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Are "pure" free lanced model railroads dead?
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I've been doing my own fictional shortline, the Hudson Valley Northern for quite a few years now. While operation is loosly based on D&H practices, the back story and equipment selection has been all HVN. <br /> <br />I'll be the first to admit that going freelance can appear to be easyas you're not confined to any certain equipment limitations, coming up with some of the more realistic details can be very hard to do. An example would be the Alco FA's I currently run...for detail purposes they are ex-NYC units. Using this thought process is not perhaps pure, but it does give me a starting point and helps with the back story of the HVN. <br /> <br />Recently the HVN management decided to buy some new power as the FA's are beginning to need more shop time due to wear and spare part issues. They have decided on a pair of new GP40-2's. <br /> <br />We're all in this hobby for fun. And while some of us find it writing fictional histories and running our models through fictional towns, others enjoy digging through actual history to find what a particular locomotive looked like on a certain day during a certain year. <br /> <br />Is either person enjoying the hobby any less?
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