INDUSTRIES REVISED AGAIN

After operating the railroad with the way it was revised it just working out by having Box Corp. Of America in Hanover. To many cars needed to be switched into the right order and its on a grade which caused a lot of derailments pushing cars up grade into BCA or Hanover siding. I moved BCA back to Pulaski and moved Roll Form to Hanover. This should be the last of moving industries around on the layout. HOPEFULLY!!

BOX CORPORATION OF AMERICA

ROLL FORM, INC.

I once again change the track plan in what I'm gonna call Track Plan 5.0 to show the revisions I've made. I also made changes to the East Yard in Moscow and the holding tracks for Imperial Canin in Homer. You can get a up close detailed version of Track Plan 5.0 by clicking on the the MSCR Track Plan in the right hand column. 

TRACK PLAN 5.0

LOCOMOTIVE ROSTER

I'M BACK!!!!! Never thought that it was gonna be long droughts between postings. So let me give you something new, my All Time Locomotive Roster for the MSCR. I been collecting info on how the real shortline railroads that started around 1976 purchase their locomotives. Take the Hillisdale County Railroad now Indiana Northeastern Railroad started with GP7s and GP9s and acquired the same size locomotives along the way with the GP30s being its largest power acquired. Now the Michigan Northern was all over the place when it came to purchasing locomotives. It started with a couple of Alcos, then went with Baldwins, operating the last two RF16 "Sharks". Finally settling on GP7s.

I wanted to incorporate the locomotives that I've purchased through out the years into my MSCR roster. I had a couple of GP9s, a GP20, a GP30, two GP35s, and two GP40s. I was gonna sell the GP20 and GP40s on Ebay so I could purchase a couple more GP35s and a GP35 shell to replace the GP30. I was picturing the MSCR looking like the Housatonic Railroad, a favorite of mine. After looking at the prices of new locomotives I knew that it was no way I was buying anything else unless it was dirt cheap off Ebay. 

After looking at the Georgia Northeastern's roster of ten units, I decided that I wanted the MSCR to resemble theirs. A number of old high hood units and rebuilt low nose units running together. I ended up getting a GP7 and a GP20 off Ebay bringing my roster up to ten.

I put together an all time locomotive roster for the MSCR as if it had really existed in the real world. The roster is based on the current models I have and if I wanted to back date the layout to an earlier period the models I would want on the layout.

ALL-TIME MSCR LOCOMOTIVE ROSTER 

1976-2012

ALL TIME UNITS  - 21

CURRENT UNITS  - 10