A very Merry Christmas for me

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amddrafting

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My dad traveled up this new year's weekend to have Christmas with my family. To my great surprise and pleasure these were wrapped up for me from "Santa."

N Scale Model Power Metal USRA:
4-6-2 Pacific B&O
2-8-2 Mikado B&O

I made the slightest hint to him this year that I was planning an N Scale layout to start in the next year or so. It was an awesome and totally unexpected surprise to start my layout. I told him that I wanted to do B&O and he remembered... *e-tear* *sniff* *sniff* :D

Only problem is I didn't want to deal with the 2-8-2's and have to plan around 19" radius curves and I'll have to completely redesign my layout idea around that, but hey... I'm not complaining :D
 
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Cool! Those Mantua Metal Power engines may not be the best detailed but they'll pull the wallboard off the studs. :) I've got one of their F-7's and it's by far the most powerful locomotive I won.
 
you think you have it bad i am going to be building an HO layout around one or two 4-8-8-4 now thats gonna be fun cause i dont know what radious they can handle yet i wil find out when i get it. i am waiting for it to arrive
amddrafting said:
My dad traveled up this new year's weekend to have Christmas with my family. To my great surprise and pleasure these were wrapped up for me from "Santa."

N Scale Model Power Metal USRA:
4-6-2 Pacific B&O
2-8-2 Mikado B&O

I made the slightest hint to him this year that I was planning an N Scale layout to start in the next year or so. It was an awesome and totally unexpected surprise to start my layout. I told him that I wanted to do B&O and he remembered... *e-tear* *sniff* *sniff* :D

Only problem is I didn't want to deal with the 2-8-2's and have to plan around 19" radius curves and I'll have to completely redesign my layout idea around that, but hey... I'm not complaining :D
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Lab Rat said:
you think you have it bad i am going to be building an HO layout around one or two 4-8-8-4 now thats gonna be fun cause i dont know what radious they can handle yet i wil find out when i get it. i am waiting for it to arrive
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aim for at least 22"-24" inches in radius.
 
ok thank you. i wont the auction for the big boy on ebay it is busted but i have a static model on the way to fix it with
 
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