Thanks for taking the time to provide this detail. I agree there are
advantages to a fictional model railroad.
The name of your railroad reminds me most of the Cotton Belt. But it can
be whatever you want it to be. What crack passenger trains operate on the
SLE&P ? And how is it painted?
- Earl Henry.
.
In a message dated 7/30/2011 9:58:07 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Hi Earl --
I definitely will have to come up with a garter snake (inside joke). As
soon as I have more wiring done (I HATE wiring), the narrow gauge will have a
chance to play in a video. Right now, I can only run one train at a time
and the narrow gauge is not a round and round operation ...
Lettering on the locos and many of the cars is the SLE&P – St. Louis
Eastern and Pacific – my fictional railroad. The narrow gauge is the CCC –
Coal
Creek Central. At one time, before scale S came into my life, I was trying
to model a real railroad rather faithfully. I ran into several problems
with that decision: Reality is WAY too big to model well in any visible scale;
I enjoy the locos and cabooses of more than one real railroad, and being
stuck with just one, while being fiscally responsible, was not a lot of fun;
real railroads tend to be a lot of straight track and not much else.
There is a benefit to having a private road name that was not apparent
until I actually started doing it – it makes the equipment YOURS, and not just
anyone’s who could buy the same piece off the shelf. Even the real
railroads do it -- all those F units, while all being essentially alike, got
painted into different road names to distinguish them from all the other guys’
F
units. I recommend having a private road name to anyone who is having
trouble settling on what roads they wish to model. Choosing the name will also
help to “locate” your railroad, even if all you have room for is a couple
of tenths of a mile.
Have fun!
Bill Winans
Prescott Valley, AZ
I too liked seeing the dual gauge. That is not something I would ever try
but it sure is interesting to see. Maybe your next video will have a
narrow gauge train on one track and a standard gauge on the other, ...
I could not read the railroad name on the tenders. What is the railroad?
- Earl Henry, Nashville
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
------------------------------------
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
[email protected]
[email protected]
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[email protected]
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
