Back about 25 years ago, I built a flush door N scale layout that never made it beyond the "Flush Door Pacific" stage before giving it up as I was frustrated with N scale performance. I did keep some rolling stock, about half of it Micro-Trains. Earlier this year, my wife convinced me to at least give N scale another chance, so I purchased the Bachmann Spectrum 2-8-0 which is the subject of the two pictures below. Somewhere along the line, I had purchased some Detail Associates steam parts for reasons I disremember.