I kinda doubt a Santa Fe would be tooling around in NY Central territory. They are beauties, no doubt, and perhaps at some future time, I’ll take the plunge.
I mostly go for thing that I would’ve seen while growing up in NYC in the '70’s and 80’s. But I will also buy anything that I like…theme or not.
Like you said, as long as you’re having fun.[:)]
Paul writes: "The sun never shines on my layout. It’s always nighttime. "
I think it looks really cool.
Pure Marx trains, tin stations, accesories and Plasticville for me. No one can confuse my toy train layout with a scale model!
Different strokes for different folks – that’s the beauty of our hobby. No theme is actually a theme in some sense.
I was in HO for quite some time and that is all about theme. So I’m disposed in that direction but that’s just me. Currently I’m modeling the Western Maryland from Hagerstown to Connellsville with a coal sub to either Elkins WVA or Gray PA during the period from 1945 to 1955.
Poppyl
My theme is the southeastern united states circa 1970 to the present time. I have violated that however when I bought my NYC SD-80 MAC a couple of years ago and when I bought my Williams Pennsylvania GG-1 last month. I do try to keep to my theme, but if something comes along that I decide I want bad enough, I go ahead and get it. A theme to me is a guiding principle, but not an iron clad law.
George