Present Your Treasures!

Little_Timmy · January 12, 2019, 9:09pm

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.

selector · January 12, 2019, 10:36pm

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.

BATMAN · January 12, 2019, 11:21pm

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

Renegade1c · January 13, 2019, 1:53am

Renagade,

That Prospector combine was bought from Caboose Hobbies back in 1989 and was from one of two runs of Palace Car Company brass P-S Prospector runs. I had also ordered a PCC Wilson McCarthy business car and Dome Chair car, but they didn’t arrive until after I had moved away from Texas and my meddling mother returned them. Still makes me mad I missed out on them due to that. The combine pictured was not the one I ordered but Caboose Hobbies had the less often used combine from the late 70s with the blanked out dorm windows so I bought. It was unpainted until a couple years ago when a fellow Rio Grande fan painted it for me.

In the late 1990s a skirted version PCC combine with the dorm windows came up for sale at a hobby shop where I used to live. It’s being painted and decalled also. It would be good up until about 1973 when the skirts were removed.

During the last 6 or 7 years Division Point did decorated P-S Prospector cars as well and we’re gogeous but about $500 each!

BTW, that 4-stripe caboose I pictured is a Div Pt. The rest are Overland.

Your Protowest look very nice. I’ve seen some constructed that looked kind of rough. They must require some skill to have come out looking good like yours. Great job!

It’s very satisfying to have signature equipment for modeling the DRGW!

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

SeeYou190 · January 13, 2019, 8:25am

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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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BRAKIE · January 13, 2019, 9:09am

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.

selector · January 13, 2019, 2:51pm

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

Heartland_Division_C · January 14, 2019, 11:36pm

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.