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After being in the hobby for longer then most of the forum readers are old (52 years), I've aquired a rather extensive collection of locos. We used to buy nothing but brass, and then along came PROTO 2000. Now we have INTERMOUNTIAN, and GENESIS. Uncle Irv's idea was to make it cheap and go on volume. The old Globes left a lot to be desired but they only cost $.99 for a dummy and I think $2.99 for a power unit. Irv had no idea that modelers would pay as much, relative, as we do now for cars and locos. That was not his method. When I first saw the F3's, my thoughs were "Athearn - leave it alone" then I saw it being demenstrated (SP) for someone else and was impressed. I now have all of the Genesis Warbonnets and have up graded as follows: 1)replace the wheels with NWSL - gives much better conductivity 2)put a digitrax DH163AO in both "A's" and one of the "B" units. 3)put a Soundtraxx decoder in the other "B" unit 4)mounted a 1" sq. speaker where the cab would have been, had it been an "A" unit 4)operate 'till my hearts content. bigboy 4015: I was so unhappy with my BLI 4-8-4 # 3762 that I went out and purchased another one.[:D] I would buy the third one but the 2-10-2 is comming and the Superintendent isn't going to let me spend that much money. Enjoy your railroad and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY Bob
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