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I pilot the mythical, but vaguely prototypical, Coos Bay & Western as a shortline and interchange in coastal Oregon. Mainly because I grew up in Corvallis and love the area, but also because it lets me run SP, UP, GN, NP, (time is nonlinear around the layout...) and a bunch of logging roads. Of course, I'm mainly an SP nut, so I don'd have a lot of the 'other' stuff (the CB&W only has 2 locos and 4 pieces of rolling stock), but when I get a chnace to have a real layout space, you can bet it'll be fully equipped. The CB&W side of things will grow more slowly, and has been the home for my oddball kits and kitbashing efforts since I was 10 years old. Short lines need to be a little quirky right? This one is special, because in addition to the quirky (S-12, 2-truck shay), they get rental/purchased power from far away (ex-NYC CB&W K-11, ex-SP Sierra Central MT-3), and get to see some cool trains run through (AC-9 on a coal freight), because in my little world, the Modoc connected (via my little short line) to the same tracks that held the Coastal Daylight. The joy of proto-lancing [;)] <br /> <br />At some point I'll graduate from stock lettering sheets to custom decals, an pretend that the CB&W did the same as they grew and had money for a real herald to showcase their expanded motve power and cargo capabilities. I'm also planning on showing that transition in the structures around the engine yeard, whick..well..once I build that layout.... <br /> <br />-dave
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