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I'm in initial stages of modeling L&N's "Hook and Eye Line" also known as L&N's old Atlanta to Knoxville line which was run more as a branch after L&N gained control of N. C. & StL. (which had leased trackage rights on the much 'faster' and easier W & A route 'owned by the state of Georgia). Most of L&N's traffic in and out of Atlanta was then divertefd to the 'new line' I am also incorporating a portion of Southern's Murphy Branch which ran from interchange with L&N in Murphy, NC to Asheville, NC. Although I plan to model prototype scenes and industries, especially extensive marble quarry operations, copper mining, and timber, I am taking significant liberties with history and will be depicting the route as a jointly owned (by Southern and L&N) bridge route that expanded during WW2, rather than declined as so many branches did in the late 40's and 50s. It will be set in approx 1949 and will depict the rugged terrain in western NC, nothwest GA and southeastern TN and will have its own fictionalized name, paint schemes, logo; much of the equipment will be of L&N or Southern parentage repainted, reletterd and renumbered to depict a separate railroad entity.
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