Present Your Treasures!

I have 2 “Treasure’s”

1 : My Roundhouse 2 truck Shay.

"Treasure # 2: My Hallmark AS-616.

It’s hard to tell in these picture’s , but I painted it in SP’s Texas & New orleans scheme.

I hate to play favourites because I’m your typical ‘collector’ (I saw you wince, Sheldon… [8-|] who finds pleasure in my now sizeable hodge-podge of locomotives.

I like big steam, the bigger the better. Oddly, no Big Boy yet. I’d say my newest #1 would have to be this fine model from BLI:

It’s their UP 9000 series hybrid brass that was five years in the waiting.

Crandell, is that the new layout? If so how about a tour?

I’m from Denver originally even though I now live in WA State, so i have spent my fair share of time at Caboose Hobbies. Was a great store!

Funny you mention the Palace Car Co Wilson McCarthy. I found one someone was selling for $150! Last time I looked someone had one on Feebay for $450.&n

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I have been enjoying this thread also. I am glad it did not turn into a “My Brass Engine Is BIgger Than Yours” thread.

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There has been some really great stuff posted in here.

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-Kevin

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I got to thinking this morning and I suspect this is my real pride and joy since I wouldn’t sell or trade it for anything.

Brent, alas, it’s the one I got about 70% finished prior to selling in 2015. I moved it all as best I could, but it wouldn’t fit into the new space. I salvaged a lot of the track and all but one Peco #6.

I am partway through the scenery of the latest creation, with trains running well. I am awaiting the b turnout in ME’s new #5 ladder turnout series; it is backordered. Really looking forward to creating a yard. I’m mostly making trees at the moment.

I will post some images in the next few weeks.

-Crandell

Here are some of my old treasures.

It was about 1955 when my father was in Japan, and he returned home with a gift for me. … A tenshodo NYC 4-6-4. … I was too young for it, and I dropped in on the floor too many times. I kept its pieces in its wooden box until about 15 years ago when I rebuilt it. The rebuilding required stripping paint, buying parts including tender trucks, resoldering details, and repainting. The 4-6-4 still runs with DC. The photo is on my current layout.

I grew into my upper teens, and decided I wanted a Tenshodo Santa Fe passenger train. I worked many long hours doing odd jobs to save enough money to buy my dream train. … The photo shows the locomotive units on my current layout. Two units are powered, and they still run on DC. I still have the passenger cars which are Tenshodo 60’s shorties.

This brass model of Skookum, a 2-4-4-2, was a gift from my wife over 25 years ago. The engine still runs smoothly with DC. The photo is on a section of my layout which as a 1900 era scene to accommodate some of my old era models.