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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2012 7:39:02 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, BNSF, UP & Copper Basin. Possibly Magma if they ever reopen the mine
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Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
No, it is its own entity. Only a purchase of existing trackage from the prototype
Question #3:
What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
Late 1996 onward
Question #4:
What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
Lumber, oil, tar, food products, scrap metal, grain, building material, mining equipement, finished steel, paper, agricultural products, automotive and more.
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?)
All EMD
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, but I still need to fine tune the details
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 think I have accomplished what I want with it and set the story and operations well
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Post by antlorch on Sept 2, 2012 17:21:45 GMT -5
Sounds good so far. Got a paint scheme?
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KCSRailfan
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Post by KCSRailfan on Sept 23, 2012 11:20:32 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 KCS,BNSF,UP,NS,some shortlines
Question #2:
Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
Its is its own setup
Question #3:
What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
2000 to present
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What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
Lumber,corn products,intermodal,auto,grain,agricultural products,paper, etc
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,GE,rebuilt units
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 but not fully
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 really like the concept of my fictional RR
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Post by catt on Sept 24, 2012 13:49:32 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 I do ,I interchange with CSX,CP,CN,and NS
Question #2:
Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
Railroad is based on prototype rails from Elkhart,IN. to Petosky ,MI.
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What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
The Grande Valley Railway exists in the year (for now) 2012.
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What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
Anything a customer needs delivered either to themselves or a customer of theirs.
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Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
I like to think of it as a class 1 as there is a Canadian connection at Port Huron/Sarnia that allows access to the west coast of Canada.
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What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?)
Mostly a mix of GE and EMD with many older units rebuilt to modern standards.
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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?
My railroads printed history goes back to the time when Conrail was here and wanting out.
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?
The original plan was a 150 mile short line that just sort of took root and grew to include three wholely owned short line railroads.
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Post by bf1982 on Oct 10, 2012 8:38:18 GMT -5
Question #1 My Saginaw Valley Central interchanges with CSX, NS and CN in Flint.
Question #2 The Saginaw Valley Central is loosely based on the Huron and Eastern and Lake State Railway.
Question #3 Modern day
Question #4 Type of freight is mostly grain but also coal for a power plant in Bay City, auto parts for Bay City/Saginaw, chemicals for Midland, stone/aggregate from Alpena, lumber, scrap and ethanol from a plant they started to build but abandoned in real life from Ithaca.
Question #5 The Saginaw Valley Central is a short line.
Question #6 Power will be mostly rebuilt GP38-2s and GP40-3s. For the coal hauling duties the SVC has a few SD40-2s.
Question #7 Right now it's still in the planning process, but in my mind it's realistic enough.
Question #8 Like I said before, it's still in the planning process. Right now I'm collecting locomotives and rolling stock.
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Post by westernmaine on Oct 11, 2012 9:16:43 GMT -5
Question #1: If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
My Northern Terminal Company is a subsidiary of the Maine Central to the west and interchanges with the parent road as well as Bangor and Aroostook (to the east and north) and another freelanced class 1 the Penobscot, Rumford and St. Lawrence (a CP-controlled road) (to western Canada and the upper midwest).
Question #2: Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
My road closely follows engineering, motive power and operating practices of the Maine Central
Question #3: What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
most closely the 1970's espcially for operating sessions. Occaisonally just for fun we backdate to the late 1950's to accommodate passenger and express services that dissappeared during the 1960's.
Question #4: What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
dominated by paper and wood products manufacturing, followed by agriculture, textiles, cement traffic and marine industries. Also bridge traffic such as inbound unit power plant coal from western PA and of course outbound potato extras from the Bangor and Aroostook. During the "winter" PRSL handlesextra Canadian export/import seaport traffic from and to the CPR that can't travel via the St. lawrence River due to ice.
Question #5: Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1? subsidiary of a Class 1
Question #6: What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?) NTM dieselized with a small fleet of RS-1s and FA-2's of which a few remnants still operate, most other power consists of first generation hand-me-downs bumped from the parent road roster such as F-3's Alco RS's. Parent road engines such as GP7's and GP38's and GE's make oaccasional apppearances. Connecting road power reflects a cross section of what each road had on the roster in the 1970'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?
Based on feedback from guests and operators who know the protoype (including former and current MEC railroaders), in general 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?
convincing scenery is still a work in progess otherwise generally there
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Post by bowline on Dec 27, 2012 11:34:30 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: Yes, ICG, Sou, SCL, L&N and WofA.
Here's a good question. If you have a Freelance Railroad, do you interchange with a Prototype Railroad in your operation?
Question #2: Yes, the Gulf Coast Line is a collection of abandoned CofG (Sou) lines in SE Alabama. The original line is the abandoned portion of the CofG Ozark District from Ozark, AL to Clayton, AL with lines from Eufaula, AL to Montgomery and Union Springs, AL to Troy, AL. Trackage rights from Clayton to Eufaula over the Sou allow connection of the lines.
Is your Freelance Railroad based on a Prototype, or part of a Prototype Railroad?
Question #3:1970's through mid 1980's
What Era Does your Freelance Railroad exist in?
Question #4: various forest products (wood chips, lumber, pulpwood, logs), aggregates, peanuts, bauxite, fertilizer, lime, and agricultural equipment. Most freight is for online customers with little through freight.
What kind of Freight does your Freelance Railroad haul?
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Is your Freelance Railroad a Shortline, a Regional, or a Class 1?
Question #6: either a large shoreline or small regional
What kind of Motive Power does your Freelance Railroad use? (example, leased, used, new, EMD, GE, ALCO?)
Question #7: mostly 567 powered EMD. Everything is well used with the exception of a leased unit every once in a while. Current roster includes SW7s, GP7s, SD7s, GP30s and a single SD35. Eventual plans call for some Paducah rebuilds, Uceta rebuilds or used GP15s to replace some of the original power. The resources aren't available for those at current.
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:Yes
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 have a way to go to meet all of the goals.
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Post by bowline on Dec 27, 2012 11:37:14 GMT -5
Kinda messed up the order on my questions but I should have answered them all.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2013 14:17:33 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... Things have changed a little bit since I first explored this project. Firstly I now intend to model the late 80's and into the early 90's. This will affect motive power somewhat, I have scrapped the SD39-2's, Super-7's and will not be modelling lease fleet locomotives until I have time and money but the upside is I might add an ex-EL SD45 and SD45-2. I have decided not to merge the D&H and EL but keep them as separate entities under the NS banner. I am thinking of naming my company Thoroughbred Lines and running it in a similar style to the Southern prior to the NS merger, whereby the subsidiary companies are run separately but with the same corporate image. Southern therefore rename as Norfolk Southern and absorbs NW, the NS thoroughbred image remains but the NW image remains a little longer than in real life and the subsidiaries feature slight amendments to show individual roads logos within the thoroughbred logos. Always a works in progress...
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