Do you have a made up RR company?

[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.

[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.

[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]

[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.

[Anonymous]

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

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[ClinchValleySD40]

Clinch Valley.

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

[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

[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]

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

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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''

[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

[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]

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.

[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]

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

[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.

[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.

[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