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Yeah, I know the Q already had heavy Pacifics in the form of S3s but a reworked model of a Southern Railway 4-6-2 would be so much more handsome than an S3. I've wondered for a long time why the styling of the Q locomotives suddenly got much better when the Hudsons, M4as, and O5s came along in the late '20s. Maybe there was a change in the motive power department. Maybe somebody finally said to Baldwin... "ya know... we're paying all this money for these Hudsons and 2-10-4s and we want to actually sort of make them good looking to the eye and not just good steaming engines." Baldwin's response was probably something along the lines of... "what, you finally noticed that we can make good looking engines for the other railroads? We just thought you guys out on the prairies liked 'em ugly!!". Ugliest Q engine... the B1a with the extended smokebox! Just awkward... so homely you have to take pity on it and like it. Looks much better with the regular smokebox and a Box-Pok though. Kinda like a hog with make-up! Mike Martin __._,_.___ Posted by: atsf3460@frontier.com __,_._,___ |