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Thanks again! Why didn't I find this forum a couple of years ago... it's brilliant.... makes long range interest both easier and more fun. Hope you all keep not minding answering questions that may seem ridiculously basic... it could take me ages to find all the stuff you've already given me. (I'd add a huge smilie if I worked out how). All those lines, MP...CNW have been gobbled up by UP ...including MKT? weird what happens with time isn't it? When SPSF wasn't allowed who'd have predicted where things are now? Are the KC flyovers a result of Grade seperation? Thanks to John from Big Sandy, Texas,I started my interest / research looking at rairoad journals between 1880 and 1910... that's the journals, not when I was looking at them. I'd love to model that era but (eventually) figured out that I'm not going to live that long. I've settled for enjoying Stewart C628s winding their way through scenery... guess they should be up in (Wisconsin?) Steel country... or iron ore at least... mine must have had bad brakes and slipped west/south (Think I'm going to have to put a fold out US map on the wall). [Shouldn't have skived learning the USA in geography lessons... thought it was too big...] Umm, maybe that's East, South East. I have figured that I'll never get CNW into LA unless I rewrite history and have them take over UP... now there's an idea... I was fascinated by things like grade seperation... the prior running through town at grade was pretty good. Here we segregated our railways extremely early. The bits of railway that are not fenced in like a prison are pretty rare. The latest spell has been miles of steel 10' palisade fencing. People even break through that!... then it's still the railway's fault if someone gets themselves injured while trespassing... and they say the US has a "compensation culture". At least the media have finally woken up to the fact that, if someone jumps the barriers and gets hit on a level crossing (grade crossing) it wasn't the nasty train that attacked them. Incidentally, with older barriers the red lights on the boom flicker just before they lift. Kids get to know this... Now, if you have a kid revving a 50cc riceburner to death and you time it right... if you take your thumb off the switch at the critical moment... not that I ever did it... I did (genuinely accidentally - I was watching the nearer side approaches which had more problems) cut a blind lady off from her guide dog... that's how we discovered that the audible warning that side had stopped working. We rescued them and said sorry. Can't do that with CCTV! Back at 1900... I have a scan about "Railroad Sanitation" that you might find interesting... if someone can tell me how to attach it / paste it / whatever... When I get the train shed sorted I have piles of photocopies of 1880-s -- 1910 drawings of locos and stock... some have a tiny error between the copied dimensions on the horizontal and vertical axies... I'm told that this can be corrected. That I can recall I have a "live poultry" car... with a compartment for an attendant... must have been some job!... and several combination cars... not wood sides in stell frames as per 1940s emergency stock but "origami" cars that folded in or out to switch between cattle, box and even covered hopper cars. Someone else may get round to modelling them. Thanks again everybody.
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