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I have found all Rivarossi products to be well built and gof ood mechanical design. The only draw-back is the deep flanges of their earlier designs, a feature which was changed in the last decade or so. Rivarossi was distributed by AHM for many years and I think all AHM locomotives are Rivarossi locos. IHC also distributed Rivarossi after AHM (AHM and IHC may be the same company). I think IHC's locos are built by Mehano, today. These are also good locos and great a place to start a super detail project.. MDC made many loco kits which would have fit your bill, the old timer 2-8-0, 4-6-0, 2-6-0 and 4-4-0 come to mind. However, MDC's future is unknown to me at this time. Mantua/Tyco also built 4-4-0s and 2-6-0s that would work for you. If so inclined, you could look on Ebay for these older offerings. Finally many brass manufacturers made 4-4-0s, 4-6-0s 2-6-0s and 2-8-0s, so brass is another alternative and you might find reasonable brass prices on Ebay and the internet. Any Bachmann's Spectrum locos are good locos, too. I don't know that Spectrum offers any old time locos. <br /> <br />It's interesting, these type locos seem to be scarce nowadays. H.O. in the 50-60 was rife with them, and larger steam was mostly only available in brass. The times, they do a change! <br /> <br />
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