10-30-2009, 08:12 PM
My "history" of the Ottawa, Algonquin & Georgian Bay (as noted above) departs the real thing (Ottawa, Armprior & Parry Sound) in 1932/33. In 1932 the Highland Inn was closed due to the Great Depression. In 1933, the Cache Lake trestle was damaged, but not repaired due to lack of funds, instantly cutting off the east-west route between Georgian Bay and Ottawa.
My fiction differs in the severity of the Depression. A less damaging (or even non-existent) Depression allows two main things:
One - the Inn stayed open. This is great for modelling, since I really like the 1930s, the Inn, and it just works for me
. I also have a partially completed model of the Inn that I intend to get to some day.
More importantly from a railway point of view was that a group of local business owners up and down the line got together and formed a company designed to save the line, and therefore their own businesses, by repairing the trestle.
More on this company later...
Andrew
My fiction differs in the severity of the Depression. A less damaging (or even non-existent) Depression allows two main things:
One - the Inn stayed open. This is great for modelling, since I really like the 1930s, the Inn, and it just works for me
. I also have a partially completed model of the Inn that I intend to get to some day.More importantly from a railway point of view was that a group of local business owners up and down the line got together and formed a company designed to save the line, and therefore their own businesses, by repairing the trestle.
More on this company later...
Andrew