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I'm finally getting started on the benchwork for my full-basement layout. I did a layout with my dad when I was around six years old and now that I have my own house it's time to get back into the hobby. My layout will be semi-prototypical, based on actual yards and lines but I'll be connecting towns in areas of the country that have some special significance to me, towns that wouldn't otherwise have connections. I'm trying to find some information and am coming up with nothing, I thought maybe some people here might be able to point my nose in the right direction. I was speaking with my grandmother yesterday. She related to me how she has a special connection to trains, how she would spend her summers at her grandmother's farm about three miles south of Cameron, WI west right off of Hwy 53. Every night she would fall asleep to the sound of a steam engine's whistle. I have family ties to the lumber industry in the area and am wanting to model this. What I'm wanting to do is surprise my grandmother with a model steam loco that would have been the very same one she often heard as a little girl, and would occassionally run with her brothers over to the track to see. The track she would have seen runs north and south (not sure which direction the engine she heard would have been travelling), would have been about three miles south of Cameron and run nearly parallel with Hwy 53 on it's east side. As near as I can figure the year would have been 1925 or '26, the time would have been around 9pm-10pm (not entirely certain, but she typically heard the train right after dark). I plan on modeling the family farm (I'm actually in Bismarck, ND but have visited a few times) and would love to run some sessions with this loco passing by about that time of night, imagining my grandmother as a young girl falling asleep to the sound of that whistle. Any help or direction would be appreciated.
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