It's for my Grand Daughter......right....

Dave are you a conventional runner?

Sure...for your granddaughter...sure it is...lol

--Greg

Nice engine, hope she likes it. Like the colors. It's also my favorite road and chosen road name for model trains.  

I like the story and I would stick to it if I were you. This should work well for future purchases. Use it as long as you can. 

100%....always will be........

I was a Sr System Analyst and like my hobby simple.....

I'm sure she will like it. Nice Engine.

Dave - I can definitely relate.  I was 100% UP and fallen flags of UP.  But the closest major RR mainline is the BNSF.  So my son and grandsons all see BNSF all day every day and have fallen in love with the pumpkins.  They finally wore me down to where I now have as many BNSF and their fallen flags as I do UP.  And that is my story and I am going to stick with it.

Art

Dave
Alas You have justification!!

Brian, think it will work when Dave starts bringing home some new Ross Switches for the grand daughter?

Paul

That's a beautiful engine.  The hood and cab and lettering look a little different from the ones in her picture though. Do you think she'll notice the difference??

She may very well notice!!!!!!

She is very detail oriented.  At a train show one kid called a hopper a 'coal car' she looked at him and said 'it's a hopper'........

Another time while playing at a Brio wooden train display a kid said he was filling his steam engine at a water tower with 'gasoline!!

Again she said 'your engine takes water not gasoline'!!!

No doubt she's Grandpa's girl!!!

Some years ago when it was still just "Santa Fe" I saw their diesels at the Lambert's Point roundhouse here in Norfolk on several occasions. Maybe they were borrowed or leased, or in some kind of run-through arrangement from the Midwest. Goes to show you that you can do just about anything on your model RR and the real RR's do the same thing.