I love Blue Box Athearn locos! Good price and there are tons of detail parts you can add as you go! Also I am envious of the 2 car garage to use.
Russ Bellinis said:I just looked at your link to "Train Sets Only" at Amazon, you don't want any of their electric train sets in ho scale. Whether Lifelike or Bachmann, the EZ Trak and Powr-Lok tracks that come with those sets is all steel. There is no indication of anything in nickel-silver on at tleast the first 3 pages of stuff I looked at. Steel track is the worst thing you can get. If you get steel, expect to spend 3 hours cleaning off corrosion for every 1 hour you get to run your trains. If there is a local hobby shop near you that has a train dept., you should go and see if there is someone knowledgeable there to help you out. In my opinion buying on line is ok if you know what you are ordering, but too many people selling trains on line, are totally ignorant about what constitutes a good train set. They are buying as cheap as possible to try to sell for a profit. Cheap is often more expensive in the long run by the time you spend the money needed to get it to actually function.