If anyone's having difficulty coming up with suggestions for Santa, here's a site with plenty of ideas:
Just leave a copy of the homepage laying on the kitchen table and let your loved ones take care of the rest.
Bob
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Wow, that 16" gauge Warbonnet F3!
Bob - got your forward of this in the AM and I couldn't stop laughing when I went to the page. I'd personally love an F40PH.
With my train budget I have to be thinking dual service at this scale and the F40 has the HEP genset.
For the person who has everything, an ex-PRR observation/lounge car. Gotta love it. Any idea what Amtrak is charging now to tow a private rail car?
Matt:
Here's the link to Amtrak's private car tariff:
http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/27...ivate_Car_Tariff.pdf
Jonathan:
I believe the F40s being advertised on the Sterling site are NJT units. They've been stored out of service for some time although there are now reports of at least some being reactivated to help alleviate the power crunch following the hurricane. There's still a lot of work to be done. Many locomotives and cars remain out of service awaiting inspection and repair of water damage. The North Jersey Coast Line has a long way to go before it's back to normal. Multiple slow orders remain in place and signaling continues to cause problems. It's a very "old school" approach with train orders and transmission of verbal permission past certain signals via radio at the present time. We're still amazed at how quickly they got things running given the extent of the damage inflicted upon the railroad's physical plant.
Bob
