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1910-1920, the cusp of WWI in a fictional southern California coastal branch line setting. The prototype period was one of rapid technological and regulatory change which interests me greatly. It is entirely consistent to have animal, gasoline, steam and electric motive power on paved and unpaved roads. Steam, gasoline and electric motive power on the rails. Wooden, steel and hybrid rolling stock in the same string. Wood, brick, stucco, concrete; even adobe structures, all jumbled together along the right of way. As I'm mainly a sctatchbuilder or kitbasher my possibilities verge on limitless. Odd as it may seem to those who prefer later periods, there are mountains of prototype information and photographs. The camera was a relatively new device in common use and there was a photographic fad at the time. Many of these photographs are preserved in local and state historical archives as well as more specifically railroad-centric archives to serve as the basis for one-off construction projects.
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