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Ray-hold on a minute, you'll have to realize I'm only 14! I'll only be able to do a portion of what you advised, although this will be a very small layout that will probably only depict the industrial section of town and a portion of the small yard in Mexico. The one thing I don't like is that only 1 of the wonderful Zephyrs passed through-the Ozark State/General Pershing Zephyr. But, a full-fledged Denver Zephyr and say, the Galesburg yard and the West Burlington shops couldn't be modeled even reasonably accurately in the space I have. You have to be satisfied with what you got in this hobby- or else layouts will become a pain and not a pastime for you. Right now, I think only a connection with the Wabash, and the main focus on the Q and the GM&O would be best. Both the Everywhere West route and the GM&O were local roads in their time where I live, so I could just as easily do away with the Wabash and model my own county-but that would mean never running passenger trains or hotshot freights, or backdating to the 1920s, which would mean no 1st generation diesels and cars that would be harder to find models of-If you've ever planned a layout-and I'm sure all of you that have posted have at least twice-you know how finding the perfect locale and era is difficult. to Scott Catalano's reply: 1. Mexico is in Central Missouri 2. Yes, it did exist then and now. 3. A larger town, but not big enough to be called a city. 4.Yes, I found a site that lists America's railroad served industries. 5.an actual locale 6.---------- 7. Yes, the town has two railroads that were very important in my region as well, and both the Q and the GM&O had thru trains in town-the Alton Red Hummer and one of the Q's silver streaks.
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