Im attempting to model a modern day logging layout. It has traces of the lines in history that used temporary tracks and big Shay steamers.
My railroad is really the ultimate mutt. It has traces of the Alaska RR, CP Rail, Delaware and Hudson, and my own ficticious shortline.
I knew i wanted to do something like this because i love the woods, those RRs (except AKRR) run near me, and there are tracks on the way to my camp that are long retired, but ive always wanted to see a train there. One of the things id like to have on my dream layout is a village that is only open during the logging/mining season, so everything goes in, everything comes out. Im picturing a train full of vehicles, equipment, and generators on flatcars, boxcars with supplies, trailers on flatcars, half empty log cars carrying out the last of the wood, ect.