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Post by nbrodar on Sept 15, 2010 11:06:27 GMT -5
Question #1:
Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
Yes. The Penn Lake's interchanges with the Delaware 7 Hudson, Reading, and New Haven are one of it's primary reasons for being.
Question #2:
Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
Question #5:
Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
I'll answer these together. The Penn Lake is a shortline owned by the D&H and RDG. The ICC prevented either from exercising complete control, so PL operated as an independent entity, but followed the operating motive power practices of it's parents.
Question #3:
What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
Mid 1960s to 1970s.
Question #4:
What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
Coal, cement, iron ore, and increasingly bridge traffic from Canada
Question #6:
What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?)
ALCO! PL uses hand-me down Reading RS3s and S2s.
Question #7:
Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with?
Question #8:
Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have?
Yes to both
Nick
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Post by m a y o r 79 on Sept 17, 2010 12:15:24 GMT -5
Question #1: Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation? My CMW pretty much would interchange with any railroads around Chicago in the late 80's or mid 90's. I also interchange with my modular club's freelance railroad, the Overland Western Lines.Question #2: Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad? It used to be based on a merger between the Milwaukee Road and Chicago & Northwestern but I got tired of it. I guess the CMW is loosely based on the Milwaukee road now.Question #3: What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in? late 1980's to mid 1990'sQuestion #4: What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul? Little bit of everything that way I can buy everything at the hobby shop. Proably mostly general freight, grain, and intermodal though.Question #5: Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1? I think the CMW would be classified as a Class 1.Question #6: What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?) Mostly EMD, but some GE stuff. It's too new for Alco's, etc. I figure there's probably some lease power in there too if I can ever finish the two C30-7's I started soooooo long ago.Question #7: Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with? I hope so, I just can't find where I put it ;DQuestion #8: Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have? You can go too far? ;D
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Post by danielsokyrail on Sept 17, 2010 22:49:50 GMT -5
Question #1:Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
The SOKY interchanges with CSX, Norfolk Southern and CN. As well as the RJ Corman and Paduca and Louisville railroad. As well as two small other freelanced shortline railroads.
Question #2:Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
It is based on part of the old L&N line from Russellville to Owensboro Ky as well as some fictional lines running thru southern ky and northern tn
Question #3:What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
Current times, 2010
Question #4:What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
Mostly coal and grain. Various chemicals and lumber and sand. also they run trackage rights on csx hauling 2 or 3 intermodal trains.
Question #5:Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
regional
Question #6:What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?
Mostly sd45, sd40-2, u30c, and sd9 as well as a fleet of rebuilt gp35 and gp38 units with a few gp40. But the railroad does run a set of 2 fa1 and 2fb1 in coal service that were rebuilt. They also still maintain a small fleet of first gen emd diesels. Since it is modern time they have started buying surplus c40-8 and c40-8w units for use in coal pusher service and for use as power on the csx trains they run in trackage rights agreements.
Question #7:Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with?
Still a work in progress
Question #8: Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have?
Still a work in progress.
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Post by ReadingOE11 on Oct 17, 2010 20:50:28 GMT -5
For the many new members, of whom I am one, as well as the established, long-time members, I will answer what appears to be the standard list of questions.
Question #1: Do you have a Freelance Railroad? If so, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
Yes, my railroad is a Freelanced Prototype. Direct interchange is with the Reading, Pennsylvania and New York, Ontario and Western. There is also indirect interchange with the Lehigh and New England, DL&W, D & H and the Lehigh Valley through the Reading and the Pennsylvania.
Question #2: Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
The concept grew from what I had read in RMC about “the Lichen Belt” guys, a small group of modelers, most of who lived in Ohio. Allen McClelland and Tony Koester were part of that group. I was fascinated by their “beyond the basement” philosophy and how they O.S’d a train from one layout to the next with a telephone call on “operating night,” by employing hidden staging. It was a break-thru idea in the early ‘70‘s. So I began development of the Lehigh Susquehanna & Western, a Northeastern Pennsylvania coal hauler based heavily of the practices, motive power and physical plant of the Reading Company. Almost all LS&W motive power was purchased used from the Reading Company.
Question #3: What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
Time has frozen on the LS&W in September of 1935. The flowing lines of the 1936 Chrysler Airflow Imperial Eight are causing a stir amongst the local residents as a pair of them sits on the showroom floor at the Moye Motors Chrysler dealership in Weissport, Penna. along the banks of the Lehigh River. The colors of fall are starting to appear north of Lehighton up the mountain above Hocklebernie Tunnel and the kids are back in school.
Question #4: What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
The main source of revenue for the LS&W is Anthracite, black diamonds. The needs of several local factories are also supported by bringing in the required raw materials and shipping out completed product.
Question #5: Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
The Lehigh Susquehanna & Western has just recent grown large enough to qualify as a Class One railroad, but it still retains much of its Regional feel as it endeavors to fill its new role in the area. Because of the new status as a Class One railroad, an international corporation based in Canada has acquired real estate and broken ground for a very large manufacturing facility in Lehighton which will in all likelihood double the non-Anthracite traffic on the railroad.
Question #6: What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?)
O.K., here’s where I will get in trouble with all of you fine gents ...
As stated earlier, almost all motive power has been purchased from the Reading Company. Most of that Reading power was built in Baldwin’s Eddystone Plant, just southwest of Philadelphia. The roster is entirely Wooten fire-boxed Camelback steam locomotives due to the abundance of low grade Anthracite and Culm used for fuel. The current (modeled) roster of road locomotives includes (in pairs, numbered within their Class but at least several numbers apart, giving an impression of a group larger than just the two you might see at any one time) 4-4-0 Americans, 4-4-2 Atlantics, 4-6-0 Ten-Wheelers, and 2-8-0 Consolidations from several sub-classes. There are also pairs of 0-4-0 Four-Coupled and 0-6-0 Six-Coupled switchers, as well as a 4-4-0 American home-built Inspection Locomotive.
The Service Terminal at South Weissport supports all home road locomotives as well as those of interchange roads prior to their return trip to home rails. So it is not unusual to see a Reading G1sa Pacific or I10sa Consolidation or a Pennsy E6s Atlantic or an NYO&W U Class Ten-Wheeler dumping ashes or talking water in the terminal.
Question #7: Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with?
The LS&W has “been with me” for close to forty years. In that time, route maps have been developed following USGS maps. All sorts of forms have been developed and printed to include Form 31’s and Bad Order forms, there is a Book of Rules for the Governing of the Operating Department, based heavily on the same publication by the Philadelphia & Reading, 1922,
The herald was designed using a typeface reminiscent of a font and graphics practices in use around the turning of the last century. All Company structure share an architectural family resemblance, and paint color scheme.
I always refer to it by name or use the initials or reporting marks (LSW) and quite often, as wa the case on another forum where I have been a member for almost a year, the were many who were quite surprised to discover that it was a Freelanced Prototype after I published a “history” similar to this one on a similar thread over there.
Question #8: Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you gone a little further with it than you should have?
Fidelity to a prototype or to prototype practice can never be taken too far, unless of course one goes beyond the practices of the prototype … and then it is not prototypical any longer! I still research fact and practice of the Reading Company, the real basis for everything the Lehigh Susquehanna & Western is today.
Now to redeem myself as a steam guy on the Diesel Detailers forum, I recently purchase an ALCO Models Alco S-1 as well as an OMI Reading GP39-2, both in need of (minor) repair and therefore acquired at “salvage torch” prices! They are the reason I am here! The S-2 will wear the Reading’s Pullman Green with Gold lettering and the GP39-2 will sport the bright Reading Green with signal yellow accents of the final years. I’ll have two time periods to play with! I bought them, really, to do what I assumed would be a rather straight-forward decoder install to get me into the swing of things before I began to tackle the re-motoring and then the subsequent decoder install on a fairly large number of older brass steam locomotives.
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Post by fredlagno on Oct 27, 2010 17:41:51 GMT -5
My freelance railroad, the Allegheny Central interchanges with the Norfolk & Western and Chessie, both with trackage rights. The line is a small bridge line that runs between Staunton, VA. and Latrobe, PA. through parts of western Maryland (the part I model). The setting is 1979. Most of the Chessie motive power is second generation such as SD40, SD40-2, GP 38, GP40-2, etc. However, the ACN runs older equipment, Alco RS-3s, C420, C424 and C425s with a few EMD GP9s.
The railroad hauls just about anything to local businesses, mostly lumber and cement, and picks up paper products and grain.
I happy with the story the railroad tells. My goal was to model a regional railroad through the Alleghenies, and I think I've captured that. Now I'm ready for operators!
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chock
Road Foreman
Posts: 87
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Post by chock on Oct 27, 2010 21:07:35 GMT -5
Question #1:
My layout (still under construction) is based on the NYS&W, and like the real NYS&W, it is designed to reflect their business, so it emulates the real railroad's connections with CSX at Utica and Norfolk Southern & Canadian Pacific at Binghamton. Instead of a 'fiddle yard', there is a hidden loop on my layout which disappears under the terrain and reappears on the other side of the layout which can feed into the twin looped tracks that pass around the perimeter. That was to allow trains to depart from the classification yard and simulate going off to distance destinations, as well as having them arrive from either direction. Other connections beyond CSX CP and NS include Conrail, Providence & Worcester and D&H. The variety of locos and rolling stock the NYS&W would interact with is one of the things which attracted me to modeling the Susie Q, since it means I can include quite a mixed bag of locos and cars.
Question #2:
Like most HO railroads, size limitations mean that it is not possible to truly base a layout on the real thing unless it depicts only a small part of the system, so my layout is a compressed distillation of the real NYS&W which takes features that are signatures of that railroad, such as the terrain and track routings and condenses them down to approximately six scale miles of track, which from an operational standpoint makes it a bit on the tight side, but still able to emulate most of what the Susie Q does, since the real railroad is less than 400 miles of track. It was designed from the outset to work with Wagonflow freight management software in order to handle the freight operations realistically for the businesses that will be depicted on the layout.
Question #3:
The time period for my layout is a slightly nebulous 'eighties' period, but I don't let that stop me from stretching things to a later date if that is necessary in order to include some interesting rolling stock, since I am attempting to capture the 'feel' of the railroad rather than a specific day, month or even year.
Question #4:
The freight on my layout is mostly boxcars hoppers and gondolas, since when NS and CSX carved up Conrail, they snagged the intermodal stuff, which suits me because I like boxcars and cabooses. As is common with most railroads in the area where the NYS&W operates, freight can be a mixed bag, but the main things would be metals, chemicals, aggregates, lumber, food and paper products.
Question #5:
The NYS&W is a Class 2 regional railroad.
Question #6:
Motive power is a real mixed bag for the NYS&W, with lots of esoteric stuff courtesy of used acquisitions, which is another reason it attracted me to model it. Being that it interacts with Norfolk Southern, I've got a good excuse for plenty of high nose older style locos to show up on the layout as well.
Question #7:
One would hope so.
Question #8:
Since it is still under construction, that's difficult to answer; especially since I have designed the layout to be able to expand to a larger size.
Al
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DRLOCO
Chairman
We can Railroad, Yes we can!
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Post by DRLOCO on Oct 28, 2010 13:49:21 GMT -5
Question #1:
Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
I proto-freelance the Canadian Northern Railway. It was an actual railroad, and an original component railway in the creation of CNR back in the early 1900's. I model as if it was spun-off in the 90's as a shortline, much like the IC spun off Chicago Central...
I do interchange with the CNR at Parry Sound, and at Huntsville, ON and that's my ONR connection as well.
Question #2:
Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad? whoopse--answered that one above! Specifically, I model the Depot Harbor and portions of the Sudbury and ALgonquin sub's of what is now (or was before abandonment) CNR Trackage.
Question #3:
What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in? 1990-2000 Question #4:
What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul? Lumber products, Iron Ore, export grains, all the best stuff from Northern Ontario Question #5:
Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1? I'd consider it a shortline Question #6:
What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?) Whatever it can! Seriously, motive power includes 4 GE 44 tonners, 1 Kato NW2, 2 GP9's 2 MLW RS10's and a GE B40-8, an RDC car and steam engine for passenger excursions... Question #7:
Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with? I hope so--I'm always looking to improve the back story--employee timetables and old books are a wealth of knowledge on railroads! Question #8:
Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have? This far it's met my goals, for only being in existence for a year--this my first "basement empire" and it can be a little daunting at times to build that much--but there are always projects to work on, and I'm the kind of person that skips around anyway--so if I get stuck on a trackwork problem, I'll leave it be for now and switch over and decal an engine and build a freightcar, then usually I can get back to the original problem on the track on another day when an answer to the problem is more apparent than it was the first go round!
Read more: dieseldetailer.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=freelance&action=display&thread=1177#ixzz13fQpL7Qo
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outback
Road Foreman
Recently returned after an 8 year MR hiadus. Now wandering around the railyard again ;-)
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Post by outback on Mar 9, 2011 23:13:13 GMT -5
Branch Line Railways Corporation questionaire...
Question #1:
Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
CN, CP and Sask Rail (freelance operated by a friend on another forum).
Question #2:
Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
It was based on an idea and a concept to revitalise and maintain existing branch lines by providing privatley operated continued service in a time when the BIG railways wanted to abandon them and focus only on mainline through-frieghts. This imagined situation later came to fruitition when Tom Payne later created the Central Western Railway in Alberta Canada, for which I worked for a time in the mid 80's.
Question #3:
What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
I operate in the present time, but my modelling and layout could represent anything from 1980 when my beast was created to current.
Question #4:
What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
Mainly grain and fertilisers, a little mixed frieght, and a bit of petroleum products.
Question #5:
Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
Regional Shortline.
Question #6:
What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use?
Mainly second hand EMD with a couple small GE units for light duties and one lone Alco. Mostly Switchers used in road service with a couple GP9s and GP40s currently in storage. This new layout does not have the mileage nor the trackage requirements to run anything too large, so for now, only the switchers are permitted to operate. My former layout had more track with longer runs and easier curves so larger power was actually required. We have since reduced operations and current conditions have dictated smaller equipment. Normally the switchers are paired up into teams for through frieghts.
Question #7:
Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with?
Definately without a doubt. Being based on a real need and proto basics, the idea actually did become realistic when a 1:1 scale railway did this very thing a few years after our concept was born (in Canada anyway).
Question #8:
Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have?
Met and maintaining goals I have tried very hard not to exceed the original idea by too much in fear of ruining the whole idea and quaint semi reality of models imitating life in a realistic and gradual manner. Every aspect of the BLR has been made to simulate reality up to and including the use of second hand equipment, fabricating what we needed when we couldnt afford to buy it and making use of what we had or could afford to the most of its potential.
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Post by manny on Mar 15, 2011 13:51:19 GMT -5
Question #1:
Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
Yes, Santa Fe,Southern Pacific,Conrail,KCS & several short lines.
Question #2:
Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
My Pacific Southwestern is based mainly on the ATSF and SP.
Question #3:
What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
I plan to model the late 80's to early/mid 90's.
Question #4:
What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
Building products, Agricultural, Copper ore, Intermodal, Fertilizers, Propane, Cement, Automobiles etc.
Question #5:
Is your Freelance Railroad a Short line, a Regional, or a Class 1?
Class 1
Question #6:
What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?)
In my modeled era the PSW had second generation EMD's SD40-2's, 45's, 40's and 38-2's and GP38's, 39-2's, 40's 50's and 60's as well as some GE -7 and -8's.
Question #7:
Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with?
Still working on it, but what I have so far I think is very believable.
Question #8:
Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have?
I'm still working on this so lets see where it takes me.
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Post by andrews31 on Mar 19, 2011 23:18:30 GMT -5
Question #1: Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation? CSX, Norfolk Southern, KCS, CN, BNSF, UP, NOPB, Ga Ports Authority, TASD, Texas City Terminal, Galveston Warves, PTRA Question #2: Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad? Freelance. Railroad runs from Atlanta and Savannah Ga (Junction in Columbus Ga), to Galveston Tx Question #3: What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in? Modern Era Question #4: What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul? Chemicals, plastic pellets, aggregate, sand, coal, pet coke, scrap metal, steel coils, cement, finished paper, logs, scrap paper,bauxite, kaolin, shipping containers, grain, corn Question #5: Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1? Class 1 Question #6: What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?) EMD: Switchers: Athearn SW1500s, Genesis MP15acs, Atlas MP15dcs, Kato SD38-2s Road Units: P2K GP38-2s, Atlas Trainman GP38-2s, Atlas GP40-2s, P2K GP60s, Kato SD40-2s (snoot), Athearn SD40-2s, Athearn SD60s, Genesis SD70m, Genesis SD70mac, (1) Kato SD80 mac, \ GE: 2 Tower 55 GEVOs Side notes: (1) I'd like to add high hoods to the EMDs (except the switchers, snoots and wide cabs), but my hand is not steady enough to make the first cut!! (2) I'd also like to add more GEVOs. Question #7: Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with? Yes Question #8: Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have? Have not met goals (need to detail and repaint units), and the railroad will never be as big as I want it to be!!!
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rf*geep
Trainmaster
EWMM lake turn in the snow
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Post by rf*geep on Apr 13, 2011 15:42:27 GMT -5
Since we have so many new members now, I thought it would be a good time to ask these questions again.
Question #1:
Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
Yes, CN, UP, BNSF, CP, unnamed short line and Regional, Northern Lines Railway, MNNR, TC&W.
Question #2:
Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
My railroad is based on abandoned rail lines from BN and SOO.
Question #3:
What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
Modern times.
Question #4:
What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
General freight, iron ore, rock, paper, wood pulp/products, steel coils, retread tires, clay, scrap, petroleum products.
Question #5:
Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
At 357+ miles it's a Regional.
Question #6:
What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?)
Used mostly EMD but some GE and ALCO, also some home built CAT rebuilds.
Question #7:
Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with?
I think so.
Question #8:
Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have?
No.
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Post by largemike on May 9, 2011 2:26:42 GMT -5
Since we have so many new members now, I thought it would be a good time to ask these questions again.
Question #1:
Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
Yes, my road is going to be the "Chicago Terminal & Connecting" railway. It will interchange with 12 different prototype lines, three different lines from each compass point, ie. Northern connections will be the Milwaukee Road, Soo Line and Belt Railway of Chicago.
Question #2:
Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
Based loosely on BRC and EJ&E, in and around Chicago. My line purchased sections of trackage from several railroads in the Chicago area and combined them into one new railroad, in exchange for doing their switching and terminal duties for them.
Question #3:
What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
It will be early to mid 1970's, mostly because I like the huge variety of colorful cars that carried billboard lettering on them, and before several of the megamergers took effect.
Question #4:
What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
Around Chicago, anything and everything. Empties coming in for loads and others with inbound loads to deliver.
Question #5:
Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
I would call it a Switching or Terminal type railroad.
Question #6:
What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?)
Early power is going to be used EMD SW's, maybe one TR4 set, and a couple GP9's, with road transfers handled by an team of an Alco RS36 and GE U 30 B, and a pair of EMD SD 35s. Later power will include new MP15 DC's and GP15's. I'm gathering motive power now and working on a paint scheme for them.
Question #7:
Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with?
Yes, I will copy it and get the history posted in the near future.
Question #8:
Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have?
Still in the planning stages, I'm constantly refining the types of industries I would like to serve, and looking for freight cars to go with these industries. Trying to use industries that require several different types of cars at each location.
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Post by T on May 9, 2011 6:52:24 GMT -5
Id go the way of what SOO LINE attempted before Lake State Railway Co. Create a "in house subsidiary "..
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Post by mikekieran on Jul 12, 2011 8:22:44 GMT -5
Question #1:
Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
Mine will interchange with a freelanced railroad, the Atlantic Lines.
Question #2:
Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
It draws inspiration from some prototypes like the Middletown and New Jersey and the Ballard Terminal Railroad.
Question #3:
What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
Mine is set in the summer of 1979 so that I can have Incentive Per Diem box cars.
Question #4:
What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
It hauls machine parts, hardware, manufactured products, cement, and frozen fish.
Question #5:
Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
It’s a shortline.
Question #6:
What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?)
It will have a used 0-4-0T from Varney Locomotive Works, and various used switchers as well as a CF-7, a used BQ23-7 (under construction) and various rebuilt Geeps.
Question #7:
Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with?
That seems to be what I’m told.
Question #8:
Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have?
I believe that its goals will be met.
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dave
Road Foreman
Modeling the Mid Atlantic in the late 80s
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Post by dave on May 11, 2012 22:16:54 GMT -5
Since we have so many new members now, I thought it would be a good time to ask these questions again.
Question #1:
Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
CSX, Norfolk Southern, and the freelanced Winfree, Lynette and Foyle,
Question #2:
Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
not based on the RF&P but around the time I model they do buy a majority of the RF&P
Question #3:
What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
1988-1998
Question #4:
What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
Manifest frieght, Unit Coal (Transferred from other railroads), Unit Corn Trains, a woodchip train
Question #5:
Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
Regional
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What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?)
Primarily GE U-Boats and a few older MLW's
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Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with?
kind of
Question #8:
Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have?
N/A
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Post by gp30 on Jul 10, 2012 19:02:59 GMT -5
Question #1:
Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
On the Gulf & Ohio Midland operation as a whole (beyond the layout) B&O, DT&I, N&W, Clinchfield, SAL/ACL, Georgia, A&WP, P&LE, PRR. On the actual layout, I will have an interchange track for traffic off the B&O.
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Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
My G&OM draws inspiration from several prototypes plus Allen McClelland's V&O.
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What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
1967-1969
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What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
Everything.... mostly coal and chemicals, but a nice healthy mix of other freight traffic.
Question #5:
Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
A Class 1 on the verge of melt down (like the Penn Central!)
Question #6:
What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?)
Tons of first generation EMD power, mostly GP7's, GP9's, GP30's, F3's & F7's. A few brand new GP38's, GP40's, and SD45's arriving.
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Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with?
Absolutely. It geographically makes sense, many traffic sources, a good route (thanks to topographic and Sandborn maps!), deferred maintenance after buying up a few shortlines,etc, the right power in the right proportions.
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Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have?
I created the Gulf & Ohio Midland in 2005, and really haven't had a layout for it until the last year and a hlf or so. So it is just beginning. I am building a very small layout in a walk in closet, eventually I want the whole operable layout, magazine features, NMRA MMR certifications (which I have been working on), etc....
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Post by jwhite07 on Jul 13, 2012 19:23:17 GMT -5
Question #1:
Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
Two. The west end of the Acadia, Halifax, and North Coast Railway interchanges with Guilford Transportation Industries (ex-MEC), and the east end interchanges with New Brunswick Southern Railway (ex-CP).
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Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
Yes. It is based on the former Maine Central Railroad's Calais Branch and historical branchlines off it (Waukeag, Eastport, Woodland), some additional fictional branches, and parts of present NBSR and historical CP trackage in New Brunswick.
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What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
Some time during the year 2000.
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What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
Primarily aggregates, forest products, paper-making materials and finished papers, lumber and OSB/plywood, some general freight and a small amount of intermodal, and perhaps gypsum. And not just freight, but also state supported commuter/passenger service from Bangor to Downeast Maine points (such a service was provided for a time in Vermont, so why not Maine?).
Question #5:
Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
It doesn't quite meet the 350 mile threshold for a regional, so I guess it's on the high end of the shortline definition.
Question #6:
What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?)
Mix of new and used second generation power - 18 units, SW1500, U18B, GP38-2, SD38-2, GP15T types. Nothing over 2000hp, although occasional run-throughs and short term leases of bigger stuff show up from time to time.
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Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with?
Still not to the point of actual layout construction, but the AHNC was first conceived as an idea over 15 years ago. I thus have had plenty of time to devote to developing, research, and refining a written history of the railway which I believe is quite plausible and realistic.
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Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have?
All 18 locomotives custom painted and lettered as well as a large amount of various classes of rolling stock. However, the ultimate goal is, of course, building a layout to operate all this stuff on! Now where did that round Tuit go... I saw it roll under my workbench...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2012 11:34:57 GMT -5
Question #1: If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation? My Hudson & Erie is a subsidiary of the NS, and so it's lifeblood is in interchange with the parent road but once I am up and running I plan to represent interchange with CN, CP, Chessie, NYS&W, WNY&P and Guilford. Question #2: Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad? The Hudson & Erie story is as follows: NW set up the holding company Dereco and assumed control of both the D&H and the EL. Just prior to bankruptcy of the EL in 1972, Dereco merged the two railroads and created them as a wholly owned subsidiary of NW, attempting to gain a foothold on some of the NY/Jersey City traffic. This new road was called the Hudson & Erie Railway and operated former EL lines in south eastern New York state through Pennsylvania and back into New York state to reach Buffalo and connections to the CN in Ontario. D&H was merged in its entirety plus sections of the former Reading Lines from Scranton, Pa. to Philadelphia, Pa. Question #3: What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in? From it's creation in 1972 until present day. I will be modelling the 1995-2000 period. Question #4: What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul? Principally bridge traffic from Canada to the North East US. A lot of paper products and containers but in my world Bethlehem Steel Mill will be alive and kicking and one of the largest industries on the line so iron ore and coal in; steel products of various types out. This is one scene I would like to model first. Question #5: Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1? The H&E, like the D&H, is a regional. Question #6: What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?) By the period I model EMD and GE power will dominate, maintaining commonality with the rest of the NS fleet. U23B's, U33C's, GP38-2's, GP39-2's from D&H, GP39-2's and a handful of GP40's from Reading, SD45-2's (de-rated to 3000hp). EL GP35's and SD45's were retired before the modelled period, but the SDP45's were placed into the Thoroughbred Locomotive Services lease fleet. NS ordered a second batch of GP59's to add to the H&E fleet and snoot nosed extended cab front SD39-2's were ordered but only in small numbers. A few GP35's and ALCo frames were converted to slug units in good ol' NS tradition. The U23B's and U33C's from D&H were rebuilt into GE Super7 series locomotives. Question #7: Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with? I'll let you be the judge of that: dieseldetailer.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=freelance&action=display&thread=10246Question #8: Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have? Not yet, but I haven't finished and I will keep you informed along the way...
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Post by morey2001 on Jul 18, 2012 13:26:45 GMT -5
Question #1:
Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
My Thunder Bay Northern is a CN family lines type railroad, interchanges with DWP and CNR and other railroads that run in its region, as well as freelance subsidiaries, Mineral Range Railroad and Saint Marys
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Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
Based on Canadian National and US subs in the 50's-60's time frame.....when it suits me....
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What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
1950- early 60's diesel transition period
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What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
acts as a bridge line between DWP and GTW, also originates mineral and forest products loads
Question #5:
Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
depending on what exactly was the criteria around 1960, dollar figure would have border lined on a Class One....but I think of it as a regional
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What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?)
TBN is mostly EMD, with some Alco switchers (and some steam, of course Mineral Range uses Alco RS and RSD's Saint Marys currently GE 70T's
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Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with?
it is a work in progress, to a point where I have started writing the fictional 'back story' to support it.
Question #8:
Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have?
a good question, the goals have expanded over time from original intent, but seems close to my current mind's eye
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Post by pacificwestern on Jul 31, 2012 2:56:42 GMT -5
Question #1:
Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
A: Yes, the Pacific Western has a close operational relationship with the Burlington Northern and also interchanges with the Union Pacific.
Question #2:
Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
A: Largely yes. The concept for the PW draws a great deal from the operational practices of the BN, and also a lot from "generic" practices of the period seen by the UP, SP and DRGW.
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What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
A: 1988, somewhere west of Utah.
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What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
A: Anything that would have been seen on a western railroad at the time, with focus on TOFC, Double Stack, and coal.
Question #5:
Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
A: I would say its a large regional, bordering on a class 1. Definitely a grey area, but I like to think its a railroad comparable to the WP, DRGW, MRL or the Utah Belt :-)
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What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?)
A: The PW is trying to run with the big boys, and so to keep up it must have some modern power to match. The PW in a 80/20 split in favor of EMD products with brand new SD60's, and GP50's backed up by a solid fleet of SD40-2, GP40-2 and GP35 models. Switching is done with SW1200 and SW1500's. Always keeping an eye over the fence, the PW dabbled with big GE's to haul coal, and has a handfull of C30-7's and older U30C's, but now with the arrival of SD60's any more GE purchases is doubtful.
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Do you feel that you have told the story of your Freelance Railroad well enough to make it both realistic to yourself and those you share it with?
A: The story of the PW is still evolving. The Pacific Western was created by the Auckland Metropolitan MRRC as a fictitious HO railroad set in the western US somewhere. When the club disbanded some years ago I became custodian of a few of the club locos. As I am a big fan of the freelanced way of life, I have continued and evolved the concept of the PW. One of my favorite evolution tales sees the Pacific Western born out of ill repute in the late 70's following a bitter dispute between management and crews on the BN. Apparently in real life BN management had tried some dodgy staffing tactics and and a full on crew strike was brewing, so the BN created a new railroad, a paper railroad that could be staffed with non union crews in the event of the strike taking place. This paper railroad has a different name, but I believe its a good basis for a controversial and somewhat different birth of a freelanced HO railroad. The paint scheme and loco types are very similar to what is found on the real BN in 1988 and I believe could well be the scab railroad the BN intended on creating!
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Have you met the goals you want with your Freelance Railroad or have you went a little further with it than you should have?
A: The PW only exists via a few locos at this stage. Many ideas and concepts are rattling about inside my head and as time goes on regular themes and "wants" keep returning and are written down in the "think tank" book. I am a big fan of the Utah Belt, the V+O and the Santa Fe and Cat Mountain, and draw a lot from their designs, operation and construction. With time I hope to build something that will be on par, but its not in the immediate future for now, and I will keep my appetite whet by detailing and painting locos for the railroad.
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