Mine is a 4x8HO flat called the “Frett and Cuss”.
If you’ve ever built a layout in the house with a 5 year old, you know why!
I look at the layout with a wild abandonment of reality; anything is possible in my 4’ by 8’ world.
Scale: HO
Name: CB&Q (and its) Illiniwek River Branch
Year: Late Summer, early Fall of 1969
Size: 24x38…give or take!
Location: “Somewhere” rural between Chicago and Galesburg, Illinois
Now that we finally have a house with basement, have started design & construction of the N scale KC&P (Kansas Colorado and Pacific) - Basic premise is that a group of investors bought the Mo Pac line which ran between Kansas City,Mo and Pueblo, Co in the early 20s - Time period will be approx mid-WWII (July - Sept 1943)
The Musquodoboit & Eastern Shore System (M.E.S.S.) Musquodoboit is pronounced Muska-dobit. Circa 1960-62 in Mainland Nova Scotia. Steam still rules supreme as the remaining great steamers find a final reprieve from the cutter’s torch.
You’ll find just about anythingon this line.
Geologically speaking, Nova Scotia is one of the most diverse rock formations in North America.
Everything from gold, gypsum, salt, coal and sanstone etc. The MESS will haul it all.
The Railway is a take off from one of the CN’s branch lines that was used for timber and fresh fish. The passenger service was referred to as the “Blueberry Express” due in part to the speed the train travelled at. I have been told it was slow enough to allow passengers get out and pick bluberries while the train travelled along. I have also been been told that at one point this branchline hauled some of the biggest tonnage in Canada as it supplied Coal Mine Braces to Europe. I have not been able to confirm this so it may be fact or fiction. Still a good premise for a fictional railway none the less.
Regards
Fergie
That D@$%#^^%$#@&*^%$#@ thing in the garage[:D][:D]
Clinch Valley RR Co. Date is set at August 8, 1978.
“Wye Valley Junction”.
Initially because of the Atlas (remote switch) self adhesive “WYE” labels, which fit perfectly on some (Modelpower ?) station platform sign boards.
Secondly because I was born in Hereford on Wye (UK) and I started out modelling HO (actually OO) GWR steam, which was native to that part of England.
Thirdly, when the Britirains have gone into hidden staging, the Amtrak, CSX, NS, UP and BNSF come out in an imaginary (Southern Illinois ?) Wye River Valley industrial area on this side of the Atlantic.
I just wihat I could come up with a system for automatically switching all of the road vehicles every time, to the correct side of the road, for the respective incarnation.
Chinook Northern Railroad (CNR) I model the CNR in Northwestern British Columbia
in HO scale I had to rebuild all my Athearn SD 40-2s to look more Canadian I have 7 of them
Southern Pacific, Coos Bay branch, 1965. In a 11’4"x9’4" room, around the walls. A rather loose interpretation, I must add. Not the whole branch is trying to be represented, just parts of Coos Bay itself. Coos Bay Oregon, that is, where I grew up about as much as I’m going to. Dan
The Nor’west Bend railway actually existed as part of the South Australain Railways, in 5’3" guage. I’m having a go in N scale, so this time it will be standard guage using Code 80 Peco. Set in the mid 1950’s the line extends from Gawler through Freeling (ignoring in between stations) to Kapunda, Eudunda, Mt Mary/Eba to Morgan. Morgan was a very busy river port up until the 1920’s. Because it’s my railway the river trade is booming. Kapunda, once home of the largest copper deposit in the world will be a busy stop, as will Eudunda. A branch at Gawler goes through a commuter stop at Gawler North through Tanunda to Angaston in the famous Barossa Valley. Rolling stock consisits of light Mikados and Mountains of American heritage, R F and P classes based on English engineering practice. Coaching stock is of American “Oldtimer” outline (we call them Centenary Cars), and steel sided heavy’s. Goods (freight) stock is mainly 4 wheeled vans (boxcars), stock (sheep and cattle) and open planked wagons similar to the Peco and Farish range. These will be kept company by some bogie stock, but not much.
Commodities carried include sheep, cattle, horses (racing), copper in bags, bales of wool, firewood, dried fruit, wine and brandy, tractors and agricultural machinery. THe River Murray caused havoc to the region in 1956 through major flooding and management of the railway will reflect the pressures the flood put on services and people.
Physically the railway is housed in a 22’ x 14’ lined, carpeted and airconditioned outbuilding at home in Gawler - although I am currently domiciled at Wallace Rockhole, some 1700 kilometers away.
I hope that gives you a picture of the railway and its modis operandi
Regardss to all
David
I call mine the Frisco Pacific. It is the hypothetical merger of the Missouri Pacific and the St. Louis - San Francisco. Only the two railroads actually keep their individual identities. The HO scale layout is under re-construction, but it is freelanced - no specific area of the country. And I model the transition era.
I also have a branch line (also freelanced) that I am thinking about calling the Cimarron & Northwestern after a logging railroad that once existed in the Cimarron area of northern New Mexico (Philmont Country) from 1907 to 1923. This will give me an excuse to run my Bachmann shay (The real railroad owned a single 2-8-0). I am still trying to decide on the reporting marks for the Cimarron & Northwestern. The real railroad evidently used C&N, but today, CN is Canadian National and C&NW is obviously Chicago & Northwestern. Maybe CNWR for Cimarron & Northwestern Railway.
Dale B.
My railway is called the BNS Ry. Named after my 3 children and is set in the 1980’s when they were born. It is a shortline, with deep green as corporate colours. Early letter was completed in gold, due to financial constraints and safety concerns the lettering is now stark white. The BNS Ry connections with CN, and once in a while a CP train can be seen running the rails. The layout is a bent dog bone, 11 ft along one wall and 12 ft along the other. There is presently one fiddle yard with 2 4 track yards representing Port Stanley and Port Dover, both in Ontario. I am attempting to make a flipped version of Cundy’s Harbour as my second fiddle yard.
My Railroad doesnt have a name as of yet, but its all fictional, the layout will be in a 10x12 room with multiple levels(3 + 1 underground) still trying to work out how i will get trains from one level to another(any suggestions would be helpful im an electrician and can do some carpentry) the time period will be 30’s-60’s in a couple small towns and i plan on having a city that is somewhat up to date, an underground working coalmine and rail yard is on the list to…hopefully something like this at time of completion:
First Level: Huge Rail Yard/storage and Rail Company Town & Part of Coal Mine
Second Level: a Small Town and a Larger Town with Other part of Coal Mine and Coal Company Town
Third Level: unknown…hehe got a little ahead of myself…
I also hope to have totally custom decorated locos and cars by completion.
At this point i have a storage room that needs cleaned and lots of ideas hehe. lots of work to do still. Im going to make a website with a cam and diary of my escapades into the model railroading adventure 
Or is that what your wife calls it? That’s what mine calls what I’ve got in the basement.
mine is the Oklahoma, Mexico, & Gulf. In 1903 the OM&G was charterd to connect Oklahoma City, Dallas, New Orleans, Mexico city, and Galveston. in 1914 the line is finished. it carries grain, oil , cattle, and lots of bridge traffic. in 1946 the line was purchased and jointly owned by the rock island, Frisco, M-K-T, Kansas City Southern, Texas & pacific,Santa Fe,and one of those mexican railroads. thats all fictional of course ! i want to model the transition era in Oklahoma City. it will be 4x8 and depicts a small transferr yard. it also has a small staging track and 4 or 5 industries. i hope to begin construction this weekend.
Alex in the sooner state
Here is a link to guy who is building a three deck layout.
http://community.webshots.com/user/hunter48820
Maybe you can get some ideas from the photos, etc., and I know he wouldn’t mind if you contacted him with specific questions.
Good luck!
I’m working on a few things right now, but I guess the HO C-N-W is the one right now… That’s the California-North-Western, a cop on the Northwestern Pacific-- I am very much inspired by Charlie Comstock and his Bear Creek & S. Jackson layouts… The C-N-W is a Northern CA S.P. subsidiary- ca. 1953-55. Power is smaller S.P. steam.
I am also doing the ‘other’ end-- the interchange of the Illino9is Central, Gulf, Mobile & Ohio and S.P./SSW/T&NO.Swamps, grain elevators- I.C. steam, red & maroon F3s and Alcos-- it’s the Panama Southern and it’s cool!
My railroad is the Buffalo Bayou and Brazos.It is named after one of the earliest predissesors (sp?) of the Southern Pacific,in Texas.It is HO scale,and the era is 1950 to about 1975 with some newer equipment that catches my eye.My layout is on a 4ft. by 2 ft.board,with some scenery added.The location is somewhere in the southwestern desert.
On30 freelance logging line called The Confederate Logging Company set in the late 1800s, in a VERY non politically correct world where the south won the war of northern agression. Use your imagination.
The Atlantic Rock Island and Western
Running from new england to chichago the to rock Island with a few secondary lines west of there