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I inclined to follow the majority here because there is no reason why you cannot have a 1890's or older area on your layout. It will provide a nice contrast to the later steam and early desiel. If I saw a old 4-4-0 slowly moving several coaches towards the logging town while down on the main below the BLI J1 rushes by with a manifest train bound for faraway places... I probably will resolve it as the area is "lost in time" and uses older technology. Your stable is a wonderful one. Your views of each locomotive shows you understand each and every one of them. Good points and bad points. Motive power may be the stars that makes your railroad run. But I offer the humble opinion that perhaps it is time to.... Graduate from the Bachmann Track and go to Cork and Nickel Silver track with Peco Turnouts or at least Atlas turnouts with metal frogs. These are just my thoughts. I feel bottom line that your heart is truly with the late 1800's something not many modelers run. MR has done a good job in the past covering the era you want to model. I model late steam. But due to the increasing numbers of "modern" rolling stock I have decided that a set of modern desiels would handle these cars and not be so "out of place" on a train. So.. thus I may take all the steam off the layout and change the time to mid to late 1980's for a while. I just think of our children's children growing up to ask each other wow did they boil water to haul trains?! Or use wind to power sail vessels which is a rapidly fading set of skills known to man that is preserved with the "Tall Ships"
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