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I grew up in Ft.Atkinson Wi. Which had the C&NW rail line, But......I used to visit my Grandmother alot in my hometown of Ladysmith Wi. way back in the late 1960's & 1970's which had the SOO LINE tracks about 2 blocks away. I used to visit trackside quite often when ever there was a slight hint of a horn blowing. Boy what a variety of locomotives back then, Alot of F unit "Covered Wagons", High hoods, B units & a whole lot more. I even saw my very first steam engine being towed through. & on a warm summer night I'd ride a bicycle down to the train station & just sit & observe the surroundings. There's nothing like a few dimly lit lights, no mosquitos & it being so quiet that you could hear a conductor drop a lantern at 3 blocks away. & then the next minute a SOO Line F unit appears out of no where on the point & starts to hammer the diamond with its other units & freight in tow. After a few minutes of its passing you could here the horn in the distance getting fainter with kind of an erie ghostly feeling. & then it's quiet again as though a train had never come through. & now we have the WSOR bordering our back yard just outside Whitewater Wi.. So I model the SOO Line as my main theme & am trying to keep most of the layout around the mid 60's to the late 70's era, & I am also modeling the C&NW & WSOR. All when finished will be a rural Wisconsin setting with a smaller town flavor. Buildings will be the train stations in Ft. Atkinson & Ladysmith along with several bussineses from these two cities also.
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