Articulated Steam

A few weekends ago, Bobi saw a segment on the channel 5 news about the Twin Cities Model Railroad museum at Bandanna Square in St Paul. We were going to make a trip over there on Saturday, but when I checked their website, it said that they were having Articulated Steam day! Woo Hoo!!!!!
It was well worth the $4 each to see DM&IR Yellowstones, NP Challengers, UP Bigboys, and other assorted articulateds rolling around a mockup of the Twin Cities, and Mississippi river in 1:48 scale. Being used to seeing HO scale trains, these things are frapping huge! The Bigboy appeared to be over two feet long, not including the tender. I had a feeling that it probably weighed as much as my Buick, well, maybe not the Buick but as much as a mini schnauzer would be a good guess. Quite a few of them had sound as well, so you got pretty much all the senses tickled save for smell.

Another plus is that the layout is very detailed, not plywood pacific action here. It's definetly gotten some ideas cooking in my head for later this winter when Model Railroading season kicks in!