Well... I don't have a new picture of:
"Your favorite switcher coupled with your favorite cabin car/caboose."
Could have taken a new pic, but I've got too many things going on and I'm feeling lazy to boot, soooo...
Thought I'd repost a pic that I shared some time ago. It's the only model pic I have of an engine w/caboose. So, it's not necessarily my FAVORITE engine/caboose... but it is AMONG my "favorites".
Anyway, here's KC&G RS-3 #255 trundling through the West Bottoms on a caboose hop with KC&G caboose 1223 trailing behind...
(Scale: HO.)
Now, for an update of sorts:
Much to my surprise, here a couple months ago I received a notification from my online hobby supplier that Atlas had just received a shipment of models that was not supposed to be received for a number of months yet. Models that I had reserved. So, $380 lighter, I received two undecorated Atlas Gold S-2 switchers complete with DCC/Sound. These will become KC&G engines.
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I received back from the sound guy my two engines that I had sent to him for DCC/Sound installation. While in his possession, he installed a sound decoder into the Atlas HH-660 that is destined to become Kansas City Terminal #50, as well as installing DCC/Sound into my first KC&G to receive DCC/Sound: RS-3 #269. It's cool to hear a this first KC&G unit burbling and wheezing along the rails instead of just silently gliding down the track!
Also, just this week I committed to purchasing 2 Tsunami GN-1000 EMD DCC/Sound decoders destined to be installed in my KC&G NW2 #136 and KC&G GP7 #412. Once the sound guy has received the decoders, I will ship my two KC&G engines to him for installation. Slowly but surely the KC&G roster is having life breathed into it! (To me, sound helps to make them come alive.)
All fer now.