my new track plan

[steinjr]

Here is my givens and druthers.

Mmmm - we are talking Pacific Northwest, your initial claim is "any era"/"any railroad"/"no prototype", but if we drill in a little the combination of rural area with trestles across rivers, passenger traffic with Budd RDC (Rail Diesel Cars) and local switching with maximum car length 40 scale feet may indicate something like "branchline somewhere in Washington State or Oregon sometime between 1940 and 1960s or so" ?

One town you describe as run down/industrial. What about the other - smallish town? Junction with a class 1 railroad ? Say the Milwaukee Road, the Great Northern or the Northern Pacific ? Or if later - with the Burlington Road ?

What do the little people on your layout make their living from - logging ? growing grain ? growing apples ? Cattle ? Fishing boats ? Working on an Army base ? Building airplanes ?

Are we near the coast ? Agricultural highlands ? In the Rockies ?

Keep trying to come up with a description of your fictional town - it will let you picture the scenes you want to create, and what kind of traffic you want to run through your scenes.

Smile,
Stein