Intermountain AC12's

Yesterday I recieved a phone call from a fellow modeler from here in Las Cruces while on his summer vacation. He was calling from the Intermountain Plant. It was relayed to me that Intermountain folks were extra nice and gave Mike the full tour (thanks Brett). Mike told me that they let him actually fondle the AC12 prototype and provided him with a running demo as well. He said the locomotive was placed on a UniTrack 11 3/4" figure 8 and left running fo at least an hour and it was the smoothest running steam loco he had ever seen and Mike has been an N Scale collector for years. Mike says the detail work on the cab , boiler and railings is of the highest quality and he was blown away by the over all offering !!
He said that Intermountain says they are on the way and should be here in Sept. or Oct.
I am saving up my pennies!!

Mike