Consider modeling The Put, especially if you are like me and do not have a basement the size of a school gymnasium for your model railroad.
Why?
The Put ran short trains, usually just a few passenger cars or freight cars. IMO, if you have a modest sized layout, your trains will look better if they consist of just a few train cars.
When modeling The Put, your trains will be prototypically accurate if they consist of just a few train cars.
Are you into Lionel Postwar operating cars like me? If so, The Put is ideal. The Lionel operating milk cars, log dump cars and coal or ore dump cars are perfect for modeling The Put. Dairy farms, lumber companies (Lloyd's Lumber), and the Tilly Foster iron ore mine were industries along the right of way of The Put.
Are you into baseball like me? If so, you will be euphoric like me modelling The Put. Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds were very close to the Sedgewick Avenue Station of The Put.
Do you like the New York Central? If so, The Put was part pf the New York Central. In fact, The Put is The Putnam Division of the New York Central Railroad.
Do you like diesel switchers and small steamers like me? If so, the Put ran 10 wheeler steamers (NY Central 4-6-0 steamers), RS-3 Diesel switchers and even a center cab diesel switcher. I have models of all these locomotives and am thrilled with them. They navigate my 031 curves beautifully.
I have had a ball narrowing my focus and modeling The Put.
Long live The Put!
Arnold
