@Guttersnipe posted:How soon are we going to see them work horses sweating down the rails
Well, it will be a while, as the survey crew has completed their work, and now waiting for the blasting crew to widen the right of way for another recent purchase. I picked up a Lionel N&W 1218, my first modern Lionel loco, and it is a whopper. I have an MTH Big Boy, and this Class A loco by itself is actually larger. I have made track templates for the pilot and the cab overhang in order to reposition my double track around the room line to allow this loco to make it around the curves that approach a double track steel arch bridge, that bridge gave me a time when I had purchased the Big Boy, now I have to do it all over again. My connection to the 1218 goes back over 30 years when I caught it at the Southern RR yard laying over down in Jacksonville, Fla, and along the SRR tracks west of the Crawford Diamond, running at speed. The pic I attached was taken from one in the picture frame, and it is my 2 sons 7 & 11, on the pilot, They are 40 and 44 now.
