[Swordmaker]

I wonder whose basement they’re going to run it in. (Too big to run under my Christmas tree — but now that I’m thinking about it . . . .)

That depends on the size of the Christmas tree.

European trains look wimpy to me... I like good American made Steam locomotives:

This one's in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.

And this one, the Governor Stanford, is in the
California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento

Then there's this Union Pacific Big Boy, used to
haul freight up the Sierra Mountains. It's in Pomona, CA.

These locomotives are not wimpy.

;^)>

[uglybiker]

I have to admit I have a soft spot for the Cumbres and Toltec.

[Erasmus]

I think I saw Nr. 1401 under refurbishment at the Tennessee Valley Railway Museum in Chattanooga, many years ago.

I took a shot of the Governer Stanford almost identical to that one when I was at the Cal State RR Museum in 1999 or 2000.

I’ve seen the Big Boy at the Dallas museum but it wasn’t in as good a condition as the one you show in Pomona.

[BBell]

Wimpy or not they are beautiful