Just a complaint about the smoke box front fit on this loco.....it does not. When the head light is on you can see light coming from the seam between the boiler and the front. This was a bit too expensive to have to make adjustments to an item. I did try to make some adjustments, but to no avail.
Price goes up....quality goes down.....it seems that's the way it goes for lots of things.
Unless we change some things, I don't see it getting better.
Sid