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[quote user="Texas Zepher"] [quote user="Lady Trains"]I'm searching for any advise and information that I can get.  My interest is HO scale, post ww2, passenger trains & freight.[/quote]The limiting thing in this list is going to be the passenger trains.Passenger cars are often unique to a railroad.  If nothing else the paint schemes are RR specific.  This will either limit the location or area being modeled or the RR.  Some places have several Railroads passenger equipment operating on it. I personally decided to start modeling the Great Northern Railroad just because of the color of their passenger equipment, but I can pull it with CB&Q (Burlington Route) locomotives because it ran that way between St. Paul and Chicago.Post WWII there was a boom of streamlined equipment that was mostly 85' long.  Good models of these kinds of cars require larger curves to operate well.  On the other hand there are some really nice cars being produced in plastic that used to be available only in brass (expensive).  BLI company has cars for the California Zephyr.  Walthers has made/is making cars for the Super Chief and Empire Builder.Also on the "good" side.  Railroads operated the heavy weight equipment (pre WWII) into the early 1960's.   The Santa Fe ran a mixed train daily from Wichita to Pratt Kansas that had an 1890's style coach assigned.  So by choosing a location carefully passenger trains with short cars can still fit into the post WWII era.[/quote]Thanks for the info on passenger trains, still doing research.
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