09-15-2011, 12:03 AM
faraway Wrote:You got the switcher that fits my space perfectThe prototype did not run by any chance around LA in the recent years...?
LOL, that would be highly unlikely I think, but a cool idea!
There were built 37 of these switchers between 1936 and 1939, all since long officially retired, but several are being preserved by different foundations or privately owned. Maybe you can invoke some modeller's license, and suggest that one of the privately owned engines were bought and shipped to the US by a Norwegian-American immigrant with a spesial interest in Norwegian railroad history...
Personally I think they are butt ugly, but also kinda cool and quite charming, that's why I had to get one.
Svein