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Greetings all - I've been out of the hobby for 25 years and thinking of returning.  I've only modeled in HO, but as I'm short on space, all of my engines and rolling stock are 25-40 years old and have been boxed (don't even know if they still work) and I'd want to use DCC, I'm thinking of changing over to the "other" scale.  You know, the smaller one, the one that's about half HO, the one that takes up less space.  Come on, don't make me say it..................... N scale (aaaaaarrrghhhhhh.  Why do we HO people have a hard time with this?) Here's my question:  I want to model West Virginia coal locations (likely Grafton - Fairmont - Morgantown.  My grandfather worked Kopper's, Eastern and Winchester mines and worked up to being in charge of the switching at the mines and both g-parents lived in this area) but I want to set it in an era at the end of steam, beginning of diesel, because I like steam engines.  I've checked Atlas, Kato, Bachman, but there seem to be few N scale steam engines or rolling stock of this era.  Am I missing something or does N generally concentrate on newer eras and ignore the past?Also, thanks for all the pictures and layout ideas, they really help.
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