Do you have a made up RR company?

[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.