No offence taken, I thought your post was informative and interesting. I just thought you might have a few GN items to discuss as well.
I’ve looked into modeling several of the roads discussed above at one time or another, but then gave up because the locomotives I wanted or felt I needed just weren’t readily available.
Now I realize it’s my railroad and if I want to have a wandering B&O EM-1 show up in the desert on the Sunset Route, then that’s perfectly ok.
At the end of the day I have to buy what makes me happy, and the EM-1 was cleared to run into my father’s home town of Butler, PA, so I need one (the B&LE 2-10-4, which was common there, has only been correctly modeled in brass by five custom modified locomotives–total–so I doubt I’ll ever even see one of them let alone be able to afford to buy it).
Best Regards–
John