{"id":14328,"date":"2024-02-23T10:37:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T00:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=14328"},"modified":"2024-02-23T10:37:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T00:37:58","slug":"maryland-and-ohio-my-first-railroad-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=14328","title":{"rendered":"Maryland and Ohio – My First “Railroad of Lies”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I came up with the idea for my freelanced Southern New England Railway in conjunction with Iain Rive during one of his visits to Wisconsin. But not many people know that I had a “railroad of lies” long before the SNE named the Maryland & Ohio Railroad. I created the M&O when I was 10 or 11. As the name implies it was an Appalachian bridge route with lots of coal traffic. It had blue first generation diesels, and a lot of coal hoppers \u2026 I\u2019ll let you guess which railroad may have heavily inspired the M&O\u2026 they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With the news that Jim Hediger recently passed away, I was digging through my box of freelanced railroad cars looking for an Ohio Southern (Jim’s railroad) car and came across what I believe is the one surviving example of M&O rolling stock. Note the use of Champ “word” decals – an alternative at a time when I certainly didn’t have the resources to get custom decals made!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came up with the idea for my freelanced Southern New England Railway in conjunction with Iain Rive during one of his visits to Wisconsin. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-model-railways"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t