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Not to me are they dead. I've been in the hobby fir over 50 years and have enjoyed visiting hundreds of pikes, allover the country. You can see quality work with both protptype modelers and free lancers. I'm a free lancer and happy at it, but I try my best to make my Intermountain Pacific RR as accurate as I can, just as if it really existed. However I do subscribe to Allan McClelland's 'good enough' philosophy. I don't detail what cannot be viewed, in most cases. My layout is in the Absoroka Mountains of Montana and runs from the real town of Red Lodge to Silver Gate Mt. but I have several made up towns inbetween, however they are generally based upon geographic factors. Towns like Rock Creek, Beartooth, Wyomont, Pipestone, and Helper are examples. My RR is set solidly in the summer of 1959. I totally resist the urge to vary this time slot. I'm really pleased that Atlas is releasing the low hood SD-24 soon, as this is about the only low hood that I can accomodate. My reason for holding to 1959 is that it is about the latest that I can justify running steam and I have several of United's Sierra 2-6-6-2's on the line, to which I have added Elesco feedwater tanks on the brow, plus the pumps and seven pipe runs to the heater. I can do it because it's my own freelanced line. I have a very convincing story behind my railroad and how it evolved. My line was created by the Treasure State Metals Ltd.,. in order to haul out the significant volume of copper ore which they discovered near Clark Folk. We have the mine plus a concentrator, an electrolytic refinery and a wire mill on the line. This can make for a lot of traffic on an out of the way mountain railroad. Sure we use diesels, many Atlas/Kato RS-1's, and RSD-5's, in a flashy bright red and gull grey scheme, with a yellow side sill stripe. The RR is in a 12 x 20 ft. room with 144 ft. of mainline and two terminals. No it hasn't been published. I submitted it to MRR but maybe there's truth in the statement that they prefer prototypes since they didn't accept it. My layout was open for the 1986 Boston National Convention as well as several NER Regionals. But I have a great deal of fun and relaxation in the hobby and that helps to contribute to a long life. Jack.
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