12-25-2011, 12:11 PM
Ralph Wrote:It seems to me that the first decision to make when considering building a layout might be which railroad will run on it.
Not necessarily. If you look at Reinhard's excellent railroad, you will have noted that the same track plan can represent different railroads in different eras, with buildings and cars swapped out for other buildings and cars.
But I of course totally agrees that it is smart to at least have a rough idea about what kind of place and what kind of railroading you want to model. So far, Justin has concentrated on "industry park" type of settings - which could just as well have been on the Southern Pacific in a city in Oregon, or on The Standard Railroad of the World (or on it's successors) somewhere on the east coast, or on the BNSF in Arizona - it is the same kind of railroading.
Smile,
Stein