What made you choose your rr company to model?

The Santa Fe Warbonnet

I grew up in the days of steam, very near both an Illinois Central and Missouri Pacific roundhouse and main lines, so I model those two lines primarily, but any steam engine will do. I also like the Chicago & Eastern Illinois and Wabash because I frequently also saw their trains. After settling in Arizona after retiring from the U.S. Army, I began to model SP, UP, Cotton Belt, and other Western lines, too.