Fringe

[sd45elect2000]

I'm not exactly up to date on pop culture. I just now started watching the TV show Fringe. If you are familiar with the show you know its pretty out there. I got to thinking, What other modelers commit "fringe" modeling?

To my mind, this is Fringe modeling.

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What say you ?

[sd45elect2000]

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[ednadolski]

What other modelers commit "fringe" modeling?

Anything modern era in Proto:48?

Ed

[Rivet Miscounter]

Commuter Line and Z-Scale.  (Do I win?  )

[randgust]

Back in 1976 when I was doing N scale eastern logging, and got my Heisler to work, I certainly felt that way.   I didn't know ANYBODY else that was doing that, certainly not to prototype.

N scale logging didn't really 'catch on' until Atlas did the Shay.  But that fired up the demand for my Climax A kit for certain.

Now, I'm doing Climax A's, only in Nn3, and that's out there with a rather small group.

I think Hal Reigger, RIP, gets credit for NCAT overhead catenary modeling of his Milwaukee Road stuff with live wire.

[Rossford Yard]

Commuter Line and Z-Scale.  (Do I win?  )

Especially modeling a smaller commuter operation like TRE.  I would say Chicago/Metra would be mainstream modeling, with 4-5 lines radiating out from downtown (plus others)  One line from Dallas to Ft Worth? Not so much.

Being really out there would include recreating the old Texas Electric between the two cities!

[wcfn100]

I transcribed 10,000 car movements on the Chicago Great Western between Oelwein, IA and Kansas City into Excel.

Jason

[pjm20]

I transcribed 10,000 car movements on the Chicago Great Western between Oelwein, IA and Kansas City into Excel.

Jason

I'm in the process of transcribing the daily car spots at an industry for 40 years worth of business. 1950, 1972, and 1981-1982 complete! If you want the down and dirty of the lime business in central PA, I'm your guy.

[Mark5]

To me, fringe would be something like 2mm scale ...

[nkalanaga]

Nn3?

[sd45elect2000]

I don't exactly know what is considered fringe in N scale modeling. I do know that modeling the 1950s Union Pacific or the PRR is probably not fringe modeling . The Eastern logging railroads are kind of out there and certainly transcribing the car movements are somewhat out there but I also did something similar when I researched all of the train movements in and out of the Milwaukee road station in Milwaukee.

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Most transition era model railroads need to have traction represented. My little traction addiction is really only an adjunct to the Milwaukee road in the Midwest. The Milwaukee was close to traction lines in Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa in the Midwest. Not to include it would be an obvious omission.