Thanks for the welcome, folks. My road has elements of a number of railroads on the south shore of Lake Ontario. It is a quasi-governmental road, owned by two counties and operated by a shortline and a commuter agency. My inspirations are the Finger Lakes and Ontario Midland railroads. It is sited around a bay that takes elements of Irondequoit and Sodus bays. It interchanges with CSX.
I built the original part two houses ago as a standalone, figure eight within a loop. In 1990, I moved it to a new house, then expanded it to a 21x21 L-shaped road. I like operating different types of trains, so I built it to handle local freight, a commuter road, run-through Amtrak, and an intermodal turn from CSX (NYC). I built this addition from scrap wood from the construction of my neighbors houses, so it wasn't built well enough to move. Then four years ago, I moved again, and scrapped all of the addition. Now I can think it out a little better. I would like to be able to run all four train types. Construction will probably be shelf style, with sections that can be relocated eventually.
Before that, I'll convert the existing part to DCC.
