For model railroad hobbyists, modeling granger territory – the wide-open prairies extending westward from the Midwest across the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains – lends itself to specific modeling styles and techniques and has specific layout design and benchwork challenges compared to mountain railroads. This book should appeal to any modeler planning a layout (or with an existing layout) set in the plains states. The book will cover the steam era through modern times, roughly, the 1920s through today.