What Railroad do you model?

[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.

[traingeek087]

Q baby yeah.

[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?

[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]

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

Go Coonskin!!!

[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 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

[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!

[PennsyHoosier]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[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.

[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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[jag193]

After 20 years of modeling the NP/GN/SP&S in the fall of 1968 in HO and after two layouts in two-car garages, I switched railroads and scales. With failing eyesight and the frustration of a few of the new "superdetailed" kits, I've moved up to On30 (I fell in love with that Bachmann stuff last Christmas) and am creating a new layout in what used to be the 2-car garage. It's based on the old "Chili Line" (D&RGW) between Otowi and Taos junction. Since I grew up close to Espanola, it's like going back home! Now, I scratchbuild just about everything or heavily kitbash all of the Bachmann stuff. I'm selling all the HO to finance the new railroad. It's great!

[Anonymous]

CONRAIL 1975-1976


GO CONRAIL

David

[route_rock]

What railroad do I model hmmmmmmm. I am currently planning a Rock Island branch in N scale.Based on Indianola Iowa sort of.Going to be lates 60's to the 70's so I can have a stock extra and mini trains. My fiancee and I are looking for a house with enough back yard for a pole barn for my HO scale Rock Island of the 80's!Might still do what I wanted and model the entire Quad Cities or just freelance the area.Will also have Milwaukee Road and Somewhere amongst there the Davenport Rock Island and Northwestern(the DRI line) plus a few BN units. I grew up bleeding rainbow Rock and BN Green(which makes for a color that can not be described when i cut myself) Good luck in your modeling Hawkes.It has taken me years to make up my mind.

[Anonymous]

I model anything Oklahoma between the 50's to present day. Focus on the Rock Island, MKT, WT&J, AOK, Farmrail, and AT&L

[jpwc50]

PRR 1948-1955

[bogp40]

B&O, some C&O and WM, all Chessie up to the CSX merger.

[Anonymous]

I model Santa Fe, however I would rather model Rock Island as it was a local line. I am also planning on making an AT&L, since it runs through our town (it's a little town, only about 500 people)

[RDG1519]

I model the Reading Company in the early '70's. The locations are Philadelphia industrial areas and the Delaware River waterfront. Early Conrail is present. I also work the Jersey Central and P-R Seashore Lines ion as well.

[Anonymous]

Santa Fe All the Way!

[Anonymous]

New York Central and the CNR in the 1950's almost
all diesels. [:)] I also like to model modern day railroading
so I will occasionally change era's to reflect the late 90's
mostly Conrail, Norfolk Southern and Amtrak[8D]

Terry,

[Anonymous]

MKT in the late 80's, right before merger. "Ship and Travel via the KATY"

David

[NZRMac]

Freelance, I want a coal mine, mayby forestry, possibly a port, all depends on my ability to make it all look good!!

Ken

[jhugart]

I'm free-lancing.

At the moment, I'm working on a small layout for my son, so he can see trains run. It also gives my friends and I, all armchair modelers, a chance to practice some skills on layout building and scenery. The inspiration for the scenery is West Virginia.

The planned layout for myself is a modular layout of copper mining in the Keweenaw peninsula of Michigan's upper peninsula. There were numerous railroads in the area, including the Mineral Range, the Quincy and Torch Lake (owned by a mining company, but claimed it was a common carrier in order to avoid the taxes), and some others; the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic was the one which really combined a lot in the area before getting absorbed by the Soo, and now the Canadian Pacific, although the tracks there have been unused for decades.

My story is that the weather in Lake Superior was just a bit worse, making road travel difficult, water travel trecherous, and train travel just right. And, that the western copper mines didn't amount to anything, so that the UP continued to provide a lot of copper into the middle of the 20th century.

As a result, there was an effort to combine the different railroad lines, and the result was the Keweenaw and Superior Railroad, known as the Copper Line. It served the mines and towns, connecting to the Great Northern in Duluth-Superior, and stretched all the way down through Wisconsin to Chicago for a few things, running some C&NW equipment at times. More track went east along the UP to go to Canada, but I haven't thought out in that direction yet.

My goal is to do this in modules: The roundhouse and yard with dock; Downtown station and industries; Quincy mine #2 shaft area; Quincy stamp mill (maybe); and Chassel logging town. The modular approach lets me avoid worrying too much on scenicking transitions from scene to scene, and lets the layout be portable if need be.

It will be in N scale, and I want to use DCC. The era that interests me would involve a lot of steam (though I prefer diesels), so I'm going to try for sound decoders, too.

[Anonymous]

Can anyone tell me where to buy a Milwaukee HO train set?

[Anonymous]

Burlington Northern Santa Fe!! what else?!?!? why model UP and CSX when there's BNSF?

[Anonymous]

The line of the former KBayStsB during the Bayern Verwaltung period in the late 1920s.

http://www.altezeitgruppe.com

[twhite]

Rio Grande and SP during the steam era (WWII-early '50's). Fictional 'California Extension' of the D&RGW from Salt Lake City to Oakland, CA. Crosses the Sierra at Yuba Summit, north of SP's Donner Pass line and south of WP's Feather River Canyon. SP and WP have trackage rights, perpetually power-short Rio Grande has 'borrowed' locomotives from N&W, C&O, C&S and PRR for the duration. Occasional GN 'detours' over Yuba Pass off of their 'highline' in Northern California. Lots of big steam (no diesels, they can't 'breathe' yet on the Sierra grades). Very noisy, lots of fun.
Tom

[Anonymous]

BNSF (includes BN & santa fe) i might merge with Chicago & NorthWestern but i'm not sure yet...