Post what it is called, what it uses and what its colours are.
The BEAR line, (Backwoods Enterprise and Agricultural Road) is still in the planning stage. I hope to go with a 3x10 layout, with an oval leading behind the backdrop to a train cassette for storing complete trains.
I think I’ll go for a dark background color (purple, black, navy) with yellow or orange logos and markings).
It will serve stock pens, meat packing plant, grain elevator, cross-docking/transhipment facility, grocery warehouse. Most of my rolling stock is cattle cars, covered hoppers, private label boxcars (1970s), reefers, etc. that support those industries. The businesses were chosen based on 1) what rolling stock I own, and 2) interplay between the industries that will hopefully lead to some cars being used multiple times in an operating session.
Motive power will be whatever I currently own (including 4-8-4, a couple of docksiders, C424, SD??, GP??, F7A&B, etc.).
The Cowford and Southern. Cowford is the original name of Jacksonville FL. The C&S doesn’t have any of its own motive power. Its owned by Seaboard Coast Line railroad. The line runs from Jacksonville to Orlando down what is now called the “A” line. The towns on the layout match the towns on the A line but the industries are made up to give me plenty of operating. Motive power runs the gamut from GP-9’s to U36C’s. The layout also interchanges with my club layout, The Cowford and Northern which runs from Jacksonville north into North Carolina.
Borracho Springs R.R. Co., or as its known locally, the B.S., serving the Borracho Tequila factory, also serving the towns of Borracho Springs, Purgitory, the F.U.B.A.R. Mining Consortium and the S.N.A.F.U. Mineral Co when we can get the train crews to stop endlessly switching cars at the distillery.
Colors range from grimy black to various shades of rust.
Pacific & Southwest Railroad Co HO
Operates from San Francicso to New Orleans just as if the Espee didn’t exist in that area. Subsudiary lines, my sons, cover the California central valley like a tent. We have wild imaginations. All are colored basically Reefer Grey with White roofs and Yellow noses. Striping and lettering colors vary according to the road. Place to go to see double stacks behind Challengers in 2003.
Lowell
Mine is the Great Dividing Range Mining Company. It was the only company to cross the Great Dividing Range. The Alco PAs have a fat stripe coming from the nose to the tail were it splits in to two stripes going to each back corner. The stripe is blue and the body is red. The lettering is black. The PBs have a large cross on the sideswith each point coming from the corners leading to the middle. the cross is red and the body is blue.The lettering is black. The RR mostly uses Alco PA/PBs and some SD40-2s.
Mine is named SOTATRR(Some of This And That). As the name implies I’ll run just about anything. Colors are Dark Blue background with Mint Green letering. I still need to come up with a logo.
Mike
My RR uses 55’ ACF centreflow covered hoppers and also runs a passenger train called the Highlander.
Mine is the Quality Rail. It is the equivilent of the UP. It uses 8000 SD70Ms which are white with blue logos.
Mine is yet to be named. I am rebuilding it. It will be a small industrial layout served by the MP. My current roster consists of 6 40’ MP Merchandiser Eagel box cars- grey and white. The motive power is a leadsed EMD SW7 painted yellow and green to match the Precision National paint scheme and lettered for Precision.
I had to dismantle my current layout and I am in the process of redoing the structures to make them look better and more functional. I also plan to do a better job of track planning this time around.
A lot of tips I learned from those that answered my postings on this forum will be used as well.
Thanks Bob
My railroad is the Graniteville and Bullshead. Its an imaginary branchline railroad in Ohio, now completely owned by the B&O (1950s), though the two towns are actually neighborhoods in Staten Island, NY where I grew up. I save my really silly names for some of the industries on my layout: Avogadro Chemical Company (address is 602 E 23 St - sorry, its a chemistry joke), Pheesh’s Marine Supply (pronounced Fish’s), and Acme Product Corporation (famous for their roadrunner catching products).
Saratoga & Adirondack. Runs mostly steam (2-8-0, 2-6-0, 0-8-0 Camelbacks and rear cabs).
However, B & M Diesels (RS-3, GE 44-ton, BL-2) make appearances as the B & M had a branch terminating in Saratoga.
When I get around to painting them, there will be two RS-3s in basic black with yellow end chevrons.
The track is built and operational in DCC. No scenery or structures but I will attempt to model what I remember.
I’m spending what little time I have this Summer building an accurate model of one of the Erie’s very early oil-electric box cabs. I’m combining pieces of two MDC box cabs, Athearn NW2 and GE U25. This is my first experience cutting up perfectly good locomotives to make something different.
Fay and Lindsay Smith operate the L&F RY. Co. We call it “The Better Way.” You know that on bad trips we can be the F&L. The colors are Green and White.
A Roundhouse Shay, and small tanks pull logs and ores. It serves Mt. Baldy, Anaheim and Cucamonga!
U could call it the Precision National RR or the America National RR
Precision is or was a company that bought diesels and rebuilt them to factory specs or more and then sold or leased the to railroads. The paint scheme was theirs. A small article about them appeared back in the 70’s in I beliece Model Railroad Craftsman.
Before dismanteling my layout I was toying with the name Somers Point. It will be an industrial switching layout with only about 3-4 sidings and a couple of storage tracks and one track that will connect to a main line. This will be loosly based on Progressive Rail. MR ran an article on them earlier this year and it caught my interest.
I have a lot to workout so as not to repeat the mistakes I made on my other layout.
Bob
The WEUSANDCORR was establishedin 1976 and has a northern and southern division with a western branch . Motive power is all ex CNW up to C44-9W with CNW colours retained and redecalled for our company. Coal,wheat,plastic pellets, cement,Trailer-rail @ intermodal traffic. Communication used to be snail mail now it is on computer e-mail car card system. WE are in Australia and the Divisions are 700miles apart actual Regards Les Charlie Steve
PRM&GP Pacific, Rocky Mountains and Great Plains.
Scenario: several short line holding companies bought the Milwaukee Road and restored the electrification through to Chicago. Primary cargos are grain and coal west to port of Tacoma and autos east to connections at chicago. Never joined Amtrack, uses accela equipment for a very high speed Olympian Hiawatha, and second generation electrics for freight and commuter traffic. orange and black of course on the OH, but all other passenger Teal and Salmon as in the Electroliner. Grants trackage rights to other roads who usually use diesel power.
The praries are unfortunately plywood as of now but…
Doug, in Utah
Hello, Think HO scale. Patricks Railway Service Inc. or PRSI. PRSI provides all railroad services to anyone who needs it. The big thing right now is a large railroad constrution train esp. anything thats needed to do the job on hand. Colors are gray and black. Pile driver set is yellow and black. Ben
Not only have I made up the name of my HO railroad but also the country it serves. I call my country Dalreada with Marcstadt being the capital, a busy port city called Melmatt and the other principal city called Royston. All called for members of my family. The railroad is called Dalreada National Railways. The all steam locomotive livery is black with red trim. The passenger coaches are dark blue or green depending on which train they serve. I think modeling your imagination is more fun than trying to model an existing railroad. Have fun.
Pop.
My road is the I.T.& T. RR, the Ironbound Terminal & Transfer Railroad. Protyping Newark, NJ’s one-time heavy industrial area, it does private-line switching from the Oak Island yards of CONRAIL, CSX and Norfolk Southern. Our industries include a chemical plant,a paint factory,a lumber yard,a concrete batch-plant served by water and rail,a burned-out tallow plant,a plastic extruder, a feather and down processor, a boiler/furnace warehouse distributor, a steel door mfgr.,a municipal incinerator, a cold-storage warehouse and a scrap yard. Most of the structures are gritty, grimy and graffitied buildings.The area is called “Ironbound” because many years ago it was about 2 sq. miles of space surrounded by the Lehigh Valley,Central RR of NJ, Penn Central and Lackawanna, thus it was Ironbound. Today, it is largely ethnic Portugese so I get most of my signage from the Portugese/Brazilian area classified telephone book. Mixed in with the industrial area are residences and small businesses. All of my three children and 8 grandchildren have their names worked into the structures.