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Not Shrub, but where? what? when? and why? I just thought it might be neat (and might help some new people) to hear the rationale and stories behind some of our layouts. I know that in the smaller scales the miniature worlds are often planned out almost right down to the minute, and garden RR's are often more relaxed, but we all still made choices of what to buy and run.Parts of my empire were planned and others "reverse engineered" from what I already had before I ever really thought much about it.  When the dust settled I ended up with a story...I think. The layout centerpiece is an ex coal mine "company town" (after the mine went bust). The place is somewhere along the Allegheny Valley branch of the Pennsy (except in MY little world it was never absorbed but remained an independent company) between Kittanning and Parker Pa. in the early June of 1959....The 'Whys' are manifold. To start with the cheap Piko "Pleasantown" buildings I have look like company cottages after you gable the false fronts (reverse engineering). Then add in that I spent more than a few years in that area a decade or so back -- We lived in a little bump OFF the road called Conneration, which was up over the hill from the ghost village of Catfish. A place of old family farms, woodlands, rolling hills (and more than a few old company towns, some turned into summer church camps) as yet mostly un-mangled by developers and yuppies. (Don't bother looking for those place names on a map either, lol... The closest ones that you MIGHT find are East Brady and Rimersburg) Early June because I wanted to have kids in the school playground. 1959 because I can run steam or diesels as the mood suits, the clothes on the Preiser and Lemax figures look about right, and the "newest" vehicle that I had already bought and put on the layout was a '57 Bel Air (more reverse engineering, lol) This framework helps me to resist buying stuff that catches my eye, but doesn't really "fit" with the rest. As for why Pooh, Tigger, some giant gnomes and a brontosaurus are there? ah, 'cause life is full of mysteries?.....
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