"Here, (player name) take this regularly, you'll need it"

(Bottle of E rattles into your inventory)

It's their budget version of "polar Express"

Oh NO! What a classic staple of the neighborhood around the Caltrain station. That's such a bummer to see it go, a true legacy business if there ever was one. Always loved its funky exterior, classic old Bay Area.

The hands-down best resource for kitbashed Mexican steam and other models is this website: www.rihel.com/LuisJauregui...

I also suggest following modeler and architect Raymundo Collada on insta, he's another titan of NdeM modeling.

So, there's a few models that people have used for the basis of their QR-1 kitbash. Since the QR-1 is "smaller" than most US 4-8-4's no regular Bachmann or BLI engine will cut it, you'll have to go brass:

-DL&W Q-4
-SP GS-8

..are usually the models chosen to make a QR-1. I recommend the GS-8

Chicago! These are CTA cars.

The M420TRs are very rare (15 built, all for FCP), but surprisingly there is technically a rarer variant, the earlier version of the M420TR. MLW built 2 of them for the Roberval and Saguenay Railway in Quebec. They were visually distinct with a dip in the hood like the EMD switchers had

I did intend it as (make this after thanksgiving) but I foolishly had a turkey sammich for lunch two days before, but not disappointed

They called them “Two Rooms and a Kitchen” or “Snake Cars” and by all accounts they proved the concept of center-entrance articulated cars well before the creation of the Jacobs Bogie on the Key System bridge units. They still look rattly af tho.

That's so exquisite!