Are you modeling a New England road? If so which road and era?
The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, the Aristocrat of New England Transportation, any time before 1969.
My layout is of the Boston to Providence stretch of the New Haven’s Shore Line Route…double track and mostly straight. It’s one of the areas where today’s Acela Express hits 150mph, and the former route of the “Merchants LImited”, the “Yankee Clipper”, and the “Four Horsemen” (freights NE-1, BH-1, BG-3 & BO-1).
The New Haven connected the nation’s largest city with New England’s largest city (Boston), and with two other state capitals (Hartford and Providence). And now it’s all but gone…
Paul A. Cutler III
Weather Or No Go New Haven
CSX plus the Southcross and Western. The S&W is my freelance line. I also have the occasional amtrak thrown in. All this is modern era.
I’m modeling a freelanced shortline that interchanges with the Bangor & Aroostook RR
in northern Maine. A future expansion will include a portion of the BAR mainline and the town of Squapan.
bill
NYNH&HRR branch,Berlin to New Britain to Waterbury,1950’s era.
Boston and Maine!!!
I dream of modeling the Fitchburg division mainline-the section between W Concord (MA) Junction (with NH, PC, Conrail etc) to Ayer MA, to Deerfield MA, to Hoosac Tunnel
For the time being though, I will model my hometown located on the Fitchburg Division Main, but only served today by MBTA trains
I plan to model a part of the Maine 2 footers, the WW&F waterfront - I have a WW&F Forney and some car and structure kits. It will be an adjunct to my standard gauge line which will be based on the MA&PA. I know they were hundreds of miles apart, but that’s the beauty of model railroading you can marry up the New England coast with a Maryland shortline.
Enjoy
Paul
I live in Leominster Ma so yes i am modeling New England road. when my layout is started i will be running Guilfords, Csx, Maine Centrel, New Haven,B&M, and NS& P&R i will pretty much be running a lot of Railroad. I do not whant to set a railroad yet because my layout is only going to be a 4x8, and in 6 years i will be off to college.[:(!] [^]Tim
I’m modeling the Erie of western NY so maybe it will just slide under the door for a New England RR. Ken
Erie, sure, we’ll count you in! After all, it seems New England and New York are becoming closer and closer related
The four New england roads I model are CSX, MEC, B&M, and Amtrak (the NEC)
Dave, all good railroads to model
I am doing early 1950s B&M, and NY,NH,&H in Lowell’s Bleachery area. NY,NH,&H actually connected Framingham and Lowell.
Old mill buildings, city streets, and canals will hopefully some day fill the layout. Just a year into it, and a long way to go.
Then you’ll need one of these (GP-7U from Santa Fe ):
Pic was taken at Presque Isle this very morning. I also saw GP-7 #79 at Brownville Jct, but wasn’t able to get in postion to take a picture.
Andre
Well, I was going to model the “Belfast and Moosehead Lake” until this spring when the Belfast government decided it didn’t want the trains there anymore. Now I don’t think I want to give them any advertisement.
The town’s becoming yuppified. The old Stinson Seafood plant is being torn down and they’re putting up condos. With each condo, you get your own boat slip.
They start in the “low 600’s”.
Pfui!
Andre
Thanks for the pic. Andre.
I’m suprised that there are still loco’s in the old BAR colors, I figured that they would all been painted buy now.
bill
Well, I’ve seen 2 of them. GP-7 #79 is still in BAR colors.
Andre
WilmJunc, your job should get a lot easier now that the NH line is being preserved as the Bruce Freedman Bike Trail. Now, you will be able to go right along where the route was. In its former years, that line had been owned and operated by many railroads. On its way from Framingham to Lowell it goes through West Concord, which is why I want to model that town, aside from how much time I spend there (I live in the town just west of Concord)
Well, I model the Maine Central Mountian Division cir fall 1976. I have about 1/4 of the layout built. I am currently working on finishing part of the basement, so the layout is on hold for the moment.
When I get it finished it will feature the Portland Maine area with the docks, Rigby yard,Bartlett, Crawfords Notch, and Whitefield NH and Gilman and St. Johnsbury VT.
Josh in NH