What made you choose....

[nachoman]

My location is the southwest US and Northern Mexico, because I live here, and find the scenery fascinating and unique.

My choice of road just came upon me. When I first went to college, I bought a MDC HOn3 locomotive kit, and was planning to make a small layout. I wanted something smaller than standard gauge HO, but had little interest in N scale. I built the small layout, and because it was narrow gauge, immediately made it a Colorado-themed layout. But at the university library, I discovered a book about railroads in Arizona, and learned there were 3' gauge lines here, too, and some pretty fascinating ones with awesome scenery. That stuck in my mind for a long time, and eventually I built an Arizona themed layout.

My era is roughly 1915-1920, all of the narrow gauge lines in Arizona were mostly gone by 1930.