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Gee Rob, you've been reading my mail!! <br /> <br />I model a fictional anthracite road circa 1910 in HO, and have collected an embarrassingly large library on the various real world lines that transported the hard coal. These provide a wealth of information on the look and feel of the era. <br /> <br />The definitive book is The American Railroad Freight Car by John H. White, Jr. There is more information in this book than you will ever possibly absorb. <br /> <br />Just a thought on scale. [2c] Historic Railroading Modeling means small lokies, short cars and small trains - all which play to N Scale's weaknesses rather than its strengths. HO would be easier to operate and there is certainly far more equipment available for early RR eras in the 1:87th arena. <br /> <br />One of my "someday" projects is to build a small layout depicting Pre-Civil War Railroading, but in my opinion, HO will be too small for that... so I'm thinking at least O, possibly G Scale. <br />
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