Currently, I am sitting down eating as soft a dinner as possible after having emergency dental work. I am hurting, but I also need to eat, so oatmeal it is.
As I do so, my mind goes to my test track in front of me, and something has become immediately apparent.
I have a lot of steam locomotives.
A whole bunch.
A good many of them do not run at the moment, as I plan to use them as work for the colder season. There will be parts that will have to be replaced, and I suspect that a number of them will simply be put out to pasture.
A good many of these came in lots I would purchase, parts lots. My soft spot has always been for the lower end items, locomotives from train sets, and especially those considered "toys". I feel for them, these forgotten things.
When I ventured back into H0 trains, after the purchase of that battery powered NewRay switcher, however, I wanted to concentrate on diesels, not steam.
And here I am.
While there are a few diesels I have that are "cheap" (Marx, Nomura), I am finding that low end steam from the period from 1950 to 1980 are far more abundant. The diesels that fall into this area, usually imports, are out there, but... I keep running into inexpensive steamers that are alluring!
So it is I stumbled right back into steamers.
Anyway, I am rambling, I need to rinse and rest my head.
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