As I am reading a lot of post, I began to wonder what influenced a modeler to choose the railroad prototype that they model. I live on the West coast, my interest seem to focus on Western railroads. When I lived in Colorado, I became interested in the history of the narrow gauge railroads that ran during the late 1800s up through the 1950s and 60s, so my modeling focuses on Colorado narrow gauge. However I have noticed that a majority of the prototype railroads mentioned on the MRH forum are upper Midwest and East coast railroads.