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Ok, since I'm in the 1870-1890 range, i figure a riverboat would be a nice touch to the river city I'm planning. Simple layout, Train comes to docks, passengers and cargo are transfered to the Riverboat for an excursions further up or down the mighty Miss. Now you say, but the mighty miss was spanned several times by rail bridges and rail goes up and down the river. Yes, but it was still cheaper to send products from the northern Mississippi river to the ports in the south by boat than rail. so Many companies chose to ship to riverfront cities by rail, then ship the good down river by Riverboats. So I figure I'd model a city that deals with the transfer of good between the Riverboats and the Railroads. In doing so Iw anted a Riverboat on the Layout to Show it's true nature, instead of just dropping cars off on a dock. So far, i've discovered this: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/seagifts/kinofmisrivw.html Now it's slightly off scale at 1:80, but I figure that'll make it seem just a tad bigger and probably won't affect the layout to much. So, what does everyone think? Jay.
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