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Post by simulatortrain on Oct 31, 2015 11:16:54 GMT -5
Quite eye popping to say the least !!! But one change I would recommend... reverse the hash marks to go along with the angle of the lettering, having them the way they are seem to conflict with each other. Thanks! That is a good point, I'll probably just make all the stripes go the same way as the logo. I've also made the change since doing this model of painting the trucks and fuel tank a medium gray, similar to but darker than RI in the bright red scheme.
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Post by roadkill on Dec 27, 2015 19:30:29 GMT -5
When/if I eventually get a basement I'll be modeling Penn Central from Weirton, WV to Mingo Jct., OH, circa '75.
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Post by jwhite07 on Jan 5, 2016 19:21:17 GMT -5
The proto-freelanced Acadia, Halifax and North Coast Railway runs in Downeast Maine and Maritime Canada, specifically Bangor, Maine to McAdam, New Brunswick. Timeframe is circa Y2K. In the early stages of actual layout construction, although I have over 150 pieces of equipment and structures painted for the railroad.
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mkl194
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accelerating rust on purpose
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Post by mkl194 on Jan 7, 2016 15:16:04 GMT -5
I started out modeling CNW. I made everything I could get hands on into CNW. I did BQ23-7 CNW, a couple DD40's CNW, Tunnel motors, F45, SDP40's, High Nose C628....and then my railroad disappeared into UP. I was crushed and boxed up my trains in 1995. I continued to photograph trains through the years, and in 1994 I discovered Minnesota Commercial. I also got tons of pix of the Shoreham roundhouse when it was used as the deadline for SOO. In 1997 I started a website to post pictures I had been taking. You can view my pix and maps here: CNW MemoriesSince I was really lost about what to do, I concentrated on photos. Then in 2014 I turned my library into a shop and got out all my trains and started buying stuff on ebay and amazon. I have this old issue of Trains magazine that is devoted to Chicago and the problems of bottlenecks and how the EJ&E might hold the key to a route around Chicago. So I studied google earth and all the routes around Chicago. I also got to photograph the DMVW shops in Bismarck ND many times and how the tiny shop totally rebuilds locomotives. I have tons of before and after shots from there. I got to catch the last CNW GP35 before and after it was rebuilt. Then I got the idea that I should model a railroad based on the Minnesota Commercial, including the Red and White color scheme. My railroad exists about 10 years in the future. The concepts is that another belt railroad would handle a route around Chicago outside the EJ&E. The big 6 railroads would all connect and this outer belt line could move trains around Chicago much faster. A severe locomotive shortage causes massive rebuilding programs of locomotives long vanished. Museums begin to lease out their equipment to raise cash. Locomotives long thought scrapped begin to turn up hidden in the brown fields of St. Louis and Chicago. Hidden away by organized crime to collect the Investment Tax Credit from the 1980's and not scrapped, a scheme that cost millions. The number of small rebuilding shops increased massively. GE and EMD hit very hard times and can't produce new locomotives so deadlines all over the world are scavenged by rebuilders. If Norfolk Southern is absorbed by the Canadians, it will be a tough blow to my interchange plan. In the future, you can make the prototypes...
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AJ Kleipass
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Post by AJ Kleipass on Jan 8, 2016 6:25:13 GMT -5
Hello, my name is AJ and I am addicted to model railroading.
I am actively modeling in HO and N -scales. My HO system is the Lake Ontario & Hudson River Rail Road. Set in January 1972, the proto-freelanced LOHR is a merged system of lines stretching from Weehawken, NJ, to Buffalo, NY, with secondary lines stretching to Oswego, Utica, and Watertown, NY, and to Scranton and Allentown, PA. It's basically the NYO&W, NYS&W, LNE, a couple of shortlines, and parts of the LV (before they ever became part of the LV) and EL (ex-DLW Binghamton - Buffalo). The design of the LOHR system was, first and foremost, intended to provide a historically logical reason for how these abandoned railroads were able to hang on an additional decade or two. Secondary to that, I wanted to model an early 1970s, pre-Conrail, virtually bankrupt railroad with gritty, rusty, but well-maintained internally, locomotives. I picked January of 1972 because I wanted to model winter in Upstate New York, and because it would be the last months of solvency - in June, Hurricane Agnes would finish what Penn Central's bankruptcy started. On the N-scale side of things, I'm also modeling a proto-freelanced "what-if" scenario. Historically, the Worcester-Nashua-Portland line of the B&M was a much sought after prize. In the late 1800s, both the B&A and the Old Colony had eyes on it for its access to Portland, ME. And as recently as the 1920s the Maine Central was bringing the B&M before the ICC in an effort to gain control of it as a way of breaking B&M's monopoly on Portland traffic. Obviously none of these attempts succeeded, though the last one might explain why the B&M started abandoning chunks of it so early. My WN&P explores the idea that around 1900 the B&A, NH, and MEC gained joint ownership of a then-independent and larger WN&P. Fast forward to the fall of 1956.... the last nail was put in the WN&P's steam roster by an influx of diesels and RDCs from its three owners. ALCOs reign supreme!!! Its primary mission is to connect the NH and B&A/NYCS with the MEC at Portland and the CP at St. Johnsbury, with Nashua, NH, being the heart of the system. In addition to the above.... As I said at the start of this, I am addicted to model railroading. In the back of my mind is any number of other modeling schemes, from wanting to model an early - circa 1830s or 1840s - railroad in 1:48 or larger scale, to a post-Conrail shortline that is a successor to the LOHR, and a whole bunch of others in between. My website ( RockyCrater.Org) goes into somewhat more detail on that. If you have made it to the bottom of this, thank you for taking the time to read it all.
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Post by shellfish on Jan 30, 2016 17:12:13 GMT -5
I modeled the New Haven RR 40 years ago and fortunately I am still at it today! I particularly like the Patrick McGinnis paint scheme. It is too bad that his business management and direction helped dig the grave for the railroad.
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spike
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They say I can't be Spike anymore, so Mr. Burns it is!
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Post by spike on Feb 2, 2016 19:03:29 GMT -5
AJ, does B&M still hold resentment about taking over the WN&P? I'm sure they hold the signal on you at the diamond in Ayer, so you can't cross.
Shellfish, what part of the New Haven do you model?
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Post by dablaze on Feb 2, 2016 20:14:45 GMT -5
I concentrate on anything that worked the rails in the North Bay, Ontario area. ONtario Northland, Canadian Pacific and Canadian National. Also dabble in logging and a bit of New York Central. Real broad transition period...collection has steam to current. I like painting different schemes too much, lol.
Also have my fathers fictional "KIP" (Kipawa Interprovincial) that crossed the Ottawa river into Quebec.
Craig
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Post by shellfish on Feb 3, 2016 8:26:17 GMT -5
Spike, Pretty much everything! Right now I am doing the Troop and baggage/messenger cars.
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sparky
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Post by sparky on May 19, 2016 9:51:15 GMT -5
Southern Pacific at Bloomington Il..1991. Old GM&O line. SPs last stand before bought out.
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AJ Kleipass
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Post by AJ Kleipass on May 20, 2016 0:03:46 GMT -5
AJ, does B&M still hold resentment about taking over the WN&P? I'm sure they hold the signal on you at the diamond in Ayer, so you can't cross. There wouldn't be any fun if they - the B&M - didn't resent the intrusion into their territory.
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osrr
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Post by osrr on Aug 7, 2016 3:35:18 GMT -5
As a way to keep myself busy I come up proto-lance railroads on paper. This time I'm working on my version of the P&LE as if it had went private (Think Guildford-ish) and the B&O had built a different route into Pittsburgh (never having trackage rights on the P&LE). With Conrail giving up P&LE stock (rights?) in 1976 a privately held company (still working on a name) stepped forward and purchased the P&LE (again, think something similar to Guildford (Pan-Am). Despite the decline in the steel industry the new owners "shook the tree" so to speak. Creating a "lean and mean" railroad. The mid to late 80s saw minor expansion as Conrail and CSX shed lines deemed not profitable enough (for a class 1). I'll just make a quote of additions or subtractions to my system. I'm always thinking on this (these) subjects so things are bound to change. I haven't really looked into the motive power section of this yet (probably the other half of my favorite part to dabble in). (click for bigger image)
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Post by Randy Earle on Aug 7, 2016 5:40:30 GMT -5
The line from Warren to Ashtabula was in use by Norfolk Southern as late as 2005. I worked for Renzenberger and did assists with crews up to my retirement in that year. I think Ohio Central runs the line but the part to the Youngstown Line is now abandoned. The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie operated out of Youngstown north of Hazelton Yard, but the P&LE yard is now abandoned and only the tower stands.
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osrr
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Post by osrr on Aug 7, 2016 12:41:41 GMT -5
The line from Warren to Ashtabula was in use by Norfolk Southern as late as 2005. Did they subsequently rip the line up? or are we thinking of two different lines? Cause google maps show's nothing but a trail.
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Post by Randy Earle on Aug 7, 2016 22:35:56 GMT -5
The line from Warren to Ashtabula was in use by Norfolk Southern as late as 2005. Did they subsequently rip the line up? or are we thinking of two different lines? Cause google maps show's nothing but a trail. I don't know, I haven't seen the line in 11 years. You should be searching for the line from Warren that meets the Youngstown Line at Latimer.
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osrr
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Post by osrr on Aug 8, 2016 0:56:46 GMT -5
Did they subsequently rip the line up? or are we thinking of two different lines? Cause google maps show's nothing but a trail. I don't know, I haven't seen the line in 11 years. You should be searching for the line from Warren that meets the Youngstown Line at Latimer.Hmm.. I'm not sure. I'm just going off the P&LE map that I have. As well as google maps that shows no rail line there anymore (what I have marked out on my map). Either way.. it's free/proto-lance so it's not a huge deal that its gone now days.
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