excellent

Not usually much out there on pre-1900 thru 1920 modelling! Thanks!

Let The Good (early) Times Roll!

Thanks, furrbrain!

There really is a lot going on pre-USRA in N scale!

Here's starting a list / links of some of the resources out there:

-- The new Atlas 4-4-0 (and their older 2-6-0 is pretty good after some tweaking as well)

-- The new Bachmann 2-6-0, in addition to last year's Ten Wheeler and Light 2-10-2 (ok, that one's a little "modern" being USRA).  The Bmann rep at the WGH show last week said the director was adament about doing more early stuff and doing it right.

-- Micro-Trains' Civil War-era rolling stock due out this year (rumor has it that the wood-beam trucks will be offered in bulk packs, but note that the trucks do not have the brakes outside the wheels per prototype).  MTL also has a bunch of 36' billboard reefers rolling out.

-- Athearn's "Old Time" reefers (discontinued because "they don't sell" said the rep at WGH show last weekend, but they pop up a lot so keep an eye out).

-- Fine N Scale's 36' reefers and boxcars, and tank loads for flatcars.

-- N Scale Kits' 25' & 35' logging flatcars and 40' logging spine cars.

-- CG N Scale's Steam Donkey load, Stagecoaches, Pickle cars, and Ventilated Boxcars.

-- Panamint's wide variety of 1840's-1890's freight and passenger cars, woodbeam, archbar and fox trucks, and working link-&-pin pockets.  Panamint also has a lot of HO versions of the trucks, including the Live Spring type.

-- Republic Locomotive Works pre-1900 freight kits (while the Nn3 kits will look small on N standard, the pre-1900's cars are of "middling" size and look fine with Panamint or MT archbars under them).  RLW also has a lot of structures and details perfect for pre-1900 and Turn-of-the-Century railroads.

I'm probably forgetting some, so feel free to add!

A Wonderful Boost

Your techniques and article were much appreciated!  Such ingenuity, and it most certainly helped pull me out of a lull I've had.   The physical location was of interest as well, and you model the Columbia River area wonderfully!

Thanks,

Jon Reynolds