What Railroad do you model?

[THayman]

I'm a CN/VIA Rail modeler, all modern stuff (Dash-9's, P42's, etc.). My layout is not prototypical in design, but the trains and the design of aspects on my RR are. I also have added in my own local free lanced line, the Spring Valley and Toronto RR, a small passenger and freight hauler using second hand power.
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-Tim H.
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[GDRMCo]

I model the Pacific North Queensland. Its a fictional RR operating in Queensland Australia running on narrow gauge track and interchanging with Queensland Rail.

[Anonymous]

Pennsylvania RR 1946-1960, Norfolk & Western Rwy 1946-1970, Atlantic Coast Line 1946-1958, Chessie System 1973-1980.

[PennsyHoosier]

PRR and Pere Marquette. I can't imagine it gets any better than those two.

[Anonymous]

Hay Hawks05!
I miss Wisconsin. I lived in the Madison area most of my life. Now living in SoCal. My favorite is Burlington Northern GE U30C Locomotive HO Scale!

[Anonymous]

I am doing a fictional railroad with Chessie system, CSX, Seaboard System, and Family Lines merger mix with a NS/ Conrail merger, And im considering also puting in a Penn -Central junction just for a little flavor ~ ChriSS

[Casey Feedwater]

I'm freelancing two lines, the Central Missouri & Southern and its subsidiary, the Osage Valley Tie & Lumber Co. Both are set in the Missouri Ozarks. At one end, the CM&S will interchange with the Missouri Pacific and possibly the Katy. At the other end, it will pick up lumber and tie loads hauled out of the woods and from the mills by the OVT&L. Rather than trying to model a specific year, I'm trying to capture the essence of an entire era, c. 1900 - c. 1928, when logging was the major industry of the Ozarks.

[Anonymous]

I model The Best railroad: The Frisco in the Mid 1960's

Go Coonskin!!!

[Anonymous]

Im new to the hobby myself. I am modeling CSX/Chessie System circa 1990 in Central Indiana on the old Cincy to Chicago Mainline,running a CSX Dash-8 and a Chessie SD-45.

Chris

[Anonymous]

Upper Midwest roads. I collect (I'm looking for a train room surrounded by house!) Great Northern, Northern Pacific, a little SOO Line and Milwaukee. It'll be in the mid 60's when it's built. Oh yeah, since the BN and ATSF merged, I think I can have some Warbonnets. Shouldn't everybody have one, anyway?

[traingeek087]

Q baby yeah.

[bluepuma]

Rock Island - cause I think I'm going train bankrupt like they did.

Ready to sell the rolling stock, locos and main line off - my SP line couldn't get out of LA.

[rambo1]

I live in the toronto ontario area so I model C.N C.P and VIARail but I also have eqpiment in Rockiland newyorkcentral santa fe and many othersfrom the U.S. I love them all. rambo1........

[Anonymous]

I live in Washington State. my main road is BNSF, yet I have UP, NYC, Chessie
and old SF F7's, and GP38's

[Anonymous]

The Rock Island - as a regional Iowa road in 1996!

This time frame also allows me to model AMTRAK, BN/SF (merging), and track use by UP.

The basis for the modeling are the locos/rolling stock the RI had in 1980 (which works good for a regional), and the real rosters and traffic of the IMRL and Iowa Interstate roads in that year.

I also am just starting to model the Iowa Interstate amd the IMRL, when I want reality on the layout (one loco for each road, so far).

[Anonymous]

I model 70's Amtrak and have interchangeable visitors running around. I've also got some mid 50's Rock Island and so 90's stuff if I want to swap out time periods.

RMax

[johncolley]

Funny, I was raised in CA and grew up with the SP black widows, but now I have retired to the northwest I am modeling Great Northern in the early half of the '50's. I love the green and orange and besides a 75 car freight with 4 FT's in front and 2 FT's about 2/3 way back, I have a 15 car Empire Builder. johncolley tholcapn

[Anonymous]

sorry to hear you had to go to school. whenever you started this topic. I am halfway through winter break. i ammodeling the Chicago Northwestern somewhere in nebraska
with side of iowa.

[Anonymous]

I model my prototype-freelance Allentown Scranton & Northern and the Reading & Northern plus CP, NS, and CN runtrough trains. The AS&N runs between Allentown, Pennsylvannia to Buffalo, New York. I model the Allentown to Scranton portion of the line. The line is based on if Norfolk Southern decided to sell a part of it's Lehigh Line and the Southern Tier line.

[Anonymous]

The CSX merger! Most equip is chessie every once in a while a Seaboard System repaint might show up in a consist .CSX was just starting to paint their own. Who can hate the Chessie Kitten!!!!

[Anonymous]

I am making my first layout. An N scale layout of a Canadian Pacific yard similar to the one in Calgary, alberta, although mine will be different in many ways. It will have some Union Pacific frieght and maybe some Canadian national as well.

[Anonymous]

I model the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern (E,J & E), a shortline RR that serves many industries on the south side of Chicago. I also model Great Northern (GN), Kansas City Southern(KCS), and Santa Fe. I model in N-scale. Have fun.

[GDRMCo]

GDRMCo a freelanced railroad. If i did model a prototype railroad i would model the Rio Grande at Castle Gate or the Santa Fe's fast Los Angeles to Chicago intermodal route or the Queensland Rail's townsville terminal.

[Anonymous]

I made up my own location and i put Boston and Maine and Amtrak stuff in it.

[bruce22]

freelance

[TRENT B]

I'm freelancing an ATSF in mountians. I have a Blue Goose and some blue & yellow warbonnets. My town is called Katieville( after my daughter) so you model whatever you want!! JUST HAVE FUN DOING IT!!

[Anonymous]

I mostly model the Borg (aka CN) from 1955 to 1980, although I'm heavily concentrated in the late 60's for my rolling stock (I just happen to like some of the newer 70's era stuff, otehrwise it would be 55-66 for era) in Southwestern Ontario. I'm planning on adding a bit of TH&B power too, as interchange traffic. It's just a 4x8 for now, but I do plan on splitting it in half, and extending one leg to get some more run. I'm in an Apartment, so space is quite lacking.

My secondary interest is pre-WW2 Kettle Valley RR, and I might try building a 2-3 module set based on the Penticton yard, or the facilities at Beaverdell, to Freemo standards.

[bluepuma]

Started with NYC, Lehigh, then got ATSF, Penn Central but that was what the locos were.

Looked at a lot of layout plans, but had no clue how to scenic such places, have a little better idea now having seen some, but originally, the thought was: Model what you know best!

That was the LA area, with ATSF, SP and UP, but what I wanted to represent is the time and place when we moved from Highland Park, Los Angeles out to Puente, near the SP tracks and a feedlot, when most of the San Gabriel Valley east of the river was farmland, and I-10 stopped at Rosemead (Lakewood Blvd), it was '56, there were fields of barley, onions, cabbages, walnut groves, potatoes, strawberries, and in the rocky areas near the mountains, orange and lemon groves. Most of that filled in with Tract homes by '61, further out, later during the 70's.

My modeling desire is to capture the feeling of that time and place with me running the trains to local areas or heading trains to Las Vegas, Salt Lake, Omaha, Chicago, New Orleans, to see boxcars with far off railroad names.

I think of the scenes I want, Herefords and cattle cars, fields of cabbage, oranges, the San Gabriel River before it was concreted over, the LA River after it was, Los Angeles along the LA River. Got to have the ATSF passenger trains of 1970 running through the orange groves, have to have the oil tranks, pumps, refining and smell near Long Beach/LA harbor, along UP or SP or ATSF lines, have to have some street running in LA. Wanted country and city edge, and some PE cars, and PCC trolleys. Oh for the room to let UP have it's own line. If I cut the layout down to basics, would have the scene closest to home set up as a loop, or another section of main line on one of the 3, and fake some industries outside the critical 4 ft of N scale stockyard. The area modeled is relatively flat, but there are river crossings, impressive bridges.

Got to have passenger trains and mixed freight, run through piggy backs. Wasn't much double track. Lacking most is a good collection of SP F7A/B units in Black Widow paint, same in ATSF Freight colors. Some day I will paint. Only problem is how to justify NYC lightning stripe FA2/FB2, Erie Lackawanna F7A/B and B&O in the beautiful blue and grey scheme. They'd be a long way from home in LA! They all made it to Chicago!

[Hawks05]

well. like always i'm still undecided. i now have 1 BN, 2 CB&Q, and 1 Rock Island locomotives. i plan on modeling mainly railroads dealing with BN (GN, CB&Q, BNSF/ATSF, and of course BN.) but for now i like collecting stuff and getting more while prices are cheap. i know down the road in like 2010 prices will be sky high. i'm really starting to think about just doing BN (and all things involved in the BN) and Rock Island. i like the idea of coal and grain. i really like the hoppers. seems a consist of hoppers is more exciting than a consist of boxcars. if anything i'll have a mix of stuff.

of course this could all change tomorrow.

side note- tonight was the first night since i think last Friday i looked at my train stuff. mainly because i've had homework, and went to a b-ball game. of course i had to look at it tonight because i got my 2 Great Northern hoppers. great looking pieces. hopefully they run just as well as they look.

[Mikeygaw]

although prefer the major east coast rr's (CSX, NS, and Conrail specifically), a lot of what i have is the western railroads such as UP, Santa Fe, and Burlington Northern