What did you name your fictional Railroad?
Mine is the "Blue Ridge Southern Ry. " which is an idustrial railway that interchanges with CSX at “Woodland Jct”.
Mine is the Piedmont Southern Railroad which runs from Richmond, Va. northwesterly to Connellsville PA. It serves a number of coal mines in northeastern West Virginia and western Maryland as well as being a through route for steel products from the Pittsburgh area to the ship building industry in Newport News, Va.
The year is 1955.
Here is an poorly lit photo of an Alco RS-1 and RS-3 about to enter the mainline at Shenandoah Junction.
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Dale Latham
Mine is the Moose Bay Railroad, with the subways run by the Moose Bay Transit Authority.
Dale - nice Alcos. Love those things.
Rock Ridge and Train City–California Sierra Foothills–1885
It was named by my son. He named the bridge Academy Bridge. I asked him why and he said because it looks like one. I asked if the name would change when I built a trestle and he said no.
Midland Gulf Railway, a branch line servicing small industries, interchanging with the KCS at a tiny community called Cabin Creek.
Mine is the “Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley Railroad.” Named as a predecessor to the SP during the construction days.
Mine is pretty easy Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}, started two years ago. I’ve been a model railroader for many years before, but life as we all know has many turns. My wife and I went to a hobby shop in Savannah,GA called Bull St station, this is what re-light the model train nut in me. Soon …my collection grew to be very large.
Then my wife started complaining about all these trains blah blah blah blah. So I figured, if I could get her involved somehow, this will work. You see , she collects pewter dragon, as a matter of fact any dragons {big dragon nut}. So I named my steel mill after her hobby, silly huh… but it worked. DRSC is served by Norfolk Southern outside the mill complex , all in HO scale.
Patrick
Beaufort,SC
DRSC
Back when I freelanced in HO (before moving to prototype modelling and N scale), I had a railroad called the Johnstown & Broad Top RR. It ran from near Altoona, PA to Johnstown, PA (via a different route than the PRR) with a branch to the Brad Top coal fields. It was influenced by the real East Broad Top RR and Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain RR. Before that I did a Colorado thing called the Gunnison, South Park & Pacific.
My layout doesn’t model ficticous railroad, but ficticious towns. They lie on the BNSF out of Chicago (the line that goes through LaGrange for those of you familiar with the area). We model the ficticious town of Prarie View and the outskurts of Central City which are both served by Metra, Amtrak Midwest, Metrolink (don’t ask…), and Amtrak, along with many many fan specials and BNSF business trains. As with the real line the UP/SP have trackage rights through there (my dad’s a BNSF modeler, I’m more UP. Good compromise if you ask me :-D).
Right now the city of Prarie View is going through a rapid climate change that is causing the rolling plywood deserts to suddenly turn into vegetation [:I], it is predicted that by the end of the summer the entire downtown along with the Jone’s farm will be entirely vegetation with no plywood desert to be seen.
Glasgow& Tweed River System L scale BNSF-Hogwarts Railways 2006. Still plan to run the Super Chief
The Seneca Lake, Ontario and Western (SLO&W) is a figment of my imagination that exists in the first week of August 1925 and serves the Finger Lakes region of NYS. It is supposedly a shortline that connects with the old NYC and the NYO&W (and who ever else I feel like running).
Couple of my favorite shots:
The Sublime to Redikulus runs from the logging opperation on Mt Sublime in northern Minnesota to the mining opperation in Mt Redikulus in Arizona passing through Green Mt in New Mexico and Yellowstone/Yosemite/Bryce canyon and Winebago. There are two wormholes. Yes I was affected by the G&D.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. I also have the Chicago & Northwestern. Also a little bit of Northern Pacific, and a tiny smidge of Colorado & Southern.
OOPS!
Not fictional. Sorry.[:I]
I haven’t named mine yet, but I’m thinking I’ll call it something like the “United Railroads of America,” or “URA,” because I have so many different railroads.[:D]
Mine is named the 'New York & Putnam" or it’s nickname “Old Put.” It’s not really a fictitious RR but rather a freelance of a prototype. The prototype is the Putnam Division of the New York Central. The era of operations is early '50’s.
The Autumns Ridge Railway & Navigation Co. serves the Penobscott Bay area of mid-coast Maine and the surrounding islands from it’s inland connection at Burnham Junction, Maine.
It’s all in N scale and set in the 1930’s.
The Bunter Ridge Southwestern Railroad in 1958 operated mainly from Pueblo, Colorado to Albuquerque, with branches north to Colorado Springs and east and west from Albuquerque. It interchanges with the D&RGW and AT&SF. It also provides trackage rights to the Santa Fe. Yep, that means the Bunter Ridge is the railroad operating tracks over Raton Pass. Thus the reason for its existence.
Before I decided to go proto - Pacific Coast Lines. Would have allowed me to use equipment from any line with Pacific in it’s name.
The basic idea was built around the Southern Pacific, but anything I wanted from lines like UP, WP & NP would have been available too.
The Columbus & Hocking Valley Ry is owned and operated by the CDB Industries and is one of 7 short lines owned by CDBI.The C&HV came into existence in 1978 when CDBI bought the old Athens sub-division of the Chessie System.During this purchase 2 other short lines was bought,the Parkersburg & Ohio Valley RR that ran from Parkersburg WV to Athens Oh and the Ohio Midland Ry that ran from Jackson,Oh to Newark,Oh.These 2 roads was quickly merged into the new C&HV.By purchasing these roads the CBDI finally had the long sought after southern Ohio coal fields and industries.The CDBI relaid the track from Nelsonville to Athens which had been removed by the C&O some years ago.The old Logan yards was rebuilt and upgraded during this time as it would serve as the home shops and the only major yard on the C&HV since it was centrally located on the line.The second yard would be located in the old C&O(nee CHV&T) Mound Street yard and would require trackage rights over the Chessie to reach…A agreement was struck with the Chessie for those rights.The former P&OV yard in Parkersburg was upgraded as was the OM yards at Jackson and Newark.
The C&HV connects with the following roads.
Chessie(c&o) at Columbus.
N&W at Columbus.
CR at Columbus
DT&I at Jackson
Chessie(b&o) at Newark.
Scioto Valley Lines at Lancaster.
Ironton Northern at Athens.
Chessie(b&o) at Athens.
Commodities haul: Grain,Lumber,coal,coke,steel,fly-ash,food stuffs,sand,glass,corn sweetener,corn starch,vegetable oils,scrap,pipe,chemicals,paints,news print,pulpwood,wood chips and other general freight.Total cars handle 32,584 a year
Thanks to a aggressive marketing team freight traffic has climb a staggering 33% since the CDBI started the C&HV.
That’s all fine and dandy, but what I want to know is, have you put any REAL thought into this? [:p][:o)][;)]