Erik C Lindgren posted:Lou, my first choice is 1941-1953.. most of my equipment is centered on this time frame. You may or may not have seen some videos of some of them. I do by default from buying complete sets over the years have enough cars for this combined train. I also have a 21 car mail train of all ATSF correct equipment mostly PRB among many many others.
I have a few Tomar kits laying around.
I stay in the late 40's till about 1954 time frame as well. The only thing I have outside of that is a blue and yellow "book end" GP9 just because I like it. All the locomotives I buy are scale sized, I just don't have the room at home for full scale length passenger cars, so I make due with scale height and width cars but only 60 scale feet long. But then again I'm 3 rail "Hi-Rail" and not anywhere near your modeling skills.
I do dabble a bit in Southern Pacific. I'm currently painting/lettering my own early red and silver version of the "Golden State".
