Show Me Your Brass

Yea the Tangent car looks good but that L-105 in the background REALLY caught my eye!!  Wish I had one.

Weaver New Haven i-5's

These three freight cars were not built in brass, but with steel. They all seem to date from the early 1940's.

Offset side hopper built from an early 1940's Rail Craft kit having tinplated steel parts.

A USRA twin hopper built in heavier gauge steel than Rail Craft used.  Bought built up but lacking AB brake parts and a few other small details.

An 11,000-gallon tank car with a scratch-built steel tank on a Walthers frame and with a Walthers dome.  As bought it lacked trucks, couplers, brake details and most grab irons.

The steel tank car finished for Gulf Refining Corp.

The steel USRA hopper finished for the Reading Company.

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@Trainbros89  I really like your diorama and the brass to go with it....looks like the tank is leaving the station or guarding the troop train!

Picked these up at the Chicago 2 rail meet 2 weekends ago.   3 Milk Cars and a switch tower.  LOVE BRASS!  Now I need to start painting.

@roll_the_dice posted:

@Trainbros89  I really like your diorama and the brass to go with it....looks like the tank is leaving the station or guarding the troop train!

Thank you for the kind words!

I do not have any brass in 3 rail. However, I do have a small fleet of brass engines for my 2 rail switching layout. Here they are.

Left to right: Yoder 70 tonner, Yoder 45 tonner, Yoder 44 tonner, W&R 44 tonner, and another W&R 44 tonner.

A few different things in brass here.   I still own these models, but several other brass models I built or modified have been sold, so they are not shown here with the sole exception of the UP Centennial I built for a good friend who has since passed away.   Descriptions are with the smaller photos below.

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End of the month bump for one of my favorite threads...Recently picked up this empty pulpwood car from a forum member and just purchased this milk car.  My 2 main industries on my upcoming layout are pulpwood and milk/creamery.  I don't have the milk car yet, but am excited to receive it...will post more pics of it when I receive it.

I need to start painting brass!

Williams K4's, would like to pick up a Weaver 3768 to go with these.

Williams L1

KTM project 2-C-C-2, having trouble finding reference to it.  I originally thought it was IMP, but found KTM cast into the sprung driver journals.

Un finished Scale Craft K4 kind of shows what a 1939's kit could look like although this was  one with a factory built up chassis.

Another project, a Scale craft SP Mountain

Early 1934-35 version of the Scale craft Hudson

Parmele & Sturgis EP3 electric

Scratchbuilt crane car probably more tin than brass but still cool with a P&S aluminum 200 ton flat car.

3rd Rail B&O T4a I got at York:

Also a nice Sunset I-5 that I will eventually paint and decal: