For the curious, I’ve decided that my EF66 doesn’t really fit the theme of the rest of my collection. Having a theme—nothing that doesn’t pass through Ueno or Omiya Stations, in my case—really helps limit the desire to just buy anything and everything. And, well, an EF66 in JNR Sleeper Express livery doesn’t fit my self-imposed theme (because you would only see them on the Tokkaido Line, which terminates at Tokyo Station, a good bit south of Ueno Station).
Sold! to AlpineAustralia—thanks! So, that said, I’ve put my EF66 up for sale, and I feel the need to advertise. I’ve installed a Digitrax DN163k0a DCC decoder, and spent a lot of time meticulously hand-tuning the decoder to match the performance of the prototype as closely as possible (given the rather limited data available…). It’s a damned handsome locomotive, and an excellent runner, but there are other things I want in my collection more.