As long as long there have been layouts, there have been ficticous shortlines.
My HO scale DeWitt & South Texas is no exception. Lets hear from those among us tht own a rr based on a real or ficticous shortline.P.S.-This is my 100th post, so please say something to make it last.
CSX ‘New Castle Sub’ and ‘Indiananpolis Line.’ Quite interesting lines in the making [8D]!!
There you go, Eric! I’m on the phone with you NOW!
the 1870 version of the atchison & topeka railroad.
1874 version of the virginia & truckee.
tonopah & tidewater.
The Clinton-Golden Valley RR serves the west central Missouri area!!
Amargosa
Serving the Bullfrog Mining District.
I just recently decided to change the location of my RR and it’s name, it was going to be called the Machias river valley RR,right now i’m still working on a new name.
bill
I model a modern day freelanced short line called the Reynoldsville Short Line or RSL. The loco’s are painted French Royal Blue with white short hoods or the short hoods are safety stripped. To me modeling short lines makes model railroading easier, because no one can say my proto type isn’t prototypical, because in my world it is.
I model a freelance logging/small mining,1925, layout located in Northern Calif. Long name, NoSpaceOreCashRR, short lettering NORR.
Autumns Ridge Railway & Navigation Co. is based in mid-coast Maine in 1939.
CSX serving Hillside, VA
I model the Lake Superior Railway & Navigation Co., reporting marks LSRN. Modern shortline/lumber hauler in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
I’m from Alaska. My rail road is the Buck River Rail Road. To shorten that it is the BRRR.[:D]
My shortline is the Cedar Branch & Western, set somewhere in the Ozark Mountains of north Arkansas.
We model the Salt Creek Railraod. A short line that serves as a connenctor in south west Florida between the Seminole Gulf Railroad and the CSX. They have other connections, but this serves the area between Sarasota and Ft. Myers. We serve some local industries and the two connections. They serve us with some local traffic and direct transfers. Hey it ani’ t much but switching and transfers can become a nightmare if we are not careful. Let’s face it the Gulf Seminole can’t afford it and the CSX doesn’t need it. We also run an elevated RDC through our area from FT. Myers to Sarasota with a station stop in Harbor Cove. We also run a Trolley for light rail in the US. 41 corrridor. They really should make it real!
Seaboard Southern a short line that has four or five engines about ten or twelve box cars some hoppers and two rdc for passenger trade and runs from a connection with the NS and CSX, and serves four towns, it bigggest drawing card is a rail museum at the end of the line, The museum runs fan trips over the road. which gives me a reason to have and run all kinds of trains.
unfortunately I havn’t been able to even visit my traim room let along run them in about five year, maybe one day I can get back to where I can, it being in a upstairs room, I being a downsstairs person now.
The Richstream Valley Railroad (Engli***ranslation of the original Japanese), built to funnel coal from a sizeable field with several collieries to the industries on the coast. About 3/4 of the route was nationalized, upgraded and extended (through a long tunnel) and is now the (fictional) Nichigeki Route of the Japan National Railway (September 1964). The original line got to keep the last few kilometers of its route (including the hairpin curves and 40/1000 grades), and still serves the fading remnants of the coal field. (Translation - I am building the interesting part and the mainline junction, with the rest of Japan represented by extensive staging.)
The scale is 1:80 - closer to OO than to HO, but called HOj because the track gauge is HO standard 16.5mm.
Modeling the Colorado, Arizona and Western (CAW - “As the Crow Flies… More or Less”) - set in the Four Corners area (SE Utah, NE Arizona, NW New Mexico and SW Colorado), connecting the D&RGW/RGS and ATSF (Holbrook, AZ), and in the mid-to-late 1950’s. A struggling short line that buys about all their engines second hand, and does some creative engineering to keep them running… [;)]
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
I have the Superior & Eastern (SESR). It interchanges with my C&NW line and the WC and has trackage rights on the C&NW south from Superior, WI to Solon Springs where its ficticious line to Ashland and a little ways beyond heads east. Motive power is 2 MP15’s, 3 GP35’s rebuilt into GP38-2R’s and 3 SD38-2’s. Major commoditys are auto parts, caustic soda, aggregates, coal for Bayfield Power Plant in Ashland, plywood and lumber and scrap steel and rolled steel to and from the St. Croix Steel minimill.
I’m planning a CSX industrial spur. DOn’t know if that counts or not.
The Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth existed in southern Ohio from 1880 to 1936. I model it as if it had survived another 20 years. It still dead ends at Georgetown and interchanges with the PRR on the east side of Cincinnati