my line is a combination of railroads, in track planning atages for now
an overview name is something like…The Coal Belt lines
but the lines involved are
N&W, Virginian, NYC, NKP(W&LE),CSS&SB, CNS&M, C&NW,IC, BRofC
Will be a curious line, interchanges galore.
El Passo Gasso RR, late 70’s early 80’s. Midwest. Ho scale
At the moment nothin in paticular, though my eyes are completely set on the B&M for my empire. For the time being, Id like to redo my 4x8 and make a junction town, right now thining about the junction in West Concord, MA, as it was many years ago when the NH line crossed the B&M main. If sao, then it would be the West Concord Junction. Im also looking at Ayer/Shirley Junction. Both B&M
My railroad is still in the planing stage but it is named the New Potsdam Branchline in HO scale. It is going to be a freelanced Chessie system branch line.
I call mine the Yttrium Northern Railway. I guess due to my chemistry background (profession wise) I thought it might be cool to include the name of a relatively rare element in the RR’s name. I even had a set of decals made for it a long time ago, see below. I have lettered only one passenger car, a caboose, and a box car in this name. Most of my other stuff is C&NW with a few others thrown in.
Name: The Mississippi Alabama & Gulf (MA&G)
Nickname: “The Magnolia Route”
Scale: HO
Size: 14 X 32 Triple deck
Prototype: Free-lanced Class 1 Carrier
Locale: Southern Mississippi and New Orleans (areas modeled)
Era: mid-1950’s
Control: Digitrax DCC with LOTS of sound!
An earlier incarnation of the MA&G was published in the April 2005 Model Railroader. The new layout will be featured in Great Model Railroads 2007 and an upcoming Allen Keller “Great Model Railroads” video.
To the person on page one of this topic how did you start your ministry layout?
My layout is from 1986-present NS Chessie/CSX and IC/CN. It still under contruction but it runs. thats all that matters.
Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth RR. N scale. The CG&P was a real railroad from the 1880’s until 1936 when it went bankrupt during the Depression. I am modding it sometime post WWII pre Walk-on-the-Moon so there is a lot of freelancing.
The Alberta Pacific Railway. I have been using that name for a couple years now. It’s based on Eric Brooman’s Utah Belt, and CN, with a line starting at Winnepeg, going through Red Deer, through the rockies at Howse Pass, going up the columbia, and reaching tidewater at Prince Rupert.
Trainboy
Looks like the Alberta Pacific is a competitor of the Grizzly Northern!
The following is from my profile:
The GNR mainline runs from Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, to Kamloops, British Columbia. A branchline from Geiranger, British Columbia, services the Kingdom Copper Mine and the Brunel Coal Mine. A brief history of the Grizzly Northern Railway was published in the 1 July 1938 Dominion Day edition of “The Caribou News and Chronicle”. Send an E-mail request if you are interested in reading a transcript of the article.
Autumn’s Ridge Railway & Navigation Co.
Set in Maine in the late 30’s.
OH MY GOD this post started back in 2003!!![:0]
Has it really been sooo long with sooooo little being completed since then? [:(]
UH OH kinda forgot about having to rebuild the layout twice since then…[;)]
The America RR. It could be anywhere, due to such varied equipment. Santa Fe, BNSF, CSX, Guilford, B&M, Amtrak. Heck, even Metrolink and GO transit!
All because of buying whatever I think looks cool got me in this situation, and I like it[^]
AMRail[:D]
probably North East Rail
Eastern Rail
or New England Rail Link
I’m thinking of changing from
Atlantic Rock Island & Wetsern
Mine is the L &F Railroad it is desinged to run through Fitchburg and Leominster and sorunding areas, please visit my site about the L&F www.freewebs.com/trainguy12792
Las Cruces & Portales. A fictional short line in New Mexico serving these and other off-the-road communities bringing in and taking out goods from the Big World via a Junction (Sta. Rosa). which interchanges with the UP/SF. Period? Early fifties, although in the back country, it seems to be mid 30’s.
Gus.
CEO/COP (that’s Operating Officer…)
Black Water Mountain
200 posts. yeah!!!
sry guys I had to do it
Someone please let me know if this name has already been used, so I can pass the credit on. It is still in the planning stages, but I am leaning towards the “GHETOFF & PUSCH RR”.
One of the main industries will be the Whoopass Brewery, their slogan being “Open up a can of Whoopass”.
It will be set in a generic hilly northeast beer-swigging place with nuttin but STEAM[:p], which has replaced all diesels because they are way cooler[;)]
It’s going to be fun!!!
Mike
Officially, the Wabash Model RR… Unofficially, The Money Pit Central… Sorry, not as creative as some folks around here…
Jeff
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