@Berwyns Toys and Trains posted:All scale steam engines are over $1000 now I’m afraid. There won’t be new tooling for die cast steam engines. So if your a fan of a railroad that never got exact tooling made for steam engines you like, it isn’t going to happen now. I own a Lionel RI northern from last year. It’s not exactly right either in fact I am removing the SF number boards that Lionel painted over. When possible we try to be prototypical, sometimes we can get to a believable range. That’s where this CNW falls in my opinion. Not every engine on a railroad should be an E4 Hudson or Hiawatha . Not every Pacific had a colorful paint job.
I think you folks should be congratulated for offering creative adaptations using existing tooling, painting prototypically as possible and avoiding "fantasy" paint jobs.
Rusty
