What era do you model?

[Anonymous]

I model 80's - 90's. I grew up in those years. Just wanted to see what era is modeled the most![;)]

[Anonymous]

'40s and '50s, some neat trains from that era. The peak of steam engine development, imagine if they had continued from the engineering principles then made available.

Fluted side car construction, which appeared in the late '20s, is still in use in some applications. That's a trait of timeless engineering, or something like that.

Alvie.

[railman]

I don't like to peg myself into one decade...I consider my layout in a time warp of sorts...stretching from the 1930's to the 1980s. Mostly in the 60's, though.

[Anonymous]

Getting ready for a major revamp at this point. Long gone will be the 50's stuff, I am getting ready for a full effort into a 1980's type layout. Why?
I'm too young to remember steam, too young for the Western MD in the late years, what I know best comes from my own experiences in the late 80's-early 90's. As a former part time conductor, my memories are what I know best.
I still will keep a few steamers for a free-lanced tourist operation, but thats the extent of it.

Go MMID!

[Anonymous]

Specifically fall 1953, for me! Super steam era and first generation diesels, Luv it!!

I barly remember steam, but what I remember, I CAN NOT FORGET!

[jrbernier]

I model the late 50's - a 'proto-freelanced' version of a Milwaukee Road secondary line that 'might have been'. Since I was born in 1949, I just remember the last of steam engines on the IC Iowa Division, and the DM&IR on the Minnesota Iron Range. Right now the date is 1959(when most of the Milwaukee diesels were renumbered after steam was phased out). That said, I have 5 steam engines(BLI/Spectrum) decorated for the Milwaukee Road.

Jim Bernier

[twhite]

October of any year between 1940-1953. Big steam, still enough of those wonderful wooden cars to count, and if I ever decide to put a diesel on the tracks, at least it will be an early F unit, or a set of PA's.
Tom

[IRONROOSTER]

1953 when the Ma & Pa still ran a passenger schedule.
Enjoy
Paul

[Anonymous]

Present day, but as it's a museum anything can appear, and frequently does! recently seen stock includes a NYC lash-up of a Sharknose and two C-Liners hauling a freight run for the cameras, passed by a C&NW Erie-built hauling bilevel cars going the other way!

[Anonymous]

80's to Present.

[Anonymous]

I model UP, SP, DRGW, CB&Q, MoPAC and ATSF in the 40s and 50s.

[AntonioFP45]

60s and early 70s!

Especially the 60s! That for me was a fun time in my life as a kid. I got to see New Haven E33s and EP5 jets while looking out of my parents window. Plus around the same time period a lot of the high quality, cool, popular t.v shows debuted then (I dream of Jeannie, Star Trek, Batman, Gilligan's Island, Get Smart, F-Troop, Green Acres, Flip Wilson, and too many others to list) No cussing, no "in your face" sexual innuendo, no Political Correctness "garbage", ...........just good fun. That's why modeling this time period brings a smile to my nutty face!

Was indeed a very good time to be a kid..........

[CP5415]

The present here but as with others, anything could show up on my layout.

Gordon

[Anonymous]

I model the 40's - 50's because that when my favoritve locomotives were in use.

[j1love]

I am not old enough to remember the 40s-50s era, that time belongs to my father [(-D] But I just can't get out of that time period! Tranistion era railroading lets you run the largest amount of equipment no matter what you love! Researching the facts about the era is also exciting and educational. Luv it!!![^][:D][8D][;)]

[dragenrider]

Uhh, you left out 70's-to-80's which is where I fall. [:I]

[camarokid]

40's and 50's with the SP, UP and ATSF in the summertime. I hate winter and everything that goes with it and I live in Nebraska!

[Anonymous]

Late Steam era with a few diesel in the mix. The time of wooden braced boxcars and strings of orange reefers. 1935-1960.

Go Big Boy!

Remmber......STEAM RULES!

[Anonymous]

Transition era, as a California kid, I remember visting my maternal grandparents in Cleveland, laying in bed on hot muggy summer nights with all the windows open listening to the steam switchers work the yards and mills down in the flats. This following a day of eating cherries from the tree and an evening of chasing lightning bugs, things we didn't have on the west coast. Funny how comforting things from your youth stay with you forever.

Bogie

[Jetrock]

"30's-BC?"

Now THAT'S a wide stretch of time...the rest only stretch 20 years, but the last 1,930 years, and there weren't even any steam locomotives for the first 1800 or so of that period!!

I realize that older steam is kind of a niche, but at least including categories like "1920's-1930's" and "1900-1920's", which are very distinct periods (pre and post WWI/USRA) and maybe a "19th Century" category--there are still some Old West railroaders out there!

Me, I model 1946-1966.

[Paul3]

I voted for the 40's - 50's era. Why? Because I want to model my hometown.

If I were to model the present, I'd have to string catenary (forget that!).

If I were to model the 80's - 90's, I'd be bored to tears as all I can recall seeing are F40PH's and B23-7's (and just try to find MBTA models that are any good).

If I were to model the 60's - 70's, I'd be too depressed to run my layout, as trains got shorter and dirtier as trucks and airplanes took over the market.

If I were to model the 1930's or earlier, I'd be broke because all there is to run is steam, and at $400 a pop (at least), that doesn't leave much for little things like a layout.

That leaves the 1940's & 1950's, the "Glory Years" of southern New England train transporation. This was the time when the New Haven RR was the safest, busiest (in WWII), and most colorful in it's history. Sure, back in the day, the NH was a politcal power that crushed competition, but the public image of the RR was atrocious due to the horrific wrecks suffered, not to mention the financial shenanigans.

Besides, I can model the era without breaking the bank.

Paul A. Cutler III
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Weather Or No Go New Haven
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[Hawks05]

my goal is present but i have a lot of stuff from earlier decades. my loco power is mainly 80s era due to the size of my layout. i want to model a grain exchange type thing in my town during the early days using present day equipment. i'm trying to stay clear of boxcars with the roof walks, its not going to swell so far.

i'd say mine is from the 80s to present i guess.

[Anonymous]

I MODEL THE 50s because i was born then and I can remember riding tramways and trolley-buses! I saw some steam but mostly as I rode tourist trains! Here in Montreal we could see horse-drawn carts delivering milk in the early 60s!

[aloco]

I model CN and CP Rail, circa 1974.

[PennsyHoosier]

40s-50s and trickling into the 60s for me.

[AggroJones]

The late steam-transition era. Later massive steam and 1st generation diesel.

There's not much cooler than a hulking steamer pulling a long freight at 25 mph.

The transition era late '40s-late '50s always wins these type of polls.