02-09-2021, 04:52 PM
I've always intended on creating a believable fictional railroad, not based to specifically on any particular towns or cities. Why? I feel if I try model an actual line, I will get caught up in rivet counting and inaccuracies will bug me enough that I won't get anything done. Plus, nobody can point out how I did something wrong. Thus, for many years I have settled on Southern Arizona mining railroads in the 1910-1930 time frame. Generic towns based on real towns and generic equipment that has the same general feel as what was really used in the area.
I haven't done a whole lot of modeling for the past few years due to family commitments, but I also feel like I am losing my "itch". Right now I feel more like just "running trains". Of course, I no longer have a permanent layout, and joining a club is not something I want to do right now. Another drawback of a fictional railroad is the custom lettering and painting of rolling stock vs just pulling something out of a box, adding a little weathering, and rolling it down the rails.
Anyone else face this crossroads where you give up on the direction you have been going for years and go a different way?
I haven't done a whole lot of modeling for the past few years due to family commitments, but I also feel like I am losing my "itch". Right now I feel more like just "running trains". Of course, I no longer have a permanent layout, and joining a club is not something I want to do right now. Another drawback of a fictional railroad is the custom lettering and painting of rolling stock vs just pulling something out of a box, adding a little weathering, and rolling it down the rails.
Anyone else face this crossroads where you give up on the direction you have been going for years and go a different way?
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