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When I was a student teacher in Ben Bolt, Texas (that is, for those familiar with the poem/play, next to Alice, Texas) I taught a lesson in 10th Grade US History. One of our projects, although we ran out of time, was to build a model of the Transcontinental Railroad for the school library. We did it in N scale, I had some of those N scale 4-4-0 Jupiter and Number 119 with old timer coaches and equipment. As a study of geography it was an excellent lesson, as the layout progressed from right to left (i.e. westward) we modled the appropiate Geography. The students enjoyed it and learned about the importance of the Union and Central pacific. We got about 50 percent done when my student teaching assignment was over. I assume they finished it, albiet I took the locomotives with me and later sold them to another collector. Since then I have been teaching 8th grade which is 1607 to 1877 so we don't do Transcontinental railroad, but I may try someing with the Civil War (1861-1865) in large scale. As an aside, my mother tells me I learned my alphabet by making trains out of blocks. Each time I correctly identified a letter or selected the correct order, my train got longer. Since then, I asume, I was hooked.
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