Boy,
Did I have a unexpected but pleaseant surprise this past Saturday. My good friend Sal Galazzo who works down at The Freight Yard (A N Scale Specialty Store) said that he had something he wanted to give me and presented me with a A1G Indiana Harbor Belt 0-8-0 in mint condition. He told me all he had done to it was taken it apart to clean the mechanism and relubed it. Like a kid in a toy store, I had to try it out. For something that's all most as old as I am, this little yard switcher runs pretty darn good!. This is still in it's orginal plastic Atlas case with it's original white insert dated for 3-68. The thing that I kind of find funny about myself is that back when I first got into N scale till now, I've always been a diesel person. But lately, it seems that I got a growing interest in steam locos. By the time I discovered trains when I was young, steam was already gone. Though now I understand why all the older modelers before me enjoyed steam so much. It's all those moving mechanical parts on the outside that you don't get with diesels.
Rick
Merry Christmas to everyone here at the A1G yahoogroup!
