Mark Boyce posted:Lou, That is certainly a very nice choice!!
Thanks. It runs beautifully and smokes great.
It may sound strange but this was actually the last locomotive I planned on buying. I had a set goal when I got back into the hobby after grad school to build a layout and acquire specific equipment that fit the Santa Fe/Southern Pacific in the 1948-1954 time frame. I've got everything I set out to acquire now:
ABBA Santa Fe F3s and a Super Chief consist
ABBA Santa Fe F3s and a El Capitan consist
AA Santa Fe PAs and a Chief consist
GS4 Southern Pacific and a Golden State consist (currently working on repainting/letter cars for)
ABBA Santa Fe F3s and an SFRD unit train
GP9/GP7 Santa Fe and a boxcar train
AS616 Southern Pacific and a freight train
3460 class Santa Fe Hudson and a fast mail express train (eventually I'll be buying rolling stock for it)
So from here on out it'll just be tinkering with things around the layout and scenery. Which is fine, as that's the cheap stuff 
