Make your Own Train Company

I actually have one made up for quite a while, but I am yet to get reskins of locomotives to comply with it.
The name: Angry Birds Railroad, Inc. (ABR)
The locomotives: SD70ACe, SD70M, SD40-2, SD40T-2, GP15-1, SW7, SW1200, MP15AC, GP60, 3GS21B, C40-8, C44-9W, ES44AC, F40PH, P42DC, F59PHI
Custom Cars: BBL Cab & Coach Cars; Talgo Trainsets (similar to those owned by Amtrak Cascades)
Logo: Angry Birds Logo with "Railroad" in Red Letters and Impact Font Underneath
Alt. Logos: Union Pacific Logo; AWVR Logo
Please send logo ideas and reskins as a reply to this post. Thank you!
 
Came up with this one on my phone while out doing stuff last week.
The "Norfolk Pacific" Railroad, a fictional merger of NS and UP, with reporting mark NFP (as opposed to NP, already taken by Northern Pacific).

Logo
The logo is the UP shield put into black and white, then the NS horsehead gets put over the "Union Pacific" text. "Norfolk Pacific" text written over UP stripes.

Paint Schemes
The ex-UP paint sceme is: the Harbor Mist gray replaced with NS black, the UP on the side painted over with the same yellow as used on the Reading heritage unit, the UP shields become the NFP logo, and the numbers are the same except with black NS-style numerals. This also goes for all ex-UP units. The ex-NS paint scheme is the NS logo replaced with the NFP shield, and the horses in the "whiskers" are covered by NFP shields. The numbers are the same, but in the yellow used on the Reading heritage unit.
Horns
GEVO: K5HL
SD70ACe: UP K5LLA
SD70M: UP 2001 K3LA
C40-8W: RS3L
Geeps: RS5T
SD40-2: UP GP38-2 K3LA
Standard cab GE units: RS5TRRO
All others: P3
Logo Concept Art
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jonwray said:
Came up with this one on my phone while out doing stuff last week.
The "Norfolk Pacific" Railroad, a fictional merger of NS and UP, with reporting mark NFP (as opposed to NP, already taken by Northern Pacific).

Omitted everything else for space reasons...
Click to expand...

While it is an interesting concept for a merger, I think in reality it would still just be Union Pacific with UP paint and everything. But hey! It's your fictional so you go about how you perceive it!
 
Have a map already for my Metropolis Transit, this is a commuter rail system called Bridgerissa Commuter who ties into that map and uses Metropolis as a home city. I had a route I built years ago with the same name and lost it but this revamp is already coming in handy. Bridgerissa is fictional State of the USA located in the Southeast somewhere and it had an almost statewide commuter rail system consisting of both electric and diesel trains. Electric trains run the Bayshore, Byberry Valley, Laird Valley, Melbourne, Metropolis Main, Fairground Lines. Diesels run on the Bridgerissa City, Carbon City, Silver Springs, & Six Flags Lines

Scene from around the system mainly the Carbon City Line, Byberry Valley Line and Bayshore Line.


Brookville, Bridgerissa. Carbon City Line.

Byberry Highlands, Bridgerissa. Byberry Valley Line.

Franklin Street Station. Henning, Bridgerissa. Carbon City Line.

Sydney, Bridgerissa. Southern End of the Byberry Valley Line

Pier Village, Bridgerissa. Bayshore Line.

Great Harbor, Bridgerissa. Northern End of the Bayshore Line. Leased Amtrak/MBTA Train due to the newer EMUs being down for crack trucks.

Allison, Bridgerissa. Bayshore Line. Leased Metro North Train behind engine.
 
Could I ask what programs are you gentlemen using to create logs and text for own train lines? I have a concept in the works using umr and the quahog sub but I lack the know how to create the logos and other Items and how to reskin rolling stock and engines. I call it the company Central Regional Lines in a SP esk kind of lettering running trains between Los Santos and points east using motive power from 70's to 80's in the early stages emerging containerized freight market.
 
Mine is the Jaysville Pacific Railroad (JPR), its logo is largely based on that of the Southern Pacific, but rather than "The Sunset Route", the railroad is "The...(umm...) Other Route"! I plan to do a layout of it eventually...
 
A friend of mine came up with this one

In the 1980s Irving took over both DAR form Creepy Rail ( CPR ) and CNRs south western (wast of Halifax and south eastern DAR lines wast Kingston N.S. and renamed it Nova Scotia South Western Railroad, After Irving's overtake much was done alot of costumers ether got rail serves and fosed by Irving, Tracks wore repaired and bridges replaced, Irving up graded the track and increased the speed to 80mph on the southern eastern shore & 60mph on the South western shores for faster and higher income. This worked pulling tucks off the roads.
Today the line is making a profit Irving sold come tracks of to smaller railroads owners like WHRC and LBTL just to name a few.
 
Kevin here from JR....

I have my own freelance RR going in HO right now but we have plans to bring it to life in Trainz as well so stay tuned for that later.

My freelance RR, the Lehigh Valley Southern, operates under the assumption NS never existed as i basically operate from Allentown PA to Hagerstown MD over what is in reality the Reading Line and Lurgan Lines. Reading, PA is the RR's base of operations and it interchanges with other freelance shortlines at its points in several areas where other railroads intersect.

We are an entirely EMD railroad with power mostly in the form of SD40-2's, GP38-2's, a few MP15DC's for yard duty and then a handful of SD70M's and SD70ACe's for heavy tonnage.

The renders below are all by Justin Cornell at JR as he is the one who designed the scheme for me. The MP15DC is so far the only one to come out in HO, but two SD40-2 are in progress of paintwork as we speak.

The scheme I had in mind was something with a LV flair to it since im from the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania, but crossed with some EL details. Both were influences in this area so it seemed relevant.


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So here's the thing: i've started at LEAST 10+ projects in Trainz that will never see and light of any day, but this one will be different (i hope). I want to actually get to making this an actual thing someday, but for now, here's what i've got.

"The Millhurst Southern Railroad (reporting mark: MHSR) is a Class-3 "shortline" railroad running from Toledo, OH. to Asbury Park, IA., over a distance of 116 miles. Founded in 2006, the railroad services a large amount of local industries along the line, including a large coal mine, a cement plant, and several grain elevators. The railroad interchanges with three other railroads at Toledo, and runs a small branchline to Diamond City, MI., which features a large container terminal as well.

The railroad currently rosters a supply of medium-sized motive power, including EMD GP38-2s, GP40-2s, and SD40-2s, smaller ALCo S2 and EMD SW1500s for switching jobs, EMD SD70ACes for heavier coal and cement work, and four unique "SD69s", or SD60s rebuilt with HTCR-type trucks and an EMD 16-710-G3C-T2 prime mover, a design unique to the railroad."

And i made some reskins too, cause why not.

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A frankly terrible(in repainting options that is) locomotive to start off The 'Great Midland Railway', inspired by The Great Central railway.
If you can spot the visible LMS Logo on the tender you'll know this is a personal, as well as private, repaint of the LMS Princess Royal Locomotive.

Future locomotives(I'm planning to use the T9 next) should have a properly repainted tender, complete with 'borrowed' crest..(All repaints will be private and will NOT be released)

I reclassed it from '7P' to the fictitious 'Great Britain' Class, 10P.

I would name this engine... The Great Brunel I think.
 
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The first revenue run of the TRAIN commuter service pulling into Bruiseter. This commuter line stretches from Tounburg to Bruiseter, where there is a connection to Amtrak services.
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