01-04-2014, 07:50 AM
iis612 Wrote:Your particular road?
Your particular location?
Your particular era?
I find the answers to these endlessly fascinating.
My future modules/current plans are based on Andy Sperandeo's excellent definition of nostalgia: "the fond memory of something never experienced"
My road is Canadian National, despite having grown up in a Canadian Pacific town. The reason? Not quite sure, but the evolution of CNR is more interesting to me than CPR.
The location is fictionalized locales from around southern and eastern Ontario, which is where I grew up and where I currently live, respectively.
My era is "between the wars" - i.e. 1918-1939, which an emphasis on the late 1920s and early 30s. Despite the Depression, it's the dawning of the Golden Age of rail, before air travel was commonplace, and before the national emphasis switched to road building instead of rail. Abandonments were only just beginning, and CNR and CPR still had a strong presence across the entire country. Lastly, steam fascinates me as the last of the truly mechanical machines.
Andrew