What Era, Railroads, & Locomotives are you set on?

[MasonJar]

So what are your plans or completed plans for your Railroad/Layout/Engine/Stock?

They're complicated, but slowly taking shape in the planning stage, and even slower in the real world...! I won't have a layout per se, but a series of modules that can be used at the club (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hotrak.ca">http://www.hotrak.ca</a><!-- m -->) or home.

Do you have a time frame where you're set, time of year?

1930's - Southern and eastern Ontario. I like fall, so I may do most or all the scenery with that scheme. I really like Paul Dolkos' "Modelling the November Scene" work.

Are Steam, Diesel, Electric or all/some of both?

Steam mostly - although early diesels (both experimental and production) will make an appearance. I also have a Mack Railbus and a couple of doodlebugs that will figure in passenger ops.

What are your railroads and what's the rolling stock consist of for deliveries/industries?

Mainly Canadian National Railways and it's components. I include my fictional Ottawa, Algonquin & Georgian Bay in the CNR family so that there will have to be less custom lettering work.

Industries will currently be centred around one fictional town - Marlpost, Ontario. I plan a fuel, ice and coal dealer, stock yard, passenger station, milk stop, and grain elevator as the main industries. There will be a team track to handle whatever else I want to run, such as gondolas full of sugar beets (a once common Ontario fall activity).

Other ideas include a canoe factory, cold storage, ice shipper, and another town more closely modelled on real-world Brighton Ontario.

EDIT - forget the rolling stock question!

Rolling stock will be typical of the 1930s and will not always be tied to industries on the layout. 36' and 40' boxcars will rule, and then there will be small quantities of 8000 gal tankers, ice reefers, 42' and smaller flats, 40' gons (no big "mill gons"), heavyweight passenger equipment, and an assortment of MOW.

Is it Freelance or Compressed Prototype or even exact scale replica?

Yes. For the most part, I will freelance this. However, one protoypical scene I do intend to do is the Highland Inn in Algonquin Park.

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Andrew