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 TF: Smiling here. You answered your own question and missed it. For those of us who prefer steam, I model the 1900-1915 era, it is PRECISELY BECAUSE you don't see steamers at work every day that we are interested in them. An individual model and a layout are not down sized reality, they are distillations of imagined reality. Seeing a steamer "at work" with its propelling parts in motion promotes the illusion. Seeing a plastic box moving other plastic boxes doesn't. Randy
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