Being consistent with years

Yes, but with some modeler's liberty. My RR, the Not-So-Great-Eastern, is set in the 1946-1956 era so i do run Alco RS3's (introduced in 1950) along with PRR O1 electrics (retired in 1948-49) at the same time. Other than 1 or 2 boxcars all my rolling stock is in paint schemes of that era.

jackson

Nice video. Like those N.H. colors.

Spence......great to have you back.

I love those New Haven colors, too.........I also love to include some Pennsylvania Tuscan "through cars".

Peter

For me, what the manufacturer produced for a particular set is what I go with. I typically do not add or takeaway from this.

One thing I did notice in your video with the NH passenger train, full dome?

Brian/PTC.........The full dome in Hunter Green was a gift from Gilly@N&W......he got it for a great deal......this is where my poetic license comes in ..........the New Haven has been trying to increase Shore Line passengers by offering a splendid view of Long Island Sound and the Manhattan skyline.........and I love New Haven Hunter Green!

Peter

Excellent video, Peter.  That's a very sharp NH train.

I think it is fun putting together "could have been" consists, too.  I like yours.

Hi Peter •

     Cool train action on your main lines. Like the New Haven.
• Cheers from the Detroit & Mackinac Railway

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I always thought that the often-declared, vague, "transitional period" era for a layout was simply an excuse to run whatever the heck they wanted. My favorite layout concept ever was a guy who built a nice HO scale with a premise that it's a modern shortline that bought a well-made branch line from the PRR and the owner had his own collection of RR equipment. There was a tourist depot on the layout, and even a crowd scene of people with cameras, lined with porta-johns past a parking lot of modern cars. Almost anything he ran was explained logically that way.

Two things I want on a manufacturer's new item box end.....the years the prototype

operated including when introduced, and the prototype's initials in big block letters,

so you can quickly scan all those "do not touch" boxes of cars at York, that you huury

by, since it is impossible to read the fine print.  That is one of the reasns that you see

those same boxes full of those cars in the Blue Hall, at York after York after York after.......

I think MTH does a great job of giving proto-type information in their catalogs. Often they tell who ordered them and how many. I wish the diecast truck sellers would do the same. They seem to just give model numbers and assume we know when they were sold and used.

Paul Goodness

Peter,

  Very nice. The Penn Central was the first railroad I was able to "enjoy" as a railfan. I would go down to the Mount Vernon West station of the Harlem Division to watch remotored RS-3M's doing switching chores just north of the station as FL9's would pass by with their commuter trains.

Tom

Everything on my layout are models of trains, cars and buildings operating in late 1949 (year I was born).  Trains are nearly all PRR, with some other roads that interchanged with it.  I'm not a rivet counter, but I do look for scale sized items with basically the correct paint schemes used that year.

I agree with the O-Gauge constitution amendment that states "toy train people can run a consist of anything makes them happy and have fun with."  But that said I do prefer for the most part adherence to what is/was prototypical. 

I real like those 36' wooden billboard refers.  But when pulled with post era power and/or in post era scenes it is bothersome. The ICC outlawed them from the rails as of January 1, 1937.  This date was extended one year to January 1, 1938.  So I pull my 15 refers only with power predating 1938 and scene with vehicles that are age appropriate.

Just me.

Ron