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These pages replicate the layout designer Scott Perry's questionnaire for his clients. The contents are used here with  is permission. I have formatted it to be an series of pages with his questions and my answers.

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Personal Interview Survey Page 14

Prototype

What is the name of the railroad are you modeling?
Atlantic & Yadkin Railway

What will you call your layout? 
A&Y

What time in place/era will the layout be set?  (today, 1930’s, June 4 1945)
This is tricky.  I REALLY want to be prototypical and thus have a mid 30’s era layout so I can have a passenger train, BUT the vast majority of my equipment is better for late 40’s early 50’s.  The A&Y ceased to exist as of Jan 1, 1950.

What country?
US

What is the theme of the railroad?  (Narrow gauge ore mining, etc)
Southeast short line.

What is the purpose of the railroad? (Hauling coal over the Alleghenies, etc)
General carrier but serving rural farmland with granite quarry, pulpwood, furniture, wood product, textile, clay and gravel industries.

Are you modeling a prototype(s) or freelancing?  Combination? 
Prototype.

How closely do you want to model the prototype(s)? 
I’d like to get the equipment, the scenery and the general feel dead on. I would like to model Mount Airy , NC pretty closely, although as long as I get the passenger station and a small yard, I’d be happy. The rest of the line will require serious selective compression.

If freelanced, do you have a profile or history written for the railroad in mind?  Something that tells about the railroad and its purpose? 
N/A

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