Oh, Garry! Wow! A man after my own heart! I notice that some of your geeps have dynamic brakes and some don't...very prototypical to the "Q". So do some of mine on the Grashhook, Galesburg & Western Division of the "Q". What scale, and how big is your layout. Appears a lot bigger than mine. Do you run any Zephyrs, especially "shovel noses"? Used to ride the real Pioneer and Mark Twain Zephyrs as a kid, back when they had to slow down to allow dinosaurs to cross the tracks!