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What is the name of your railroad?

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  • From: Anderson Indiana
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Posted by rogerhensley on Thursday, October 30, 2003 6:36 AM
> So what is the name, scale, time period, location, railroad, e.t.c.

The ECI (East Central Indiana) HO scale railroad is a 70s/80s short
line operating out of fictional Henderson in North Central Indiana
southward over the ex-New York Central (CCC&StL) North Vernon
Secondary purchased from Penn Central and Conrail. The ECI runs
through Emporia, Rushville, Greensburg and terminates in the
Southern Indiana town of Westport.

Connections are made with Conrail (CR) and the Central Indiana &
Western (CIW) at Henderson, the Chicago, Emporia & Evansville (CEE)
at Emporia, the CSX at Rushville and a secondary connection with
Conrail at Greensburg. The ECI and CEE share trackage between
Henderson and Westport under control of the ECI Dispatcher working
out of the South Henderson Yards.

The majority of customers are small industrial companies (pipes,
plastics, autoparts, etc.) as well as several heavy grain operations
and one small stone quarry sending occasional shipments off line
to dealers nationwide from their quarry near Westport.

http://cid.railfan.net/eci_new.html

Roger Hensley
= ECI Railroad - http://madisonrails.railfan.net/eci/eci_new.html =
= Railroads of Madison County - http://madisonrails.railfan.net/

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  • From: Wyoming, where men are men, and sheep are nervous!
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Posted by Pruitt on Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:55 AM
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Casper Division.

It's HO, in the early stages of construction. The time period is 1935-1945. The location is Wyoming, specifically the line from Orin Junction in the southeast part of the state to Frannie in the north.

The URL is www.thecbandqinwyoming.com
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  • From: Midtown Sacramento
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Posted by Jetrock on Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:53 AM
"Sacramento Belt Line", which was a real railroad jointly operated by the Sacramento Northern and Central California Traction lines as an industrial belt line around downtown Sacramento, CA.

In its current incarnation I model 1953-1966 (after the trolley wire came down but before the abandonment of street trackage) but once I get trolley wire up it will reflect 1947-1953 (or earlier if I only run electrics.)

The layout is a 6' wide shelf layout, 1 foot wide with 18" deep "wings" on either side--eventually there will be an additional 1x4 or 1x3 foot module added to each end in a "C" shape, and finally a 2x6 section on the opposite side to represent downtown Sacramento, complete with a short trolley line.

Because it's a dinky layout I am consciously excluding the SP and WP trackage that ran in downtown Sacramento except for an interchange track and a grade crossing, and the occasional appearance of their motive power and rolling stock on the Belt Line tracks.
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What is the name of your railroad?
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:09 PM
So what is the name, scale, time period, location, railroad, e.t.c. My HO layout is clalled the Santa Fe & San Diego Railroad. I model from the 1940's to the present day. The route starts from Oceanside, CA to San Diego. The layout is about 5' by 18' in a two car garage. What are the charicteristics of your layout?[?][:D][8D][:)]

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