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Brass & Other Superior Quality Models (3)
Other Railroads
To see photos of any the models listed below, please click on [Photo] in the listing.
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Boston & Maine 40' Steel Boxcar #76227
This model began as an IMWX kit (excellent and highly detailed, but now out of production). It was properly and carefully built, with air hoses, and coupler cut bar detail added. Kadee couplers and Kadee wheelsets installed.
The kit was custom painted and finished in the large B&M herald, blue & black scheme. Road #76227, with a built date of 12.52 and a new/reweigh date of 9.55. All the lettering is accurate and neatly done. The decal lettering is finely done and virtually indiscernible. The car has been nicely weathered to represent good use, but not excessive wear or neglect.
The price of the model as shown in the photos is $295.00. [ Photo 1 ] [ Photo 2 ]
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Canadian General Transit (CGTX) 10,000 gallon Tank Car:
This is an Intermountain model carefully and nicely weathered, including brakeman's chalk marks.
Two numbers available: 8025 & 8048. $40.50 [Photo 1][Photo 2] [Photo 3] [Photo 4]
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Chesapeake& Ohio T1 2-10-4 #3031:
This model was imported by Westside Models and was manufactured by Katsumi in Japan in 1978. It has an excellent custom paint job, by the late Ken Baines, in a matte finish. Lettering is with decals.
Marker light jewels have been installed in marker lights on the smoke box. The original dummy scale coupler is on the pilot. A working Kadee has been fitted to the tender.
This is a nice looking, fine operating model. It ran nicely on my test track, with no evident problems, jogs, hitches, etc.
The latest Brass Model Trains Price & Data Guide gives this model a value of US$450.00 unpainted
Our price on this micely finished model is $525.00. [ Photo 1 ] [ Photo 2 ] [ Photo 3 ] [ Photo 4 ] [ Photo 5 ] [ Photo 6 ]
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Cotton Belt 40' Steel Boxcar #35614
This model began as an unknown kit sometime long in the past. It has been properly and carefully rebuilt, with air hoses, and coupler cut bar detail, fine etched roofwalk and complete End and underbody brake detail added. Kadee couplers and Kadee wheelsets installed.
The kit was custom painted and finished road #76227. All the lettering is accurate and neatly done. The decal lettering is finely done and virtually indiscernible. The car has been nicely weathered to represent lots of use, but not excessive wear or neglect.
The price of the model as shown in the photos is $295.00. [ Photo 1 ] [ Photo 2 ] [ Photo 3 ] [ Photo 4 ]
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Duluth Winnipeg & Pacific Wood 36' Truss Rod Boxcar:
This car started as a wood craftsman kit built about twenty years ago and then rebuilt with additional detail and refinements a few years back. It has had a Cal Scale Westinghouse "K" brake set installed, with rodding and brake line, as well as air hoses, coupler cut bars, Grandt turnbuckles and NBW castings at the truss rod ends. Each of the grabirions has had nbw castings put in place to replicate the original. End braces, door latch hardware and poling pocket braces are some of the scratchbuilt additions.
It has been repainted and lettered #30891 with CDS dry transfer lettering, and moderately weathered. It has also had Central Valley arch bar trucks & Kadee couplers installed and adjusted for reliable, trouble free operation.
There are a few minor blemishes on the roof scribing and rail spike door stops, but despite that, this car is very fine in appearance and in operation for a period model railroad. $95.95 [ Photo 1 ] [ Photo 2 ]
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Grand Trunk Pacific 40' Wood Refrigerator Car:
Back about 1969, a magazine called Railmodel (long since gone) ran a series of articles and drawings on older Canadian rolling stock and a company called Canadian Railway Models (also long since gone) produced a series of kits. This car began life as one of those kits.
This car was kit-built once in the early 1980's and then torn apart and virtually scratchbuilt again a few years ago to contest quality detail standards. The car has scale brake rigging, NBW detail, truss rood turnbuckles, air hoses, coupler cut bars, Kadee couplers and wheelsets. It is lettered with CDS dry transfer lettering and has a lightly weathered finish. $79.95 [ Photo 1 ] [ Photo 2 ]
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Great Northern 40' Steel Boxcar #11670
This model began as an Intermountain kit. It has been properly and carefully built, with air hoses, and coupler cut bar detail. Kadee couplers and Kadee wheelsets installed.
The kit was finished road #11670. The car has been nicely weathered to represent lots of use, but not excessive wear or neglect.
The price of the model as shown in the photos is $295.00. [ Photo 1 ] [ Photo 2 ] [ Photo 3 ]
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Great Northern GP7 Phase II:
This is a Proto 2000 factory decorated #661, with factory installed sound and DCC decoder.
It has had the horns relocated to the front, as they were on the prototype and the cold weather window boxes mounted. It has also received a very, very light weathering.
It has been fitted with properly adjusted Kadee scale couplers for reliable operation.
The price of the model as shown in the photos is $280.00. [ Photo 1 ] [ Photo 2 ] [ Photo 3 ] [ Photo 4 ] [ Photo 5 ]
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H.P. Hood Milk Car #GPEX 996:
This is a latest run, finely detailed Intermountain, model carefully and nicely weathered, including brakeman's chalk marking. Price: $39.50 [Photo 1] [Photo 2]
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Imperial Oil 10,000 Gal. Double Dome Tank Car #3309:
This model was imported by Overland.
It has been custom painted and lettered for an Imperial Oil company car in the 1932 -1940 period. It has been expertly custom weathered to represent a car in regular use but well mantained. The lettering is a mix of custom produced lettering, CDS dry transfer and Champion and Microscale decals.
The original brass trucks (now tucked away in the box) have been replaced by Kadee self-centering 'Bettendorf' truck frames to which Reboxx wheelsets have been fitted. Sergent exact scale, working, couplers have been mounted.
This is a truly unusual and unique - used in the proper sense of the word - model. The chances of finding another commercially available are between negligible and zero. First, this is the only one I have done, or am likely to do in the foreseeable future. Second, the imported brass model itself is quite rare and rarely comes to market. Third, this particular lettering scheme has never been done commercially and is not likely to be done, either in decals or dry transfer lettering now that CDS has stopped development of new products.
Price: $1,250.00. [Photo 1] [ Photo 2] [Photo 3] [ Photo 4] [Photo 5] [ Photo 6] [ Photo 7] [Photo 8]
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Northern Alberta 40' Steel Flat car:
This is an Athearn kit finely built up and fitted with Kadee couplers and Kadee wheelsets. Carefully finished and nicely weathered. Extra detail added: Coupler cut bars and brake hoses. Two available #14728 and #15512 $39.95 [Photo 1] [Photo 2] [Photo 3] [Photo 4] [Photo 5]
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Michigan Central Composite Gondola #12008:
This is one of the latest run Imtermountain cars to which coupler cut bars have been added. And a fine weathering job - including brakeman's chalk marks. Price: $42.95 [Photo 1] [Photo 2]
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Northern Pacific 40' Steel Boxcar #15034
This model began as an Intermountain kit. It has been properly and carefully built, with air hoses, and coupler cut bar detail. Kadee couplers and Kadee wheelsets installed.
The kit was finished road #15034. The car has been nicely weathered to represent lots of use, but not excessive wear or neglect.
The price of the model as shown in the photos is $295.00. [ Photo 1 ] [ Photo 2 ]
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Ontario Northland 40' steel Flat car #100203:
This is an Athearn kit finely built up and fitted with Kadee couplers and Kadee wheelsets. Extra detail added: Coupler cut bars and brake hoses.
Carefully finished and nicely weathered. $38.50 [Photo 1] [Photo 2] [Photo 3] [Photo 4]
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Pacific Great Eastern 40' Steel boxcar #4058:
This is an Intermountain model, nicely weathered to make it truly RTR. Extra detail added: Coupler cut bars.
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Wabash M1 class 2-10-4 #2804:
This brass locomotive was imported by Hallmark and manufactured by Dong Jin in South Korea. It has a very good custom paint job, by the late Ken Baines, in a matte finish. It has a very nice and realistic overall appearance. Lettering is with decals.
The headlight appears to be a clear jewel. A working Kadee has been fitted to the tender.
This model has been used: There are a very few chips in the white paint (on the left side running board and on one driver, as well as some other rub areas on the black, all which would very easily be remedied with a small touch up. It appears to have had a little work done on it to improve its performance. Wheel wear is negligible.
This locomotive has its original box and both the box and the foam are in good condition, though the box has several scuff marks and one corner has been reinforced with tape.
Inside the box is a Hallmark "Protolight", a constant/directional lighting diode which appears to have been installed at one point and then removed.
The latest Brass Model Trains Price & Data Guide gives this model a value of US $450, unpainted.
Our price, mainly because there is not a lot of demand for Wabash items in this part of Ontario, is $350.00. [ Photo 1 ] [ Photo 2 ] [ Photo 3 ] [ Photo 4 ] [ Photo 5 ] [ Photo 6 ]
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Western Pacific 40' Steel Boxcar #21223
This model began as an Intermountain kit. It has been properly and carefully built, with air hoses, and coupler cut bar detail. Kadee couplers and Kadee wheelsets installed.
The kit was finished road #21223. The car has been nicely weathered to represent lots of use, but not excessive wear or neglect.
The price of the model as shown in the photos is $295.00. [ Photo 1 ] [ Photo 2 ] Photo 3 ]
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