It isn't that I look down upon tinplate trains - it is just that, while I admire them in the same way that I admire ship and airplane models, I do not spend much time looking at either.
But I do have 700-series cars and locomotives, and consider them good enough to run on full scale 2-rail track. I just stumbled here because I saw the title over in the list of new posts. I will go anywhere to see a writeup like this!
Who knows? I might build a scratch model around such a set of B6 drivers. The Lionel rendition of those drivers seems more accurate than most.
