Manfried Meliset, publisher of GartenBahn, sent a note with some photos of new items from the International Toy Fair in Nürnberg, Germany.
He saw prototypes of Accucraft's live steam K-28 (I had heard this was coming, but hadn't seen details) and Big Boy(!). Maybe I saw the Big Boy before and immediately forgot it because it's out of my area of interest, but when I read the suggested price it stuck this time: would you believe 4850 Euro? (That's US$6300 at today's rate.) We just saw an unbuilt Aster Big Boy go for $17500 on eBay; this guy could have save 2/3 of that and a LOT of building time if he could have waited until next year... regards, -vance- Vance Bass Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Small-scale live steam resources: http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass
