@Mike D posted:I just don't get this mentality. I am not picking on you in particular, but this ideology seems to pervade this segment of the hobby and no one can explain it. Just about every other locomotive type, most passenger cars and freight cars are plastic bodied and no one has an issue with it. But mention a plastic steamer and folks don't want to even entertain the idea.
Plastic ain't heavy—unless you put weights in the body—and metal is just more impressive than plastic is.
One of my earliest memories of my trains from when I was little kid was how heavy and satisfying they were. It's an emotional response, not a logical one—not something anyone can argue with.