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No you are not nuts. But if you add a Leslie five tone horn on the roof and a bell on the front bumper you definitely are.
My immediate reaction was the photos were fuzzy and from a distance which makes my negative oriented mind immediately question if the detail is up to snuff. I'd feel a lot better about spending that kind of money if I could see a close up of the details.
I had a collection of Model Railroader and Trains from inception through about 1985 and could find no buyers. I finally offered them free to a bonfide club or rail history group who would give me a letter acknowledging the quantity and donation of the magazines. The IRS had no problem with me taking the cover price for a tax write off when I filed my income taxes
Also FWIW the PRR had over 4800 2-8-0's at one time. It may even have been as high as 5800. Many were sold to shortlines and other railroads as the PRR dieselized. Ideally the chassis and drive should be done in a way that allows the H8,9 and 10 differences to be easily altered or parts and different diameter drivers and boilers to be interchanged. I am dead serious when I say most serious PRR steam era modelers want at least three and I have seen a couple of posts where as many as ten were wanted
The very suggestion that poiticians would do anything illegal is just shocking ( not really they are all a lower order of leachs in my opinion) however... Does this route service the most people and is it it convenient to get to? Does it have locations for adequate parking and a station or stations? It could be doable but there are issues other than where the tracks go to consider
Those engines are probably too unique to ever be produced in plastic in HO. There was only one of each and they only ran on the west end of the PRR with very short lives so they have no crossover appeal and a very small time window. Since scale modelers have a tendency to be more accurate in their time period and modeling effort I wouldn't hold my breath in HO or N. I don't hear a clamoring for either one from diehard PRR fans. Most of us would kill for a good plastic H 8, 9 or 10 2-8-0.
You have done a large amount of work to create your steel mill and I really hesitate to say what I am going to but there are some glaring issues to those who know steel mills intimately so please take this as constructive criticism. An integrated mill receiving ore would receive it by either rail or water. There would be tracks under the Hullets only at a port such as Cleveland where the PRR transferred iron ore from ships to railcars (mostly hoppers in the states south of the Great lakes) for transport
How about a general idea of what area of the country you live in? Changing that engine is no more than a five minute job per end. Your hobby shop if you have one should be able to help you also.
For what it is worth different cars carried the coils in different ways. The PRR made cars in their shops that the eye of the coil (center hole) faced the side of the car. Other have it facing the ends and then some covered gons carry them with what is called "eye to the sky" Removing an eye to the sky coil is very dangerous as a telescoping device sticks one side in the eye and one against the outside. The weight of the coil causes it to grip the coil tightly for lifting (in theory!).
The very first B unit was part of the very first freight diesel offered by EMD. That model was the FT and it was connected to the A unit by a drawbar so it was a permanent connection. Railroads had very large concerns that the unions might demand a crew in every engine so initial engine A & B units were often the same number with an a or b suffix also. The first F3 engines on the Pennsylvania were helpers for horseshoe curve out of Altoona PA. They consisted of an ABA set to get sufficient horsepower