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Well first responding to PARKERLEGEND, first I don't know if the all caps is a mistake or not. But needless to say the point was gotten. Mainly the reason I cite budget cuts as the reason for picking an era, If I know know what era I am modeling, I can make my purchases more effective. Plus you need to live in Wyoming to understand my predicament. There are only 4 hobby stores in the entire state. and the closes one is 135 miles away. So when I go to a hobby shop, I need to pick up lots of stuff, because usually I am intown on some other business. due to the distances involved, a trip just for that is quite expensive. Then I set it in 1969 because thats when all the cool stuff was still running, (FUnits, Pre-Amtrak Passenger. Paint Scheme, Muscle Cars) All the stuff I missed out on incidently. I was here for 2000. And after the Y2K bug failed to burn-out a single light bulb, everyone was like, OK so what, Just another year, just another century. 1969 is a year they wrote songs about. Have yet to hear one about the year 2000. Except of course, "Were gonna Party like its 1999" Then there is the whole point, why did I just sit here and defend all this stuff when you probably don't even care anyway. In responding to Antionio FP45. You see what I am trying to do. I noticed you are regular contributor to my posts and have been tracking my arc as it has developed. And Yes, GN is the theme for my railroad. (I forgot to mention that) Also UP and SP will have contributing roles. As for the passenger. I have not been neglecting it. So far I have no less than 9 different passenger consists being modeled. Two of them are incidently the Empire Builder and the Western Star. I do have a lot of existing stuff that is before and after the era I have chosen. And I will keep them and run them, but eventually that power will wear out and I will replace it with era appropriet stuff. Including bashing some of the too new locomotives into correct stuff. I will need some SDP40s and the SD40-2 seems like a good place to start for one of those bashes. Especially since Athearns has been Discontinued. and I have yet to see a new offering turn up. I will keep everyone posted as I progress. James
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