07-03-2015, 07:24 AM
faraway Wrote:I have made up my mind and will build an urban freelance switching layout in the northeast in the timeframe 1930s - 1940s. Where I prefer the earlier times depending an the material I can get on the market. My expectation is to build very dense urban industry where the size of the individual rail served industry fits nice on my small layout without to much compression.
I have some uneasy feeling because the amount of information is much less than on contemporary railroads. No Google street view, no tons of photos taken with cell phones.... and last but not least it all happened before I was born.
Anyhow I will not start tearing down the present layout until my fuzzy plans have been substantiated. I am afraid a major rework with a heavy modified track plan can not be avoided. I may stop Freelance 2015-2 if I fail to get sufficient information rail served industry in the northeast in the 1930s and 1940s.
Reinhard, you are retired.
For that you will have enough time to lean back and study this very carefully and intensive:
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It's North East, it is crowded, sometimes overcrowded, there are track plans, brick buildings, roosters and of course a lot of photos.
Lutz