Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.
Daniel G.
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
I've about 280 cars at the layout, inclouding staging. Changing all those cars would be time consuming. So I prefer to run my "mixed era" layout. Most cars are for 1970, but there're a few billboard reefers, mather stock cars and more.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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My first question would be: are you gonna finance the operation?
My second would be: I semi-proto-freelance, so what's the big deal? yes that's a westbound intermodal behind 3 new GE's meeting a mixed freight behind a Big Boy while a Westbound Broadway Limitd blasts past with a GG-1 and E-60 on the point...
RRCanuck wrote: I swap eras all the time because "I love it all". I just can't force myself to forego neat models simply because they're not from an era I primarily model. No willpower I guess.
I swap eras all the time because "I love it all". I just can't force myself to forego neat models simply because they're not from an era I primarily model. No willpower I guess.
I run my layout the same way. Call it "It's my railroad and I'll run what I wanna" or whatever, but I cannot stick myself in one "era". I love steam locos, but also developed a like/love for diesels as well. I have an F7 and a GP35, and plan to get a GP 40, and an SD or so and maybe an E series. I like the Chessie systems, and CSX may sneak in there. I can swap out rolling stock and some buildings and be late 1800's, early 20th century or mid century, or with some additions in power, late 20th century.
In the area I live is a sub line that sits right beside farm houses and such built in the late 1700's when most of the towns in my area were incorporated. In 1828 the second railroad in NY state was chartered here. The dual stations (passenger and freight) were built in the mid to late 1800's when the railroad come through (most have other uses now). It now currently runs diesels hauling scrap iron gondolas and LP Gas and farm stuff up and down. So I DO have a "prototype" to follow!!!!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
I have found a way to explain the mixture of things I just like on my layout by having Heritage days in the town on my layout. This give me an excuse to have just about any era on my layout, I just say its part of the heritage celebrations. I do try to keep trains consistent with one era, If I am running steam the train has roof walks and cabooses, if it is a modern diesel No caboose but a End of train device. This way I am not tacked down to any specific era and I can put what I like on my layout.
As it turns out, I'm doing precisely that...
I've started a second roster for my 1956 PRR layout... Conrail, crica 1980. It's a slow, expensive process, but the outcome should theoretically be two layouts in one. The end state would be a full roster of cars and locos for each era, along with two sets of vehicles, signs for structures that can be swapped-out, and certain whole structures that can also be swapped out.
The idea here is to keep my otherwise limited door-sized layout as interesting as possible for as long as possible, until I have a more permanent home w/ a basement.
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
I swap eras all the time because "I love it all". I just can't force myself to forego neat models simply because they're not from an era I primarily model. No willpower I guess. I generally have a big enough roster from various eras that I can populate the layout any way I want to.
Going from transition era to modern isn't such a problem in terms of the structures I have and the vehicles that I can swap out fairly easily. But running steam forces me to overlook a lot of anachronisms - for example, you wouldn't normally see steam and Radio Shack at the same time! Thank God my imagination is all-powerful and I can usually block such contradictions from my mind - at least for a while. Cheers.
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
Since I am in the process of changing from 1952 to roughly 1902, been there doing that.
Dave H.
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pcarrell wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote:I model 1970 to the present, now go crawl back under your rock.Awww, you're no fun!
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:I model 1970 to the present, now go crawl back under your rock.
Awww, you're no fun!
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tomikawaTT wrote: twhite wrote: WHAT?!! And get rid of all of my ARTICULATEDS because someone says I can only run SD70MAC3B's or whatever the heck they're called? No way, Jose!Tom Hey Tom...Don't look now, but all locos with swiveling trucks are, technically, articulated - whether they be Shays, Heislers, Climaxes, Beyer-Garratts, box-cab motors, GG-1s or.... Wait for it.... Those stinky things with internal combustion prime movers and either electric or hydraulic transmissions.OTOH, the locomotives with one set of drivers firmly affixed to the boiler and firebox are SEMI-articulateds...Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with diesel-hydraulics and, on the TTT only, freelance articulated steam)
twhite wrote: WHAT?!! And get rid of all of my ARTICULATEDS because someone says I can only run SD70MAC3B's or whatever the heck they're called? No way, Jose!Tom
WHAT?!! And get rid of all of my ARTICULATEDS because someone says I can only run SD70MAC3B's or whatever the heck they're called?
No way, Jose!
Tom
Hey Tom...
Don't look now, but all locos with swiveling trucks are, technically, articulated - whether they be Shays, Heislers, Climaxes, Beyer-Garratts, box-cab motors, GG-1s or....
Wait for it....
Those stinky things with internal combustion prime movers and either electric or hydraulic transmissions.
OTOH, the locomotives with one set of drivers firmly affixed to the boiler and firebox are SEMI-articulateds...
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with diesel-hydraulics and, on the TTT only, freelance articulated steam)
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
sorry , no can do
i picked 1905 specifically because the locos and cars were shorter , and would better fit the small space i'll have for a layout and therefor the smallish radius curves i'll have .
i guess if i could i'd switch to On30 but keep the time frame unchanged, but that's not really what you were asking for
ernie
If I had to switch from 1950's, I would go for 1905. Some steel, but still alot of wood. Smaller, less cluttered steam locomotives. If ever I dual era the layout, that's most likely going to be the second one.
Enjoy
Paul
You mean, like take all my Jordan vehicles, steamers and Mather box cars off and replace them with 56 Chevies, Geeps and maybe a couple of TOFC's? Like that?
It'll take me about 10, maybe 20 minutes. You wanna, like, go down to the beer fridge and bring up a couple while you're waiting?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Under most circumstances, I would consider the person an ignoramous and a bore as it is obvious I'm modeling the best era.
Now, if I was modeling the present day prototype and whined of sorely missing cabooses, steam locomotives, minority diesel locomotive builders, more varied freight operations, a variety of passenger trains, and so on, I would probably welcome a suggestion for a more appropriate time period to model.
Mark Pierce
pcarrell wrote: After he gets up off of the floor from the right hook you planted on his jaw, you tell him.........
After he gets up off of the floor from the right hook you planted on his jaw, you tell him.........
Uh, I can't say that on this forum...
All kidding aside, I have 2 layouts to do. Modern Indiana, and Transition Era (for the rest of the world, anyway) Rockies.
-Morgan
"The door's right there. If you move fast it won't hit you in the butt.
If you move a little faster, neither will my boot."
There are some decisions I reserve for myself, that are not subject to outside change, question or adverse comment. My choices of prototype and era are two of them.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Whatever is on the track is the era running.
Down at the club they still tell stories of a Big boy freight train delayed by a shay in front of it.