...don't really have a place on your layout.
I know most of us have done this. I myself have 2, a Florida East Coast Road Switcher and a SW-1500, the River Street Rambler from Savannah, GA.
I have no palm trees on my layout so the FEC stands out, I use it hooked to other engines as a "just pasing through" situation. Real railroads do this, so it works, and besides, being from Daytona Beach way back I like the FEC, was the first train I saw in fact although too young at the time to know what a train was.
As to the River Street Rambler, Savannah has a special meaning, with it being my wifes's hometown. I have seen this loco years back and it impressed me going down river street among all the tourist playing it's music while it pulled tanker cars. It is gone today, replaced by a street car, but I hear they plan to bring it back as a display.
And besides, it was "neat looking" and I just had to have it.
How many do you guys have like this, ones you just "had to get"?
I know most of us have done this. I myself have 2, a Florida East Coast Road Switcher and a SW-1500, the River Street Rambler from Savannah, GA.
I have no palm trees on my layout so the FEC stands out, I use it hooked to other engines as a "just pasing through" situation. Real railroads do this, so it works, and besides, being from Daytona Beach way back I like the FEC, was the first train I saw in fact although too young at the time to know what a train was.
As to the River Street Rambler, Savannah has a special meaning, with it being my wifes's hometown. I have seen this loco years back and it impressed me going down river street among all the tourist playing it's music while it pulled tanker cars. It is gone today, replaced by a street car, but I hear they plan to bring it back as a display.
And besides, it was "neat looking" and I just had to have it.
How many do you guys have like this, ones you just "had to get"?