I really do love this thread. Unfortunately, regarding the Utopia that is my own humble Whereazona Central Railroad, there’s not much to tell. Every 6th Grader learns that the state of Whereazona was carved out of the juncture of five states to form the 49th in 1928. Those same kids can bore us all at the dinner table by reciting endless facts: that this smallest of 51 states occupies only about 75 square miles; that due to the sparse population and political wrangling involved in its statehood Whereazona is allotted only one Senator and ½ U.S. Representative; and that Bulger County and Whaddle County - the only two counties in Whereazona - were named for Henry Bulger and Herman Whaddle, businessmen who pushed for statehood for the Whereazona Territory. Yes, all just boring facts. But what is perhaps underappreciated is that this miniscule state is a natural for those who wish to model diverse prototype railroads. It’s convenient that I can run trains of the PRR, B&O, D&H, Santa Fe, and many other roads with attractive colorful paint schemes and/or attractive locomotive-passenger car sale prices and still be prototypically accurate. All because trains of over 20 railroads roll through this tiny state. Convenient indeed.
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