How many new Big Boys/Challengers do we need?

[rmurray1]

What I would like to see are more smaller steam locomotives built to the same quality that we've come to expect from models today. Bachmann is doing this but in On30. It would be nice to see some in HO. (I've been pushing for some new standard quailty Americans for a while.) I owned a Big Boy for a while but you really need a large layout for these beasts.

[Anonymous]

The Athearn Challengers sound the most promising, as they have already stated they will be doing non UP versions. Here's hoping for a Western Maryland version.

As for Lionel, I hope they take other successful O scale models and do them in HO, namely the B&O EM-1.

Jason

[Anonymous]

The Athearn Challengers sound the most promising, as they have already stated they will be doing non UP versions. Here's hoping for a Western Maryland version.

As for Lionel, I hope they take other successful O scale models and do them in HO, namely the B&O EM-1.

Jason

[Anonymous]

Frankly, all these big articulateds overwhelm most layouts. A realistic train is 40-50 cars long. Who has space for that? I would rather see more engines like Bachman is building. I would like to see another 2-8-0, perhaps Pennsy for the east and ATSF or SP for the west. How about an IC mike or pacitic or Southern? I realize that manufacturers have to sell to a market and a lot of railroads don't have a large fan base, but if someone built one of these I would get one because they run well, and fit the layouts I operate on.
cheers to all
Ken Skolyan

[Anonymous]

Frankly, all these big articulateds overwhelm most layouts. A realistic train is 40-50 cars long. Who has space for that? I would rather see more engines like Bachman is building. I would like to see another 2-8-0, perhaps Pennsy for the east and ATSF or SP for the west. How about an IC mike or pacitic or Southern? I realize that manufacturers have to sell to a market and a lot of railroads don't have a large fan base, but if someone built one of these I would get one because they run well, and fit the layouts I operate on.
cheers to all
Ken Skolyan

[Anonymous]

With the news that Lionel is to release a Challenger, on top of of all the other manufacturers of Big Boys and Challengers, I ask "How many new incarnations of UP's Big Boy-Challenger do we need"?

Could we not have some other road apart from UP or N&W. There are plenty of prototypes to choose from without trundling out the same old models.

If we must have a UP articulated how about a 'Bull-Moose'?
"Santa Fe All the way Downunder"
[:(]

[Anonymous]

With the news that Lionel is to release a Challenger, on top of of all the other manufacturers of Big Boys and Challengers, I ask "How many new incarnations of UP's Big Boy-Challenger do we need"?

Could we not have some other road apart from UP or N&W. There are plenty of prototypes to choose from without trundling out the same old models.

If we must have a UP articulated how about a 'Bull-Moose'?
"Santa Fe All the way Downunder"
[:(]