11-19-2010, 09:44 AM
Russ Bellinis Wrote:... I model Santa Fe, and they pretty much much phased out switchers...
Santa Fe is one of the worse prototype to be used if you have limited space and want to have a modern times layout. I really was shocked and assumed it is a joke when they told me in the west coast form GP60M are used for witching. I even did not use that monsters for mainline service on my small layout. All the smaller BNSF switchers available on the market have their origin at BN and did never regular run in the south.
But I like Santa Fe as you do very much. The only solution for me is to defer Santa Fe to one of my next layout of the 1950'th. I got 6 P2K GP7 and yesterday two Atlas SW2 (have been an occasion of the old ones from ROCO) arrived in beautiful zebra look. That will be the engine base for another layout, save stored in the cabinet (and ones a month used for a test drive).
Reinhard