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I don't know about the rest of you N scalers but after 8 years modeling and loving our scale I'm dieing for an affordable (or ANY) N scale Shay to be made available to us!!!! After flying from my home in Arizona to visit friends in West Virginia I got to go to "Shay Heaven" and actually ride the famous Cass Scenic Railroad ( a true lumber operation with vertical grades you WOULDN"T believe!!! They've got MORE "working" Shay units as far as I know than ANYWHERE else in the U.S. and they still have the very first and last one ever built still functional. They were also refurbishing a Heisler when I was there 3 years ago and you can walk right inside the open boiler in the engines being full serviced for leak checks in the engine house while the crews are actually machineing and working on parts. Way too cool and where I'd like my ashes dropped when I leave this world. Truly heaven to feel one of those beauty's taking off and watch the huge plume of smoke toasting the tree leaves draped overhead on the climb to the top. Pardon the drama but I passionately love these beautiful work horses and have a lumber operation which seriously needs a small fleet of these to sevice my operation. The only offerings I've seen are the white metal casting you marry over an existing frame without functioning drivers (what fun is that??) and a rough offering from an individual out there with a price tag similar to Concor prices (approx. $180.00) and with rough details and an undesireable dog-bone linkage from the cab to the tender for the power drive. Too much money for too little quality!! Anyway it totally blows my mind that Kato or Atlas hasn't come up with an offering in all these years unless they're just "chicken" about trying to come up with working prototype drivers??? I can't believe the "market" for these is too small for them to bother? What do the rest of you think? Would you buy one (or a bunch) if they were offered???
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