Dave Connery, You paint a colorful picture. If anyone is going to make a model I saw a great accessory on the hitch of a pickup . . . an elk head with great rack of antlers. This was just a huge size for mounting impressively on a live steam loco and since it is made of brass and painted, it would survive any heat and provide additional traction due to the immense weight. Exciting huh? Gary - Running trains over Terror Trestle in Eugene, Oregon http://www.angelfire.com/or/trainguy http://community.webshots.com/user/raltzenthor
As a result, Brits will soon be regaled with the epic driving of the Golden Spike and the locomotives will be the shay, with a "cow catcher" attached to the foot boards and the pilot painted blue to represent one of the locomotives and faced in the other direction, the pilot is a pinkish-red.
