Hi Peter and all --
Those of us who have a "private roadname" model railroad understand that
doing this makes the railroad and rolling stock "yours" and not something
off the shelf that everyone else has. Even the real railroads understood
this, or all the EMD, Alco, Baldwin, F-M , etc. diesels would all be the
same color and only carry roadnumbers.... Today's railroading has become
somewhat boring because there are so few options -- everything is communally
owned, like TTX, GATX, utility owned unit trains, etc. No cabeese, and
only the locos give some indication of who owns the track, and even that
isn't for sure!
Have fun!
Bill Winans
Something nobody has mentioned that is not directly related to scale is that
I think there is less interest among today's modelers in having fanciful
cars on the layout. More people freelanced in the '50s-60s because
information about the prototype was less readily available and models to
match it would have been difficult to find if it did exist.
As more people model prototype railroads there is less opportunity and
interest in private road models.
Pieter E. Roos
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