My first and now my favorite......

Hey Dave,

That looks great! Good luck with it.

Mike R

Dave, you won't forget to bring it in from the cold tonight will you? Don

Boy, that's a very impressive-looking lokie.

Looks great. Glad you are expanding your horizons.

 

Here is MTH Premier Southern PS-4 No. 1401 that I purchased from a Forumite.

That's a beautiful locomotive Dave, one of my favorites!

Thanks for that photo c-sam!!! But for the clothing it looks like it was taken recently!! Too bad nothing is left of the locos but photos.  My Father-in-law got to see them all!! How I'd loved to have seen just some of the Pennsy power in steam. THX

"Weaver brass PRR T-1 4-4-4-4"

 

Wow ... really nice!

 

Good luck with her.

Jim

CTT said it once quite well - You go scale, you never go back!

hello AMCDave.........

 

Is that your first brass o scale locomotive .

 

the woman who loves the S.F.5011,623

Tiffany

Pretty spiffy steamer ya got there! I just got my first Weaver scale steamer. An N&W 4-6-2. Tested it last weekend and it's a very nice running engine.

 

Be careful, brass is addictive and scale is a slippery slope.  When I started out Kanawah tried to tell me to go all-scale. I didn't listen. Now I'm in the process of purging all of my non-scale motive power. VERY hard do let go of favorites that are great runners.

 

Gilly

"You go scale - you never go back."

Amen to that!!

Most folks associate the N&W with the J, A, and Y class locomotives overlooking everything else. The 4-6-2 was the 578 an E2 . It was a pre WWII locomotive that was displaced by the K2 4-8-2.

 

My Weaver is die cast, not brass. It is, however scale and my first Weaver locomotive. It is displacing a 4-6-2 N&W MTH PS2 RailKing that is now for sale.

 

I do have three 3rd Rail Brass locomotives including the N&W K2a, K3, and PRR S2 Turbine. The K3 has already been upgraded to PS2 by JDS Ltd. The S2 is headed to them this October. The K2a was new last year and is already TMCC.

 

Gilly

 

BTW, Command Control is the other slippery slope. With the exception of a few locomotives dedicated to the club modular layout, I'm either purging or converting most of my conventional engines.

 

 

This happened to us as well!

I had a decent postwar collection and some nice 'modern' (1980-90) pieces including the (1990) Lionel 700e and then the MTH 5344 Hudson from 1996. Those two pieces must have planted the seed as they were by far my favorites.

A divorce and a dozen years away from the hobby later I discover this forum and within 6 months I began moving out almost all of my collection in favor of scale pieces.

It is indeed a slippery slope....