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[quote user="selector"] <p>I don't think I really understand your question, Grandpa C., but have you any historical sources for the AT&SF and what it did for revenue anywhere within 150 miles of you? Any archival information, photos, maybe they have an online historical society websit like the PRR and others have...and so on? I mean, you have, I hope, decided long since what model kits representing industries you intend to place here and there on your layout to be serviced by AT&SF. So, if they are reasonably realistic work for the Road, find pictures of trains in the area at that time and look closely at what they comprise. Boxcars or flatcars for dimensional lumber, coal, whereas sugar beets, corn, grain, combines and harvesters, autos, sheet metal, and a host of other things could go in gons, open hoppers, or flatcars as appropriate, and on and on.</p><p>I get the feeling I'm not doing any good, so I'll let you refine your question if you can.</p><p>-Crandell</p><p>[/quote]</p><p> </p><p>Crandell;</p><p>Thanks for the reply some good advice in there I will take a good long look over on the <a href="http://www.atsfrr.com/">Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society</a> web page and at <a href="http://www.qstation.org/">Q-station</a>.</p><p>Your answer was a fine one by the way. <span class="smiley">[:)]</span></p><p>Peace.</p><p>Coyote</p>
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