Squirrel Creek Railroad

[dave1905]

Finding era appropriate cars and engines are always a challenge. I model 1900-1905 and its difficult for that time period. You should check out Don Ball's Stockton and Copperopolis.

Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad

A journal of the design and construction of the HO scale Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad set in 1895.

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[wvg_ca]

I try for 1890, locos are somewhat close, and the tichy wooden ore cars and keystone logging flats are close enough ...
I do try to get it as close as possible, and include tichy archbar trucks on most rolling stock .... unfortunately i do use smooth back intermountain wheelsets though ..
When it goes back that far I know most people that see the layout can't really tell if it's accurate or not , lol