Do you run different railroad locomotives together.???
I model Canadian National so I also run GTW locomotives also!!![:D][:p]
My layout is freelanced so it doesnt really count, but the Borracho Springs RR (B.S. R.R) runs along with a very small mining line, the FUBAR and SNAFU or the F & S. (ex-military owners) although rumors are afoot that UP is planning a connecting branch line to interchange with the BS RR.
Hey I gotta get my UP stuff before the UP Borg Collective sends its drone lawyer soldiers out to destroy all resistant train manufaucturers!
The real railroads do, so I do too. Plus it’s nice to have diversity on the rails. [:)] Variety keeps me interested.
Warren
I run chessie with CSX, CSX with UP, BNSF with Norfolk Southern, and just about any combo you would find in real life. Joe
I should have called my RR the BBS Way, short for Beg, Borrow & Steal[}:)]
Yup I run different road names together.
CP, D&H, SOO, UP, C&NW, Seaboard, Conrail, N&S, MEC, B&M, GATX, are all the roadnames (so far) that I have in my collection.
Soon to be added is WERD Leasing.
Gordon
My main reason for Proto/Freelance was to be able to connect to and use locos from my favorite railroads. You’ll see an occasional foreign road unit trailing in a consist if the terminal originating the train was short on power. Beg, borrow or steal anything you can to get the trains over the road.
I try to run loco combinations that I’ve seen in photos, or matching locos. However, this doesn’t always work - witness the Athearn CSX Dash 9 and AC4400 that are matched with a BNSF Dash 9 (Warbonnet livery) on my intermodal train. I’ve never seen this formation in a photo but the BNSF Dash 9 was the only one I could find, and it looks good!
It’s often hard to find matching locos over here - been looking for something suitable to partner my NYC C-Liners for a while now, hoping to pick up a A/B set of FA1s in NYC at some point - have found a store in an area I plan to visit at some point that’s listing them at half list price!
I’m planing on getting my first foreign road locomotive in the next couple of days. Hopefully(if the hobby shop has still) it will be A CP Rail SD40-2 also my frst 6 axle unit
ShaunCN
I run Reading & Northern, Norfolk Southern (and ex-CR), CP Rail, Canadian National, Amtrak, and last but not least my fictional Allentown Scranton & Northern. All but the AS&N and Amtrak really do operate on the line I model.
Back in the 90s I used to railfan the BN and/or UP in the Nebraska Panhandle. Frequently BN ran ATSF locomotives. Each road would “rent” watt-hours of electricity (as generated in the units) from each other. Pay back was letting the road you own use your locomotives to get the number of watt-hours you previously got from their power. Sometimes you’d see KCS, N&W and others on the BN lines.
Ed
Modeling steam generally means that you’ll only see one road’s engines on my trains. I’ve got a belt line terminal for my one big yard, however, so you’ll see lots of different road’s engines parked together.
Yes i do i run SP /Rio Grande BN/EMD Demonstrator and M R L as well
or any possible combo i can think of
Regards
Larry
My line was shared by both SN and CCT, but since SN was owned by WP and CCT was owned by WP, SP and AT&SF, one might see any of the above on the tracks, so that gives me some variety.
I run the NYC and the NH together
I model the CB&Q (Burlington Route member) in the 1960’s. They had some pool power and through train agreements during that era with, off the top of my head, with UP, D&RG, NYC/Pennsy/PC, N&W?, WP on the CZ, L&N?
Since I am focusing mainly on the year before the merger though, 1969, the UP and the NYC/Pennsy/PC were the only ones which I can model on my area of the railroad during daylight hours, IIRC. I also have an SD-45 EMD demonstrator that I’ll be running with two of the white hockey stick , pre-merger experimental paint scheme SD-45’s pulling a coal train from out west, past my modeled area, on to Chicago. I also am going to sneak in a GN SD-7(9?) now and then which wouldn’t be entirely out of line anyway. It was one of my rare, “I had to have it 'cause I just loved the way it looked”, moments, plus I actually gave into the urge over many months of constantly seeing that unit in the LHS display case. Extremely rare event, indeed!
I have UP,BN, RI, SOU, AMT, ATSF, CONRAIL, and the U&O Running around together or somewhere on the layout at the sametime. It’s kind of a mystical place where anything can show up. You never know.
RMax
Home road only. All 5 of them and 2 powered MOW thrashers.
Randy
I would like to run locos from the UP, SP, ATSF, and CB&Q on my layout.
[%-)] I could run 2 Santa Fé F7A’s with my UP fleet but I think that’s “Not Done”
or is it?? [%-)]
If someone posts: I would appreciate a normal answer, that a lot of you dislike UP I allready know.