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Shortly before returning home to Germany at the end of a year as an exchange student to the US, I had the chance to ride the narrow gauge steam train from Durango to Silverton. That moment, the narrow gauge bug had infested me and I never gor rid of it since. A year after my return, I ordered a Westside Model Company D & RGW T-12, a brass model, made in Japan, which sold for a little over $ 100 in those days - a fortune with the exchange rate to Deutschmark being close to 4 to 1! You yould buy two Marklin Swiss Crocodiles for that money! About half a year after I had ordered it, the loco arrived, but what a disappointment! While the detail was fine (a lot less detailed than those Blackstone HOn3 beauties of today), the loco had a hitch in the git-along and hardly pulled its weight. I painted it, lettered it, put it back in its box and forget about it - for over 38 years! It´s my only brass loco and one of these days I will have some sort of a layout for it to run - never mind the hitch. <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/e67c9d4d-c6f8-4b96-9f77-a1097ebaff8e_zpsv0bbcurk.jpg" alt=" " /> Looking at the quality and detail of today´s Blackstone loco, I am inclined to say that brass locos are beyond their prime these days!
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