I model a western RR myself. UP to be exact.
Both in my case.
Even though my signature states the I’m modeling the US northeast, Canadian Pacific reached the Pacific Ocean.
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Gordon
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I voted Eastern as long as the scenery is concerned but I don’t worry about running UP and Santa Fe trains along with CN and Western Maryland ones. Only because I like the looks of these railroads.
Martin
Québec City
I have to say both because I got my start with CB&Q quite by accident. The first train set I got for christmas had a CB&Q F-unit for power. The next was a CB&Q gp-20., Then the BN merger and I was a BN modeler…Because my Favorite RR ( E-L ) was too hard for me to paint when I was young.
East all the way. If a railroad can make it here it can make anywhere. Joe
Government owned and operated this is the East’s best run mass transit system: Government of Ontario Transit (GO Transit) Serving the Greater Toronto Metro Area, and as always, Bringing The Skydome Closer To Home
I guess southwest Arizona counts as west coast, even of it several hundred miles from the coastline.
I spent ages trying to figure this out when I started. I quite liked the idea of modelling one of the almost-abandoned freight yards in the NYC area, or something similar. Unfortunately, I also like double-stack container cars which don’t find their way east due to low bridges! To add to the muddle, my first HO scale loco was an Athearn SD9 in SP livery. After a while I decided to model a museum line on the grounds that I would be able to run anything I liked the look of. I hear there’s somewhere named Radnor in Pennsylvania? I guess my line must be somewhere around there, though it’s completely fictional!
[8D]hough I voted both, my theme is basically the Seaboard Coast LIne from 1967-71 with connections to western roads via the Chicago area. This is why in my upcoming layout that while 70% of my locomotives will be east coast, there will be some Santa Fe, and UP units that will connect with SCL freights destined for the west coast (run through power was not so common back then). This arrangement let’s me justify having my favorite locomotive present, the FP45 cowls.[^]
Passenger service will be strictly east coast but as a friend showed me in a book, sleeping cars from Northern Pacific and other western roads winded up on Florida and Alabama bound trains. [C):-)] Those post cards we often see from the 50s and 60s showing perfectly matching passenger cars were just for the photos. Many passenger trains were actually jumbled in colors and road names. I’m sure those of you 40 and over remember such scenes.[8)]
East!!!
East!!
I model the NEW HAVEN mid 50’s
East - waaaay east.
I primarily model the Santa Fe. No, I don’t know why. I used to model the Pennsy. No I don’t know why. I grew up along the Missiouri Pacific main and when I rediscovered the hobby as an adult I lived along the U.P. I say I model the ATSF, but I model it in the midwest. After all, ATSF was a big railroad here in Kansas City. BNSF continues to be a big railroad in our part of the country.
West. SP & ATSF mainly.
West. UP.
East, mostly PRR.
Well, I’ve seen BNSF and UP locomotives on the CSX line running East/West through my hometown, so I figure what the heck…I just wouldn’t feel right trying to model a layout with no features.
Could be a transitional type of layout, too…forested mountains/plains/desert/rocky mountains
East. I model the Western Maryland with a little B&O thrown in for good measure.
Jim
IF California ever gets “the big one” you might be on the coastline!!![:D]
East Coast for me, Western Maryland all the way!
My Son models Santa Fe, boy is my basement gonna be weird!!![%-)]