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Well said, and thank you. It does give me a track, no pun intended, to follow... I need to go back and see how the Highway (route 66) and the line "interacted", if that makes any sense at all.. it does to me right now, at least, I'm just not sure how to express it.. [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse The thing is, I know exactly how you feel because someone did the same thing to me. I knew I wanted to model a lumber operation in the redwoods and I wanted the era in the 1890's. I started researching and found there were no railroads in that part of the country that did what I wanted. Then I found the California Western that happened to go from the town I was born, Fort Bragg 40 miles to Willits. I found that they completed a line through to the newly formed Northwestern Pacific in 1912 and the NWP was completed in 1914. I chose as the year I was modeling because a certain bridge I wanted to model was completed that year. After that, the design flew together and everything had purpose. When I design a siding or runaround, I know what it is for and why it is absolutely necessary. Oh, I still gets lots of help from the guys here, but the purpose guides all decisions. [/quote]
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