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briggs- Love your tag line! I am a fellow N-scale Norfolk & Westerner, although I do model a fictional Class 2 road which was recently merged into the NW family. Time frame is 1971. Fictional road is the Winchester, Paston & Portsmouth, crossing the state of VA north to south until its main between Front Royal and Richmond was abandoned by NW management. I model the remaining coal-mining portion west of Winchester (yeah, I know, this corner of West Virginia is, in fact, the only part of the state that does not have a single operating coal mine! My fiction assumes that a coal seam *was* found in the Potomac South Branch Valley). With two major roads (I throw in some B+O, Pennsy, WM, and Southern for spice), I am taking the opportunity to exhibit very different attitudes towards motive power and paint schemes. My NW roster is looking more and more authentic for 1971 NW, comprised of several SD-35's and SD-45's, one or two SD-40's, and multiple GP-9's and GP-18's, as well as a prized pair of high-nosed GP-30's. I still need to work on a GP-35 or two. Supplementing this are a few novelty Alco's, such as an RSD-12 (ex-NKP), a pair of RS-3's, and a special T-6 kitbash. I have a few units from the other merged roads, like a Wabash U-boat, in order to give GE some representation. My fictional road is an Alco lover, as I am. They tried out some F-3's and E-7's when they deiselized, but found that as a small road they much preferred Alco's RS-1. They bought FA-1's and FA-2's to compare to the EMD units, and then skipped a generation due to financial hardship. Thus, the next Alco they bought into was the RS-11, and they did so in a big way; I've got about 5 of these. Their final locomotive was the RSD-15, with a high nose due to NW's influence over the board of directors; this is my favorite locomotive. I own more than 5, though I can't be specific because I've just been collecting shells and defunct units off Ebay, intending to repower them eventually. Just for grins, I own a brass NW Class J, a RivaRossi Class Y6b, and a Con-Cor Hudson (in WPP paint), along with a BL-2 lettered for Florida East Coast, in honor of my dad who hails from Jacksonville.
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