Hancock52 posted:Bob Bubeck posted:Bryant: "I am looking forward to it being in my collection, especially to join my another standard must have "Veranda Turbine" ..."
Oh, by the way, I am blessed with one of these (the original die cast TMCC Lionel version), too. The addition of a Veranda to your roster is a moral imperative.
Bob
As long as we are talking about the good ol' days let me add that the Veranda is a must have, several orders of magnitude better than any MTH version and my main wish list candidate for Vision Line treatment. Some hope of that (like a Legacy Acela), however: it was manufactured in Korea so I expect the excellent body tooling is tied up there somewhere.
Fortunately they come up at auction fairly regularly, which is how/where I got mine.
The original Veranda Turbine and the Acela may be imitated down the road, too much cost to be duplicated. I will have to put a post asking for members choices of 1 or 2 iconic MTH pieces.