i have found that when i am working with my n scale i’m in the fifties becuse it’s easy to get f units. but when im using my ho it moves to 70’s to curent day becuse you can get geep’s and things more up to date in sets. then i move to o scale and then im back in the fiftys becuse first genration deisels and steam are abundent ( im talking about 3 rail trains ) plus when you go to train shows you get the post war stuff made in the 50’s as models of 50’s equpipement. then i go on to G scale for me its based in the 1890’s becuse of the constlations and shays that are easy to come by.
Other?
It doesn’t effect what era I have because I don’t model a specific era. I have vehicles on my layout ranging from the 30’s to 2005. Right now my motive power goes as high as SD40-2’s. That around 1970. My rolling stock is a hodge podge of steam and diesel era. I run many of them mixed together. Doesn’t make a fiddler’s d**n to me. Sure irratates my prototyping neighbor though. He thinks that since I don’t run my trains by a strict schedule and limit my rolling stock and layout to a specific era, indeed, a specific year, that I’m wrong. My answer? It’s my layout, I’ll run it however I please. If you don’t like it, you know where the door is. If I really want to get rid of him, I’ll roll out the old 1860’s woodburner and put it in behind an SD40 so it can be towed to the next town for a railfan meet.
I would say yes because certaint mdels from certaint eras are only avaliable in one scale at times. I model modern day CSX in HO. I chose HO as it is not to small and not to big, Plus with my scale I can get sound easily unlike N.
I’ve been in HO for so long that I have some of the original Athearn metal cars on my layout. But having chosen a ‘time-warp’ era (WWII) in which to model, I’ve found that HO still offers an amazing array of ‘war-time’ equipment–even more, lately–.
Steam locomotives still seem to be the big issue with me, since the two major roads I model (Rio Grande/Espee) are still mostly manufactured only as brass imports (though the SP situation has improved in the past several years, with AC4-5 and now AC12’s becoming available). All my Rio Grande locos are brass, because that’s the only way you can get them.
But thanks to Intermountain, Red Caboose, Accurail and now Roundhouse/Athearn, the rolling stock situation for pre-1950 freight cars is still healthy, alive and well.
Tom [:D]
Nope! My scale is HO and my era is from the 1950’s to present.
YOu would have gotten a much better response had you not used a poll.
My modeling world is stuck in a rut that runs from midnight plus 1 minute, September First, 1964, runs to Midnight minus 1 minute, September Thirtieth, 1964, then loops back - endlessly.
I model in HOj (1/80 scale,) but I could have modeled in N, S, O, G or even Z - and the era would remain stuck in September of 1964. A scale change at this late date would involve me in a lot of scratchbuilding and even more kit bashing than I do now, but it would have no effect on my choice of prototype, location or era.
It was a happy time. I like trying to relive it
Chuck
Nope not at all. I like narrow gauge and I like old stuff. If it is steam I probably like it.
I dont model an era, ther other day I coupled together a 4-6-0 with my AC4400CW.
My attitude is, " its my model, if you dont like it, tough! "
I bet it would be interesting trying link and pin in Nscale.
For me scale affects what I model (I save my Alaska RR models for HO).
I voted no.
For me, it’s the other way around: the era I chose affected the scale. I want to replicate the era of superpower steam, just before the great diesel expansion (1945-1950). Since I want protptypical steam of the correct types in the correct ratios, I have no choice but to model in HO scale. NONE of the other scales (N, TT, S, O) will allow me to assemble a realistic steam fleet in any of the major ways (buy plastic, buy brass, kitbash).
No particular era, if i had to pick an era close to what im doing i guess it would be modern day Amtrak. I want to model southern pacific in the daylight scheme but walthers made those ugly red/silver versions instead so its just amtrak for now. I did have a superliner auto train pull up next to a 4-6-2 the other day. It is hard to find enough modern vehicles to decorate a town unless you want highend car town.