Do you have a made up RR company?

[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