The freight cars for the Mockingbird Industrial are pretty typical fare for any post-2000 modern railroad. The makeup should be pretty normal, with the exception that corn syrup cars are very prevalent on the line.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Roster Freight Cars
The freight cars for the Mockingbird Industrial are pretty typical fare for any post-2000 modern railroad. The makeup should be pretty normal, with the exception that corn syrup cars are very prevalent on the line.
Monday, August 24, 2015
Overall Layout Theme
So, I'll start with some of my goals for this model railroad. I've always loved the absolutely unique nature of the Trinity Railway Express rolling stock. From the sleek trapezoidal Bombardier cars and the boxy, bulldog-ish look of the F59PH locomotives, to the bulbous modern-yet-quirky look of its younger sibling the F59PHI, to the crown jewels of the fleet: the beautiful, sleek, retro-art-deco RDC1's.
Combine that variety with the almost infinite array of freight cars and modern diesels that could show up on any given day, and it really is an excellent choice for a fun and interesting modern model railroad. So my recent decision to try my hand at z-scale--almost exclusively a result of AZL running the Bombardier/F59 sets on fire sale--left very little doubt as to the What, When, and Where.
Introduction
The Mockingbird Industrial is a Z-Scale model railroad depicting the Dallas, Garland, and Northeastern short line railroad and the Trinity Railway Express commuter line in northwest Dallas, TX. The era is roughly the mid/late 2000's to the early/mid 2010's. The modeled portion of the prototype includes about a 3 mile segment of the joint DGNO and TRE line between Medical Market Center station and South Irving Station, plus the DGNO's Brookhollow Branch that runs from Mockingbird Yard due north to service multiple industrial areas in northwest Dallas.
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