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Hi Ron, I had several favorite roads for either their steam loco rosters, diesel paint schemes, passenger equipment, or the type of freight a road predominantly hauled. As it turned out, I found on a national map of U.S. railroads, a common location where most of these roads converged upon. Would you believe Kansas City Mo.? I was able to get detailed prints on the K.C., Mo Union Station along with many pix of the buildings in the immediate area. The Depot (fourth largest in 1914 U.S.) became the focal point of my layout and a rationale for the diversity of different roads found on my pike. Of course, this precluded some eastern roads that are favorites of mine as well. What I couldn't bring myself into, was creating a road name (or two) of my own, thus having the liberty of choosing any locos and rolling stock I fancied. As far as time frame? Unless you have an extremely wide preference of say, wood burners to EMD SD40t's or Bullet Trains, you can always get away with some pretty old vintage steam locos (std. hvy. wt. cars, etc.) run as "rail fan excursion" trains. Personally, I placed a 1950 date limit on my layout and found it covered most of the steam, steam turbine, diesel and overhead electric locos plus standard, smotth side, fluted side passenger cars going back to the late 1920's. I'm afraid anything passed the 1950's puts constraints on much of the finest steam, and rolling stock which I could not live without. By the way, MoPac, as you know, ran its' Eagles through Kansas City , Mo. Good luck and happy railroading. Bobfarkus
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