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11: GN Gas Electric 2320 is ready to depart Broadview,
Oregon, as the evening lights are coming on.
the quarterly publications. Once those publications started com-
ing in, I was hooked! They included modeling ideas and lots of pro-
totype information. I have a whole library of reference sheets on
the Great Northern that tell me everything from the style of their
signals to what kind of ballast they used.
My Great Northern Railroad is a freelance version of a prototypical
railroad. I wanted to maintain some freedom as to how and where
to run my trains and I didn't want anyone pointing out to me that
this train never ran to that town, or that I couldn't get from here
to there and stay true to the prototype.
So the names of all the towns have been changed to protect the
innocent and the trains I'm running, like the Cascadian, don't nec-
essarily run where they did on the prototype. But that's all right
