Reply to "How many here model after a real home town short line?"

While l am incorporating aspects of NE Colorado's Great Western sugar beet road into my freelance effort, the nearby to my hometown short-lines both made the famous Beebe and Clegg book "Mixed Train Daily". They were the Louisville, New Albany, and Corydon, which had a brief reincarnation as a dinner train, after years of providing combine caboose passenger service, and the Frankfort and Cincinnati, "Bourbon Route", which climbed up out of Frankfort's deep Kentucky River valley to serve several bourbon distilleries, including a now abandoned stone castle, on its way to a junction with the L&N at Paris, KY.