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Just a few notes about Berks vs Mikes. Leon Silverman was dead on regarding the story of "super power steam" in Trains (9/04). That will answer your questions about the differences between the two wheel arrangements and engine sizes. For "N" scale the Berks & Mikes will run about the same simply because they both have eight drive wheels powered by an electric motor. The prototypes were totally different in size, tractive force and horsepower. The first Berkshire was the A-1 from Lima Locomotive Works in 1925; the last was Nickle Plate Road's 779, also from Lima in 1949. They were called superpower engines because they had larger boilers and a much larger firebox than the Mikado types (one exception was Great Northerns 0-8 class which was as big as many Berkshires, had as much horsepower and could pull more than any Mike or Berk ever built)! I don't know where "Steamerfan" was coming from about the price of Mikes & Berks and the USRA. There were no comparisons in price & performance. Berkshires cost more and had it over anything that was built prior to their time in the sun and they outran all other non-articulated freight haulers. Case in point: "The C&O ran some of their K-4 "Kanwah" Berks in passenger servcie and 80 miles per hour was common for these engines.
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