Liberty Industrial Spur

[Justinmiller171]

If you're determined to use 40ft box cars just because that's all your LHS has in stock, then you might as well back date your layout to the late 50's or early 60's. It could still be an independent short line that connects with the SP in your area and even leases SP power.

That might work, every time I go to the LHS I look at all of those steam-era cars and wish I could use those.

I do have about 5 or 6 50' boxcars that have build dates from 1950-70, I think those could be used to transport the paper, then the 40' boxcars could be used for scrap paper.

I think I am going to set my layout sometime in the 60's.