Imported Brass - equal time

[E7]

Picked mine up second hand. All had the typical cracked Weaver gear or sprocket, sometimes both. For me, easy replacement work. Both had already been painted very nicely. Hugh

Nicely is an understatement! They are GREAT!

Rich

[bob turner]

This counts, even though the tender is scratch. The original got lost in an estate sale.

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I have since finished the tender with a nice brass underframe, and handrails/ladders and a coal pile. The locomotive was pretty badly cut up when I got it - drivers were mangled, valve gear kind of kinky . . .

[bob turner]

Surprise! Brass Imports - least popular picture thread?

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[HHS]

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Another The Car Works product.
Hugh

[bob turner]

Thanks for that tour. I had no idea they made two different models of the Challenger. I have passed up several of the ones with 3939 etched into the brass _ I assume you consider that one the better one? I am sticking to Lobaugh for Challengers - last count was ten completed, a few without motors and worms installed, one Big Boy based on the Jabelmann kit, and one project boiler, domes, cab, frames. Where is that psychiatrist? The one I want takes care of that guy on Lethal Weapon on TV.

[rex desilets]

<snip>I am sticking to Lobaugh for Challengers - last count was ten completed, a few without motors and worms installed, one Big Boy based on the Jabelmann kit, and one project boiler, domes, cab, frames. <snip>

I had a long-ago friend, in my HO days, Pennsy nut (we all are..) whose goal it was to own 10% of every loco. Sounds like you're well on the way to the similar goal with Challengers.....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

............a long-ago friend, in my HO days, Pennsy nut (we all are..) whose goal it was to own 10% of every loco.

Should have taken up a hobby..............maybe, philately.

[rex desilets]

............a long-ago friend, in my HO days, Pennsy nut (we all are..) whose goal it was to own 10% of every loco.

Should have taken up a hobby..............maybe, philately.

His first wife divorced him...damned shallow of her, I say

[J. S. Bach]

...snip... There was an assortment of odd traction ...snip...

Like this PE double-end PCC:

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Note that it is not three-rail, it is only sitting on Fastrack for the photo shoot.

[E7]

I had a long-ago friend, in my HO days, Pennsy nut (we all are..) whose goal it was to own 10% of every loco. Sounds like you're well on the way to the similar goal with Challengers.....

That would have been 59.8 Decapods and 42.5 K4s. The good news is, he would have only needed .1 of the Q1 and S1 and S2!

[bob turner]

Yeah. I just counted Berkshires. Frightening! And only three of them are CNW.

[bob turner]

Got to keep this going: This is Max, with Overland drivers, NWSL/Pittman, and my first "complicated" paint job:

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[up148]

Nice!

BH

[up148]

Not many photos on my work computer, but don't want to see the thread die. OMI Turbine with added cab interior detail and Lee Turner weathering.

BH

[up148]

C&LS 4-10-2. Soon to be weathered.

BH