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Duluth Missabe and Iron Range 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone Erected by Akane of Japan in 1960 custom painted 1983.

After dropping her train Duluth Missabe & Iron Range no.227 cut off and sits waiting for the hostler to fill her coal bunker.

Yumpin' Yimmey' Yeah' have'ta be a Swede sign1

As a little kid, my dad educated my brother and I as to the pecking order of the DM&IR 2-8-8-4s and the 4-8-8-4s...and to this day...I don't think the UP articulates stack up very well against the NPs, GNs, SPs (cab normals), C&Os, and Virginians. The green boilers on those beauties are just...

Yeh' quite a story behind this beauty. I was over at a feller' i had got to know pretty well at our local swapmeet house who also did custom painting' having my GN. Q2 2184 painted . We were chatting away while i inspected my engine and he said Larry' seeing as your from Minnesota i have...

Here's a few pictures,,,have to admit a certain pride of ownership :mrgreen: 1. Q2 2184 leads Q1 2100 on to bridge no.7 2.E15 NO.1082 on a short caboose hop 3.Yellowstone no.227 rides the turn table 4 2-8-8-0 No.2023 slogging upgrade 5.F8 1182 with water car X3207 poses on the table...

Westside model of a Virginian Triplex made in the early 80's with each set of drivers with their own Cannon motor.....That'll git'er done!:thumb:

Santa Fe 3877 down graded to track cleaning duties moves slowly across Irene bridge...

Yep' very very nice job Nachoman and its great to see you perservered on this lady and took good care of her....congrats!!:thumb:

One of our newer industrys just need to finish the ground cover and....:mrgreen:

Caboose's have been gone now for about 10 years,Good news is if your running Great Northern a fallen flag run caboose's to your hearts conten Can't help with the 1st question afraid I'm a h.oer and perfer GN.steamers

Remember Jerry's well! along with the antique store across the way,many a happy hour going through both....Well remember the day i walked inand stood looking in the back room at this HUGE ol' locomotive headlight ...took a min. or two to realise it was the same as one as on the front of this...

Yeh' bet folks are gonna jump on that one !!sign1

The only problems some of the bachmann steamers have had is the verrry fine bronze contacts on the drivers,other than that they are fine running pieces of equipment not at all like the older toy stuff they once made. Their new spectrum sound equipted engines use a version of the Soundtrax...

This is the 2nd BLI engine,first on testing found it had no reverse though it ran beautifully in forward,nice slow to mid range speed.sound was to my ears spot on. Unfortunely we've been so busy with working on the railroad have'nt had time to run her further. Detail's are very well done for...

BLI AT&SF 3800 class 2-10-2....latest engine to be roster'd on the railroad...:mrgreen:

O.k back to the question asked. As for inexpensive steam with sound the Spectrum line from Bachmann have several with Tsunami sound below $200 .check the Micromark website for these excellent deals. they also are DCC equipted:twisted:

The original post was about a problem with traction tires,the problem as i see it is to find out just what matierial the traction tires are made of. If they are rubber maybe even the plastic compatable oils are going to cause damage. I myself have just now purchased a BLI AT&SF 2-10-2 that has...

Tichy train kits are very high quality plastic kits ,if their new and unopened go for them.