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<p>Papermills would be a solid bet for industries, box cars or flat cars in, loaded with pupwood, box cars out stenciled for paper service only etc.  For New England roads you have Rutland, Boston and Maine, Boston and Albany (NYC subsidary), Central Vermont (Canadian National Subsidiary I believe), GT(CN, note different than GTW, same owner),  New York New Haven and Hartford (New Haven or NH for short), Maine Central, Bangor and Arroostook, Delware and Hudson (more of New York state than anyplace else). </p> <p>Are you planning a point to point layout?  I believe earlier you said that you had a Bachmann 2-6-0.  It should go around 18-20in radius curves, so that should work if you are doing a sort of loop or oval.  Accurail freight cars are a good choice for budget and ease of construction, and dependable operation.  As your budget allows, replace the plastic wheels with metal and I put kadee #5 couplers on them, it helps lower the car's center of gravity and improves overall operation.  An Accurail kit will run you about $13-15 USD.  The nice thing about Accurail is they list the build date of the car and any re-shop date in the description.  They do not have any tank car kits.  Walthers makes some nice RTR cars.  Tangent scale models has a really nice one that works for the steam/diesel transition era, they also offer it as an unpainted kit, but I have never built one and cannot speak to its difficulty.</p>
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