Well I'm much younger than most of you so my wants as a child were not Postwar Lionel. I've always like Southern Pacific's GS4 class locomotives, especially 4449, since I was young. I think the colors captured my imagination as a child. So in 1998 before my 13th birthday MTH came out with a full scale model of 4449: https://mthtrains.com/20-3029-1
Being not quite 13 I didn't have $1000 dollars to spend on a scale model of 4449. Then a few years later high school, college, and grad school come along. Last year I had some money and was able to find the model I wanted 20 years prior, but it was even better than original as it had been upgraded with PS2. It now runs on my layout at the head of a Golden State passenger consist. It took 20 years but I finally got 4449.
