The Appalachian Northern Replaces My Gauley River (Model) Railroad)

The last couple of years I have been getting back to my own model railroad.  I do not have a large layout.  I have roughly a 10ft. x 10ft. layout with coal mine, power plant and some local switching industries.  One of these days I would love to expand it.   Of course traffic rights would have to be negotiated.

For years I had a small MSN Group called the Gauley River Railroad.  Well MSN took all the small groups down.  I also know that my railroad had the same name as a real Gauley River Railroad with reporting marks GRIV.  I used GRR which turns out were reporting marks for the Georgetown Railroad.  So I decided to go with something new and fresh.  So I decided upon the Appalachian Northern.  It was a toss-up between that and the Appalachia River, but I thought that was too specific.  The Appalachian Northern seems a little more user friendly and gives me some leeway, if I ever get expansion rights.  (However, before I expand, I have to finish what I am building.)  Anyway, I did a Google search for Appalachian Northern and did not get any specific hits.  i then went to a website that had railroad reporting marks.  ANR was already taken, but ANOR would work just as fine and no other railroad had it.  So it is now the Appalachian Northern.  I plan to get decal sets soon.   Watch for my progress.

A.J.