Man oh man....I just powered up the layout for the fist time since February, and took out the old Santa Fe's 2343 and 2353, along with my old Santa Fe passenger cars from my Lionel Alco AA set from the early 1960s my dad had bought me.
Is it the smell of mold, mildew, Christmas Tree's, Ozone, or the growling sound these post war growler's engines make, or the looks....some battered to some degree or less from the ravages of time, or the detail on some of these old trains?
I say its all of the above!
Who needs computer or electronic train generated sounds, when you can have the actual rail pounding excitement of these old trains with all their weight and heavy parts pounding and growling along just like a real train!
Not sure if its the conventional operation, the age of the trains, or just their nature, but mine do not just jack rabbit off the line like some trains. If I give them gradual power with a string of passenger cars they accelerate nice and slowly to speed just like a real train.
I LOVE THEM!
