I'm a new Lionel hobbiest and I much prefer steam. When I was 7 yrs. in 1952 (yep, I'm pretty old), I lived in Ogden, Utah, the town of my birth. One day, as my family was diving the highway past Ogden, I noticed several HUUGE locomotives parked together on a siding. Over the years, I wrote the experience down to a child's imagination. Only lately have I come to realize that those locos were "Big Boys" put out to pasture. If I could only go back for one more quick look.