Southern Pacific Switching Layout

[steinjr]

This is probably a stupid question :oops:, but how do I find out what I want to model?

Not a stupid question at all - but hard to answer, because we all decide in different ways what we want to do.

But if you forgive me for playing an unlicensed amateur psychologist, it sounds to me from your discussion of pros and cons above that what you want to do is not the shortline, but to run class 1 engines and the cars you like. If what you most want to do is to run the cars you like, then you probably should do a freelanced design that allows you to do that, instead of feeling that you "should" do a strictly prototype design and operations.

Well, back to looking for the caulking gun for me - where the heck have I put it?

Smile,
Stein