Iconic C&EI Modeling Projects...

For the C&EI, iconic modeling projects would include, but not be limited too...

Engine - decaling a GP7

Freight Car - MOW troop sleeper

Passenger Car - Passenger equipment in early light blue/orange scheme or later dark blue/yellow scheme

Caboose - Wabash style caboose using a kit from Wright Trak Models

Structure - Scratchbuilding a station using C&EI's standard station plan

Daev

"Iconic Modeling

"Iconic Modeling Projects..."

 For the SP I think it would be Tehachapi loop, for the WP Keddie Wye, for Pennsy horse shoe curve, etc. For the CCT a more modest scene of the Stockton shops will have to do :> )......DaveB

For the IC

The City of Miami

Missabe = Ore Trains and

Missabe = Ore Trains and Yellowstones.

Pennsy Iconic modeling projects

Horseshoe Curve

Altoona

Manton, Michigan

(OK, not the last one.  But I'll be modeling it!)

The Standard Railroad of...western Iowa

For the Iowa Interstate, iconic modeling projects would be...

(And that's pretty much all I have to write, because I'm fairly certain everyone's skipped right over my post by now.  Cue collective yawn. )

Government Bridge

IAISfan...

The ex RI Government bridge in the Quad Cities would be a nice project

Virginian, H-24-66s with long

Virginian, H-24-66s with long coal trains, Huge powerful articulated Steam 2-10-10-2, 2-6-6-6 and 2-8-8-2 with long coal trains, battleship gondolas full of coal. Giant bridges with deep ballast and well maintained right of way.

Pennsy, 2-10-4 locomotives, 2-10-0 locomotives, lots of passenger cars.

Erie / Erie Lackawanna Icons

The elevated AC Tower in Marion, OH; Starrucca and Tunkhannock Viaducts in PA and the Poughkeepsie Bridge over the Hudson River. 

Jeff 

EL 1964

My limited knowledge tells me

My limited knowledge tells me Guilford's iconic features include the mud pit under the bridge on the line to the Newlywed Bakery and the beat-up SD 26s they purchased and continued to run in the old Santa Fe colours. Both things were great fun to model.

Not road specific but the

"the original union station

with the red dirt girl waiting for her train that never came ......DaveB 

It's da loops!!!

On the Morenci Southern Railway is has to be the 5 loops.  4 loops are constructed of curving wood trestles and each is different.

Den

No its the Zig Zag

One of my choices would be the old New South Wales Government Railways (Australia) crossing of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney by the Lithgow Zig Zag. This line ran from 1870 till 1910 and features a tunnel large cuttings and 3 glorious stone viaducts. To by pass the Zig Zag the new line has 10 tunnels and is now the Main West Line and electrified. Google it for some spectacular pictures.

The line was originally SG but in the seventies a group now known as the Zig Zag Railway was formed to rebuild the line, Due to the scarcity of SG rolling stock they rebuilt the line as 3'6" gauge with rollingstock from Queensland, Tasmania and South Australia.

Carrizo Gorge

For the San Diego & Arizona Railroad, it's the Carrizo Gorge with its many tunnels and hillside trestles -- and especially the big Goat Canyon trestle.

Now that this thread has gone international....

How about some iconic rail bridges first? You'd need a seriously large modelling space for any of these

Some local stuff - 

First up the "Coathanger" aka Sydney Harbour Bridge -  with double track on the western side handing commuter double deck electric trains at intervals down to 3 minutes apart each way during the peak hours. 

http://www.johndarm.clara.net/Worldphots/cityrail.jpg 

The Hawkesbury River Bridge NSW  -  http://www.trainman.id.au/photos/nsw/steam/38class/3801-8152_Hawkesbury-River-Bridge_17-8-97.jpg with at train led by 3801, perhaps the most iconic New South Wales Government Railways locomotive - a streamlined pacific built during WW2.

On the narrower gauges:

​3'6" gauge Stoney Creek Falls bridge on the Cairns to Kuranda line in Far North Queensland

-  http://www.zelmeroz.com/album_rail/qld/cm/cm_qr02.jpg 

And perhaps the most photographed narrow-gauge timber trestle bridge in Australia - the Monbulk Creek trestle on the 2'6" gauge Puffing Billy Line near Melbourne 

 and

 On a line that offers daily steam service using the original steam locomotives and rolling stock that hauls well over 300,000 people annually. 

There is another Stoney Creek bridge, this time in Canada:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=87493&nseq=6

For Africa, how about the bridge over Victoria Falls?

http://www.tothevictoriafalls.com/vfpages/devel/bridge.html 

In  the UK perhaps the Ribblehead Viaduct on the former London Midland and Scottish mainline?

http://www.visitcumbria.com/carlset/ribblehead-viaduct/ 

or perhaps I K Brunel's last great viaduct at Saltash on the Great Westen Railway?

http://www.daveuptonphotography.co.uk/imgs/gallery/3592/3592_13264760984a23e62d5a36e.jpg 

In Europe, how about Switzerland's soaring Landwasser viaduct on the Rhätische Bahn?

http://swissrailpictures.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/landwasser-viaduct.html

And this is just some of bridges I know that kind of "define" a given railway. we haven't even touched locomotives/passenger carriages or freight wagons.

So how about some more international "Stuff"? Over to you all, 

A big one!

How about St Louis Union Station. 22 railroads, 42 tracks, 2 interweaved 3 track wyes, 11.5 acres under the train shed. of course you would need about an acre of layout space to do it along with about a million passenger cars but hey we can dream!!

If you wanna talk bridges...

There is ONE iconic railroad bridge, instantly identifiable.

The Forth bridge, over the Firth of Forth in Scotland. A monument to engineering overdesign.

This should help get an idea of the scale of this monster...

More info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Bridge

Thanks for all the comments and ideas...

Thanks everyone for commenting.  I thought this would be an interesting topic for people to chime in with their thoughts of "iconic" modeling projects.  

Growing up near St. Louis, my brother and I often talk about what would be necessary to model the St. Louis Union Station operations in the late 40's and early 50's.  You would need a whole separate basement just for the stagging yards to hold all the passenger trains!

Dave

For the Wisconsin Central...

A very iconic railcar that I have NEVER seen a model of is the Wisconsin Central "Megalog Hauler" used for hauling wood for paper manufacturing. This is a one of a kind car, you can see some around Wisconsin if you are on the old WC track.

if were going to talk bridges

if were going to talk bridges how about the Huey P Long in LA  or the hells gate in NY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_P._Long_Bridge_%28Jefferson_Parish%29

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate_Bridge

if you only modeled the end a model of the tunnel leading to Penn station could be interesting and wouldn't take to much space either

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Tunnel_Extension

It doesn't have to be just bridges...

Hi all,

How about the "iconic grade" for your railway/railroad, where the locomotives are working hardest to move the tons that need to be moved?

Union Pacific had Sherman Hill 

In the UK  there was Shap Bank

Try this one from the last days of steam on the New South Wales Government Railway system - 

Double-headed 4-8-4+4-8-4 Garratt's lifting 1500 ton coal trains from a standing start against a 1-in-40 or 2.5% grade.

There must be other "iconic grades" elsewhere in the world worthy of a mention in this topic? 

Here's one for

The Big Hill

When Canadian Pacific first linked Canada from sea to sea, the Kicking Horse Pass was chosen to go through the Rockies.  Initially, the Big Hill was a 4.5% grade that had more than it's share of accidents.  Originally built to be temporary until something else could be completed, the Big Hill was used for about 25 years before the Spiral Tunnels were erected to take the grade down significantly.  Today, the Trans Canada highway follows much of the original Big Hill.  Really a neat place.