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Originally Posted by gpsman1
I love both in real life. My HO collection has about 28 steam locos.
And the cool thing is, many of them were made in the 40's and 50's... before plastics were made, and hence, they weigh a proverbial ton.
No DCC ( yet ).
 -John |
Huh, I didn't know HO scale has been around that long. I guess I always assumed it was mostly Lionel's O until the mid 60's - but I've never really looked into the history of the scales.
I think I've got 8 locos (almost all Santa Fe Warbonnet vintage - haven't bought any new locos since the BNSF merger) and no DCC yet either. Explored it about 8 or 10 years ago - the technology was just getting popular but still emerging about then so it was expensive and at the time a bit of a task to convert a block layout and the locomotives to DCC. I've just never given it a thought after that (plus I haven't done any major work on my layout in about 6 years - no time these days).