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I love the 4x8 HOn3 layout in the newest issue!!!!
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<p>I have a HOn3 WMC D&RGW T-12, which I bought back in 1975 at a price of $ 100. It is a nice model, though it has a open frame motor and needs a lot of work to run properly, as it hardly pulls its own weight running forward. And that´s exactly the point with "old" brass locos. There are plenty around, at reasonable prices, but they do need a lot of tinkering and tweaking which a lot of folks just don´t want to do. Certainly, Blackstone locos fill the gap with smooth running and well detailed locos, but at prices of around $ 500 landed cost for the DC only, no sound version here in Germany they are way beyond my reach. </p> <p>I am a narrow gauge buff for at least 35 years, but this is still a rather exotic and costly niche - unless you go for modeling Japanese prototype in N scale. Standard trains in Japan run on 3 1/2 ft. tracks - so that´s by definition narrow gauge.</p>
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