I vote for the late steamers, just wish I could’a seen them all in their glory in REAL LIFE.
[:(]
Oh, well.
I voted for mid diesels, but I run the engines in a late diesel era. I model a shortline that has used, old equipment that it keeps running past it’s useful lifespan.
Mid Diesels gives you a good excuse to model a great range of models, along with newer trains such as stacks.
What is early electrics, late electrics and super speeders?
I model August 1980, so what era is that?
I picked “Mid coal burners”, as I model 1920s and 1930s. However, this also gives me the option of running “early” and “mid-electrics”, (very) early diesels, and some “gas-electrics” (really oil-electrics). Locos were also being converted to oil burners, and there may very well have been wood-burners still on the rails. But coal-powered steamers is my main interest.
A very interesting time period! (That would be my humble opinion… [;)])
Andrew
After years of modeling the 1960’s eastern railroads I started modeling the 60’s in the 60’s so at that time I was modeling the modern era.
I switched to the modern era in 1996 and have been modeling the BNSF railroad as it is today, when someone ask me what era I model I ask them what time is it now.
I’m 35 and I model 1946-1953. My motive power consists of “transition-era” equipment, but in my prototype’s case it was transition from electrics to diesel-electrics rather than from steam to diesel-electrics. I model this fairly specific period because it is when my prototype (the Sacramento Northern) ran both diesels and electrics here in Sacramento. I can even feature “special guest appearances” by early Western Pacific diesels–and late Western Pacific steam, thanks to a WP interchange track!