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You're a decade off-I model 19<b>48</b>. I guess I don't model what I saw when I was about 6-7 or what I see today because I have never really liked the KCS or any of the mega-mergers. Really, I don't have any good family ties to the Q or Wabash, I did have a few relatives that worked for the Chicago & Alton, GM&O, and Illinois Central Gulf, as well as BN, I may have had a few distant relatives that worked for the Q, but no real ties to either line I model. Initially I was thinking about modeling the Rock Island in the same time frame, but I had absolutely no ties with the Rock at all so I lost interest in the Rock pretty quick. I knew I wanted to model a railroad with a lot of influence in Illinois, that had a lot of steam well into the 1950's- that knocked the GM&O, to which I do have family ties, out of possibilty. Then I found out the CB&Q had plenty of steam in the era I model, as well as a large amount of trackage in my region. Thus, the idea of modeling the Q became more appealing to me. So that leaves us at the present. <br /> <br />BTW- I am a member of the Yahoo CB&Q group- I am burlingtonfan_89. And I have found it a little less exciting to model steam because I never have seen it in operation-sadly, I have never even seen an engine in CB&Q or Wabash paint. There is just something about how monotonous modern railroading, what I "should be modeling", that doesn't appeal to me. MR's associate editor wrote the "From The Editor" page in the June MR, and talks about why modern railroading doesn't appeal to him-my views are the same as his.
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