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Hi All! <br /> <br />This is my third layout, and I am trying to think up a way to use most of my equipment for my new HO railroad. I've decided that the new railroad's freelanced prototype is located on the trackage of what we would know as the CNW, as well as the Duluth, Missabe <br />and Iron Range RR. The railroad's history, and place in time is especially interesting. <br />Here's a basic idea of the situation.This is based off of the idea of "Peak Oil" <br />The year is 2010, rising oil costs have crippled America's airlines and interstate truck system. The nation's railroads suffer under the high costs of fuel, but the great increase in ridership for passengers and freight transport allows the railroads to just survive. The nation's current rail system cannot handle the new influx of cargo, and in 2012, steam locomotives are reintroduced. The first railraod to adopt steam once again is the Great Midwestern <br />Throughout the US,steam infrastructure reappears, as coaling stations and water towers are hastily built to feed the nation's new steel fleet. In 2016, hydrogen fuel cell technology becomes avaliable for rail use. Due to hydrogen's highinitial costs, the GMW is slow to upgrade their roster. <br />My layout exists in the year 2019, when steam dominates the GMW's long distance freight service, while hydrogen powered F9s head the road's flagship passenger trains. <br /> <br />Overall, the idea of my layout is to present trains from a wide variety of eras in a form, which could in the future be <br />deemed historically "correct." My layout is roughly 14 by 14 feet, with a double track mainline. I would like people's input <br />on a number of things: <br /> <br />The historcal basis of the Great Midwestern <br />Ways of combining my 1990s safety cab diesels with 1940s steam power, and making it look semi-realistic <br />Possible major industries to model, preferably ones that you would see in Southern Minnesota through northern Illinois. <br />Major commodities that my road could transport? Ore? Coal? <br /> <br />Any other comments suggestions would be greatly appreciated. [:D] <br /> <br />[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v729/Th1nkg33k/GMRR.jpg[/img]
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