Wish I Had A Need For This Beauty

Is a neat little "critter."  Sigh.....   I see a lot of things, like this, that I just can't justify/afford.

I agree Cheryl. I have 26 scale engines. I can't run all of them and I really can't justify buying any more. When I build my short line I will be adding two, maybe three more home built electric locos. They will be the only conventional engines I will be running. Don

I finally gave up on having a "logging" section.   Just don't have room.   Selling the shays on ebay was one of the hardest things I ever did.   Sometimes I wonder if I should have gone all On3 logging and not ATSF..  heh..   

I admit, it is a very appealing loco.  But I, too, have only so much room, so much money.  I'll pass, too.

But it is really a neat little loco.

Yes, I sort of remember when he announced this one. Somehow I had other priorities at the time of release. Might have been something else very similar. I believe one might have been called "Sampson."

Don

How does she run?

It is interesting that Sunset chose the smallest standard gauge logging mallet for their first such model.  Now they have chosen the largest for the next. 

Hopefully we will get a model of the medium sized logging mallets one day.  They were built and modified with a wide variety of tank and tender variations.

This is an extremely small model, because the real one was small.  If there ever was a candidate for 17/64, this is it.

I'd love to see a scale articulated tank engine. I saw one in G gauge once on a garden railway tour, and it was totally cool. ETS did one in 0 tinplate, with 2-4-4-0 and 0-4-4-0 variations, but a scale 2-6-6-2T would be awesome. Here's a pic of the ETS 0-4-4-0. I actually have both versions, but I need to fiddle around with pilots and couplers so I can doublehead them. 

I'd like to see someone make this 2-6-6-2T:

Loco #110

It's operational and it is standard gauge, not narrow gauge.

There's always this little beauty coming from 3rd Rail:

http://www.3rdrail.com/reservation.html#SIERRA38

Rusty

Trevize, before we moved I had a logging short line all worked out with switch backs. I bought a K-line shay and a bunch of logging cars. Then I thought a mining line would be more interesting. On top of that it would be electric. I already had one Westinghouse small electric and the shells to many more. That killed the logging line. I felt the same way you did. I hated selling the shay knowing I would never have another. I never even ran it once. Don

Heads up.  Trainworld is blowing out Bachmann ON30! ...

If you like it, and can afford it, that's usually justification enough 

I have one of these as well.    It is a well built locomotive; my tender has wood and its a beautiful touch.     I may sell mine as Scott has offered the Weyerhauser #4 for 2013.

Its a good runner and you would not regret it.