Super O Bob posted:At some point you guys have to just quit 3 rail and go to HO brass. Thats the only way you will get the details you desire.
If you look hard enough, even the best o scale engines are not like the real engines. There are way too many details on the real engines that just cant be replicated in any economy on a model selling 50 copies.
This is a fantasy scheme engine, to offer a painted model for NP fans, which there are very few of.
A train company just cant make a buisness case for specialized tooling for a few copies of an obscure engine that only two or three guys would order...
Going to HO is NOT an option for most of us like me. I think Lionel was on the right track with its Hybrid brass locomotive, however on round 2 of making the K2a N&W they picked a locomotive too close to the J, thus the low orders.
My point is why make a horrible fantasy item that almost insults the NP fan. This is not really helping the railroad modeling community. I still remember the NP version of the EM-1 from Lionel and almost fell off my chair. Next will be a UP challenger with a NP road name on it?
less than 10 railroads had URSA type Pacific's. Why not just make those and move on?
