I am Johnny Matthews and will go by PJ (for Papa Johnny) which is what my grands call me.
I live in West Texas not far from the oilfields. My railroad is a protofreelance of what I see in my area. San Angelo is in west central Texas. We have mesas and brush land and farming. UP runs east/west through my home town 75 miles north at Colorado City, Texas. BNSF runs down from the plains of New Mexico through Lubbock and south to Houston through San Angelo Junction east of where I live. MOPAC ran east/west through my home town before being acquired by UP in the late seventies. Santa Fe and ATSF ran on a branch RR through San Angelo in the 1920's through 1960's. The South Orient (originally the Kansas City Mexico Pacific RR) operated through here in the past. Today, the branch from Ft. Worth to San Angelo is called the Texas Pacifico Transportation System. So, I model MOPAC, ATSF, UP, BNSF, Ft. Worth and Western, Texas and Pacific, and South Orient RR's. I call the rail road the Petro Texas and Western because of the oilfields in our area of West Texas.