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I model what I can get to within a 1-hr drive and see in real life. The former B&O Old Main Line (now CSX) is within a mile of my house. When I was 12, I lived near Detroit, Michigan, so I modeled NYC and C&O. When my family moved near Baltimore MD, I was near the B&O. As soon as I got my drivers license I started going to all the B&O hotspots (Brunswick, Harpers Ferry, Cumberland) so that became my road of choice, with a 'dash' of WM thrown in. Fast forward to 1988: When I'd been away from the hobby for 15 years, I went back to B&O modeling. But it was never quite the same, I couldn't figure out why.... meanwhile, my wife asked me to do a MRR presentation to our kids' homeschooling co-op. OK, I thought, the kids will probably be bored unless I show them models of stuff they see every day, so I bought a few Kato diesels painted in CSX colors and... *BINGO* ...THAT's what I needed to put the excitement back into model railroading! I decided to embrace the present, have bought a dozen CSX model locos so far, and have been enjoying it with nearly the same intensity as during my later teenage years. IMHO, modeling and railfanning go together like ham and cheese (or crabs and beer, if you live in Maryland[swg]).
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