I am not paying 2k anymore I bought the big boy .. I will buy a jlc one before i pay 2k .1500 I might do
I can understand this line of thinking... and it's precisely why I did NOT by a VL Big Boy. $2K was too much of a premium for a depleting coal load and road-specific dialogue. $1400 for the Legacy Y6b worked for me, and I might be a candidate for a Class A or Allegheny if priced similarly. If it's $2K (street), I'll pass without giving it a second thought.
David
As I got the VL Big Boy and other VL steamers I will gladly pay $2000 again and again. You guys can sit around and watch the videos of the rest of us running ours.
The new Y6b is a great locomotive, but always leaves me wishing it had more. If it had blow down steam and depleting coal it would unseat the two BBs I have as the top earners. I think the VL locomotives have ruined everything else for me, I will more than willingly lay down an extra $500 for the extra bits that go into a VL. I am hoping for a Class A or Allegheny as well. But , Lionel, please make it VL. You guys that won't pay the money can simply go buy the JLCs and TMCCs that will be on the market when advertisement of the VL hits the street. Even HO is getting with the program and BLI is integrating a whistle steam and deleting coal load on its Big Boy. The popularity and excitement that the VL Big Boy caused was extraordinary and well disserved. But I guess there will always be those that would not the go around the world if it cost a nickel. I'll do it twice!
