Many years ago, I dreamed of a G scale layout of the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina RR, which would take place in the height of the wartime commuter traffic to the rayon mills at Elizabethton, TN. My parents grew up just outside of the town and both my grandfathers were working the mills at the time as essential workers (Dad's father had been in WW1 anyway). Anyway, the staggering cost of anything in G scale and the room it'd take up made me give up the dream in 2007, getting rid of all my G scale stuff except a Bachmann ET&WNC # 12 locomotive.

Hello to everyone here at Model Railroad hobbyist. Always a visitor and never a member till now. 

My first post is about my fictional railroad that, ironically shares the same name as a real railroad, that I didn't know about until recently. 

My n scale railroad is the Central Illinois Railroad, based in Evans (ghost town), Illinois. Its locomotive fleet consist of:

Rock Island, 4-8-4, 5113

CNW, 4-6-0, 237

2 unlettered 2-8-0s

1 undecorated 0-8-0

2 undecorated Dash 9s

As a model railroader, what do you think of when you think Appalachian? What brings Appalachia to mind when you see it?

Here are some test prints I did to see what the printer will do.  In five months this will be old technology (It really is already, the better 3D printers are just our of my price range).  These are HO scale.  A lot of adjustments to make, and a learning curve to negotiate. These are straight from the printer, just the raft and support material removed, no real clean-up.  Also, I need to get better at removing both.