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I think there's enough stuff available to create the feel of the 1910 era if you bar the rivet counters from the layout room. (I did.) My under-construction layout is set towards the end of the decade but a 1923 loco appearing in 1919 won't raise any eyebrows on the Muddy Creek RR. The beauty of modeling the early era, especially in N scale, is that everything was smaller and you can either fit more "stuff" on the layout or have more rural, uncluttered trackage between towns. Yards, turntables and engine houses were smaller. Freight trains were smaller and, perhaps more frequent. Many shortline railroads were still using "old-time" equipment. Milk trains were frequent. Most of the Design Preservation model buildings would be suitable for use in towns in the 1910 era. Like today, most houses would be wood framed and so were lots of business, hotels, schools, etc. except in larger, dense cities, where fires or the risk of fires thinned out the wooden structures. You would still have horse-drawn vehicles sharing roads with the few autos in town. In 1910 there would be 4-4-0's from the 1880s and 90s still in service. 4-6-0s were the hot locos on the Ulster & Delaware, a road I'm interested in but they were still running some old-timers too. (I'm not sure what the long-awaited Bachmann Ten Wheeler will look like, but I'm hoping it will be from this era.) 50' Overland coaches wouldn't look out of place on your layout and bigger Pullmans were in use. 36' wooden truss-rod boxcars and reefers with arch bar trucks would look good. I'm still looking into other types of cars, such as tank cars , gondolas, etc. of the era for my layout. Modeling the 1920's & 30's might be easier perhaps, but if 1910 has a special appeal for you, do it. Wayne
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