What vision do you have for your layout?

[Trainman203]

This sums up what I want my layouts to look  like, without the rocks.

http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/sites/model-railroad-hobbyist.com/files/MReMagcab.jpg

[rogertra]

This sums up what I want my layoutsI've to look like, without the rocks.

http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/sites/model-railroad-hobbyist.com/files/MReMagcab.jpg

Now that is a model railroad.   

Thanks for posting.

Roger T.

[Trainman203]

That's Charlie Duckworth's MP Bagnell Branch, it was in the 2010 Great Model Railroads.

[ebtnut]

My working theory on what to model has been what type of railroading you remember from your adolescence, say from around ages 8 to 12.  You are old enough to have specific memories of the sights and sounds of the railroads around you and reflect those memories in your modeling. 

[jonathan]

I'm attempting to model a generic B&O, double-track, mainline around 1955.  However... I'm not averse to modeling some equipment that was retired by 1953.  I even have a couple of pieces that didn't appear before 1961 (my birth year) and 1963.

Rule 1 applies. 

Regards,

Jonathan

[WoundedBear]

My working theory on what to model has been what type of railroading you remember from your adolescence, say from around ages 8 to 12.  You are old enough to have specific memories of the sights and sounds of the railroads around you and reflect those memories in your modeling. 

Like I said in another post......I never saw a real train until I was 16 or 17....they didn't have trains where I grew up. The first loco I saw was a GP9, yet I model steam....go figure.

Always an exception to every theory huh? LOL

Sid

[electrical whiz kid]

Interesting rear-end car-a caboose(?).   Just a quick question:  Why is there no end platform?  Must be that the crew enjoys that three-foot jump...
SGT C. 

[Trainman203]

Those are a holdout from the 19th century, side door cabooses.  They hung on very late on the MP and the TP and were called "Muley" cars.

[Trainman203]

Sid where did you live where there were no railroads?

[jbrock27]

What's up with the emphasis on "that"  Roger?

Have you recently viewed something that you felt was not a real model railroad?

Charlie?  Chuck?  Is there really any difference?

[Len]

My working theory on what to model has been what type of railroading you remember from your adolescence, say from around ages 8 to 12.  You are old enough to have specific memories of the sights and sounds of the railroads around you and reflect those memories in your modeling. 

I like the old stuff and I like modern. That's why I went with the RR Museum idea, it lets me do both at the same time.

Len

[WoundedBear]

Sid where did you live where there were no railroads?

I grew up north of 60. Yellowknife mostly......Inuvik was a treat. Google those two places. It wasn't just railroads we were missing....we didn't even get TV until I was 10 in 1971.

Our freight came in by air or barge up the rivers. I have stood on both the magnetic and the geographical north poles. I can build an igloo and skin a seal. Remote doesn't begin to describe where I grew up.

Sid

[Trainman203]

Sid I had to look up "north of 60" , had never heard that before.  Yes that is way way up there.  Way different than how I grew up for sure, never went north of Memphis until an adult. Only saw snow once until my 20s.

What "is" the farthest northern railroad point (from the south) up there anyway?  What distance separates it from the White Pass or the Alaska RR?  Wonder why they never connected.

Never been to that part of  the world, want to go.

[jward]

distances up there are a lot further than you think. for example, we looked into driving the Alaska highway once. the distance from dawson creek, the southern end of the highway, to Fairbanks Alaska was 2500 miles. that is about the same as the distance from Pittsburgh to dawson creek. to connect the Alaska railroad to the rest of the north American rail system would require building over 1000 miles of track with very little traffic to sustain it.

[Len]

From what I can see on Google Maps, 2/3 of any railroad going there would have to be built on trestles to cross all the lakes.

Len