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I would encourage you to buy fewer high-quality engines (and cars) rather than doing as I did and getting more cheap stuff to pad out a fleet. In time, you'll manage to collect all the rolling stock that you really want, and you'll end up being disappointed by the cheap stuff eventually. As I have mentioned before on other threads, I am in the process of replacing most of my former fleet, because it is comprised of Bachmann, Model Power, and older Atlas stuff; I had dreams of engine yards full of SD's and long trains of colorful cars, but not the budget to get stuff that would really run. <br /> <br />Now, I am buying the equivalent Kato, newer Atlas, and Life-Like stock to retire most of the old stuff, which means I didn't save any money at all. I'm taking it one locomotive at a time, investing the time to bring each one up to a certain standard of quality, and I'm discovering that I get a lot mroe enjoyment out of one Kato SD-45 that runs great than I ever got out of 4 Model Power SD-45's that died quickly. <br /> <br />I got started in N-scale about 20 years ago, and my first deisel was a Norfolk & Western RS-3 made by a new company at the time called Kato, marketed by Atlas. That engine is still a core asset of my fleet, and runs as good as ever. Make the investment, and reward yourself a little.
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