What Era Do You Model, Past, Present Or Both?

Transition era using mostly post war but there is a smattering of latter offerings from the 80's and 90's that fit that era. Most is 40's - 50's Lionel some late 40's Marx with some mid 50's AHM Casey Jones and Indiana Harbor Belt 080 electrially modified for 3 rail they actually do fairly well. Some of the newer stuff includes Williams O FA/FB Alco's and Lionel's O27 1990s Northern Pacific passenger set.  While the scenery remians the same there is a definite change between running O27 and O. To my eye they are enough different in size that they usually if not always never share the stage. Marx has a similar problem being more S in scale while O27 in gauge they don't dimensionally flow well with Lionel or Williams in O27 or O gauge. Some period correct O gauge/scale cars from AHM, Atlas, and Weaver including a Gorre and Daphetid box car somthing John Allen would have never run on his HO layout. 

Bogie 

New England. The fall of 1944.  I do have a weakness for late 1940's to early 50's Alcos. I have a plan for adding and removing a few pieces to cover both eras.

Past.  If I can remember it on the prototype, it's too new.

N&W through the end of the Steam Era.

1949: delivery of new lightweight cars to the PRR for Broadway Limited, Cincinnati Limited, et al,

to

October 1952, last full use of Green 5-stripe PRR passenger locos.

Pennsy, of course, with excursions into B&O, N&W, C&O, Reading......

Best part is it saves mucho  dinero on later model diesels (well, I do have a Trainmaster) and rolling stock and avoids the tragedy of Eastern Railroading in the 60's and 70's.

For my three rail: roughly 1955-1965 for my Northeastern stuff. Since I do live in Texas, I also have some late 1940's to mid-1950's diesels and rolling stock.

I do have some 2-rail. That era is roughly 1940 to 1950 and no later.

I chose the World War II era and the transition eras because freight cars were shorter and freight cars from that era are easier to store than the longer ones that began to appear in the 1960's and became prevalent today.

I'd say '30s to the '50s toy train layout,but I have some '60s musclecars on the streets. all steam power.

I'm all ATSF - grew up in Topeka watching my Dad switch engines in and out of the shops. - period I'm most into is roughly '66 - '78.  -  I particularly love the Cigar band and Bookend freight paint schemes but have an appreciation for the yellow and warbonnets as well - Rolling stock wise I like the big stuff - auto racks, hi-cubes, mechanical Reefers, as well as Tank cars and passenger cars.

We're running the +/- 4 years around 1953.

George

I drive over that scene 7 days a week.sure wish it still looked like that.

Lionel PW/Toy Train/Tinplate. Currently building one of the Lionel Dealer Display Layouts.

Roughly the 1950s though I'm not too concerned with time frame. Right now I have only steam locos but I want to add diesels eventually. I have been thinking of eventually getting an Amtrak passenger train and a couple of CSX locos and some modern rolling stock, but right not it's all steam and early diesel era. I just have to add a diesel or two.

So do I, Steamer, so do I.

So very much has changed in the past 60+ years and not really for the better.

I guess sometimes our model railroads are an effort to recreate a happier time in our childhood.  Weirton was the very ideal of the American success story.  At one time, that Grif Teller painting hung in the home of the president of the Weirton Steel Company.

Here's an even more powerful image (IMO) - Weirton Steel in 1957 at the height of its power:

George

yup...just a shadow of it's former self.Wheeling Pitt is gone now,so many industries in the Ohio Valley long gone now.

Late 1940s to mid 1950s in Wales.   Post nationalization but few motorways.

 I am not era-specific:

Ditto ('cepting that General) Marty

 Art,

There's always somebody (aka a Rivet Counter?) watching!

I run anything as long as it's shiny & new.

Late 1940's through 1965.

Depends on my mood. Late 30's, 1950's transition and beyond and the late 80's early 90's Conrail era.

Jay