Although you may have posted this before, lets here a quick description of the theme of your layout.
Mine-
Time 1930’s to 1950’s - and specific time on occasions; May 1939.
Where The fictional Canadian Rockies Province of Calisota.
What A Canadian Pacific route between St. Canard, (capital of Calisota) and the southern resort town of Cape Suzette.
I really don’t have a theme per-say, but rather just a small typical south western US desert community that might be anywhere from the 1930s, 50s, 70s or modern day depending on the automobiles and trains that I change around constantly…
Tracklayer
time: 1965 to 1975
place:N/A
what: freelanced CPRail
Theme-- SF East Bay Delta -Sacramento-Sierra Foothills, Transverse Calif. for short.
Period: 1950-54.
Rail Users. UPAC, WPAC, ATSF. & BC & CS RR (Berkley,Concord & Central Sierra RR, FrLnc)
Unique Features: River Harbor slip & Freighter. AirField w/ small Air Line. 3rivers snaking thru.
Status: under construction, Bonds Sold, investors demanding results.
I don’t define time/place place as a theme. Theme to me is more of a feeling/reason for building.
My time place is Sierra Foothills 1885, but my theme is rough and tumble cowboy mining railroad with a smidge of humor.
I’m also working on a 1950 PRR in Indiana, Pennsylvania, but the theme is historical hometown switching and building things the way they were. Exploring the roots of my adopted hometown.
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Hmm. Just my bad luck to post on a thread that Bergie deleted. Here goes again.
Southeastern Utah, near Helper. Modern time. Flat table now, but I hope someday to model the Gilluly Loops. I have visited the loops two times and enjoyed it very much. I saw a tunnel motor there for the first time and didn’t know what it was.
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Where: The perimeter of downtown Sacramento, CA, center point of the Sacramento Northern Railway. Eventual expansions will include outlying communities like West Sacramento, Rio Linda and perhaps Woodland.
When: Currently 1953-1962, with plans to backdate to 1946-1953 once I put in trolley poles and hang overhead trolley wire. Potentially I could backdate prior to 1946 by adding regular streetcar service once I get the wire up. In the meantime, I operate diesel-electric with the occasional non-powered electric locomotive being deadheaded to maintenance of way.
Theme: Industrial belt line, heavy switching, small locomotives (ranging from 44 ton GE centercabs to an S1.) Industries are primarily agricultural (cannery, nut processing, dairy, beverages) with a heavy focus on bridge-traffic interchange (once complete, a lot of the action will involve moving cars between various interchanges. Once the wire is up, electric interurban railroading including passenger service (local streetcars and maybe interurbans later.)
Unique features: 12" minimum radius curves, in HO scale.
Status: 12 feet operating and scenicked, 20 feet operating and pending scenery, another 30-40 feet planned for remaining perimeter of room.
Didn’t we just do this?
Lee
It’s been a few years since I last answered this question on this site. So here goes.
Year: 1920’s to 1930
Subject: Small fictional branchline serving the Baltimore and Ohio in Western Maryland Called The Cherry River and Potomac Vally Rail road.
My layout is loosely based on the KCS southern division. Approximate time period 1978 to present.
Here we go again:
Time: The absolute present
Where: Extreme West Texas (El Paso) into Southern New Mexico. The old Lordsburg sub of the SP.
Model the SP as if it never got swallowed up. Eventually will have An EVO in SP paint , and whatever else comes out.
My signature says it all -
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Theme A:
What: Penn Lake Railway. A Short line co-owned by the Reading and Delaware & Hudson, with an interchange with the Pennsy. The line operates with RDG and D&H equipment, and features heavy coal, cement, stone, and forest product traffic. The right of way has a distinctly RDG flavor.
Where: Northeastern Pennsylvania’s Anthracite country.
When: Early to mid 1970s, before Conrail.
Theme B:
What: Penn Lake System. A super regional just acquired by Canadian Pacific, with an interchange with Conrail. The line hosts Amtrak service, and features coal, cement, steel, forest product and chemical traffic.
Where: Northeastern Pennsylvania’s Anthracite country.
When: Early to mid 1990s, before the Conrail breakup.
Nick
Era: Mid 1950’s - hot august nights.
Theme: Agriculture and oil - small town America.
Region: Northwestern US.
I’m doing a logging theme set in the Eastern part of the country around the turn of the last century. I’m modeling it in Large Scale narrow gauge (Fn3) indoors. I also have an industrial tram that runs coal, wood, and other supplies to different locations in Gn15 (Large Scale on HO track).
Time- Present Day
Where- Eastern United States
What- A CSX Subdivision hosting numerous freights and Amtrak shuttle trains. The layout will be composed of two tracks each under their own power. There will be yards for both tracks at the same location, creating one huge yard. I don’t plan to operate more than one train on each track at the same time (and that is probably a good thing!). It will be a shelf layout, so the spacing is limited. I’m still working out the kinks.
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The Last Mountain and Eastern Division (fictional) of the Western Pacific Railroad.
1960 to 1980s, so that all color schemes can be run. Locale: Northwest States.
Interchanges with the DRG&W and BN also a small showing of SP. makes life interesting.
Three levels, Top level is the main line accessed by hidden ramping, main level is branchlines and lower level is wharf and industrial and staging accessed by a helix. My helix is fairly tight 24" radius and fairly steep, but it works well and is a good excuse to run helper service, just have to keep my passenger cars off of it. Just in passing, running a helper service has two great features. (1) a reason for a helper station and running another loco, (2) but when you run that helper on the end of the train it means you have something there to stop runaway cars if you have a coupler failure. Everything doesn’t end up at the bottom of the helix in a heap.
A suggestion for newbies, if you are going to run multiple lash-ups or a helper service, things work alot smoother if those locos are the same mfg. Athern, Bachmann, Proto,etc. as they then are geared similar and don’t end up fighting one another.
Lots of background buildings, power plant, small coal mine keeps things happening. I run on DC (old school) for an old boy. But I’m having fun and lets not forget “thats what it is all about”
James:1 Verse:5
What are ya all watching?? Oh I shouda known, it’s the “WOBBLY” and it still lives.
Johnboy out…
Timeline:1955-1960
The Cumberland Pass
Fictional L&N line throught a sleepy old Middle Tennesse town…
The Maryland & Pennsylvania
Baltimore, Md to York, Pa - as much as I can fit in [(-D]
1953 although I plan to be a little liberal here.[:D]
Enjoy
Paul
Time: 1967 or 1937. The only things that really “date” the layout to 1967 are some movie posters on a wood plank retaining wall and Miss August over a workbench in the roundhouse. Everything else, like automobiles and trains, is removeable.
Location/Theme: Moose Bay, somewhere in the northeastern United States. The terrain is hilly, but not mountainous. Coal passes through, and one day there may be an icing station for reefers.
Special Features: A true subway, running beneath the city streets. I’m also planning removeable chunks of scenery so I can better match structures and industries when I turn on the Wayback Machine.