we need more trains.
Just finished an old ITC "Cabbage Stack", in reality a Plains Class 2-6-2. ITC(and Glencoe, who reissued one in the 1990s) claimed it was 1:120. It's H-O.
Detail is kind of sparse, but it works up to a nice little model, nonetheless.
Came in a 2-pack with the "Southern Pacific" (Glencoe's "Central Pacific
Huntington") 4-2-4 and was in reality a Southern Pacific No.1, the C.P.
Huntington (named for one of the line's owners). It's H-O as well, and is also
really nice. The only mistakes in the kit are the painting instructions.
Fortunately, I was able to find a color photo of the engine (it's in a museum
in California), and also found out that it was a wood burner (ITC plans called
it a coal-burner).
Next in this line-up will be an American 4-4-0, ("The General") in H-O, and
plan on doing a Civil War vignette around it, maybe with a rail-mounted morter,
or some kind of troop-train.
Who's next?
-- John
The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
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- Henry Kissinger