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I guess you could say I do it both ways. I am modeling a specific place (UP line from Houston TX to Galveston TX and the yards on the island) but in my world there is much more traffic here. almost all of my equipment is Union Pacific, with some BNSF thrown in. I am trying to keep my railroad in the current time period, but i love to run some older locos sometimes. I am just getting ready to start my railroad. currently, I am basically a collector, especially passenger trains. what I really like to do is run my trains and watch long trains running through the scenery. if the train doesnt have at least 30 cars it does not look right to me, so my railroad will have long open streches of open track and broad curves. If I want a Rio Grande SD90MAC on my coal train. I put one. I am no rivet counter, If it looks good enough for me, it goes. I dont really plan any scheduled operations. but i do like to do switching. i'll just stick a car where it needs to be and go on. I hear all these people complaining about how a model loco sits too high or too low, or how a freight car has the wrong brake equipment etc.... that stuff i dont care about. as long as it looks good to me and it runs reliably, I will run it. just another opinion...rambling on and on and on..
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