So what is the name, scale, time period, location, railroad, e.t.c. My HO layout is clalled the Santa Fe & San Diego Railroad. I model from the 1940’s to the present day. The route starts from Oceanside, CA to San Diego. The layout is about 5’ by 18’ in a two car garage. What are the charicteristics of your layout?[?][:D][8D][:)]
“Sacramento Belt Line”, which was a real railroad jointly operated by the Sacramento Northern and Central California Traction lines as an industrial belt line around downtown Sacramento, CA.
In its current incarnation I model 1953-1966 (after the trolley wire came down but before the abandonment of street trackage) but once I get trolley wire up it will reflect 1947-1953 (or earlier if I only run electrics.)
The layout is a 6’ wide shelf layout, 1 foot wide with 18" deep “wings” on either side–eventually there will be an additional 1x4 or 1x3 foot module added to each end in a “C” shape, and finally a 2x6 section on the opposite side to represent downtown Sacramento, complete with a short trolley line.
Because it’s a dinky layout I am consciously excluding the SP and WP trackage that ran in downtown Sacramento except for an interchange track and a grade crossing, and the occasional appearance of their motive power and rolling stock on the Belt Line tracks.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Casper Division.
It’s HO, in the early stages of construction. The time period is 1935-1945. The location is Wyoming, specifically the line from Orin Junction in the southeast part of the state to Frannie in the north.
The URL is www.thecbandqinwyoming.com
So what is the name, scale, time period, location, railroad, e.t.c.
The ECI (East Central Indiana) HO scale railroad is a 70s/80s short
line operating out of fictional Henderson in North Central Indiana
southward over the ex-New York Central (CCC&StL) North Vernon
Secondary purchased from Penn Central and Conrail. The ECI runs
through Emporia, Rushville, Greensburg and terminates in the
Southern Indiana town of Westport.
Connections are made with Conrail (CR) and the Central Indiana &
Western (CIW) at Henderson, the Chicago, Emporia & Evansville (CEE)
at Emporia, the CSX at Rushville and a secondary connection with
Conrail at Greensburg. The ECI and CEE share trackage between
Henderson and Westport under control of the ECI Dispatcher working
out of the South Henderson Yards.
The majority of customers are small industrial companies (pipes,
plastics, autoparts, etc.) as well as several heavy grain operations
and one small stone quarry sending occasional shipments off line
to dealers nationwide from their quarry near Westport.
mine as of yet does not have a name, time period, or location. it will be in HO scale once i start and probably reflect my county or something. i don’t know what it will be. it might just be different railroads that run through this area and i will come up with scenery and what not. most likely it will be the CSX/Burlington Northern Railway.
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As the name goes, I am the EAST COAST RAILWAYS. My miniature empire is still under construction and looking great, slow and HO, that is so the quality is not secondary. I mainly model what I know, from 1980-2000. The scene is from Florida to the Pennsylvania ridge. My main basis is that a new fledging road, ECR, is up and competing to drive out the giants AMTRAK and the Class I roads, CSX and NS.
I have a small jumble of equipment so that everyday is different. My main" prize" is a Bachmann Spectrum Acela set. The size of the layout is in a 12 x 13 room. It is a shelf -around- the- room , no deeper than 2 feet.[:p]
mine is current day in a small town in south carolina where the NS and CSX converge. i call it the FLATRIDGE DIVISION. i drove to about 50 small towns in s.c. getting ideas of what buildings and industries to use.the buildings were an easy pick, all brick in the 1930’s-1940’s circa. so i used DPM products they fit in perfect and i opted for a cement plant and grain/flour mill.
Mine is a freelanced layout, with freelanced scenery and freelanced structures. I like to model the 70-80’s era of the AT&SF railroad. Since I love the look of tunnels and bridges, I created a mountain/valley geography, so that’s why my layout is called Silver Creek Valley. The table top layout occupies over 3/4 of a 14’x14’ room and is a close circuit type with 4 independent main lines (on three different lavels) interconected with crossovers with some light industry. Actually I’m planning a stagging yard and a terminal.
You all may think I am nuts. But I model so many railroads that only one name for the entire thing is sufficient. Choo Choo Palooza.
I live in Lander Wyoming, and often go railfanning on as well as model (Though during a different time period) the very line Mr. Brunton is modeling. (Email me I will be more than happy to share pictures and compare notes. Challenger@hrp.every1.net)
Here is a list of all that I model in sequential Order, scale and why I model it.
THe Union Pacific Wyoming Division, 1950, HO Scale. Uncle Pete still had alot of neat looking steam locomotives. Including my favorites. 4 Challengers in the Grayhound Scheme (3977-3980). Alot of older wood sided equipment was in its last years of revenue service. as well as new still modern looking 40 and 50 foot cars such as the AAR Boxcars or the PS-1.
Mid 60s CNW Locomotives on a Modern Day representation of CNWs “Cowboy Line” to Lander Wyoming, HO Scale. I like the look of mid 60s CNW Power, I also wanted to model the line that once ran to the town I now live. However upon doing research on the appropriet line, Using the modern day industrial base that is now in the area, provides more justification for a rail line that the 5 dinky grain elevators, and seasonal stock movements that consisted of the traffic base in the mid 60s. I operate this segment as the short line “Lander Northwestern” with the brass deciding to have their locomotives painted for Mid 60s CNW.
1967-1970 Great Northern, HO Scale. Ok I am vain I admit it. The only reason I model this railroad during this period is becasue this was the era of my all time favorite diesle paint scheme. GN’s Big Sky Blue. I have not decided what portion of this railroad I will model yet. But for the time being I usually use my models for this railroad at train shows I attend. Also I must mention that all the other lines I model are at least an end to end connection or at least intechange some where in the middle so they privide a continueous
Looking for a name for my model railroad and for the name of the big city I wanted to model. My favorite prototype is Santa Fe from the time I got my Lionel warbonnet streamliner set in 1950-something. The Lionel catalog had an artist’s painting of the train going through what looked like Monument Valley. Romanticized Southwest. Southwest. A mission station like Albuquerque or San Diego or like SP’s in San Antonio. So many Santa Fe stations and towns had names in Spanish with some kind of a religious connotation. Santa Fe = holy faith. San Diego = Saint James. Santa Cruz = holy cross. And so on. I thought of a real Santa Fe town in California-- Victorville in the desert. And that reminded me of Vacaville, where there was some kind of prison disturbance. And the name Santa Vaca came. It means Sacred Cow, or Saint Cow, or Holy Cow!
My railroading got started with a train around the Christmas tree, and after a while, I thought of a way the name Santa Vaca relates to Christmas. I will tell you in advance it is entirely made up.
THE LEGEND OF SANTA VACA
In one of the early Spanish missions established in Texas to convert the Indians, a priest was telling his congregation they should give to the church even though they didn’t have much to give. He said that God can use our gifts more than we know, and he told the story of the cow who gave up her feeding stall to make a place for the Baby Jesus to lay. He said the cow’s gift-- the manger-- became more a part of the Christmas scene than even the expensive gifts of the Wise Men.
But the Indians confused the cow in the priest’s Christmas story with a buffalo cow who was worshipped in their pre-Christian native religion and they began to bring back the cult of the Holy Cow. The Church tried to discourage the practice but could not stop it entirely. The village near the mission took on the name Santa Vaca, and it grew into a major city served by a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railway.
At the cathedral in Santa Va
Santa Fe, IC and ICG BUT I am going to HAVE one of those new KCS 16-44’s on my layout wether if fits or not!mike1
This was originally posted over on the large scale forum…
My railroad is the Borracho Springs Railroad, a small 42" gauge shortline set in the desert southwest straddling the Mexican border.
Every freelanced RR should have a backstoy, heres mine…
It was originally built in the early 1900’s to service two mines, the Ferrous Underground Boring And Reclaimation Company, a.k.a. F.U.B.A. R. (an Iron mining co. trying trying their hand at Gold mining) and the Silver King, another competing mine who when they say the FUBAR sign posted over above the new mine, jokingly renamed thiers SNAFU just to egg them. But mines only last so long and can only dig so far, so by 1937 it looked like the end for the mines and the little town of Purgitory that served the miners.
That was until a shady Character came to town with a couple of very odd looking yucca plants, and stating that the climate was “perfect”, he set up a farm growing and cultivating and spreading the odd yucca like plants, they were Blue Agave’s smuggled out of Mexico. Within a couple of years he bought an old warehouse, brought in a lot of distillery equipment and announced plans to open a tequila distillery, the only one in the US. When he asked for name suggestions an old man in the crowd said the town was already full of “borracho’s”, the name stuck and the Borracho Distillery went into business July 4, 1940. The business grew, and within a short time the railroad built a spur to the distillery.
Dec. 7, 1941 saw the business change to making medical alcohol for medical use and the mines picking up work. During the post WWII years (the current setting) , The town renamed itself after the distillery, Borracho Springs, which also took over controling interest in the RR, and the distillery went back into full production, so did the mines thanks to new WWII vein discoverys, and the little trains keep chugging along.
Equipment consists of whatever the owners can get thier hands on. Ex
Dalreada National Railways. A purely fictitional railroad of no paticular time period [except Dalreada’s] in HO scale.
Idaho & Palouse, set in the Idaho/Washington State border region in October 1939…a fictional short line from Spokane, Washington to Lewiston, Idaho.
The Willmar & Western, a granger shortline in western Minnesota. Currently under construction in N scale. A 2’x4’ mini-layout (I live in an apartment).
The mighty B&M Railroad. The name was to appease (i mean honor) my wife Brenda and daughter Melissa. Melissa by the way is the lines Vice-President in charge of derailing and head-ons. Although I am partial to Pennsy, CSX, Conrail (area I’m from) I have enjoyed building a nice collection of custom B&M equipment. Since I love all trains I have alomst every era runnning together in harmony (when the VP is’nt helping). Sorry purests.
a spin off from the B+O, the A+O actually stands for the Alpha and Omega Model Railroad Ministry, my model railroad is a church outreach project.
Ours has flyers in front that people can take that take thinking about railroads and turn those thoughts to God. Like a tressle bridge is the only way our train can cross that river, and Jesus is our bridge accross our sin back to GOd. (that type of thing with scriptures)
We are currenlty a flux of time periods as some of the materials were goodwill type donations… but it’s mostly steam with a victorian ceramic house thing going on. although I painted the snow over to make it look like moss.
Our set up would likely frustrate any rivit counters as we are fighting scales too between ho and little dollar store houses.
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GOOD FOR YOU SIR.
WE NEED MORE OF YOUR KINDS OF GROUPS TO REACH OUT AND HELP TO REHABILITATE THOSE WHO NEED IT. I COMMEND YOU RABBI, YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON. MY CLUB HELPS THE LOCAL SCHOOLS IN THE AREA, IT IS A GREAT FEELING TO HELP OTHERS.
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KEN_ECR
My railroad is freelance and I scratch build everything. This is why I started model railroading… to do the modeling and scratch building. My layout resembles sections of route 66 across Northern Arizona, mid-40’s to mid-50’s so I named my railroad the “Double Six Northern”.
“Winchester, Paston, & Portsmouth Railway”, a name that I made up based on a set of logging-line decals that was given to me as a gift, way back when I first got into N-scale. The round WP&P logo was just too catchy, I had to use it; no doubt there is a real WP&P that hauled tree trunks around, with some other name.
I picked two names off of the map of Virginia, because I also had a Norfolk & Western engine and I kinda wanted to model that region (at the time, I lived near Newport News, VA). “Paston” was a fictional name, and was the only town that I modelled at first; this gave me a lot of license.
Over the years, though, as my backstory has grown and other towns have taken shape, I’ve discovered that there are a couple of real short lines near Winchester, VA that look for all the world as though they were my “prototype” from day one. You can even look up the Potomac Eagle scenic train on the web; this train runs from Romney to Moorefield, and Moorefield is eerily similar to the town of Paston that I just made up to fit an acronym, long before I knew anything about that region. The same thing goes for each of the other four towns I model. My mainline runs west out of Winchester much as the real Winchester & Western does, heading for a small non-town called Gore which matched almost perfectly with my model town of Oxmore. These days, I pretty much act like this was my intention all along, to model the South Branch Valley and the WW as though they were a larger, intact railroad that was gobbled up by the expansionist NW in the '60s. But honestly, this was pure luck on my part…