NEB&W Guide to Freight Cars -The Appeal of Steam-EraThis file is open to website members only
Last Update: 2007-12-23
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Modelers often choose the period of their layout based on what they've experienced growing up, but what if you want to model steam-era railroading? Fewer and fewer modelers have ever experienced that period, so they tend to choose the end of the steam-era as being closest to what they've seen.
Technically, "steam-era" could mean any time from George Stephenson's Rocket up until the last modern Chinese-built locomotive runs on a fan trip. As modelers use