Hello again;
I'm from about 100 miles south of St. Louis, MO and have have plenty of exposure to the Frisco/BN/ATSF, Cotton Belt/UP, ICC, I moved around a good bit as a child as my father was in the service also, so I have spent time in chicago and also in West Virginia, I was born in MD, but don't remember much. Although, I remember almost falling through a bridge over the Potomac river!
As far as the modeling goes, I like the time of my youth, the 80's were GREAT, SD 40-2's everywhere, cabooses.
But as far as my modeling goes, I have not restricted myself to any time or place.
Infact, my railway will be based on the grain production in the midwest, and more importantly the fuel problems of today.
We have farmers that work 7 days a week sometimes 24/7 that have to draw foodstamps and welfare just to survive, yet we pay out the nose for crude fuel.
My railway will be based on a dream of mine, fuel from soybeans, gas from corn and the efforts of so many that made our country great, to begin with, and put them above the poverty level!!
We can make electric from the sun, wind, water and atoms we can make fuel oil from beans, and gas from combining grain with other products like the Germans did in WW2.
But anyhow, let me climb down off of my tree stump.
I like trains, be them electric, fuel or steam, I like them all, there is no way I can have a railroad at this moment but I can build parts of it for when i do have the space.
At this time I just want someplace to show off my stuff, a black -9 that I'm working on a graphics design for, and a few cars. I thought I could hit the sound on the locomotive, flip on the juice to the signals and wait for the day I can open the throttle and see the train creap forward over a diamond or through a double cross over.
And do this as a servant of uncle sam (please try not to laugh out to loud)
Robert " Smokebox" Wright
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