Yes to both questions. The Iowa Central came about as a "temporary" solution until I could embark on The Big Dream. Actually, after reading my own article, I began to wonder to myself why I didn't build it instead of the lifetime project I had embarked upon, i.e., trying to build something on the magnitude of an extensive HO layout in S.
After I had to tear that effort down and move, when I began to build SHABBONA again, I used the Iowa Central as a "prototype" and based the new layout on it, adding a little to it to reflect the increase of equipment I had accumulated. By this time also, I had moved the locale from Illinois to SE Iowa and had conscripted the old Rock Island "K&D" line for my mentor. The K&D, as originally built, actually did extend right up through the center of Iowa to Minnesota, thus Iowa Central would have been an appropriate road name if I hadn't been so far along with "SHABBONA", sort of like John Allen mused that he sometimes wished he had chosen a name for his railroad other than "Gorre & Daphetid". The Lowell & Southern article in the latest NASG Dispatch is another good example of "coulda' done, woulda' done, shoulda' done" if my model railroading abilities had not been so advanced (in my own eyes) Bob Nicholson ______________________________________ --- In [email protected], "ctxmf74" <ctxm@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "shabbona_rr" <user141771@> wrote: > > > > That was when I embarked on building the World's Greatest Layout instead of > > something I could handle, like the Iowa Central > > > > Was the Iowa Central design significantly smaller or simpler than the great > Shabbona railroad? ...DaveBranum > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
