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 Posted - June 09 2008 : 3:25:03 PM
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Hey Gentlemen:
Just out of curiosity, I was about to email GIC and ask him what era his "Ducky" St. Canard is "set" in. I think he said it spans a period of time. Then I thought it would be neat to find out what everybodies era was!
Even if yours is an "armchair" layout what era are you planning to model...
Thanks,
Gareth
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 Posted - June 09 2008 : 3:41:44 PM
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Hey Gareth. I run pretty much anything, but looking at most of what I run (and what I like), it'd probably be the late 70's...that's what I'm aiming for anyway. I'll just load the layout up with streamliners and GMC fishbowls[:p]
-cheez
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 Posted - June 09 2008 : 6:25:58 PM
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Hey,
Good question. Though not really a layout at this point, My off the cuff layout would be when steam and my beloved F7s roamed the tracks together.
Mike
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Posted - June 09 2008 : 6:44:03 PM
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| Primarily late 60s/early 70s...but steam's fires were never let down in my temporal rift either.[:D]
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Posted - June 14 2008 : 10:08:07 AM
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Huh:
Was hoping/expecting this would generate more response. Goes that way sometimes on the forum...
Oh, well.
-Gareth
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Posted - June 14 2008 : 9:58:47 PM
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early to mid sixty's mainly, nothing past the takeover by conrail, all EL mainly,now and then a pa or nyc, now an then a late 40's or 50's diesel....no steam at all...Garret
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Posted - June 15 2008 : 3:12:16 PM
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| In past "realistic" endeavors, I've tended toward the mid-70's, probably because that's when I became a real railfan. Of course, there was a lot of variety in road names and car/loco types compared to now. You could also get away with things like a few roofwalks still remaining. With my Tyco operation, most reality is suspended anyway, even though early-mid 70's works well for most of it, other than the steam. In my latest British interest, I like 1965. Besides being the year of my birth, you still had steam in the U.K., and a lot of the country branch lines were in their last gasps of operation.
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Posted - June 17 2008 : 12:01:38 AM
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I don't have a speciffic era in my collecting,and modeling(I can't even stick with one gauge/scale)
But I have been picking up items in N scale,and plan on one day building a small layout based on a Penn Central branchline in May 1972.
Carl T.
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Posted - June 17 2008 : 02:51:43 AM
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My interests span a few decades.
Caboose use and early introduction to roller bearing axles.
My collection era begins at the early 1800's with the stubby 20-30 foot rolling stock.
Pre-Pennsy, with Western & Atlantic... long 36 footers with the MDC/Roundhouse collections along side Pemco and Lionel offerings.
Through the early 1900's to the introduction of gas-electric doodle bugs and internal combustion engines. War-time civilian named roads, Seaboard Air Line with the tapered auto boxcars from the Pennsy series K-cars (not Plymouths) and the ever enjoyable eras of the billboard ice-bunker cars.
The 1950's, "new" style Timken roller bearing trucks and the multi-domed tank cars galore!
Still a battery of friction-bearing rolling stock, cabooses that thrived in their glory, 1960's.
Newer 70' and 80' freight cars in the early to mid 1960's... (and you better have a caboose on the end of my train with the GP-7's and 9's.)
Delving into the 1970's and the cabooses are looking ranshacked, rare to find wooden ones, though they still roamed!
Roofwalks starting to disappear... exceptions were the "newer" hi-cube boxcars. And the notes on the cars that warn brakemen "NO ROOF WALK".
The other part of the First Generation Diesel era I enjoy are the paint schemes of the demonstrator locomotives. Mind you, some were quite "plain-jane" variety, i.e. GE's U30B's.
All my trains will run with cabooses, so long as my rolling stock has roofwalks and top-side brake wheels. Naturally, my passenger trains are mostly void of Crummy, Waycar, Van (any other nicknames?) unless it's a mix-freight.
Anyone know if the mix-freight's had passenger cars ahead or behind the freights?
My newest era locomotive? Chicago & North Western SD40-2's.
I know, 'nuf with my story.
John
I don't have a one track mind. It depends on the turn-out.
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Is that a power-trip or just another pick-up line?
Edited by - zebrails on June 17 2008 04:13:09 AM
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