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My largest single unit is an Athearn DD40. I think part of the draw of these locos is the sheer size of them - even in HO this thing is fairly massive and pretty heavy. Certainly I think part of the appeal is their rarity - there are few massive locos operating today except on railtours, etc. For those of us in Europe, the fact that we have nothing of these dimensions running in our own countries (even an SW7 makes normal British locos look small - the largest over here is the EMD-built class 66 which is basically an EMD SD-series loco crammed into the British loading gauge) is I suspect a big factor. <br /> <br />I run the DD40 as part of my museum line's fleet - there are a few non-operational preserved examples out there, mine's an operational one!. Admittedly two or three car trains don't stress this monster, but it does look kinda cool! <br />
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