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Hi Marc, Welcome to the forum.  As the other guys suggested, you would need to know the location and the system that you like to model.  I'm with you.  I love to see a mixture of steam and diesels. The exact year is not too much of a problem.  The things that will date your layout, apart from the rolling stock, are vehicles and posters or advertisements.  Vehicles can be older han the setting date of course, but not newer.  One thing that would be good to give a date to your layout would be a movie theatre with a poster up for a particular movie.  But then you need to be a movie buff to know the year. The answer to your question is to pick your system then Google that with a few other words that would turn up the history.  That's what I would try anyway.  Good luck. [:D] I am a bit luckier.  In my home region steam was running right through the 60s.  On the way out certainly,[:(] but a bit of steam running until about 1972.[(-D]
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