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Chip, A freelance layout is kinda like a cowboy alias. You pick what you want it to do, choose a name for it, then invent its history. While I haven't freelanced my own railroad, I've considered a fantasy layout of the UP in which there is a shortage of available modern diesel powered locomotives, so for the sake of handling the rapid increase in rail traffic, many of the old steam and early diesel locomotives from UP and its fallen flags are restored and put back in service. This would allow me to model anything I wish in the western US featuring many different roads that are now extinct. Since I live in Kern County, CA, Tehachapi is very close to me. This section of track is jointly operated by both UP and BNSF now, so would allow me to operate the fallen flags from either of these railroads, which is pretty much anything that has ever run in the western US. The reality is that I like almost anything railroad related, from early steam on up to modern diesel, so if the fantasy allows me to operate what I like, then that's what becomes reality on my layout. Now I've just got to get that layout built... -Joe
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