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Chip, The area you are modeling did not change that much from the 1880's to 1905.  Buildings, wagons, even men's clothes didn't change much.  Smaller roads such as you are modeling were likely to be running older equipment with maybe one or two more modern egines or passenger cars.  There were several reasons for this:1. Many of the "diggins" had pretty much played out in the 1890s and early 1900s.2.  The market for silver collasped during this period, leading to mine closure and reduction in production3. The US went thru some pretty serious economic depressions and panics during these years, many of which had a negative effect on smaller railroads. The result is that your railroad probably would have suffered decreased revenues during the period, making it hard to replace equipment.  The old V&T was a classic example of this, retaining old equipment long after it was obsolete on Class ! roads.  Look at some of the pictures of the interior of V&T's roundhouse taken around 1914 and you'll still see funnel stacks on some of the 4-4-0s.Newer equipment can be justified as a more recent purchase, or in the case of the geared engines, the property of some more prosperous logging outfit.  Of course if you interchange with a class 1 road, like SP, their stuff would include uptodate equipment.So I don't think it's a problem inculding a lot of 1880s stuff in a railroad set in your location.  Certainly more realistic than trying to explain how stuff dating from 1905 ended up in 1888.JBB
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