Thanks for the kind comments Arnold. I see you're "up to your old tricks again"
The layout is our club's 'almost ready to open' layout located at Buffalo Creek Vacations in Clyde NC. The B&O's are Lionel's scale units from 2004. I chose them because to me they have the most pleasing color shades - MTH uses a darker gray and a blue that is very dark. Lionel's blue is somewhat richer. We have the B&O RF16 Sharks too for the same reason.
These will get a fixed pilot and kadee coupler soon I hope!