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Back-dating a model railroad to the 1920's.
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Jordan makes excellent kits of period vehicles - cars, trucks, vans, and wagons. But you will not need a lot of the "infernal comustion" types unless you have a big city on your layout. <br /> <br />Other changes: <br /> <br />Little or no evidence of electricity. Clothes on clothes lines, not in dryers. Few outdoor lights. No utility poles connected to the houses. <br /> <br />You'll still need telegraph wires, but no phones (well, maybe one of those new-fangled inventions at the station). <br /> <br />Lots of manual labour to do things - For example - no clamshell to fill your steam servicing sand house - just a guy with a shovel...! Certainly no backhoes, front end loaders or forklifts. <br /> <br />Signs will need to be changed to advertise things from the 1920s instead of 1950s - also street signs will need to be changed, as well as road markings (white line in the middle where appropriate, and no shoulder lines at all). <br /> <br />Evidence of no indoor plumbing, at least in residences and smaller, older buildings. You'll need a "backhouse" and probably a pump in the yard, as there was not a lot of indoor plumbing. <br /> <br />I think you would be safe running billboard reefers too. <br /> <br />No concrete "tilt-up" type warehouse buildings, or even Quonset huts (those large corregated metal "half-pipe" buildings). They were post WW2. <br /> <br />RR servicing would of course be set up to serve mostly steam (there were a few diesels around, and oil-electric contraptions like doodlebugs for passenger/mixed service). That means water towers and/or standpipes, sand houses with outside bins, (mostly wooden) coal towers, and turntables. <br /> <br />That's all I can think of for now. Sounds like an interesting project! <br /> <br />Andrew <br />
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