Do you have a made up RR company?

[Anonymous]

Texas, St. Louis, and Southwestern
TSSW

[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 [:(]

[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 [:)]

[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".

[Kent]

Pictures:

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

[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',

[jwixom]

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

[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

[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

[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)

[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

[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

[Anonymous]

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

[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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[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]

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.

[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]

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

[Anonymous]

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

Dave

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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]

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.