Budget brass to be sure, but some snapshots of my Williams brass locomotives.
A basket case Southern PS4 Pacific I replaced the front and rear trucks on. The Hodges trailing truck is either too far forward or just too small, it was a Lionel part and what I could find at the time. The feedwater heater was a modification that it came with when I acquired it. A little more work and this could be a nice locomotive. It is a good runner.
CNJ Camelback out of the box. The rear tender truck is a little warped and the wheel falls out from time to time. They are the wrong trucks anyway, so scheduled for replacement one day. I'd actually prefer to find a 2-rail version of this and pass on the 3-rail version to someone else one day.
N&W J Class. Mine came with an aftermarket QSI sound system. It has no volume control and it is loud! Photo is taken on the OLD Paradise and Pacific Layout that got dismantled in 2010.
SP GS4 to pull my not so prototypical K-Line Daylight cars.
Challenger running on some former Tin Plate Trackers modules with backdrops I created in Photoshop and printed on a large format plotter to represent the various scenes found across Arizona. On the other side of the layout is the high pines as shown in the photo below this one.
K4s. A bit spartan on detail, but still a decent runner.
A most unusual of pairings. T1 double headed with a Challenger on a NJT excursion train. Sure that makes sense!
USRA Mikado. The tender is lettered PRR, but I put my CNJ one behind it as the electronics are fried on the one it came with.
NYC Niagara. I prefer this over the Hudson when it comes to NYC locomotives.
I also have a basket case Williams Hudson too that looks like it was drop kicked one too many times. It is on the list of "a round tuit" projects. Here is it hiding between an unidentified brass 10-wheeler, the only Aston Martin DB5 I'll ever be able to afford, and it's more common, yet more collectible Lionel cast cousin.
Overall, I find the Williams brass locomotives can be a good value sometimes. While they are all Samhongsa built, they can be hit or miss. Some of mine run like Swiss watches while some of them run like the watches that only tell time twice a day. When they are priced well, I don't hesitate to add them to my collection still on occasion.
