Beth,
I appreciate that you are backing 2 rail items. Unfortunately, items I currently need for the N&W are pretty specific to the N&W and will likely have to be scatchbuilt or bashed. I've happily picked up some other interesting 3/2 items along the way such as the Weaver Milwaukee rib sides and B&O wagontops, Atlas C&O cement hopper, Pennsylvania X29 and some run of the mill boxcars and tank cars. I have a fair amount of brass cars that I know are pretty accurate. I'll have room on the layout for 30-40 more pieces of rolling stock.
The problem for me is that the big importers slap any road on any item and then I'll have to figure out which is actually accurate at all, and then accurate for the specific year I'm representing. I know what has been produced that is accurate for the N&W but for all of the other railroads, not so sure. I guess at some point I'll get around to approaching other modelers of other roads about what models from MTH, Atlas, and Lionel were the ultimate in their categories in detail and paint scheme.
