That’s a neat theme for a western railroad. Sounds like fun.
Proto Freelance.
CP5415…
Hey Guys! Did we witness the birth of a new Model Railroad term?
PROTOLANCE???
I LIKE IT! I’m adopting it! CP5415…You get the credit. I’m using this term from now on when asked about my modeling style.
CP, you should contact the guys at MRR. A lot of terms we use today in our hobby were concocted by modelers!
Seeing as I have no idea what I’m doing, I’d have to say freelance 
I picked the middle one - but I’m not sure I can characterize it. I mostly follow the PRR, Ma&Pa, and the Maine two footers. My era is early 50’s, but the two footers died out in the 30’s and early 40’s. I have a couple of cars from the early 60’s. I guess you could say I’m prototypical except where I’m not. But hey it’s fun and I love running my GG1 even though I will never build any catenary.
Enjoy
Paul
It is, grande man.
Not as much fun as it could be, though - I have too little time for the layout!!
im palnning a protoype railroad santa fe with my own private railroad company that has trackage rights on the sf. my motive power is going to be mainly x conrail powerto begin with then as my road makes money newer power with a different paint scheme.
so i guess im protolance or some other name that probably hasnt even be thought of yet
tom
My wife always reminds me that the Cresent Pass Sub remains well into the red after each year’s annual earnings are reported. [:D]
Proto freelance = freelance layout or models based on prototypical sources.
My layout is completely freelanced but alot of my models are based on protoypes from historic sources like books/mags/internet/etc.
My layout will be freelance, but will be prototypical in era, and detail. I wont likely be running and C424’s with my Transition era K4 4-6-2[:p]
Trevor[:)]
I would say more so, Prototypical with a Freelance slant as the time it would require to do everything prototypical is just not there.
I model a prototype(Milw), but my line is an extension of an existing line that sort of grew into a connecting secondary main. The time frame is basically late 50’s, with lots of GP9’s, and some modified steam(BLI 2-8-2, Spectrum 2-8-0 with DCC/sound).
Jim Bernier