How about some prototype photos for inspiration and/or modeling ideas.

Southern Railway Eastbound coal train in December 1980. Train has descended the "Loops" and is about 4 miles from Old Fort. 

Before WWII, my father worked as a timber cruiser in a lumber operation at the place where South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia come together.

He said they shipped a million board feet of lumber by rail, presumably from a mill in West Union, SC.  A million feet a year?  A million feet a month?  Dad isn't around to ask.

Assuming 36 and 40 foot box cars and 40 foot flats and gone, how many pre-war cars would it take to ship a million board feet of lumber?

Thanks for expertise!!

Marshall Keys

I'm planning an HO layout that will feature the Harlan & Hollingsworth rail car shops at Wilmington, Delaware - circa 1925. It will include passenger and freight ops.

I'm fairly new to the hobby, and when I look at freight rolling stock in stores or online, I really have no idea what is or is not close to prototype for the time period. I don't plan to count rivets, but I do want to know that any stock I run is at least close to the right time period - not put into production 30, 40, or 50 years later. 

As I start designing the new layout, I find myself looking for a track plan of Rockongham Junction NH in the middle to late 1950s.  If anyone has what the track configuraiton was in Rockingham Junction at that time (or earlier and I can guesstimate from photos and writeups what was still there in the 1950s) or knows where online I might find it, I would love to see it.  I have found a partial just of the crossing section itself on the site for N Scale Architect, but it does not extend out in any direction even as far as where the wye's connect so sidings and additional tracks