It's times like this you realize how much box artwork and the look in general have improved.

Awesome year! Imagine paying only retail price for multiples of the Santa Fe sets :)

Looks like a cool set.

That train looks fantastic, I suppose Speed Champions fills a similar market but it's nice seeing realistic sets like this.

Cool cool

I really liked these. The black looked amazing (for an industrial, work-horse kind of an engine), but I also liked the blue and grey (which I picked up in the smaller-size engine). The wheels were a bit out-of-whack (the trouble with building steam engines during the 9V era), but these were good trains.

@kidatheart I got four of the Santa Fe cars (two each) on sale back then for a project that I never really got started on. Now they're sitting unopened in a bin because I can't bear to blemish them.

Enlighten made a rip off copy of this train with a few modifications. For pics search "Enlighten 638"

I am surprised how few people own this. Seems relatively unpopular. I managed to find a bunch of the color packs in a bin at a Lego store, so that I can make mine any color, but honestly Black and blue tend to look best to me

I ended up with the brown one... I loved this whole line. Those were good days for trains!

Sure, it's a nice train, but boy have set names improved.

Really an awesome Lego set. I'm one of the lucky people who own this set. Last year I bought two 3741 trains, same model, only one in the color Dark Grey and the other one in the color Blue.

I wish LEGO would get back to this, producing smaller add on train sets that don't cost a small fortune at initial buy-in.

This is not the cover art. This looks like the front to the instruction manual; which all of them were pretty generic covers as this set was offered in several different colors (which you had to buy separately). I had this one in black as I thought it was most realistic although the green and blue were cool, too. This is quite simply a fantastic set. Very underrated. Fairly affordable and one of the more realistic train sets Lego ever released. If something like this were offered again, I would probably buy several. And they looked really great with the accompanying train cars released at the same time; each released separately so you could pick and choose. The golden days of Lego 9v trains.

I have the grey version of this amazing train

This was the bundled version of the modular My-Own-Train.
I got the packs to build the green version of this, when green bricks were still relatively rare.
The wagons were all pretty good too. I'd love to see something like this return.

Awww. I recently built a grey version of this engine and tender for my son using my own pieces. We had recently found tracks, bogies and other train stuff at a garage sale for cheap and figure he needed a train.