This is a blog about my latest bout with model railroad mania, which, if all goes well this time may actually result in a working HO Scale model railroad. It's pretty stream of consciousness blogging and as such is pretty chronological. You might want to begin at the beginning for the whole thing to make more sense.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Settling down on a name

So I'm still noodling around with track plans and such. At this point I've pretty much settled on one idea, and that is the cross harbor railroad, served by a car float with some industrial switching.

I'm kicking around two names, variations on each other:

Parks Harbor Railroad (reporting mark: PHRR or PHR)
or maybe, Parks Harbor Industrial Railroad (reporting mark PHIR or maybe just PHI)
(Just to be nerdy, I checked, and those marks are available at the moment)

I like the Parks Harbor Industrial name and I can think of some logos to go along with it. I do plan to detail my own engines, they won't be too fancy, but I want to give it a shot. Custom decals and all that.

I was thinking of a blue and white paint scheme, but I'm now more leaning toward the old Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway paint scheme, Blue over yellow, with a red stripe TSBY is now part of (Great Lakes Central, which just uses Blue and White).  The Army paint scheme isn't bad either, Red with yellow lettering and safety stripes.  I do like the blue and white scheme but I'm wondering about printing white decals for lettering.  I suppose I could always go white and blue, but then again how easy would that be to keep clean?

So, for this moment, today, We're going with the "Parks Harbor Industrial Railway" (or maybe railroad not sure). Car float operation and industrial/city switching. I'm to the point where I'm making small modifications to the track plan, and may try to post something some time soon.

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