Railroads

This is my On30 line. The story being that in the late 1800’s a group of investors moved the equipment from a mine in South America that had closed (30″ railway) back to the Carolinas to move aggregates. The idea is that a dedicated narrow gauge moving aggregates (including sand and gravel), rock and minerals survives into the early 1940s. The list of minerals extracted may give an idea of how the railroad survived. It is the rarity of the minerals .. mostly metals that makes moving on a narrow gauge profitable. It connects to the On18 Deep River Coal & Coke Company and the standard gauge Lugoff, Camden and Northern Railroad.

Carbonadium, Duranium, Fiminum, Harbenite, Unobitanium

This is the On18 line. This narrow gauge line was created to move coal from from a nearby coal mine to the Coking Operation. That closed down but rare ores were discovered in the mountains and it was decided to extend the line to where those ores were mined. The scarcity of these ores with the relatively light loads meant it could profitably connect to the Deep River Railroad. It is a subsidiary of the Deep River Railroad. I would rename it the Deep River Aggregates Company if I did not already have DRC&C on the City Bridge side. I might go ahead and change that … if I find the right decals.

Originally I just picked a name out of my virtual hat and at the time applied it to my On30 modules. Since that time it has migrated to a Standard Gauge line and parent of the On30 Deep River Railroad and the Deep River Coal & Coke On18 operations. Since it makes no sense for a narrow gauge line to be servicing facilities and a standard gauge line in the same place, I don’t show the LC&NRR at all. IF I ever built a large layout that would change.