Personally I prefer a brand new Southern 4-6-2 Ps-4 built. Yes I know that one survives in the Smithsonian, but the exhibit was built around it, so it's impossible to get it out. In fact in 2011, when I attended the Banquet the day before the first Railfest at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, which included then CEO of Norfolk Southern Wick Moorman, a person announced that he was part of a group who wanted to get Southern 1401, the Ps-4 on display in the Smithsonian, out of the Smithsonian and restoring it, Mr. Moorman said 'That's like dynamiting Natural Tunnel.' In case you don't know, Natural Tunnel is a naturally made tunnel in the Appalachians near the town of Duffield, Virginia, that a Norfolk Southern predecessor built thru to access the coal fields of the area. Natural Tunnel is now part of Natural Tunnel State Park, which is one of Virginia's State Parks. And since Natural Tunnel is part of a State Park, dynamiting the tunnel into a cut in the mountain is impossible to do. Then again, that would be amazing riding behind the locomotive Trains Magazine announced that Southern's Ps-4 was 'The Most Beautiful Pacific', based on a poll taken by the viewers. The one to come in second place is the Southern Pacific Pacifics, though I can't remember which class of Pacifics.
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