marknycfan
Road Foreman
Trying to get my Proto-Freelanced equipment built & painted
Posts: 65
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Post by marknycfan on Dec 14, 2009 20:53:23 GMT -5
I recall being apart of a proto-freelance group 20+ years ago. It was all done as a bi-monthly newsletter, yes through snail mail we traded ides, drawing, decal sets & some modelers traded cars! So lets get a new list going of location & era to see if any of our railroads interchange or compete!
The Westchester & Long Island metro New York area, circa 1957
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bcrail
Superintendent
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Post by bcrail on Dec 15, 2009 1:49:37 GMT -5
British Columbia Railway/BC Rail PG/Williams Lake area Late 70's/Early 80's and the 90's to Now (I like to bounce between the two era's)
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Post by danraitz on Dec 15, 2009 8:34:25 GMT -5
Northern Minnesota in 1992
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Post by railfan on Dec 15, 2009 8:45:41 GMT -5
Union Pacific late 60's & early/late 70's. But at the curent moment my layout looks like a museum.
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Post by icghogger on Dec 15, 2009 9:40:41 GMT -5
Mississippi, north of Jackson, south of Memphis, 1972. Tennessee, between Memphis and Nashville, Nashville and Atlanta, GA, 1955.
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Post by Randy Earle on Dec 15, 2009 11:58:36 GMT -5
Ohio, Navarre to Zanesville.
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Post by wsor4492 on Dec 16, 2009 3:26:40 GMT -5
BN, East Dubuque, IL to La Crosse, WI, Summer of 1995.
Chris Roeben
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nssd70m2
Superintendent
Norfolk Southern Piedmont Division
Posts: 159
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Post by nssd70m2 on Dec 16, 2009 7:00:09 GMT -5
NS in Spartanburg, SC. 1998 to Present
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Post by T on Dec 16, 2009 8:45:33 GMT -5
I model "The Western New York"region and my layout is set during the ALCO,FM and BLW purging era. Here's a partial list of the rr's that I model. 1. BUFFALO SOUTHERN 2. NEW YORK and LAKE ERIE
however I use some SD's for run throughs at times. Anyone hear of the ARCADE and ATTICA RR ?
Tom
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Post by Randy Earle on Dec 16, 2009 12:28:58 GMT -5
My Dad took us for a ride on the Arcade & Attica the first year they operated....back in the 1960s?
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Post by wvsecondary on Dec 16, 2009 15:02:24 GMT -5
Columbus, Ohio to Hobson, Ohio June 2006
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Post by poweredby251 on Dec 16, 2009 18:29:27 GMT -5
The SPSL mainlines run from the Twin Cities to Duluth, Chicago, St Louis, Kansas City, and Omaha. Subsidiaries include the MStL and several shortlines. The area to be modeled is on our trackage rights and shared trackage with the Milwaukee Road from Winona to Red Wing on the Twin Cities line. Era is the mid-70's.
We interchange with most roads in the areas we run, and on the modeled section this includes the Milwaukee Road, BN, GBW, CNW and the SPSL owned Minnesota Midland and the Winona Southwestern (ex-CGW lines we bought in 1968).
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Post by Jack Napier on Dec 17, 2009 0:10:45 GMT -5
Texas, 1995 to the Present, on a modern day MKT. ;D
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marknycfan
Road Foreman
Trying to get my Proto-Freelanced equipment built & painted
Posts: 65
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Post by marknycfan on Dec 19, 2009 12:52:05 GMT -5
The SPSL mainlines run from the Twin Cities to Duluth, Chicago, St Louis, Kansas City, and Omaha. Subsidiaries include the MStL and several shortlines. The area to be modeled is on our trackage rights and shared trackage with the Milwaukee Road from Winona to Red Wing on the Twin Cities line. Era is the mid-70's. We interchange with most roads in the areas we run, and on the modeled section this includes the Milwaukee Road, BN, GBW, CNW and the SPSL owned Minnesota Midland and the Winona Southwestern (ex-CGW lines we bought in 1968). I was in MN 30 years ago, saw a nice long ore drag on my way to Ely, fell in love with ore trains that day. Any ore trains in your plans?
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Post by poweredby251 on Dec 20, 2009 0:28:41 GMT -5
No ore. I model to the south of the Twin Cities area, and the ore runs mostly in the northern part of tha state from mines to loadouts on Lake Superior. BN occaisionally operates an ore train or two over their Twin Cities-Chicago lines, but thats it. John The SPSL mainlines run from the Twin Cities to Duluth, Chicago, St Louis, Kansas City, and Omaha. Subsidiaries include the MStL and several shortlines. The area to be modeled is on our trackage rights and shared trackage with the Milwaukee Road from Winona to Red Wing on the Twin Cities line. Era is the mid-70's. We interchange with most roads in the areas we run, and on the modeled section this includes the Milwaukee Road, BN, GBW, CNW and the SPSL owned Minnesota Midland and the Winona Southwestern (ex-CGW lines we bought in 1968). I was in MN 30 years ago, saw a nice long ore drag on my way to Ely, fell in love with ore trains that day. Any ore trains in your plans?
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Post by Raeder on Dec 29, 2009 16:26:01 GMT -5
I've kinda settled on mid 2006, in the Northwest, when BNSF grabbed anything that would run and ran it. A mixmash of paint jobs and patches, trains running every which way, DPU on grain, coal, and the UP/CP potash trains. The GEVO's and ACe's were just coming out, shiny and new, and the SD40-2's still ran next to Dash 9's and SD60M's. Rebuilt GP39's ran around the branch lines and yards, with the occasional SD20 or some other random unit. An interesting time to model, if you like to detail diesels.
Kevin
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Post by NS91 on Dec 30, 2009 0:35:58 GMT -5
Well my Carolina Belt is some what modern the newest locomotives are SD70s (2) and the oldest is 4 ALCO RS3's. and its in the southeast US
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DRGW 5398
Chairman
D&RGW SD40T-2 #5398
Posts: 386
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Post by DRGW 5398 on Dec 30, 2009 1:01:28 GMT -5
I model a fictional part of the Rio Grande and Espee in western Colorado from 1988-1996.
I am also drawing up plans for a fictional Southern Pacific branch line in central Oregon in the early 1990's that'll use primarily SD/GP9's and other four-axle rebuilt power for long wood chip trains.
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Post by wjwilcox on Dec 30, 2009 12:07:05 GMT -5
Planet Earth, North America, 1940 to the present. Am I unfocused or what?
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Post by gtw4633 on Jan 2, 2010 17:27:55 GMT -5
I'm doing in Soo Line loosely based on the area between Fond Du lac and the Twin Cities
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