Beauty

I decided that even though I'm modeling the Canadian Rockies... I should still be able to buy some pretty pieces.

Well, I picked up the Kato GS-4 Daylight and it's accompanying 10 car passenger set. Oh my god...it is brilliant! The whole set on my now stripped layout is just absolutely breath taking. The lettering is sharp, and the whole thing just looks amazing snaking through my layout.

I do wish it had the adapting kinematic couplers of my Kato UP cars, but alas, the articulated cars of the Daylight just look fantastic on the 11" radius corners.

The best part?

The GS4 pulls all 10 cars up my 6% grade without breaking a sweat...and very quickly! This is one powerful little locomotive. I didn't get the chance to add more cars to it as I had to start tearing apart the layout to pack things for our move.

That being said, everything has been packed up. Track is torn up, and I have been able to salvage about 10% of what I have built. Construction restarts in December.