Originally Posted by RJL:
Sam,
Thank you for the heads up on those beautiful Menards cars and also I like your neat Iowa Division of "Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway," herald,
Ralph
Thanks Ralph. The P&WV was bridge line RR in Western PA and that was their real logo, so I just decided to carry P&WV forward to Iowa as a fictitious Midwest division. However the N&W bought them out and that N&W lines reached southern Iowa. So using old Iowa 1950/60 transportation maps, I searched for a town that N&W passed through, and installed town name "Imogene" on the layout. In actually Imogene was just wide place in road no RR activity, just rails passing through.