01-01-2011, 04:51 AM
My layout is called the California Northern.
- Firstly because I wanted to model north east California, as I like the SP and UP railroads, and where they came together (Sacramento, Roseville etc).Then I came across the actual California Northern RR, and decided that's what is going to be incorporated in my layout (although I still have to buy the first CFNR loco, or get a loco and paint it in those colours, I have the decals already). As I am interested in the UP and SP, and the California Northern was founded in the early 90's, I decided that the late 80's till mid 90's would be the era of choice (taking a little modelers license here and there). The station building of Davis is beautiful, and I found that I could incorporate it in my track plan, so part of it, will be (very) loosely based on the Davis Wye with the station etc. Lastly I run my own freelance RR on the layout called the North Eastern RR. I grew up in the North East of the Netherlands, and kind of pay homage to my roots in that way.
One of the NERR loco's is pictured in my avatar.
I have as yet to name the other yard on my trackplan, but I may get some inspiration in doing so from answers of others in this thread, so keep 'em coming! :-)
Koos
- Firstly because I wanted to model north east California, as I like the SP and UP railroads, and where they came together (Sacramento, Roseville etc).Then I came across the actual California Northern RR, and decided that's what is going to be incorporated in my layout (although I still have to buy the first CFNR loco, or get a loco and paint it in those colours, I have the decals already). As I am interested in the UP and SP, and the California Northern was founded in the early 90's, I decided that the late 80's till mid 90's would be the era of choice (taking a little modelers license here and there). The station building of Davis is beautiful, and I found that I could incorporate it in my track plan, so part of it, will be (very) loosely based on the Davis Wye with the station etc. Lastly I run my own freelance RR on the layout called the North Eastern RR. I grew up in the North East of the Netherlands, and kind of pay homage to my roots in that way.
One of the NERR loco's is pictured in my avatar.
I have as yet to name the other yard on my trackplan, but I may get some inspiration in doing so from answers of others in this thread, so keep 'em coming! :-)
Koos
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