. I have mostly Amtrak, N & W and Wabash equipment, with some Conrail, UP and Santa Fe thrown in to keep my boys happy. I also have some Auto-Train equipment that I use for freight trains. The slogan of the Roundabout Shortline-We'll get it there-The long way around

[eastcoast]

My EMPIRE is;
East Coast Railways. It is a Class II road that competes with CSX and NS for
frieght business on the eastern coastline. We also are attempting to put
Amtrak out of business,but this is a very hard thing to do. Amtrak use more
modern equipment than the E C R and ridership is down.
My roster is made up of GE AMD 103's , FP 45 , EMD's and others on lease
from major rail lines. The Acela is a fine addition to my Northeast sector, but
we (E C R ) purchased a Japanese Bullet to stay in competition for speed.
It is a daily grind here on the eastcoast but our spirits are held high that we
will stay profitable against the others.

[Anonymous]

My road is the Deere Valley & Western. Though an extremely small (4x8) railroad without rolling stock of its own, (much of the motive power and freight cars are owned and operated by John Deere Company), being in a unique location allowed it to lease trackage rights to the Union Pacific and Santa Fe on both of its main lines and its branch line through the central part of Deere Valley where a large John Deere distribution center is being built. This allows for great variety in consists of both passenger and freight equipment and is indeed a very busy railroad. Having a steep, curving 4% grade into and out of the valley brings in some of Union Pacific's largest locomotives and F7 ABBA Santa Fe passenger consists are not uncommon.

[Anonymous]

Eastern Railroad; Dated in the 1950's. Athearn's F7 and GP9's. Photo 2000's E8's. IHC passenger cars. Soon to be replace with Walther's Budd cars. IHC's GG1's. My favorite railroad was the late great Pennsylvania Railroad

[darth9x9]

Partially...I guess. Although I model a prototype, I am not going to model it mile for mile. It will have the "feel" of the prototype.

[Anonymous]

My HO scale railroad is called EASTERN RAILROAD. It is date for the 1950's I model it after the New York to Philadelphia line of the old Pennsylvania RR.

[n2mopac]

Mine is a freelanced subsidiary of BNSF running over a prototype BNSF line, the Wichita Falls sub from Fort Worth to Wichita Falls, TX. It is called the Saginaw and Western Railway and it colors are BNSF Orange and Green.
Ron

[Anonymous]

Mine is the Portland & Albany RR, owned by the NYC. I do steam to diesel in 'N' using NYC decals (lightening stripes) with Portland and Albany lettering on the diesels. It's a main line running from Maine, thru New England to Albany. Allows me to run B&M, MEC and BAR. The logo is: The Maine Line to the Coast. It is now (or will be shortly) under construction in a 15X 26 soon to be finished basement room.

Ed Schultz

Ed Schultz

[Anonymous]

I'm the owner and president of the Midwestern Railroad. We run all over the midwest, and have trackage rights to the west, northeast, and south. We operate everything on this railroad. ''It's never to old to be useful''. We've got over 100 steam locomotives, a ton of first generation diesels, as well as a bunch of modern power. We currently have 4 paint schemes, all using the colors blue and yellow. Also we have no Amtrak, we do all our own passenger trains.

''Midwestern Railroad, The Great Lakes Route''

[twhite]

Let's say I WILL have, eventually. I'm modeling a fictional California extension of the Rio Grande through the Sierra, and I'm planning on having a short lumber line connect at Downieville, CA. It will be called CAL-IDA RR, in honor of a large lumber company that used to operate near Downieville. The logs were sent by truck down St. Rt. 49 through Nevada City, CA to Auburn, CA, where the planing mill was on the SP Donner Pass line. I've already got two locos, a Bachmann Shay, and a little PFM Frisco 2-10-0 with a bright green boiler I picked up at a swap meet some years back. The green boiler will stay on.

[Junctionfan]

Yes. I am the Chairman, CEO and Chief Operating Officer of the Great Lakes and Atlantic Railroad.

The railroad service all along the Great Lakes from Chicago and Northern Ontario, to Boston and Halifax. My railroad is made up with many shortlines including the Ontario Northland and series of shortlines that were once own by RailAmerica and the Genesse and Wyoming. The railroad operates like a class 1 and uses the most modern equipment including its own rollingstock. The railroad has 22 major subdivisions.

I operate almost every kind of train including intermodal, trash, military and tourist.

I am located in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois as well as being located in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

I plan to model the very busy St.Thomas Junction in Ontario which sees about 90-105 trains a day. The colours for my engines are Ontario Northland dark blue, gold, and light BC Rail green.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by emdgp92

My own Waynesburg & Washington is a composite of a few locations on the real narrow-gauge W&W, which ran between those two towns in southwest PA. Even though it went out of business years ago, I model it as it would have existed during the late 1970s, but with standard-gauge equipment. I've applied for (and received) my modeler's license. W&W operations terminated in Waynesburg, PA. However, I've extended the line south to interchange with the Monogahela RR. The northern interchange is with the B&O in Washington. Engines are painted PC black, with W&W lettering in place of PC's. Frieght cars are PC green with W&W lettering.

emdgp92, Would love to talk to another modeler of the W&W RR.

[trainfan1221]

RMaxfield,
You just described my first railroad, The Ho version of the Eastern Central. I had rolling stock of all different eras and locos ranging from FTs to F40s, all pulling freight trains together. My dispatcher, if there was one, usually would tell train TPTP (this place-that place) to proceed in well, whatever direction they happened to be facing. Then they would be meeting train WAWG (where are we going) once, or twice or numerous times. The layout was two ovals. It was supposed to be a big RR ala chessie system or the like, but really had little use for existing. At least my new railroad has a purpose. I think.

QUOTE: Originally posted by RMaxfield

Mine is the U & O or the Useless and Ornamental.... Colors are Red, silver and Black. A bunch of F7's and rolling stock that just shows up for no particular reason and has no specific place to go.

RMax

[Hawks05]

nice. i take it you're from up by Superior or Duluth or along the north shore up there in minnesota. i plan on attending college in Duluth hopefully.

i like the idea of the railroad. thas exactly what goes on up there to pretty much.

[jhugart]

The Keweenaw & Superior Railroad, "The Copper Line," is the result of the merger of the Mineral Range and some other Upper Peninsular Michigan railroads in the face of a booming copper market. (The assumption is that copper found out west wasn't as good, so Keweenaw copper was the best source in the world.)

The K&SRR links to the Great Northern in Duluth/Superior, to the Chicago & North Western in northern Wisconsin, and heads over into Canada. It moves a lot of ore that freighters on the Great Lakes can't handle in the winter months, as well as the regular passenger and commercial needs of the UP area.

There's a lot of steam engines on the roster, since they had the power. These engines were all-black. Some, for passenger service, had a copper-green shield over the front of the engine. When diesels made their appearance, freight engines retained the black with copper-green circle in the front, but streamlined passenger sets got a midnight-blue base coat with a copper-green stripe from the front down every car in the train.

Or that's the theory, anyway. *grins* Right now I'm working on a non-specific small layout to get skills built, and then will work on dioramas or sections for the K&SRR.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Sgt. JT Clark


The Delusions of Granduer Railroad. We May Not Be The Best, But We Think We Are." Like I said, it's still in the design phase.

Just a thought but wouldn't " Delusion & Granduer Railroad" sound better?

Hey Sarg, my guns all jammedTA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA

[Anonymous]

Until I come up with something better (and more permanent) my wokring name is Abbinnagh , Werk & Onnddagh Railroad. (say it out loud quickly). It's HO, roughly modelled on late 1950's into mid-60s Ontario. Still under construction but it will run a mix of steam/diesel, hence the time period. My colours are dark green and yellow.

[Anonymous]

endsville milling railway. my colors are blue and orange and my saying is we hope that a life in endsville does not end.

[Anonymous]

Mine is where I get my email address from. It's called the Delusions of Granduer Railroad. I basically use everything from modern to 1930ish era steam. All the structures have that older Northeastern US flavor, (I'm a native UPSTATE New Yorker), and look modern or retro. Depending on how I feel, decides what era I will use. My next goal is to have enough vehicles of each era that can truly keep it from being dated.

I am still working on colors and logo. I usually run NYC locos and rolling stock or CSX and NW. Until I design something, I will use whatever the factory painted. I've been working on a design using a pair of pink tinted sunglasses with the motto, "Looking at the World Through Rose Colored Glasses The Delusions of Granduer Railroad. We May Not Be The Best, But We Think We Are." Like I said, it's still in the design phase.

[Anonymous]

Mine is the U & O or the Useless and Ornamental.... Colors are Red, silver and Black. A bunch of F7's and rolling stock that just shows up for no particular reason and has no specific place to go.

RMax

[ClinchValleySD40]

Clinch Valley.

Protofreelance set in 1978 running Knoxville, TN up to Huntington, WV.

[dharmon]

Maritime Rail, or it's original name New England Maritime Railway and Steam Ship Co. Ltd. Started as a coastal line in Maine back in the late 1850's when the company was trading its clipper ships and coastal freighters for new fangled steamships. The railway originally worked the docks of Portland and up the coast bringing fresh fish from the little fishing villages down south and provisions and passengers to the north. During WWII all of the company's large ships ended up making artificial reefs on the bottom of the Atlantic courtesy of U581 and her sisters, and the coastals got old and couldn't compete with trains and trucks by 1946.

The railroad continued to operate with little change or profit until the 70s when B&M and MEC started having financial troubles. Maritime bought up branch lines and property from both. Now they run from Canada to Boston and over to Vermont as competitors with Guilford. Some tracks are original (up the coast), some were purchased from B&M / MEC / BAR, and some are operated with rights over Guilford rails (Portsmouth, NH to Boston).

The railroad brings paper and wood products , potatos, and cement south. Northbounds include petrolium & paper making chemicals, metal shapes for Bath Iron Works, general mechandise to LLBean and others and through intermodal service from Canada to Boston both ways, something they have been really pushing. Passenger service is provided under Maine DOT contract (the Amtrak Downeaster didn't get approved in this world) from Boston to Portland daily and Bangor / Orono on Weekends. The daily to Boston also has MHCs dedicated to UPS/USPS service and a reefer bringing fresh seafood.

All of the motive power is second hand EMD, except for the F59PHIs, which were new and paid for as a part of the MDOT contract (and an insurance settlement involving a wreck) to replace the F40PHs which were already 20 years old when put into service. (My old LifeLike F40PH really did get wrecked, so it makes a plausible reason).

Its your basic regional. No threat to the class 1's and living on a shoestring. Now I just got to lay track...but first I need a house that I'm going to live in for more than 3 years.

[trainfan1221]

Mine is called Eastern Central Railway. Its a regional line that connects NS and Conrail (now CSX) with Some western roads, notably BNSF. We also have a fairly good traffic base. I like the regional idea because you can have fairly good traffic and train size, but don`t have to go overboard. I have two freight yards and a small yard to represent various local traffic. My RR was conceived in about 1993. The name is a holdover from my long gone HO railroad, but the concept is not. The roads colors are not firmly established, but so far I am doing a bluish black deal with a gray stripe. I am trying (somewhat badly) to honor the former Erie Lackawanna NJDOT scheme used on the U34 locomotives. While not directly copying anything. My layout is way past the beginning stages but not nearly done. You do what you can with n-scale on a 6X3 board!
I have a few general merchandise trains I run plus a full intermodal and coal train.
The intermodal is my favorite, when it doesn`t derail or uncouple at really inconvenient times. Like there is actually a convenient time for any of this.

[PistolPete]

Yes, The PAD line, A shortline connecting areas named after family members, Petersborough,(a small mountain city), A Junction, (an interchange with the BN) and Diane #1(a mining complex). The planned colors are dark blue with yellow trim.

[Anonymous]

AVRR (Aughwick Valley Railroad) A short line that services CSX . Its roster consists of:

GP-30
GP-7
SW1500 & calf
8x 100ton hoppers
3x 40ft covered hoppers


The colors are black and silver With a white logo

[Anonymous]

Yes, the Allentown Scranton & Northern Railroad Company based in modern times.

[Anonymous]

The Musquodoboit, Eastern Shore and Sydney runs it's main line from Sheet Harbour through Musquodoboit to Tatagamouche with track rights to Sydney on the Canadian National's Truro to Sydney Line as well as the CN line formerly the Inter Colonial RR line between Tatagamouche and Malagash. Tatagamouche having the only Prairie style grain elevator in Eastern Canada (still standing) and Malagash having the first salt mine in North America (all that still stands is the union hall, which is the salt mine mueseum). All goods will funnel through Sheet Harbour which is the Home port to the Flying F Line.

The time period is @1960, Colour Scheme will be Black Engines or in colours rec'd from the original owners, All Boxcars will be painted Forest Green with Gold Leaf Lettering, Cattle Cars will be Burgandy, Flat Cars/Gondolas/ore cars black, Referigerated cargoes Silver with black lettering. The company logo will be a Compass Rose with the arrow pointing in a NE direction, Logos will be several.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Maureen

We have 3 of them on our Middle Earth layout, all using small steam; most colors aren't finalised yet, we've just begun painting equipment:

Gray Havens, Lorien & Gondor RR (also with stops in Hobbiton and Bree) uses American equipment. Lorien Express colours are blue, yellow and gray. Regular passenger cars will be different. Freight gray and blue; but reefers in the two schemes matching the passenger colours.

Old Forest Ry. (linking the GHL&G and the Ered -- from Hobbiton to Esgaroth, via Rivendell and Mirkwood) uses British equipment. Will likely have different shades of green for passenger and freight.

The Ered Line, slogan : "Moving the Mountains" (connecting Mordor, The Iron Hills and Esgaroth) freight basic oxide brown, passenger tba.

--Mo

Maureen, Wouldnt the trains running thru Hobbiton need to be narrow gauge???[:D][;)][8D]

[Hawks05]

i probably already posted but anyways. its changed since then.

my new railroad is the Baldwin Rail Service. i don't think i'll paint any locomotives but i have painted a useless caboose and will try and put the logo and lettering on there. i've also repainted the road numbers on a useless boxcar. it now reads BRS 8605. its an ex-Erie Lackawanna boxcar.

forgot the colors. Dark Blue and Silver are the main colors. still coming up with the designs for it.

[Anonymous]

Yes, the Prairie Belt Railway is a fictional shortline interchanging with the Santa Fe (or BNSF) and in the same general area (but not actually interchanging with) the Kansas and Oklahoma RR. It was started in 1990 by a competitor of the Watco Companies of which the K&O is a part. It runs in Central Kansas on a 27 mile branch of Ex- Santa Fe rail through the (fictional) Towns of Weston and Iona and points North. The area modelled is through Weston and just past Iona. Industires served are a refinery, a Salt Mine, a grain elevator, a manufacturer, and a private rail car and engine repair and rebuild shop. (This where I can put any car or engine on the layout that I want.) All of this is still in its conception stages.

The engines (all six) have recently been painted. A GP50 and a SW1500 are painted a royal blue and lettered for the Prairie Belt in Gold Script. These two represent the first "real" paintjob for the railroad back in 1992. A SW1500 SP style loco is painted a sand color and lettered in White Script. This represents the owners "new" paint scheme in 1996. In 1999 the owners decided to do away with the script style lettering and started using a large black Helvetica font but kept the sand color. They also gave these new locos ( a GP40-2 w/o dynamic brakes, a GP60 and a SW1000) a new logo that is a Sunflower with the Letters "PB" in the middle. The sunflower is centered in front of two crossed bundles of wheat. (The logo has not been applied yet. I have no decal paper right now.)

It is fun to model a fictional RR that interchanges with a real one. You get the satisfaction of making up your world AND you can be prototypically correct, too.

[Anonymous]

My 1945 Union Pacific layout (still on the drawing boards) will have a made up RR called the Mountain Valley RR. It will have it's own locos (such as 4-6-0's, 4-8-4, 0-6-0, and a first generation yard switcher) and rolling stock. I think i'm going for a blue and grey paint sceme.

[krump]

thought I'd responded previously... guess not
CCAST-AWAY RR (initials of the family) began in a box when I was 20 yrs younger... since then I've collected a large number of discarded, tossed, worn out pieces (buildings, rolling stock, engines etc) from all over - I've added a few new items in the past two years. When I get around to updating the rollingstock, the colours will be maroon/burgandy and gold (or silver ?).
Since the local club has club shirts - I think a CCAST-AWAY R/R logo would also look good on a golf shirt...
as a matter of fact, I DO OWN THE (rail) ROAD - kiddin'


9/04 - colour change to blue and green, the simple logo is still in the works but the C is doubled and thicker than the other letters (CASTAWAY Railroad now)

[Anonymous]

The line I own is the Gnome Garden Railway. I employee 5 gnomes who live in my backyard. I couldn't tell you what they do besides work on the railway. They always seem to be in good humor and attitude so I don't meddle in there affairs. I think they are friendly with the skunks and squirrels. I have seen birds close to them so I assume they are friends with them too! I never see any cats hanging around my yard, so I am sure that cats are affraid of gnomes. Maybe they eat cats because they never ask me for food and I never see cats in my yard. The cat in my house always runs away when the gnomes come in. Maybe they will reveal there mysterious lives to me someday. Time will only tell. They speak in a very low tone and only communicate with my daughter, who translates everything they tell her to me. Which isn't much anyway. They usually only tell her about weeding the garden and cleaning the track. They also have a keen eye on the ballasting situation. I in turn do most of the manual labor on the railway. They are around, leaning on their tools and try to look busy, they can stand still and not move for hours, truly spectacular little guys. At any rate, the line is featured in this website. http://www.trainweb.org/gnomegardenrw please stop by and take a look. Thanks.
pfd586

[GDRMCo]

I have just made a new railroad called Canada Rail. It serves Vancouver, Alberta, Whitehorse and Dawson City and interchanges with the Alaska Railroad.

[Robert Langford]

I had to dismantle my Sandy Southers R.R. some years age. Having a heart attact last December, brought me back to model railroading. I grew up in Park City, Utah, and I worked in the mines there. My new R.R. will be called the Park City Miners R.R. , or the PCMRR. I have just finished two RoundHouse Shayes, a two truck and a three truck. I have also put 16 Tichy Train Group wood ore cars together. Some years ago, Model Railroader Magazine had an artical on Park City, by Jack White. It had pictures of Park City. I grew up a block from the U.P. depot. The artical also had a picture of the tram that ran from the King Mine to the loading station. As a kid we would climb the tram towers and watch the buckets go by. I am now 69 years young, and I have many great memories of Park City. If any one is interested in Park, I would be glad to give information. When the mines were still oprating, (before the ski people moved in) There were two trains a day in Park. The D&RG came from Salt Lake and the U.P. came from Ogden. Interstate 80 did away with the D&RG, Too bad, It would have been a great tourist run.
Any one interested, my E-mail address is--- [e-mail]. I'd be glad to hear from someone.

[vsmith]

The best made-up RR I ever saw was the Grizzly Flats RR by Ward Kimball in San Gabriel. It was an outdoor layout with a 900 foot mainline on which Kimball ran a 2-6-0 steamer and a 0-4-2 sugercane steamer.

Oh, did I mention that it was FULL SIZE!!!!
Yep, Ward Kimball during the 30's, 40's, and 50's bought and restored two narrow gauge steamers back to working order, restored a caboose, a full size passenger car, built a full size engine house, water tower, and converted a station from a movie prop into a full fledged building, all this while being Walt Disneys #1 animator for most of his most famous movies. On weekends he'd run his trains out into the wilds of the orange groves and back. Kimball passed away recently, the 2-6-0 and cars were moved to the Orange Empire RR museum in Perris,Ca. and the sugercane loco has yet to be found a home (I'd take it in a heartbeat!). I wish I had 1/10 the energy he had shown for his trains.

[Anonymous]

T&R - I got Tired of working so I Retired.

Dave

[Anonymous]

We have 3 of them on our Middle Earth layout, all using small steam; most colors aren't finalised yet, we've just begun painting equipment:

Gray Havens, Lorien & Gondor RR (also with stops in Hobbiton and Bree) uses American equipment. Lorien Express colours are blue, yellow and gray. Regular passenger cars will be different. Freight gray and blue; but reefers in the two schemes matching the passenger colours.

Old Forest Ry. (linking the GHL&G and the Ered -- from Hobbiton to Esgaroth, via Rivendell and Mirkwood) uses British equipment. Will likely have different shades of green for passenger and freight.

The Ered Line, slogan : "Moving the Mountains" (connecting Mordor, The Iron Hills and Esgaroth) freight basic oxide brown, passenger tba.

--Mo

[auburnrails]

Hi,

Mine is currently called the Pacific Coast Railroad, and is based to a degree on the current Puget Sound & Pacific RR. I am using local place names for flavor, but will use modeler's license when necessary.

I plan to paint the motive power red/black (like BN, only Red, not green), with a couple ex-Conrail units simply sublettered. I also plan to model it as having been acquired by a larger entity, such as RailAmerica or Genesse & Wyoming (whatever comes out in N scale factory painted first) to add color and interest. If neither is available, then I also like the name WestRail for a shorltine holding company.

Motive power is currently 4 B23-7's (two still in Conrail blue, two in primer) and 3 soon-to-be-delivered GP38's in primer. Eventually I have to find a way to get a couple of UP SD70M Flared/Flagged units onto my layout. Hopefully (I know, I'm wierd) no one makes 'em until I'm out of N scale debt :-)

It's in a 10' x 10' bedroom with a 2' x 5' closet area also. Construction is mostly completed, but it's taking years (two young kids, wife, you understand). Hope to finally be able to run a train around the room this fall. It's a twice-around-the-room style with one lap also going around a peninsula. Someday ... someday....

Operations will include some of the PSAP stuff, like a weekly doublestack garbage train, the upcoming soy bean trains off of BNSF/UP (think SD70M), and some healthy port/timber/paper business from the area. I also plan to possibly have a short line come out of a hidden track to interchange. I like the name Puget Sound & Columbia River Railroad for it, but it will probably represent either a fictional connection to Raymond/South Bend, WA, or Olympia, WA.

It's interesting reading everyone's approaches. There is definately no lack of creativity and resourcefulness out there.

Walt Huston: Your work is very inspiring - keep it up!

Have fun everyone!

Dave Riffle
Auburn, WA

[Anonymous]

Yeah sure do It is called The Norfolk & Southern Inland Valley Junction RailRoad. Its A throwback to the years prior to merging with the Southern .2nd generation diesels will be the motive power.Company colors will be tan & green,engine fleet will be the old N&S grey & black paint .General merchandise will be the norm .also wood products will be a major producer far as revenue.

[Catt]

Yup,it is the Grande Valley RR.The name comes from living in the Grand River valley and the city of Grand Rapids,Mich.

The railroad has existed since 1978 (really). It theoretically (SP) runs north from South Bend,Ind. to Petosky,Mi. with branches off toward PortHuron/Sarnia to the east and Ludington to the west.

My colours are Conrail blue and CSX yellow both of which are Poly-Scale brand.The GVR is a general freight hauling railroad.

[Anonymous]

MAZE

Montana, Arizona & Eastern
I have never built a single loco for the road as it is outside my modeled region.
I just like the name and continue to create a car for it now and then when I need a "lark" just for the joy of it in my modeling.

[Anonymous]

My current layout has three lines running and the are called: "Millwood Mountain Logging Railroad" and "Three Rivers Mining & Ore Company." Also a city line that serves the local cities and it is called "Visalia Electric Railroad" which is a passenger road and also hauls the local produce (oranges) cars to the main Southern Pacific Line. All are named for local towns and a past local logging road. [8)] The colors are oxide brown with white stripe on the mining and ore cars (Three Rivers Mining) and the logging buggies and crew cars on the logging line (Millwood Mountain) are the bumblebee colors that Rio Grande used, as I like the colors and they stand out while running in the mountains and betwen the large growth trees. The electric railroad is blue with either white or yellow stripes (yellow for passenger and white for produce cars).

[Anonymous]

I am in the process of painting and decaling a GP38 for an imaginary Chicago shortline - the Norfolk and Goode - black with white letters, as per NS. there will be another GP38 for my Alabama layout - the Suffolk and Goode.

[Anonymous]

I freelance a small freight/passenger line, The Washburn & Clinch Mountain Railroad. It serves the smaller towns of East Tennessee and connects with the Southern Railroad and the Louisville & Nashville in Knoxville.Motive power is all steam

[Anonymous]

Mine is the Denver and Northwestern.

I runs bascially northwest/ southeast from Denver with a branch that goes northeast.

Colors are dark blue (think N&W) for freight diesels and dark blue/light blue for passenger diesels.

Heavyweight passenger cars are dark blue, light weight are two tone dark/light blue.

Howard

[Anonymous]

Well, it's like this... The "Keyser Creek" went into bankruptcy back about 1979. It's presently re-organizing and will be an around the room (11.5 by 11.5) point to point with an interchange with the DL&W. Major points of interest will be the logging operation, quarry, coal mine and Back Valley Car Shops. It is hoped that the design, incorporating elements from pre-bankruptcy, will lend itself to both pre-1950 and modern-day as a working steam short line. This will enable occasional operation of tourist and rail fan excursions over its simulated 30+-mile length.

[Anonymous]

The connecticut river railway. The ccr has lines going through conn, Mass, and vt. The colors are blue white and grey.

[IRONROOSTER]

Virginia and Lake Erie, the VALE route. Runs from Norfolk, Va. to Erie Pa. with an extension to Chicago. Colors are planned to be deep blue and crystal white.
Enjoy
Paul

[fuzzybroken]

My last railroad was the ALLIS SOUTHERN (ASO). Colors were Maroon/Dark Red, with black frame and white lettering. Most locos were in "prior owner" colors, and came from previous made-up RRs, but I painted up a Model Power industrial switcher for my yard -- very cool!! I built a lift-out to get into the room, and wired it with "safety sections" so the train wouldn't go crashing to the floor without the bridge in place.

Previously, I also had a "South Fork", with red and black CGW-style. I used Norfolk Southern decals for the lettering. I've had several made-up RRs! But they are too numerous to name (or remember, for that matter).

-Mark
See my website! http://www.geocities.com/fuzzybroken

[Anonymous]

Mine is the Great Central. It's been solvent since it's inception in 1975. it's primary color is Terra Cotta and striping/accent is Depot Buff. Very drab and very nuetral to say the least. It used to run all the way from Winnipeg to Galveston and was a true Class 1 Railroad, but now I have a new layout under construction (Great Northrn) and the GC will simply interchange. It's a great way to bring in lots of traffic, but the main reason to keep it alive is to run those engines the GN never owned (but I do)

[Anonymous]

Mine is the Western Illinois Terminal & Transfer RR. [WIT&T RR] which is my last name and initials. It is essentially a small diorama [space limitations] based on a freight transfer terminal & industrial park with a small yard. The yard masters office and the tools & supplies shed are a permenently parked bay window caboose & boxcar with a common wood deck and stairs. The locomotives are a refurbished Baldwin VO1000 switcher & a GP38 in gloss black with a wide blue full length stripe and narrow blue & silver stripes tapering toward the lower fronts of the hoods.

I also model the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway as a diorama based on the EJ&E and UP crossing at Barrington IL.

Rich Witt
Arlington Heights, IL

[chanda]

My railroad is called the Tonopah and Silver Peak . A take off of the Tonapah and Tidewater. I built it from the trackplan of the MR handbook # 18 "Building an HO Model Railroad With Personality . The Jerome & Southwestern. I should say I am still building it starting in 1995 ,maybe 90% complete

[jwixom]

my railroad is the Livonia avon & lakeville rr located in lakeville ny.
jim

[spjoe]

Mine is call the Pumpkin Patch railroad(PPRR). HO scale, Loco's are painted orange & green. [ GP35's, GP38-2 & U-33-B ]. Layout is 12' X 20',

[Kent]

Pictures:

http://www.geocities.com/ktwhy2k/sunnydale.html

[Anonymous]

Mine is the Missouri - Kansas - Terminal, which operates, at my discretion, a belt line around St; Louis or KC. the motto is "The expanding belt line".

[der5997]

Living now on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, on Sober Island, my wife and I were on a drive yesterday to Wine Harbour. It struck me that the "Sober Island and Wine Harbour RR" would have something going for it [:)]

[der5997]

I had the Athabasca & Western when in Alberta. A&W - "The Route of the Bears" - Colours were, of course, Brown and Orange.
I wish I had thought a bit about the implications. There are a powerful lot of "A "s in Athabasca, so the decalling took more sheets of letters than I really wanted it to [:(]

[Anonymous]

Texas, St. Louis, and Southwestern
TSSW

[Anonymous]

TNA for Tulsa, Nashville, and Annapolis. Our color is hot pink. Our motto is "we will pull a train for you." We use 10 wheelers because we like big rods. Our service has lots of riders. We run trains all night long. Our loyal customers come again and again.

[Anonymous]

ground breaking is underway on tne N scale "NORFOLK AND WAY' R.R.

[Anonymous]

Mine is the Vancouver Portland & Seattle RR. As the name implies, it operates (and to some extent, rules) the pacific northwest. The steam engine is black with white trim, passenger cars and the doodlebug (nicknamed the "Beaver") are dark green and the (soon to be bought) streamliner will be silver and green. Currently the layout is set in 1943, and serves the town of (fill in with northwestern-ish name). That's just about everything I could think of so far.

[Anonymous]

Lackawanna and Southern is the road name and this fictional railroad runs from Philadelphia to East Stroudsburg along the Delaware River. It connects with the Erie Lackawanna. Its purpose was for freight to bypass the New York City area for faster service to the west from the south. It uses all kinds of motive power from steam to modern day which ever the owner is in the mood to run. The first custom decals for the Lackawanna and Southern were made by Railroad Printers and used as a sample in their catalog in the mid sixties. The railroad uses blue and white with black roofs as its colors.

[Anonymous]

I have two - American National Railways (Black with Silver) and USRAIL (Red with Gold). Similar to what the Reid brothers have done, with two major competitors, but instead of separate right-of-ways, it is a Conrail shared-assests style. Also, I will have two shorlines and an Industrial. The protoype Shortline is the Georgia Northeastern and the ficticious will be the Georgia Northwestern, the industrial will be a ficticious Atlanta Terminus. Colors to be chosen later - when my one year old has grown old enough to choose a favorite color. Also in the works might be a commuter trackage rights overlay called SMART (Suburban-Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit), similar to MARC or VRE. And who knows, maybe Georgia DOT will happen too, as there are big ideas going on in Georgia right now. I freelance Atlanta to Cartersville, Georgia.

[Anonymous]

My model railroad is named The New York, Santa fe, & Southern Railroad. Its Motto is "Serving The Nation Since 1960" I also "bought out" the Atlantic & Pacific Railway, Coast to Coast Since 1964. My colors are for Diesels, Dark blue tops with a white band along the bottom, with a Gold pinstripe separating the colors. Steam locos are either Dark blue or Black boilers and cabs with a Silver smokebox . and Red cab roofs MustangManGZ

[Anonymous]

I am a member of
THE BIG PINE and SAWGRASS MODEL R.R. ASSOCIATION INC.
2940 HOLLYWOOD BLVD. HOLLYWOOD, FL 33020

Our road is THE BIG PINE & SAWGRASS R.R., our road first generation Colors are Black, Green and Yellow, with block lettering in Yellow.
second and three generations. Colors are Green and Yellow, with speed lettering in Yellow.

[leighant]

My SANTA VACA AND SANTA FE is a subsidiary of the ATSF. (How Cow!) There is a short logging line, which runs a mile or so off the SV&SF and has trackage rights to pick up log cars for a ways on the trunkline RR-- like the prototype Kirby Lumber Co did in east Texas. The logging line is the JOHNSTON AND EAST TEXAS, abbreviated JET. Tho operations are based on Kirby prototypes, the lone diesel and caboose are painted to resemble Texas & Southeastern equipment from Diboll, Texas. And here is a name for Nawlins to contemplate-- my railroad ships pulpwood to a paper mill in Louisiana owned in combination by a Louisiana family and the Nast magazine publishing empire. It is the QUEAUX NAST Paper Co. Right now, I only have the east Texas scene built. If I ever get to a big Texas coastal city, I will need a beltline switching railroad to handle cars to staging representing the part of the port and refinery district I can't fully model. That switching road to the staging yard will be the SOUTH TEXAS URBAN BELT, abbreviated STUB.

[Anonymous]

The Winchester, Paston, and Portsmouth Railway Corporation

Runs west from Winchester Virginia towards a connection with B&O at Grafton, WV. It is actually a composite of the real-world Winchester & Western and the South Branch Valley, although (strangely enough) I never knew these two short lines existed before concocting my fiction. In its heyday, it also ran south from Winchester through Richmond to a coal dock at Portsmouth, right across from N&W's Lambert's Point yard. All through its existence, though, a majority of its stocks were held between two competing railroads: B&O and N&W. Most of its traffic was between these carriers, and it was always swinging one way or another in terms of favoring one road over another, depending on the "balance of power". This enables me to exhibit paint schemes that are a blend of the two, which in my eye are the most elegant paint schemes this side of the Mississip... (drag my attention westward and I start thinking "Norhtern Pacific").

I actually have three distinct schemes. The earliest is basic caboose red and black, with white lettering, which hails back from when the line was just the Paston Valley Lines. This carried on through the steam era as white lettering and logo on the tender, with a red stripe across the bottom sill. The exception was when streamlined passenger service became the rage, and a B&O-esque two-tone blue scheme showed up. This survived into the first generation of cowled deisels, but then due to expense the red and black was favored again for freight units. WIth elaboration, some black pinstripes were added, and then finally N&W held sway in the 60's as it began acquiring more and more ownership. Maroon with a broad gold stripe, with bright blue for the lettering of the logo "wp&p", lasted until ultimately the N&W took it over in '67, in its flurry of mergers back then. Thereafter, the freshest maroon-gold-blue units were given a brand-new white "NW" logo over a black-painted area that replaced the blue lettering once that style came into vogue, otherwise keeping their blue "wp&p" along with their grime until retirement or full repainting.

For motive power, my road tried out some F-units early on but quickly grew to favor Alco deisels (again, the NW gaining influence), and my feature locomotive is a high-hood RSD-15. My biggest trouble is that I model in N-scale and only have three body shells, made a long time ago by low-quality manufacturer AHM; I'm still trying to figure out how to repower these with a modern Atlas/Kato mechanism. The recent FM Trainmaster has a very close wheelbase, but its frame must be machined down to fit inside the RSD hood. It's a project that one day, one day, I shall tackle...

[Anonymous]

Of course I have a (made-up) RR company! Unless yer a rivit counter or are dooplicating an exact mile or two of (real) track-banger, it's ALL made-up. Thank the good spirits cuz this is the only part of the world yooall can control today, yu know?!

My road? the Truro, Bismark, Mukelteo AND Orient. My 3-4 by 10ft roll-around the livingroom floor table rig shows the far western (next to the Pacific)division center and its two Major Geographic Features: the now depleted sand&gravel resource at one end converted into the Bandara Airfield (surrounded by 15" & 18" loops;the inner to get up onto the airfield level...4% grades, baby; bring yer coal shovel.

AND The Mountain: an extravagant, mostly vertical granic formation which conceals a solid inner wealth of high assay paladium (Paladium so we'd have somethin' phonetic to name the opera house for, ie The Paladium Palace. The Mountain is surrounded same way as the other end...w/15 &18" loops, 4% grade, heavy Chevy, Roger.

All this , the TBM&O, Bandera Airfield (only bi-planes here, Jerry) and only Steam in this world because those wet sounding whistles used to put us to sleep in the summer nights when we wer kids; that's why. The Mountain; Paladium Palace (still in the box)...all this stuff is owned by The Godzilla Holding Company. More--much more--to come.

Do we have made up RRs? Of course we do.

[chapmon]

My railroad (HO) is an industrial switching beltline called "Texas Terminal Railways", which was made up by consolidation of East Texas Terminal Railway, Soutex, Centex, Nortex, and Westtex Railways.

The final color scheme is still under construction, but will probably consist of BN Green with a DRGW Depot Cream strip running down the sides, and on each end of the hood. It's primary motive power will be SW900/1200's, GP20's, and a GP38 (as of now). It will interchange with KCS, MKT, SP, SSW, RI, FW&D, SL&SF. It will be fictionally based in and around the DFW Metroplex and being prototypically freelanced.

The traffic base will differ, but with mostly boxcars, covered hoppers, tank cars, foodstuffs, bulkhead flats for lumber, and a mix of other miscellaneous traffic.

It will still use cabooses, being primarily based up and until around 1984-1989.

Mike

[Anonymous]

My railroad name is the Bridan Valley & Western R.R., named after my two sons, Brian and Daniel. It is set in the summer of 1954 and features steam and early diesels. The location is the Midwest, where I grew up. (I now live in California) The Bridan Valley runs from Rockford, IL, through southwestern Wisconsin, crosses the Mississippi at Prairie du Chien, and ends in Souix City, IA. The modeled part is in Southwestern Wisconsin and consists of the fictional towns of Peyton, Danesville, Eriksburg, and Taylor Falls (my grandchildren). The railroad grants trackage rights to the Milwaukee Road and the Chicago & Northwestern. It basically handles bridge traffic between Rockford and cities in Iowa. The layout is on an around-the-wall shelf in an approx. 11 x 12 bedroom. I have solved my duck-under problem with a hinged lift-up span across the doorway and in front of the closet door. (works great!)
Scenery is about 50%. I have just developed a car forwarding system using car card printed out with the ShipIt! computer software program.

I am interested in knowing who else uses car-forwarding with car-cards, ala Tony Koester. My email is: [e-mail]

[walthuston]

Tankertoad70, Don, I knew you (know you) from Castle AFB, CA in the early 80s. I still have and run the two WOW cars you painted up for me in N scale...do you remember doing that? If you want to get in touch with me I'm at [e-mail]. Walt Huston

[harrybon98]

N scale and HO scale and On30 scale my wife likes me alot :) the road is the LR&B langley Richardson and Borrowers. whole fictional runs steam in all scales passenger and freight. of course that is depending on what i want at the time mostly to sit and go WOOO WOOO WOOO. my wife tells me that she hears it but i swear i only do it in my head (I think).

[Anonymous]

North Jersey Transit-uses borrowed NJT/MN/AMTK equipment for passenger cars and AMTK/CR for power

[walthuston]

My railroad is the Aberdeen, Tacoma & Spanaway Forrest. It runs from Tacoma, Washington to Aberdeen, Washington and has a branch to Spanaway, Washington. I have had this name for my road since 1963, and it now has trackage rights over the Onyx Division of the Burlington Northern. In a few years it will have its own fully functional right of way. For now the AT&SF has some late steam and early to modern diesel locomotives. The AT&SF has purchased its locos from several of the BN predessor lines and has been reluctant to repaint all of them to its own colors, black and white for switchers, except for the one stationed in Spanaway which is red, and the newest acquisitions which are black and green with white striping chevrons on the ends. Road loco colors are green with a white stripe down the side upon which the rr name is painted in black letters. Many of the road locos are still in their predessors' colors and road names. At times BN, BNSF and Santa Fe locos are found plying the rails either through trackage rights or to return horsepower hours owed to the AT&SF. My railroad's slogan is "The Evergreen Route." I have three different hearlds, one for the early years, one for the middle years and one for today, each being a little more modern looking than the one before. You'll find quite a few former Santa Fe cars on the road with the Aberdeen, Tacoma & Spanaway Forrest road name painted over the previous name and herald. This makes for some interesting paint-outs,

[Dad Howe]

Mine is the SIDE LINE, S-I-D-E being the initials of my four kids. This allows me to mix and match all sorts of equipment from all over with various justifications (in 1957, during a motive power shortage, the SIDE LINE leased ALCO FA's from the Great Northern for the summer...)- things like that. It will interchange with NS and CSX and BNSF (I don't like UP.) and their predecessor lines. Still working on a locale.

Paint schemes: Diesels and cabeese: solid sand color with red stripe, red or black lettering. Freight cars: Reading green with yellow or gold lettering. Some covered hoppers in "patched" grey - bought used from other roads.

Passenger: To accommodate my daughter, the express is a matched set of bright pink cars, pulled by old Minitrix F9s painted bright pink. They were my first effort at model painting in 20 years and I will redo them as my skills improve!

Dad Howe

[tankertoad70]

Well, I done created two lines: the 'Wishram, Oregon and Western', and the 'Oregon Central'. Guess where they run????[?][;)]
The Wishram's colors are dark blue, yellow and dark grey ( this colors were chosen well before the advent of CSX)
Oregon Central uses red and grey.
[:D]

[RichS1]

The Miola Central is the name of my RR. Royal blue with yellow lettering is the my colors

[Anonymous]

Heres another, the Arkansas and Missouri Southern Railway

[Anonymous]

Mine is the Washburn & Clinch Mountain Railway, serving the small towns north and east of Knoxville, Tennessee. It connects with both the Louisville & Nashville and the Southern and has track privileges with both of them. The time period is the very earlly 1950's and motive power will be steam with maybe a Geep for yard switching. It is in N scale and will be based on the Scenic Ridge layout from Woodland Scenics. This is my first attempt at a layout. I am retired (one year) and now have time to do the things I could only dream about while I was working, when I'm not tending to our 40 acre farm here in Washburn.

[Anonymous]

The club I belong to has a made up RR company:

Pine Bluffs & Ceda Falls Railroad

Its supposed to be in Colorado somewhere and is a bumbling short line set in the 1950s; Its a modular layout - industries so far are a stock yard, oil depot, furniture manufacturer, feed mill and scrap dealer. New modules will include a large ore mine and a warehouse. Its also supposed to link to a lightly laid logging and minerals line (our excuse to run Shays and Heislers).

The main paint scheme for diesels is Emerald Green and Battleship grey. As its a club layout lots of different road power turns up from time to time though!

[Anonymous]

yes i have JKP RR black with white zebra stripes

[Anonymous]

My son and I are building a double deck layout. Bench work is up, backdrop is up, track is going in. I get the bottom deck, he gets the top deck. I'm modelling CP and he's modelling a mythical subsidiary of Montana Rail Link called: "Eastern British Columbia Rail Link." He has bought Montana RL engines and will remove the Montana Rail Link decals, buy new Montana Rail Link Decals, cut off the word "Montana" and add "EBC". So is RR will be called the "EBC Rail Link."

[mionerr]

I own and aperate the Mione Valley Rail Road. It's MY own valley and I do as I please.

[Anonymous]

Well, I had one, the Bradley, Aberdeen & Avalon RR, which became the Ontario Midland in 1956 (after it's parent corp aquired the NYO&W), part of the Imperial Lines Group (Along with the Eastern Townships RR). It was originally a shortline running south of the CPR mainline, between Ottawa and North Bay, Interchanging with the CN, ETRR and NYO&W in Ottawa and the Ontario Northland and CPR in North Bay, and serving fictional towns. It also provided trackage rights to ON and CN.

Now, it looks like I've decided to go with a fictional branchline of CN, same town names, but moved to Southwestern Ontario and interchanging with the TH&B (Gives me TH&B, CP and NYC interchanges in one go, whee!), running as a north/south branch about halfway between Toronto and Hamilton.

Colours were light & medium-dark Blue

[Anonymous]

rhino line (we get through) my railroad service is from my home town of pageland,sc to jefferson,sc to mcbee,sc to tie in with csx and from pageland to chesterfield,sc,and from pageland to kershaw,sc to tie in with the lancaster and chester railway! we haul lumber in to c.m.tucker lumber to be treated and sand and stone products out and bring in food stuff for wal-mart and ship cloth out,too!! our motive power is engines from railroads like csx,bnsf,and ns that we buy to run our rails! our colors is black,yellow and red with a purple stripe around the engines

[Kent]

Sunnydale Railroad. Orange and blue. One of these days I should put some pictures up on my website:) Right now it's 2 PA-1, a PB1 dummy, caboose and a few box cars (they're white)

[BR60103]

I model the Perth and Exeter Railway, which is named after the towns that my wife and I grew up in. Presently, it is a British railway that runs nearly from one corner to the other of the British Isles. Sometimes it is a railway that crosses southern Ontario. Occasionaly, it is a small Scottish railway with ambition!
Somewhere in the basement are the cars of the Esquesing and Chinguacousy Radial Railway, which is an interurban line running west of Toronto. (It was intended to be a typographers nightmae.)

[Anonymous]

MY railroad which is still in the planning stages will be named after a small portion of the old NORFOLK & SOUTHERN before it merged with the SOUTHERN RR..it will be called the NORFOLK & SOUTHERN INLAND VALLEY JUNCTION RR WILL USE THE TARWHEEL LOGO OF THE 50'S & 6O'S.Will use some of the towns that served the RR.Also will thrown in some places of intrest which are few.The whole RR will be free- lanced only the names will be correct.

[Anonymous]

I've got a good one its called the Texas & St. Louis. The railroad was started when the Texas & Pacific merged into the St. Louis & Southwestern. The railroad subdivision that I feature in my layout is the Harmon Sub. The line is is also ran by the MIssouri & Pacific witch is alive and well I might ad. But for all you Cotton Belt fans out there the line is still called the Cotton Belt. The railroad works with GP38's, GP40-2's, GP50's, and GP60's. MAN! Thats alot of geep's.[:)][:p][8)][;)][8D][:D][8][^]

[emdgp92]

My own Waynesburg & Washington is a composite of a few locations on the real narrow-gauge W&W, which ran between those two towns in southwest PA. Even though it went out of business years ago, I model it as it would have existed during the late 1970s, but with standard-gauge equipment. I've applied for (and received) my modeler's license. W&W operations terminated in Waynesburg, PA. However, I've extended the line south to interchange with the Monogahela RR. The northern interchange is with the B&O in Washington. Engines are painted PC black, with W&W lettering in place of PC's. Frieght cars are PC green with W&W lettering.

[BRAKIE]

Yes,I have a free lance railroad..It is a short line owned by the CDB Industries..I am sure many on this forum knows its name..The Columbus & Hocking Valley..

[Anonymous]

Of sorts ... I model a fictional regional ROCK ISLAND LINE based in Illinois and Iowa in 1996! Actually, the real CRIP's 1980 roster is a good base for a 1996 regional road, and is the basis for my fleet, as are the IMRL and IAIS rosters for that year. My fictional RI regional covers roughly the same area/track as these two real regional roads in that year.

As per the real roads, my regional hauls grain (so lots of ADM and RI hoppers), chemicals and plastics (to and from DuPont in Clinton), and other goods needed in the Quad Cities area. And there is even a Quad Cities Rocket that meets up with AMTRAK!


- George

[deevs]

Mine is the Detroit Vassar Saginaw RR It serves all of Michigan

[nawalins]

Something I forgot to mention in my previous thread; The Bayou Self Ry. is HO scale, and if built will occupy a 17'x27' basement. Currently, my youngest daughter is using it as a bedroom.

Michael E. Risher
President, Chairman & CEO
Bayou Self Railway
Greenville, S.C.

[nawalins]

The Bayou Self Railway is situated in the "River Parishes", west of New Orleans. New Orleans is my home town. The B.S.Ry.serves the petro-chemical industry, as well as sugar cane refining, a cypress lumber mill, and a seafood packing/canning plant. The B.S.Ry. is a subsidiary of the Southern Ry. and serves as a link with the Southern Pacific. Occasionally links with both Illinois Central Gulf and Kansas City Southern. The time frame is the late 1940's to the early 1950's. I selected this time frame to employ both steam and diesel motive power. The B.S.Ry. at present exists on paper only. The B.S.Ry.'s color scheme closely follows Southern's guidelines.

Michael E. Risher
President, Chairman & CEO
Bayou Self Railway
Greenville, S.C.

[Anonymous]

Ontario and New England Railway
A bridge line linking Ontario to New England via a tunnel under the St. Lawrence. This gives an independent and shorter route from the Atlantic to central Ontario. However due to the cost of the tunnel, it required joint funding and is thus owned by CP/CN/D&H/Rutland/MEC.
Trains come mainly from parent companies on through services, it has however some own road locos and stock which tend to be green or CP maroon.
There is an element of 'that looks nice, so will have one, as unlettered loco.

Era : late 50's/early 60's

[Anonymous]

I am new to model railroading, so mistakes will be common, but fun. I named my layout-under-construction the "South Fork Railroad". I lived in Pagosa Springs, CO for a while and fell in love with South Fork, Co. Neighboring town over the mountain. The Rio Grande river helped too.

Take the "SOUTH FORK"!

Kidisme

[Anonymous]

I myself put forth towns, and states into my titles like Chicago and Indiana or Texas and Gulf Central, take note of the surondings.

[Anonymous]

My road is the I.T.& T. RR, the Ironbound Terminal & Transfer Railroad. Protyping Newark, NJ's one-time heavy industrial area, it does private-line switching from the Oak Island yards of CONRAIL, CSX and Norfolk Southern. Our industries include a chemical plant,a paint factory,a lumber yard,a concrete batch-plant served by water and rail,a burned-out tallow plant,a plastic extruder, a feather and down processor, a boiler/furnace warehouse distributor, a steel door mfgr.,a municipal incinerator, a cold-storage warehouse and a scrap yard. Most of the structures are gritty, grimy and graffitied buildings.The area is called "Ironbound" because many years ago it was about 2 sq. miles of space surrounded by the Lehigh Valley,Central RR of NJ, Penn Central and Lackawanna, thus it was Ironbound. Today, it is largely ethnic Portugese so I get most of my signage from the Portugese/Brazilian area classified telephone book. Mixed in with the industrial area are residences and small businesses. All of my three children and 8 grandchildren have their names worked into the structures.

[Anonymous]

Not only have I made up the name of my HO railroad but also the country it serves. I call my country Dalreada with Marcstadt being the capital, a busy port city called Melmatt and the other principal city called Royston. All called for members of my family. The railroad is called Dalreada National Railways. The all steam locomotive livery is black with red trim. The passenger coaches are dark blue or green depending on which train they serve. I think modeling your imagination is more fun than trying to model an existing railroad. Have fun.
Pop.

[banjobenne1]

Hello, Think HO scale. Patricks Railway Service Inc. or PRSI. PRSI provides all railroad services to anyone who needs it. The big thing right now is a large railroad constrution train esp. anything thats needed to do the job on hand. Colors are gray and black. Pile driver set is yellow and black. Ben

[douginut]

PRM&GP Pacific, Rocky Mountains and Great Plains.
Scenario: several short line holding companies bought the Milwaukee Road and restored the electrification through to Chicago. Primary cargos are grain and coal west to port of Tacoma and autos east to connections at chicago. Never joined Amtrack, uses accela equipment for a very high speed Olympian Hiawatha, and second generation electrics for freight and commuter traffic. orange and black of course on the OH, but all other passenger Teal and Salmon as in the Electroliner. Grants trackage rights to other roads who usually use diesel power.

The praries are unfortunately plywood as of now but...

Doug, in Utah

[WEUSANDCORR]

The WEUSANDCORR was establishedin 1976 and has a northern and southern division with a western branch . Motive power is all ex CNW up to C44-9W with CNW colours retained and redecalled for our company. Coal,wheat,plastic pellets, cement,Trailer-rail @ intermodal traffic. Communication used to be snail mail now it is on computer e-mail car card system. WE are in Australia and the Divisions are 700miles apart actual Regards Les Charlie Steve

[Anonymous]

Fay and Lindsay Smith operate the L&F RY. Co. We call it "The Better Way." You know that on bad trips we can be the F&L. The colors are Green and White.

A Roundhouse Shay, and small tanks pull logs and ores. It serves Mt. Baldy, Anaheim and Cucamonga!

[MRRSparky]

Saratoga & Adirondack. Runs mostly steam (2-8-0, 2-6-0, 0-8-0 Camelbacks and rear cabs).

However, B & M Diesels (RS-3, GE 44-ton, BL-2) make appearances as the B & M had a branch terminating in Saratoga.

When I get around to painting them, there will be two RS-3s in basic black with yellow end chevrons.

The track is built and operational in DCC. No scenery or structures but I will attempt to model what I remember.

I'm spending what little time I have this Summer building an accurate model of one of the Erie's very early oil-electric box cabs. I'm combining pieces of two MDC box cabs, Athearn NW2 and GE U25. This is my first experience cutting up perfectly good locomotives to make something different.

[jwfoise]

My railroad is the Graniteville and Bullshead. Its an imaginary branchline railroad in Ohio, now completely owned by the B&O (1950s), though the two towns are actually neighborhoods in Staten Island, NY where I grew up. I save my really silly names for some of the industries on my layout: Avogadro Chemical Company (address is 602 E 23 St - sorry, its a chemistry joke), Pheesh's Marine Supply (pronounced Fish's), and Acme Product Corporation (famous for their roadrunner catching products).

[Anonymous]

Precision is or was a company that bought diesels and rebuilt them to factory specs or more and then sold or leased the to railroads. The paint scheme was theirs. A small article about them appeared back in the 70's in I beliece Model Railroad Craftsman.
Before dismanteling my layout I was toying with the name Somers Point. It will be an industrial switching layout with only about 3-4 sidings and a couple of storage tracks and one track that will connect to a main line. This will be loosly based on Progressive Rail. MR ran an article on them earlier this year and it caught my interest.
I have a lot to workout so as not to repeat the mistakes I made on my other layout.
Bob

[GDRMCo]

U could call it the Precision National RR or the America National RR

[Anonymous]

Mine is yet to be named. I am rebuilding it. It will be a small industrial layout served by the MP. My current roster consists of 6 40' MP Merchandiser Eagel box cars- grey and white. The motive power is a leadsed EMD SW7 painted yellow and green to match the Precision National paint scheme and lettered for Precision.
I had to dismantle my current layout and I am in the process of redoing the structures to make them look better and more functional. I also plan to do a better job of track planning this time around.
A lot of tips I learned from those that answered my postings on this forum will be used as well.
Thanks Bob

[Anonymous]

Mine is the Quality Rail. It is the equivilent of the UP. It uses 8000 SD70Ms which are white with blue logos.

[Anonymous]

My RR uses 55' ACF centreflow covered hoppers and also runs a passenger train called the Highlander.

[SOTATRR]

Mine is named SOTATRR(Some of This And That). As the name implies I'll run just about anything. Colors are Dark Blue background with Mint Green letering. I still need to come up with a logo.

Mike

[GDRMCo]

Mine is the Great Dividing Range Mining Company. It was the only company to cross the Great Dividing Range. The Alco PAs have a fat stripe coming from the nose to the tail were it splits in to two stripes going to each back corner. The stripe is blue and the body is red. The lettering is black. The PBs have a large cross on the sideswith each point coming from the corners leading to the middle. the cross is red and the body is blue.The lettering is black. The RR mostly uses Alco PA/PBs and some SD40-2s.

[bfsfabs]

Pacific & Southwest Railroad Co HO
Operates from San Francicso to New Orleans just as if the Espee didn't exist in that area. Subsudiary lines, my sons, cover the California central valley like a tent. We have wild imaginations. All are colored basically Reefer Grey with White roofs and Yellow noses. Striping and lettering colors vary according to the road. Place to go to see double stacks behind Challengers in 2003.

Lowell

[vsmith]

Borracho Springs R.R. Co., or as its known locally, the B.S., serving the Borracho Tequila factory, also serving the towns of Borracho Springs, Purgitory, the F.U.B.A.R. Mining Consortium and the S.N.A.F.U. Mineral Co when we can get the train crews to stop endlessly switching cars at the distillery.
Colors range from grimy black to various shades of rust.

[Anonymous]

The Cowford and Southern. Cowford is the original name of Jacksonville FL. The C&S doesn't have any of its own motive power. Its owned by Seaboard Coast Line railroad. The line runs from Jacksonville to Orlando down what is now called the "A" line. The towns on the layout match the towns on the A line but the industries are made up to give me plenty of operating. Motive power runs the gamut from GP-9's to U36C's. The layout also interchanges with my club layout, The Cowford and Northern which runs from Jacksonville north into North Carolina.

[GerFust]

The BEAR line, (Backwoods Enterprise and Agricultural Road) is still in the planning stage. I hope to go with a 3x10 layout, with an oval leading behind the backdrop to a train cassette for storing complete trains.

I think I'll go for a dark background color (purple, black, navy) with yellow or orange logos and markings).

It will serve stock pens, meat packing plant, grain elevator, cross-docking/transhipment facility, grocery warehouse. Most of my rolling stock is cattle cars, covered hoppers, private label boxcars (1970s), reefers, etc. that support those industries. The businesses were chosen based on 1) what rolling stock I own, and 2) interplay between the industries that will hopefully lead to some cars being used multiple times in an operating session.

Motive power will be whatever I currently own (including 4-8-4, a couple of docksiders, C424, SD??, GP??, F7A&B, etc.).