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Fictional Railroads (part 2)

  • Some connect to real railways to interchange, or get to one line to another. There is plenty of odd and real motive power. the one I really like are Big Ben Express's "RF7000ACe's" and the "RF9000AC" (Court Clarke verson of the "SD70ACe" and SD90MAC) used mostly for heavy sand and gravel drags. no coal service (the mid-western division sees lots of coal.) here since theres no plants on the line (unless steam resumes.) The mainline that BBE (and all railways use) is called the Mohove (Mo-hoove) Subdivision. its main yard 4 to be exact one is Wiltwyck Yard the biggest also handles hump and standard switching located in Kingston (NY), Hornberry Yard local trafic handle this yard seldomly since it in a warzone (crime here is very HIGH [:(!][B)].) Hornberry is the only enclosed yard to foil vandels and drug dealers Railroad Police are also asigned there too. BBE handles a high speed piggyback and Roadrailer train called "POSC" which starts in Wiltwyck and ends in Pine Grove Yard in Southwestern Idaho on the former Western division. These trains are handled with HSD-7's (High-Speed Diesel) GT40-2's (P42's with a jet engines) and one of the odd balls the E30DR "Raptors" called by railfans from it's funny curping sound by the engine as the locomotive noches out. Speed for high speed freight are permited to go over 110 MPH. Most of these divisions are shared by other railroads that use the line. Kerhonkson Central, Mosquitoe Bay and Western (the "e" is silent), Pine Grove and Western Northhampton and Delta. Sometimes new (and sometimes unherd of locos) show up in the spotlight. most railfans say that the LM28-2 looks like an Oshkosh single-cab cement truck in reaity the LM20-2 "LOCOmobile" is. The LM28-2 is the improved model of the LM20-2 with 2900 horsepower insted of the 1600 horsepower of an LM20-2. Sloped-cabs are the norm.
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  • How about the Rock Valley Terminal or RVT? Opened in 1919 to serve the then-new Midwest Fuel ad Iron Company's steel mill on the south side of Rockford IL. Served as terminal road for IC, NYC (former Chicago, MIlwaukee and Gary), CB&Q, CMSTP&P, CRI&P and CGW (now CN, NS, BNSF, and CENPAC). Business really took off with the opening in 1958 of Central States Coop Association's new soybean processing plant. Caused RVT to open mini-hump yard on Rockford's south side, which remains open today. RVT employs 19 switching locomotives consisting of SW-10's, MP-15's, and 3 modified SD-40-2's with slug units for hump duty. Color scheme is Rock Island-inspired black and red with white pinstriping.