DaytonPiquaRR
Freelance
My prototype is after the turn of the century (the hundred years before now), during the steam era. The thing is, I want to base my layout on a prototype, but after manipulating the main lines and industry to fit where it makes sense and is visually interesting, I find that I have a lot of space I could be using for rail, but factually did not exist at that time. I want to add spurs and things that are fiction and be somewhat true to the prototype.
I notice my proto is mainly about general mercantile, passengers, interurban, and the really cool industry of a factory that actually manufactures rail cars - The Barney & Smith Car Co. But, my city of Dayton pioneered aviation in many ways and had an R & D air field around that time that preceded our current base of Wright Patterson AFB. I thought it would be nice to write some fiction and pretend all forms of transport exploded at that time and the railroads built spurs to feed material and product to and from these first air fields, something that really didn't happen that way.
Is there a name for a layout like that, because that is what I am wanting to do?
I notice my proto is mainly about general mercantile, passengers, interurban, and the really cool industry of a factory that actually manufactures rail cars - The Barney & Smith Car Co. But, my city of Dayton pioneered aviation in many ways and had an R & D air field around that time that preceded our current base of Wright Patterson AFB. I thought it would be nice to write some fiction and pretend all forms of transport exploded at that time and the railroads built spurs to feed material and product to and from these first air fields, something that really didn't happen that way.
Is there a name for a layout like that, because that is what I am wanting to do?