03-13-2010, 04:26 PM
faraway Wrote:steinjr Wrote:... Nah, I don't really want to backdate to the 30s - I agree that 40-foot cars are smart, but that's what I am mostly running already. Albeit steel cars instead of outside braced wood cars. And I prefer the look for 1950s cars to 1930s cars....
Stein, I gave it a try your way http://rubpeters.ru.funpic.de/work/IMGP4062.JPG and switched back. Isn't it great we have the opportunity to build two layouts
LOL - sure is. I think that diesel looks even more beautiful on your layout than the steamers. But I have also been looking at some pictures from the Northern Pacific at Northtown yard in Minneapolis in 1956 and 1957 in the latest (I assume) issue of Classic Trains magazine.
Quite a few different steam locomotives were still being used in Minneapolis, even that late. But it was the last couple of years for steam in Minneapolis.
I haven't worked on my layout for far too long - has been too dog tired. Last weekend we spent much of the weekend shoveling snow down from the roofs around here.
On Monday I came down with a hefty case of the flu, and I have been all wrung out all week. I made it in to work on Tuesday, but had to go home again at lunchtime, and worked from home on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - today was the first day in a week I felt up to going outside to hit the gym for a workout.
Hopefully I should feel up to some layout tasks again tomorrow.
Thanks for the links!
Stein