Are ther anyfreelanced model railroaders out there? If you respond to this message you will have responded to one!
Yes.
Yewbetcha.
I guess I am about free lanced as they get. Mike
My past layout was completely freelanced, my HO Pennsylvania & Lake Erie Railroad. Right now I am modeling the B&M in the 70’s but my railroad represents a fictional branch of the B&M that never existed so I would still call myself a bit of a freelancer.
I am. There are many of us here. I depends what you mean by freelanced though. I myself have my own roadname, and my road is based on many of the regional roads that ran, or still run in the upper midwest. I draw my time period and inspiration from real railroads like Wisconsin Central, WSOR, Chicago Central, Fox River Valley, and Iowa Interstate. I also tend to enjoy other “freelanced” model railroads like the Utah Belt, Midland Road, Virginian & Ohio, and MR&T, more than prototype models, but that is me.
My main railroad and its subsidiary road are designed to service actual areas but are best described as “could have been” railroads given a quirk in history.
I am building a miniture railroad, not a model railroad. I have 5 states and 4 seasons and 3 decades. They are connected by “wormholes” and a lot of imagination. If that is free lanced, I’m in. I do love the true prototype people, and love to visit their worlds. I just chose to model what is in my head and my memory and not what is in the history book.
Yeah…is there not a term for a freelanced railroad that is obviously closely based on a real location? Kinda like “Hill Street Blues” was supposed to take place in an anonymous big city but it sure looked like Chicago?
I plan on modeling a very big city that will include elements of Chicago but besides being supremely condensed, I doubt that any part of it will look exactly like Chicago, just definately resemble the city. There is a word or term for that but I can’t think of it. So yes like a couple of previous posts I will be freelancing but heavily borrowing from the real world.
Same here, my LEGO SCALE Glasgow& Tweed River RR runs from Glasgow, Scotland to London, England. The “fictional history,” is that the BNSF merged with Hogwarts Railways and bought out UP, to reach Sacramento via the Chunnel. Also the railroad uses only surplus equipment and refurbished equipment from Hogwarts Railways and BNSF and Cinder Creek Central(the G&TR RR’s predecesor), and bought the ATSF Super Chief’s equipment from various museums.
Yes. I freelance based on prototype practices (protolance). I’m modeling a ficticious narrow gauge logging line in Large Scale (indoors) set in the Eastern part of the country around the early part of the 19th century (1900-1930).
prototype freelancing?
Quickest way to have it resemble Chicago would be to use a large photo of the skyline as part of the backdrop. The Sears Tower would be a dead giveaway. (I once thought about putting Fujisan on my backdrop, to make it obvious what country I was modeling. Then I realized that: 1. Fujisan was south of the area I’m protolancing. 2. What I am modeling is actually being viewed facing north.)
Chuck
Our HO scale club is freelanced, my home HO scale layout is freelanced, and my back yard G-scale layout is freelanced.
I LOVE the utah belt!
I guess you could call the Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western (S.L.O.&W.) a freelanced model railroad… I prefer to think of it as a “figment” type layout based on the Finger Lakes Region of NYS. Yep, figment is a good term (as in imaginagtion). It has some historical threads to it and some real places called by other names more or less do exist on it. A lot of industries are named after relatives and close friends of the family. Some are nice, some aren’t. But I won’t go there… [:D]
That is DEFINATLY freelance. It maks me laugh. But I like it, so don’t think I’m making fun of you! keep it up!!!
What’s your model railroad called howmus?
The “Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western” I live near Seneca Lake in the County of Ontario in upstate NY. I have also been working on and off on this layout for over 25 years. So the SLO & W is aptly named. [;)] It is also a play on words as the New York, Ontario, and Western had a branch near this area that went to Ithaca, NY at one time.
Autumns Ridge Railway & Navigation Co. is an N scale freelanced road based on the Belfast & Moosehead Lake RR in Maine. The time period has always been the late 30’s, but with my impending move I’m thinking of backdating to the mid 20’s.