Re: Sumpter Valley Railway

Shay,
I am particularly delighted to get a response from another Sn3 modeler especially one who is also interested in the Sumpter Valley Ry. I have been visiting the Sumpter country since I first found the then existent town of Bates in the late winter of 1965. The road to Sumpter was not in existence so we had to drive way around by way of Salisbury. Since then I have walked a great deal of the old mainline and some of the logging lines. Water, pavement and Brahma bulls have prevented me from walking all of the mainline. You are very right in saying that the railroad is more than its equipment. I think the country is beautiful. It is one of the primary reasons that drew me to model this railroad. That and the fact that it couples my other primary interest in logging railroads with a full service railroad (albeit not a mainline RR like the Union Pacific). I think that too many modelers get caught up in the Colorado narrow gauge RRs and don't see the beauty and modelability of all the other narrow gauge railroads that once existed. Oh well, just one man's opinion.
Thank you for your note, I will almost surely be talking to you again,
Dale