What would get you to change eras?

[Mark5]

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=183205

Nice pic!

[lock4244]

Thanks, N&W. And I gotta say, the crew of the 8001 were pretty decent guys. They were in the hole for the meet, headlights off. Every time I raised the camera to get a roster or detail shot, they turned the headlights on. As soon as I lowered the camera, they turned them off! Listening in on the radio, there is a pretty good esprit de corps with the crews.

I still admire them, just from afar 'cause I like going to work at the same time, Monday to Friday

[soo]

  Now Doug that was not nice,LOL. You're just jealous!!!!!!!! Not everyone can be as sexy as me,,,,,,,LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  My goal is to have at least one main up and running on Brauer's pike before I leave.


  Adios WYT

[Denver Road Doug]

  Now Doug that was not nice,LOL. You're just jealous!!!!!!!! Not everyone can be as sexy as me,,,,,,,LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  My goal is to have at least one main up and running on Brauer's pike before I leave.

  Adios WYT

Just bustin' ya chops there, Wyatt!  Jeff says he has the mainline running right now.  Do you mean with the Super Chief?  That would be nice.  He's gonna need a few more autoreversers, me thinks....several loops and wyes to contend with.  You still gonna be there this evening?  See ya then, if so.

[soo]

Yes with the SC, that would really rad!!!!!! Dude!!!!!

  I know you were messing with me,,,,,, see ya tonight, you going to get that tower???

  Adios WYT

[mopaustin]

Access to cash. If I made up my mind on when I wanted to change to!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Dupesy]

I model the mid 1990's in N scale, but these were enough to make me add On30 as another scale:

Glad to see I'm not the only one in N and On30.  The Forneys are beautiful, y'all should get one!

[wendell camp]

I model the mid 1990's in N scale, but these were enough to make me add On30 as another scale:

Glad to see I'm not the only one in N and On30.  The Forneys are beautiful, y'all should get one!

Hey Dupsey are you buyinn I will take one :-* ;D ;D

[Ian MacMillan]

I got Jamie to buy the On30 stuff.....and man did he blow some money on it!

[cv_acr]

Doug,

Railroading is much more than locos. You cannot begin to imagine how much more variety there was in rolling stock back in lets say the 1960s. Most modern trains frankly bore the heck out of me. I still enjoy them but to a much lesser degree.

If by "more variety" you mean more 40' boxcars. Cars like covered hoppers were just starting, centrebeam flatcars, coil steel cars, the larger 60' and 86' boxcars for stamped auto body parts, any form of container car were also just starting to appear or still in the future. There aren't really any more specialized cars the farther back you go.

[3rdrail]

Chris (cv-acr), there was most certainly a great variety of specialized car types starting in the 1920's and continuing throughout the steam and transition era. Boxcars were not all 40 footers, either, they ranged from 36 foot to 50 and even 60 foot (PRR had one 70 footer for fire engines) and interior height varied from 8' to 10'6'. There were chlorine tank carriers, with 15 tanks, multi-dome tank cars, ventilated boxcars, coke-carrying gondolas and hoppers, covered hoppers in quite a variety beginning in the 1930's, 36 ft., 40 ft. and 50 ft. ice reefers, both wood and steel, steel gons, mill gons, container gons with square or round containers, and plain, depressed center and well flats in all sizes. There were also stock cars and two, three and four bay open hoppers. No variety? A lot more variety than seen today.

Oh, and there were over 100 Class I railroads in the USA with cars, so there was a lot more variety in paint jobs, even if they were mostly boxcar red! I don't know where you got the idea that covered hoppers were a 1970's phenomenon, the only commodity they were not used for much prior to that time was grain, but they were hauling minerals and chemicals, especially things like cement, beginning in the 1930's.

[CoalPorter]

Well, if the manufactures came out with more pre WW1
locos and freight cars, then I would probably slowly "migrate"
backwards in time.

[Mark5]

Doug,

Railroading is much more than locos. You cannot begin to imagine how much more variety there was in rolling stock back in lets say the 1960s. Most modern trains frankly bore the heck out of me. I still enjoy them but to a much lesser degree.

If by "more variety" you mean more 40' boxcars. Cars like covered hoppers were just starting, centrebeam flatcars, coil steel cars, the larger 60' and 86' boxcars for stamped auto body parts, any form of container car were also just starting to appear or still in the future. There aren't really any more specialized cars the farther back you go.

Totally misunderstood. Simply put, many more paint schemes. Not even close. Case closed. I was there. 

[Denver Road Doug]

Doug,

Railroading is much more than locos. You cannot begin to imagine how much more variety there was in rolling stock back in lets say the 1960s. Most modern trains frankly bore the heck out of me. I still enjoy them but to a much lesser degree.

If by "more variety" you mean more 40' boxcars. Cars like covered hoppers were just starting, centrebeam flatcars, coil steel cars, the larger 60' and 86' boxcars for stamped auto body parts, any form of container car were also just starting to appear or still in the future. There aren't really any more specialized cars the farther back you go.

Totally misunderstood. Simply put, many more paint schemes. Not even close. Case closed. I was there. 

Sorry, but case not closed.  You say "YOU" enjoy...well, that's the key.  It is likely only because that's what you remember from your "glory days" and that is why you think it is somehow superior.  And it's kinda no surprise that the guys that blast modern railroading are fans of long-ago defunct railroads.

I wasn't around for the 60's but I vividly remember railroading in the mid-70's and from my perspective the year 2000 had exponentially more variety of both paint schemes AND freight cars.  "Not even close".

[Mark5]

Sorry, but case not closed.  You say "YOU" enjoy...well, that's the key.  It is likely only because that's what you remember from your "glory days" and that is why you think it is somehow superior.  And it's kinda no surprise that the guys that blast modern railroading are fans of long-ago defunct railroads.

I wasn't around for the 60's but I vividly remember railroading in the mid-70's and from my perspective the year 2000 had exponentially more variety of both paint schemes AND freight cars.  "Not even close".

I didn't say "superior", I said more variety. : I did'nt blast modern railroading, just making observations.

As for paint schemes, It would be fairly easy to produce evidence that both the 1960s and 1970s (at least the 1st half anyway)  had far more paint scheme variety than today.

I'm not going to touch the type of car variety aspect since I was not really giving consideration to that aspect. I can say that while new types of equipment have appeared likewise old types have disappeared, but I am not taking a position on this. ;D

Cheers,

Mark