I model the Midwest myself. Specififcally southern Wisconsin.
Noah
Northeast
West/Southwest
Midwest, East Nebraska, North Kansas, West Iowa.
I voted for the midwest because I model what I see and that’s ohio.
Andrew Miller
I voted Northwest, although I’d like to model California from Fresno to the Oregon border. Then I can have both of my favorite types of RR’s. Large mainline RR’s (mainly UP, but also SP and ATSF, and also the modern BNSF) and logging RR’s.
The Midwest, specifically central Illinois.
The New Haven RR between Hartford and New Haven (Hartford/Springfield Line) and Hartford and Old Saybrook (Valley branch) in Connecticut to be specific.
IOWA !!!
The layout follows the Rock Island Line up from Fairfield in south central Iowa (where the RIL crossed the BNSF/AMTRAK line) to the Quad Cities of Davenport, Bettendorf, Rock Island and Moline, and then North along the Mississippi to Clinton (where it meets UP track) or East from the QCA toward Chicago (the track will cross the Mississippi and vanish into the Illinois QCs).
Selected parts only, of course - my basement isn’t THAT large !!!
Southwestern Canada, British Columbia to be exact, and the Northwest of the U.S.
Canadian Pacific…( old and new color schemes) Great Northern and Burlington Northern.
My Grizzly Northern Railway, a late steam era Canadian Pacific Railway subsidiary , runs from near Rocky Mountain House in west central Alberta, through the rugged Selkirk and Monashee ranges of the Canadian Rockies, along the Columbia and Thompson rivers, to Kamloops, British Columbia.
The history of the Grizzly Northern was published in the 1 July 1938 Dominion Day special issue of the Kamloops-based newspaper “The Caribou News and Chronicle”.
I forgot to mention, a copy of the above article about the Grizzly Northern is available on E mail request.
Mexico, Gulf Coast side, between Tampico and Poza Rica in Veracruz state. NdeM never ran a line through there, although it was discussed. There were a number of short line industrial narrow gauge roads in the area, mostly serving the oil industry.
Noah, I hate to complain, but your post left off a huge chunk of North America south of the Rio Grande. All that area down as far as Panama isn’t South America. And, despite what a lot of folks living in Houston or San Diego think, the American Southwest still hasn’t been returned officially to Mexico. [:D] So I had nowhere to vote.[V]
By the way, is Wisconsin where the ARK lines are physically located, or is that just the area you model?
Ed
I actually model the Great Plains, Kansas City KS/Kansas City Mo.
Ch
Southeast Iowa, Burlington to be more exact. (I’ll only have room for a 4x8, so my layout will probably be based on a fictional branch or industrial brach jointly owned by the CB&Q and the CRI&P. But when I get more space I’ll model the Q’s Ottumwa Div., with the Rock showing up a lot too.) This is where my two favorite railroads, the Q and the Rock, meet each other. The area has essentially the same look as the Quincy bluffs closer to me in Illinois.
My current layout is of futher north California, but the layout I’m planning will be of here, Sacramento, CA. Thanks to Joe Fugate, I now have an effective way to model tall yellow grass (a lot of that around here). My 4’ 6" x 10’ layout has grown to small for my needs, so I plan to rearrange my life-style even more to accomodate a slighly bigger layout. The new one will have a much longer mainline and wider curves. But it will still fit in my room with me, TV, bed, clothes, and other crap. The layout in these pictures is being disassembled.
Take a last look. I’ve added 14 new photos.
Ed, I know I left off alot, but that was because of the restrictions on amount of choices. I could only have 15. Maybe if one of the other continents doesn’t get a vote by the end of the day tomarrow, I’ll replace it with central America. I would have liked to seperate Canada down too, but I couldn’t.
The ark isn’t real, and I don’t really model it either. I just made it up in the coffee Shop because of the flooding i my basement, so it was ment more as a joke then reality. If I ever do decide to go freelance instead of prototype, that is probably what I’d do though, and I may still make a fake paint sceam for boxcars sometime and paint them up to run on my other wise prototype layout. Right now my layout is a completely freelance scenery, but I say southern WI because that way the WSOR can be the main railroad around.
Noah
Part of the Syracuse NY area, along with some of my “fictious” (sp???) road.
Noah,
“The ark isn’t real, and I don’t really model it either. I just made it up in the coffee Shop because of the flooding i my basement, so it was ment more as a joke then reality.”
Yeah, I knew that from our posts over on the Coffee Shop. I was really joking, just forgot to put the smileyface in so you’r know it was a joke. I was just trying to keep the tone light after ragging at you about omiting Mexico (which is part of Nort America, not Central America, by the way).[:)]
Keep enjoying your vacation,
Ed
Amtrak NEC
West / Southwest USA: SP’s Tehachapi Pass, and BNSF Needles sub (small diorama). All Z scale.
Dominique