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Hello all, this is an idea that I posted on another Forum, yes I quite like Railways if you couldn't tell. The basic premise of this idea is to create your own alternative railway(road) using the following format.

NAME OF COMPANY:

GAUGE:

PERIOD OPERATIONAL:

MOTTO:

HISTORY/ DESCRIPTION:

I give demonstration

NAME OF COMPANY: Empire state Railroad

GAUGE: Standard

PERIOD OPERATIONAL: 1871 - 1975

MOTTO: The right way, the only way

HISTORY/ DESCRIPTION: A bizarre little Railroad in western New York State, to the end it maintained what it described as a 'small engine' policy, in that it solely employed a succession of 4-4-0s for passenger work and 0-6-0s for freight, the only deviance from this ideal was twelve 4-4-2s based off the PRR K4. As a result of this policy trains were often double headed and timings, in particular for freight, were very slack.

One more interesting curve was the companies insistence on using a strange dark crimson and gold lined livery for its passenger machines and stock, with the letters ESRR on the tenders and the coat of arms on the cab sheets. Even more odd was the naming of some of the passenger locos!!

Very weird.

(if you know the history of Britains Railways you'll get this joke)

enjoy

Here's mine:

NAME OF COMPANY: Japan National Railways Narita Shinkansen Line from Tokyo Station to Tokyo Narita International Airport

GAUGE: Standard (1435 mm, 4' 8.5")

PERIOD OPERATIONAL: 1988-present

MOTTO: The fastest way from Narita Airport to Tokyo

HISTORY/ DESCRIPTION:

Built despite considerable delays due to opposition from local landowners and the time needed to get the right of way to construct the line. the Narita Shinkansen now travels between Tokyo Station and Narita Airport in 20-22 minutes with a top speed in some sections as high as 240 km/h (149 mph). The first trainsets were refurbished 0 Series trainsets (the ones originally used on the Tokaidō Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka), by 2002 they had switched to the E2 Series trainsets, where they remain in service today.

(NOTE: In the real time line, the Narita Shinkansen project was abandoned because JNR couldn't get enough right of way plus the overrun costs from other Shinkansen projects. Interestingly, the Keisei Electric Railway was able to secure much of the right of way land that JNR originally purchased, and that was used to build the Narita Sky Access rail line from Ueno Station to Narita Airport, with a top speed to 160 km/h (100 mph) on some parts of the line. Today, it takes about 38 minutes to travel from Keisei Ueno Station to Narita Airport.)

Wanted to revive this, seemed interesting but too old to just post on the thread.
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