Seeing as I am totally freelancing this railroad, identities of towns, tracks, industries, junctions and such have to be determined. Starting in the broadest sense, I have decided that the north bedroom will be Indiana and the south bedroom will be Illinois with the tunnel through the wall being the state line.
Each wall section of benchwork will represent a town in a general sense. I did this on the CWI and it seemed to work well. Indiana has benchwork on 4 walls thus 4 towns.
Starting on the south wall and going clockwise we have Cullen, Lakota, Kershaw and Ordway. Where did these names come from? I found a random United States town/city name generator website and played with it and made a list of some 50 names that interested me then culled them down to these 4 for Indiana. Illinois will have 3 towns eventually but I haven’t chosen those yet.
These names do not represent any places I’ve been to or heard of or for that matter they probably didn’t even have a railroad in them. They just appealed to me.
My railroad…my way!
Now that I’ve got these names, I can start to flesh out the industries so I can start setting up JMRI.
The next construction phase of the project will be to airbrush paint the track.
Stay tuned.
Rockville Western Railroad 
Good names. You are the President and overall General Superintendent of the railroad. Using a random name generator is clever, no one should be upset.
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Thanks Tim. The industry names are next.
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Fast progress! I like how you have arranged the passing tracks in each town. Great use of the space. The Cullen passing track overlaps with Lakota a bit but does not obtusely interfere with local Lakota switching. Can have an operator in each town with minimal interference. Very nice design.
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Hey Mark. Thanks for the input. Only a good operator would notice the passing tracks. Waytogo! It took some time actually standing at the benchwork and moving turnouts around trying to ‘run’ a train in my head.
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I have a few ideas for industry names.
A little bit of a throwback.
Double Y Beef Processing
Debacle Lake Filtration
Wasta-Spay C Modular Sheds
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Looks like lots of switching I see you are not using foam this time
Not good or bad, just different
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Hey Gary. Yes, there will be lots of switching and it should keep about 4 operators quite busy. I went with the OSB instead of the foam cuz these rooms will have heat and air conditioning and I don’t have to worry about temperature extremes that the old CWI experienced. Also, the OSB was 1/3rd the price of foam.
Happy Labor Day,
Ken
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