John,
I recently offered a wonderfully painted UP FEF-3, 4-8-4 steam engine on
this list. If your friend needs the flagships of the UP--the various
FEF's (800's) just as essential as the Challenger or BB! This engine
needs relatively little work to start with and is far superior to the
Sunset models in all aspects.
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
Just to make my recent off-road wanderings make sense to those who
were wondering...
My recent interest in the UP Big Boy and Challenger is due to two
things... the first, and main reason is that I have a local friend who
swears he would convert to S if, and only if, he could get these two
locomotives in S... and he (like me) doesn't care if they are brass or
plastic! The other, less relevant reason, is that I, personally, am a
HUGE fan of articulated steam locos! SAL had a few examples of
articulated steam, but was not a big user of it. So I have to go
off-road to get what I want/like in this category of interest.
So... *I'm just sayin'*... if ever the Big Boy and Challenger are
re-done in S, S will gain another supporter (at least one), and I will
be buying a few, myself... brass or plastic... ... as long as a much
better job is done on them than was done on the originals, *25 YEARS
ago* on the Challenger and *31 YEARS ago* on the Big Boy.
Given the amount of time that has passed, I don't see why there
wouldn't be enough interest in these locos to see the models done.
John Degnan
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