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The 3751 you'd like is probably BLIs. [url]http://www.broadway-limited.com/catalog/AT_SF_4_8_4_HO-1852-1.html
[/url] This is a blueline loco, so you need to pop a decoder into the socket. It comes equipped with sound.

Bachmann standard makes one that is DCC equipped. (I don't know if they one sound equipped). http://www.ehobbies.com/bac50803.html?ut...gn=froogle
It is numbered for a later class of 4-8-4s than the 3751. Old Bachmann steam engines were not very good. Throughout the 1990s, they worked to move their line from being poor runners into first class models. The 4-8-4s of the end of the decade looked like the engines from the start of the decade, but ran fairly well (though they didn't pull that great). Their Spectrum 2-8-0 launched the modern era of steam locomotive models...being the best detailed, smoothest running, and best puller of any steam locomotive in plastic up to that point. This is not a spectrum locomotive, and accordingly, doesn't have that same level of detail. It is probably the budget option between the two.

The Daylight from Precision Craft: http://www.broadway-limited.com/catalog/...764-1.html
PCM is the corporate sibling of BLI.
Bachmann offers her in post-war black...which is important, because it is the easiest to convert to the BNSF scheme she wore. This locomotive is acceptably detailed and runs okay...although I'd suspect the PCM version is better. If I really wanted her painted up for BNSF, and didn't want to repaint a locomotive, I'd get one of Bachmann's, use a pencil eraser to remove the tender's lettering, add stripes from Woodland scenic dry transfers, and drop a logo onto the tender.http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/160-50203
MTH, in O scale, is the only model of her factory painted as BNSF 4449.
Here is a photo gallery of BNSF 4449: http://www.photosbystevenjbrown.com/stea...elite.html

I love the link to the pictures you posted. Very, VERY nice. I also like this engine, http://www.broadway-limited.com/catalog/...852-1.html the details are nice and so is the prices. It also lists the engine as Recommended Minimum Radius: 18 in... Only issue is the Suethe Smoke Unit Compatible, meaning that I have to buy and add it to the unit. Not something I want to mess with. The decoder install is not a big deal. I also am sure that I need the engine to have smoke now. It adds so much to the engine. It makes it look like its working.

While I do like the paint and the BNSF part of this engine is it converted to oil now? http://www.mthhotrains.com/Gs4.asp To me that adds realism to a modern layout. The engine would have been modernized just like they really have now a days. However, the engine you posted has much more detail. Not because its better but because its different.

What a Pain in the but I am....

Thank you for your continued advice, we are getting closer to a choice, that I am sure of.